Rob Jordan

Author of the popular article 'A survey of car park height restrictions'.

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

Pride, the old proverb warns, comes before a fall. And so it has proved.

You can measure the fall precisely. Among Britain's largest corporations, social media posts mentioning Pride have collapsed by ninety-two per cent in two years. Manchester Pride, forty years old, went into liquidation owing creditors three million pounds. Reform councils in Durham, Gateshead and Staffordshire have cut the grants and hauled down the flags. The sponsors who once queued to wear the rainbow are walking away, and the names on the departure list read like a stock index.

The easy story is that Britain is turning against gay people. The polling says otherwise. Only seven per cent of Britons hold a negative view of gay and lesbian people. The right to love your own sex, to marry, to live openly, has never been more widely accepted. That war is over. It was won.

What the public has turned against is what Pride became while nobody was watching. Capital rented the flag and turned a riot into a retail opportunity. And behind the corporate floats came something worse: an ideology that brands same-sex attraction itself a heresy, that saw lesbians removed from a gay rights parade by police "for their own safety," and that watched eight Darlington nurses dragged through a tribunal for wanting a female changing room while their own union posted clenched fists against them.

In 1984, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners stood on street corners with collecting buckets for the coalfields, and the miners repaid the debt by carrying gay rights into the heart of the labour movement. That was solidarity of the old kind: it cost something, and it came with no sponsorship deal attached. Compare it with the unions of 2026, who found twenty-five thousand pounds for a Pride float and called women bigots for wanting to change in private. That is not solidarity. That is capture.

So let us be clear about what is dying and what is not. Rainbow capitalism is dying, good riddance. The ideology that recast same-sex attraction as a heresy and women's rights as an obstacle deserves to die with it. What cannot die, because it was never for sale, is the thing underneath: people standing with people, the right to your own body and your own desire, and the solidarity that makes the demand stick.

They built a movement so a man could love a man and a woman could love a woman. Then they called that love a heresy and rented the flag to any corporate taker. Pride comes before a fall. But the cause beneath it, love without shame, truth without fear, solidarity without sale, remains.

Read the full article: https://t.co/CybV3jdvEK

#Pride #womensrightsmatter

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@MartinSLewis How could this possibly work? Would couples who explicitly don't want the consequences of legal partnership (eg inheritence) be swept up in a default marriage after so many years? It's very easy and cheap to get a CP if they want that legal status.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In only 63 days, a mother bird builds a perfect nest and raises a beautiful brood of chicks. A quiet masterpiece of nature.

https://t.co/bsX44a5Wmd

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

"My minor report on a missile striking an open area was now in the middle of a betting war, with those who had bet “No” on an Iranian strike on Israel on March 10 demanding I change my article to ensure they would win big."

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

Exempt Afghan women from study‑visa suspension now - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/3WKFykt8Oy via @UKChange

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@MartinSLewis Income all into one joint account. Then the joint account pays each of us an equal "pocket money" allowance so we don't have to debate discretionary spend (clothes, gadgets, solo entertainments, etc).

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@_BoldPolitics There's no excuse for this. You're asking us to vote for you to be prime minister. The job is to run the country and chief responsibility is to manage the economy. It's not about learning lines like an actor. It's about understanding how the economy works & you don't have a clue.

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@MartinSLewis I'd be surprised if it raised revenue after the extra cost of admin for millions of small parcels.

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@LukeTryl Hindrance

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

I found Lewis Goodall's Substack piece very interesting on the internal politics of the BBC, but I can't agree with this bit. Gender-critical voices *were* marginalised and suppressed for most of the 2010s. A personal story (1/n)

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@MasudHusain @royalsociety Hooray! Well done, well deserved.

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@bindelj @unherd @johnboyne Loved the cheese quote. :)

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@roisinmurphy It was an appalling affair, playground bullies despoiling your greatest achievement. Love the album, strength to you, Roisin.

[Rory Bremner 💙🇺🇦 @rorybremner]

If only Angela Rayner had followed the Telegraph’s advice. Then they might not call her a hypocrite.

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@mkpaa Yes.

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

Excellent article. Entitled overreach and violent language from trans activists squandered any possibility of a reasonable settlement of conflicting rights.

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

MP @JoaniReid

"It's..remarkable how much leeway this men’s rights movement has been given.
Normally anyone with any claim to be a progressive would shun any advocate of violence against women but gender-critical feminists were accorded no such solidarity"
https://t.co/SzhngUrFyb

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@aswren @fairplaywomen My observation is that UK 2nd wave feminists grew up on struggles for women's safety (Sutcliffe, domestic violence) and thus cherishes the importance of single-sex spaces.

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@mikegrenville @fromefm Enjoyed that! A lot of crossover with favourites of mine: Peter Green, Beefheart, Shirley Collins...

[Rob Jordan @robjordan]

@f0rmat You didn't say everyone wants toast *and butter*. As a non butter eater, there's nothing sadder than seeing butter slathered over a nice breakfast. I once watched in horror as a lovely stack of pancakes were reduced to a horrible, inedible mess.