Michael Smith 💙

Retired hardware and software engineering trainer, Christian, husband, father, novice tennis-player and occasional trombonist.

[Si @Burns99Star]

@CountBinface

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

Wrote about the fatal flaw at the heart of the new Conversion Practices bill for @unherd https://t.co/WTNF4uN2tL

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

https://t.co/i6nzjGaKyI

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

This is just delightful. But you have to watch it to the end.

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

I see that the government conversion practices draft bill wants to criminalise “conduct causing someone to believe that they ... do not have a transgender identity”. I know for fact my book Material Girls did this for hundreds of young people, cos they told me.

[Michael Smith 💙 @smith_mj]

Simon Blake, Stonewall quoted in Times article today. Seems to say conversion therapy is by definition abuse. So 'abusive conversion therapy' is a tautology, #conversiontherapy

[Michael Smith 💙 @smith_mj]

@PaulSTEandM @FondOfBeetles It will be just as unlawful to 'convert' *to* a trans identity as to attempt to dissuade!

[Janice Turner @VictoriaPeckham]

An NHS hospital trust has wasted almost £1 million of public money trying to destroy nurses who simply didn't want to get undressed in front of a man.

[Michael Smith 💙 @smith_mj]

@CarlBovisNature I don't mind - but that's a lovely photo!

[Neo @Realneo101]

🔴DO NOT SCROLL

The Islamic regime is going to hang Shayan Hadian, a 17-year-old swimmer and boxer, because he participated in the January protests.

They forced him to confess he “led the January protests.”

He is just a kid.
Share this before they kill him.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Another Labour MP who seems to have forgotten to use that word for those other people that are actually hugely protected by the Equality Act and vital single sex provision.
What was it again? That word..? @jk_rowling nailed it a few years back...
"Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?"

[Michael Smith 💙 @smith_mj]

Total agree. Appalling crimes and incomprehensible sentences. Did the judge think it was just 'laddish' behaviour?

[Tonia Antoniazzi @ToniaAntoniazzi]

This is diabolically disgraceful, to put it lightly.
There is absolutely nothing in this horrific case that suggests a “limited understanding of consent.” These girls were threatened at knife point, raped, and filmed — and that footage then shared /🧵1

[Jim Harbertson #FBPE #FBPPR #Woke.💙. @jimharbertsonce]

@BenObeseJecty A man of principle is Burham. Loyal too.😉

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

Starmer’s just appointed James Murray as the new Health Secretary the man now running the entire NHS.
And this is how he defines a woman when a actual woman challenges him:
Woman: “Do you think it’s a bit strange that you’re a man telling me, a woman, what a woman is?”
Murray: “I think a woman is an adult female and a trans woman.”
Woman: “An adult female… and an adult male?”
Murray: “You and I disagree on this.”
Let that sink in.
The bloke in charge of women’s wards, maternity care, single-sex spaces, rape crisis services, and NHS safeguarding can’t or won’t admit that women are adult human females. Full stop.
This isn’t nuance. It’s dangerous ideological capture at the highest level of healthcare. How the hell is he going to protect women’s rights and safety when he thinks biological males can be women?
This appointment is a disgrace. Women’s health and dignity are not up for debate or “disagreement.”
We’re watching you, Secretary Murray. Closely.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

This is one of the most jaw-dropping, chilling interviews I have seen. Watch this Rabbi from London, respond to question about the terror stabbing in Golders Green!

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

'Right so as these holtes and these hayes,
That han in winter dede been and dreye,
Revesten hem in grene, whan that May is,
Whan every lusty lyketh best to pleye;
Right in that selve wyse, sooth to seye,
Wax sodeynliche his herte ful of joye...'

[Michael Smith 💙 @smith_mj]

@CarlBovisNature Lovely photo

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

[Michael Smith 💙 @smith_mj]

@DeborahMeaden @theAliceRoberts The sort of people who want to be politicians are not the ones who should be running the country. With exceptions.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Oh my goodness I wish I had written this… it’s exactly how I feel… every word…