thrashermax

Husband, Dad, Atheist, Free-thinker, loves thrash metal, cars and running

[Genspect @genspect]

“Children have been preyed upon by an unethical medical community leading them to reject their developing bodies with puberty-blocking drugs, cross sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries to affirm a delusion about their identity.” - @PYNance ⬇️

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

https://t.co/lmgCHpDGqW

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨Puberty Blockers Trial Update🚨

I’m deeply saddened to announce that the High Court has refused permission for us to proceed to a full Judicial Review hearing in our pursuit to block the deeply unethical and highly dangerous puberty blockers trial.

This judgment does not negate the serious and avoidable harm that will be caused if this trial is allowed to proceed.

Vulnerable children should never be used as guinea pigs in medical experimentation that may lead them down a path towards irreversible physiological and emotional damage, including infertility.

This trial is the antithesis of child safeguarding and I will now be consulting with my lawyers regarding the possibility of an appeal.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

To achieve world class social care in the UK it is estimated it would require roughly £19 billion extra per year by the mid-2030s. Here’s a way to pay for world class social care in the UK - Ditch net zero and use the money to pay for social care. The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that net zero will cost the UK government roughly £20billion+ every year for the next 20 years.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

If Andy Burnham wants to maintain his high approval ratings, he must:

▪️Solve the cost of living crisis
▪️Resolve small boats / illegal migration
▪️Back British business
▪️Reduce government expenditure wastage
▪️Axe Net Zero
▪️Support rural communities
▪️Reboot high streets

[thrashermax @thrashermax]

@sniffpetrol My favourite pic of the day, winner of 7 Piston Cups #festivalofspeed #goodwood

[thrashermax @thrashermax]

Bought Feb 2013, Sold July 2026, ould out yer hand...

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years despite the UK only accounting for less than 1% of annual global CO2 emissions. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

This judgment should send shockwaves through NHS and beyond. It is to my knowledge the 1st to decide that allowing trans identifying men into women's workplace facilities is in itself discrimination and harassment against women.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Meet the new boss same as the old boss

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“Let me be clear…I broke numerous promises. I invented a £22 billion black hole to punish pensioners, farmers, the disabled, small businesses and students. I tried to give away Chagos and pay £35 billion to do so. I increased unemployment. I increased the government deficit. I appointed Peter Mandelson despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein having already been published in various media outlets. I promised to cut energy bills and council tax, but instead, the opposite happened. I did absolutely nothing to resolve the cost of living crisis and made it worse by increasing the tax burden to record levels. I prioritised hanging out with the Davos / BlackRock clique rather than genuinely ‘fixing the foundations’. I promised a ‘transparency revolution’, but instead, operated under smoke and mirrors and sacked colleagues and threatened suspending Labour MPs who voted against me. I spaffed £30 billion away on carbon capture machines. I failed to sort out the small boats / hotels for illegal immigrants. £3 billion a year to Ukraine and big hugs from Volodymyr. I smeared anyone who dared to criticise me a ‘far-right’. I sanctimoniously lectured everyone like they were naughty children. And I have absolutely no intention of resigning after disastrous local election results because I am right and everyone else is wrong. Me first. Country second.”

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Keir Starmer’s speech in a nutshell:

1. Anyone who criticises me is dangerous and wrong
2. I’m right. You just don’t realise it yet.
3. I will cling on to power. I’ll work even harder doing the same crap things and nothing will change.
4. I have no vision, just empty rhetoric.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Snooker World Championship: Stephen Hendry is one of the best pundits in sport right now. He’s funny, honest, astute and completely gets the situation because he went through it many times as a 7 times world champion.

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

I think Trump may have been right about "Low IQ Alex Jones." Find out the shocking truth here.
@RealAlexJones

[Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm]

Hard to imagine this kind of creative leap in pop culture today

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Ed Miliband is a crank who spaffed away £30bn of public money on carbon capture machines, bans new North Sea oil & gas licences and destroys prime farmland with massive solar panel projects. He’s putting our food, energy and economic security at risk.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Oh, I’m so pleased you asked.

It’s an ideology that says men can be women, women can be men, both can be neither, and some of the best ways of dealing with this are by giving sterilization drugs to children and putting male sex offenders in women’s prisons. If you disagree with literally any of it, the believers of transgenderism - particularly the men who claim to be women - will try to destroy your life.

Also, Boy George has tried to stay relevant via it.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

If by “overlooked” you mean pandered to when they demand the erosion of women’s rights, endlessly celebrated by the media and political class, and indulged even when their activists make threats of violence, murder and sexual assault, then yes, trans people are often overlooked.