Bernie Nyman

Publishing lawyer at BM Nyman & Co, London, UK. I advise publishers, writers, literary agents on contracts,copyright and other publishing issues, esp digital.

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

@SpursOfficial @dannykellywords Get well soon Danny

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Thanks for having me, @amanpour.

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

@British_Airways I'm trying to complete Advanced Passenger Info for my wife but apparently the title Mrs and the gender Female do not match! How can this be?

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

@remarkablepaper my ReMarkable was meant to be delivered today, but DHL tracking shows it's been stuck in Hong Kong for 4 days. Why??

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

Moral of my tweet re @marksandspencer and @Hermesparcels: don't use either of them if you want goods to arrive on time. Use @amazon instead.

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

@marksandspencer I ordered on saturday, paid for delivery on sunday. Didn't arrive sunday and hadn't been collected by @Hermesparcels on monday, so not delivered monday either. M&S sent another for delivery today. picked up by Hermes but not put on delivery van for today.

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

I have lit this yellow candle in memory of Lajos Weissberger of Budapest, Hungary, who perished at Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, aged 38. May his memory be for a blessing. #yellowcandle ⁦@YellowCandleUK⁩

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

At online book launch for All The Tw*ts I Met Along the Way by ⁦@CarolynHobdey⁩. Good way to spend Blue Monday. Good luck with the book ⁦@CarolynHobdey⁩!!

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

BBC News - Coronavirus: 'We need a designated shielding hour' https://t.co/CXlGlxKbS9

[Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting @CBTHunting]

Dear @BorisJohnson

An editorial in The Times today about new book ‘Trophy Hunters Exposed: Inside the Big Game Industry’ says:

“Killing for Sport -
Britain should ban the import of animal trophies”

It’s time to get the Ban done.

Get your copy from: https://t.co/fofB84XlY3

[Last Word On Spurs @LastWordOnSpurs]

@SpursOfficial @ChrisEriksen8 🇩🇰 Christian Eriksen
🏟 Games: 304
⚽️ Goals: 69
🅰️ Assists: 89
🧮 Chances Created: 547
🔑 Big Chances Created: 70
👑 Most Free-Kicks Scored (7)
🧨 Most Goals From Outside The Box (12)

💙 Seven Years Of Service, Thank You For The Memories! 🤝

#THFC #COYS

[Moussa Sissoko @MoussaSissoko]

Oh wait did I score a goal ? 😱⚽️
Thanks to all the fans for their support today 💪🏿 #COYS #MS17

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

Petition: Revoke all government gagging orders relating to Brexit https://t.co/C2cMXaqGBb

[Michael Dickson @michaeldickson]

Eva Mozes Kor lost her parents and two older sisters to the Nazis; only she and her twin sister survived, despite being subjected to Megele’s viscous experiments in Auschwitz. Eva became a nurse and attained the rank of Sergeant Major in the Israeli Army Engineering Corps🕯✡️

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

I have lit this Yellow Candle in memory of Margot Friedmann of Nagybanya, who perished in the Holocaust at Auschwitz in 1944, aged 9. @yellowcandleuk #yellowcandle

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"I don't think I could look at my dad in the eye if I stayed in the Labour Party" Ian Austin MP, who resigned from Labour today, tells Kirsty Wark
https://t.co/CmotrFicRQ

See more at 22:30 on @BBCTwo

#newsnight | @IanAustinMP | @KirstyWark

[Rachel Riley MBE 💙 @RachelRileyRR]

The speech I just delivered at @HolocaustUK’s event.
Important #WeRemember and learn from the mistakes of the past, huge thanks to everyone who continues to spread this message.
#BeLouder against antisemitism.
#EnoughIsEnough 🙏❤️ #HMD2019

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

Plus she mentions Britain on a number of occasions, thereby excluding Northern Ireland 😱

[Our Future, Our Choice @OFOCBrexit]

@10DowningStreet @theresa_may We had @Femi_Sorry translate May's New Year Message so that everyone can see the Brexit deal she's trying to sell us.
#HappyNewYear2019 #NewYearsDay2019

[Bernie Nyman @ukpublishinglaw]

@SpursOfficial @WilliamHill Eric "Coco" Lamela!