Who's coming on the 12th?
Confirmed speakers: Keep Prisons Single Sex, Richard Garside, Joan Smith, Rebekah Wershbale

#KeepPrisonsSingleSex #MoJProtest

An image taken by me of Claire Fox at last year's Battle of Ideas in #Buxton

Tomorrow, 5th November, we battle again!
At Devonshire Dome
Info & tickets⬇️
battleofideas.org.uk/buxton2022/

Anyone dismisses outright the idea there might be a problem with cancel culture/wokeness (if you have better terms, feel free!) in our institutions should watch this and see how they feel about that. twitter.com/andrewdoyle_co…

Horrifying thread

I read plenty of content I disagree with - my response is never to abuse the author.

Cruel personal insults may garner retweets, but they add nothing constructive to the debate. Set an example.

Disagreeing respectfully is fine! When did that become so unacceptable? Crazy world.

Ditching Sizewell would be a profound mistake.

As is scaling back northern powerhouse rail.

We wonder why growth is sclerotic, and then we cancel vital national energy and transport infrastructure.

This from newly-published London housing report 2022 reminds us that Inner London population remains far smaller than it was 100 years ago despite capital's overall population now being higher.

King Charles ‘it’s my party and I’ll proselytise about the climate if I want to’ is throwing his own bash because he’s been forbidden from going to the real COP do. And our PM is going to both after braying about how he has time for neither? This country is run by teenagers.

This is the third time in a few months I've read of people receiving prison sentences for what they say in WhatsApp groups twitter.com/CDP1882/status…

England my England Claire Fox I disagree - the rule of law of vital to it.

But there are individuals now who, apparently fed up of the political process, will use other means to try and secure political change, other than actual politics.

The ideology Stonewall promotes, the compliance it requires, is incoherent & unanchored from science, reason, public awareness & acceptance. And any remaining shred of proportionality. Yet it continues to get worse. Conservatives for Women
conservativesforwomen.org/stonewall-2023…

Really important information in here for anyone working at or with any connection to orgs signed up to Stonewall. Thank you Caroline for the excellent investigation and analysis.

I’m concerned about wealthy barristers and their funders using the law to bypass the political process. The threat to democracy is those who believe themselves above it.

“I’m particularly ashamed of my vote to dismiss the care workers; & I hope they can be reinstated & compensated” Danny Kruger

Kruger then challenged mandate for NHS staff

40000+ lost Steve Barclay address this Care Quality Commission Department of Health and Social Care Together

'It's not just waiters and chefs giving up their jobs. Many leading journalists and commentators have also stopped bothering to do their jobs, too – preferring to promote their prejudices about #Brexit rather than understanding the problems we face today.' #HospitalityJobs

Really looking forward to contributing to the discussion on Grooming Gangs in Buxton at the Academy of Ideas on Saturday

There is still time to purchase a ticket for what will be a robust no holds discussion.

Claire Fox Mo Lovatt Jordan Tyldesley Dennis Hayes

battleofideas.org.uk/session/from-g…

'They want to get their big boy pants on and do something about it.'

June Slater, known as “Chief Gammon” online, has her say on the migrant crisis, and whether President Macron is trying to damage post-Brexit Britain.

They joked about a horrifying crime. This is why nobody will care that they've been jailed. The opposite: people will feel they are vile and they deserve it.

But we will surely start to care about jailing people for offensive jokes when the police come knocking at our own doors.