The demand to “use ‘correct’ pronouns” is the very height of gaslighting. It coerces people into stating something that they know in their hearts and heads to be untrue, while instilling in them a fear of the consequences if they dare resist. It’s the worst kind of bullying.

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We don’t address racism by pretending white people can be black, nor is ableism solved by giving able-bodied people wheelchairs, so why are women and girls supposed to applaud their male imitators, centre them in language and hand over rights their foremothers fought for? 3/X

I doubt that when Churchill signed us up to the Refugee Convention, Britain offering refuge to the world’s acid attackers and terrorists, flitting from one safe country to another like interrailing students, was what he had in mind, says Tom Slater
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The Polish Government has published draft 'hate speech' proposals that could see perpetrators jailed for up to three years for making what the legislation describes in vague, ill-defined terms as “offensive” remarks and “insults” against transgender folk.
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Even now, eight years on, the liberal elite still doesn’t grasp the Brexit vote. They bang on about airport queues or frictionless trade or Erasmus. They have no understanding that the vote was driven by a desire to completely re-order our society and system of governance.

Still my favourite ever tweet, I think.

No foreign billionaire should be permitted to take control of a vital national service. Nationalise Royal Mail now. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Asylum seeker Ahmed Alid - an Islamic extremist -murdered innocent 70-year-old Terence Carney on a Hartlepool street 'in protest' at the war in Gaza. This story, from start to finish, just about sums Britain up at the moment. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

I've been a member of the Labour party for 30 years and can confirm that this is bang on.

“The Cass Review: the end of the trans cult?”

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Simple: because too many people in positions of influence chose to keep their heads down for the sake of a quiet life. It was basic cowardice.

That time when Leave-supporting Labour MP Frank Field faced down his own party colleagues during a Brexit debate in the Commons. ✊

The Army wants to relax security checks in order to attract overseas recruits from minority ethnic backgrounds. As I wrote recently, this 'diversity for the sake of it' approach ultimately helps no-one. The zealots should leave our workplaces alone. ⬇️ paulembery.com/p/why-cant-the…

Thought-provoking piece by Ed West. 'The job of the Metropolitan police is now less like that of a conventional British police service and more like that of a colonial force, charged with preventing community relations from spilling over into violence.' edwest.co.uk/p/our-new-colo…

This makes a case for GB News, and/or for why news orgs need more ideological diversity - the interviewer exposes Truss's fakery more skilfully than his C4 or News Agents counterparts would do. twitter.com/GBNAmerica/sta…

.J.K. Rowling's carefully phrased definition of  “woman”  is correct. The gamete-size definition is soundly based in evolutionary theory and has no exceptions  – among humans, mammals, vertebrates, animals generally. And she’s right about beetroot.
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I'm at an utter loss to understand how Liz Truss ever became prime minister. Genuinely. It's a bit like waking up and hearing that Stacey Solomon has been appointed as manager of the England football team.

Is there a single public service or instutution that is performing better since the Tories came to power 14 years ago? Answers on a postcard.