I struggle to take lectures on cancer from politicians who spent months and months instructing severely ill patients to 'stay home' in order to protect the NHS.

Many did exactly that and suffered enormously directly because of those commands.

A tragically predictable result.

I did this podcast episode with Rachel Johnson - she seems to think I'm a difficult woman: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rac…

“I don’t mind folk having a party to celebrate their relationship but marriage is unreformable and outdated”

This week’s guest is Julie Bindel, the lesbian provocatrice and ungenial host of the shocking Three Doors Down podcast

⁦Julie Bindel⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rac…

Beware of making yourself a nuisance by a doleful expression. When you enter a room, people should feel as if a gleam of sunshine had been let into it.

Elon Musk That's a very generous offer. The The Free Speech Union frequently defends people who get into trouble with their employers for something they've said on this platform, such as Gillian Philip, a best-selling author who was fired after adding #IStandWithJKRowling to her Twitter bio. You…

BREAKING - The Taliban have reportedly banned girls aged over 10 from going to school in some provinces of Afghanistan (originally the ban was for girls aged over 11).

This is the tragic outcome when the world remains silent to the Taliban’s cruelty. bbc.com/persian/articl…

Last week ⁦Georgia Harrison⁩ made history after receiving record damages from an ex who filmed her without consent having sex.

He’s in prison.

Georgia Harrison campaigned to change the Online Safety Bill and is this week’s Difficult Woman. globalplayer.com/podcasts/episo…

‘It’s not just a cheeky line after dinner, it’s a whole day, a whole evening.’

Rachel Johnson takes this devastating call from the wife of a cocaine addict who desperately doesn’t want drugs to be decriminalised.

'They're kind of pushing us into this joyless totalitarian world.'

'Sadiq Khan basically thinks we are all Pavlov's dogs.'

'Free Your Mind' author Laura Dodsworth tells Rachel Johnson why she hates the London Mayor's 'maaate' campaign.

‘If any of my many nephews and nieces ask my advice, I say that if they’re going to spend three or four years reading and writing about something, it has to be a subject they’re keen on.'

✍️ Rachel Johnson

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I had to abandon the podcast. The story is just too upsetting. God, for decades Julie Bindel has been fighting male violence. She's seen the worst of humanity. She's an absolute legend and of course a 'hate figure' on here. I love her.

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I wrote this in 1995. The state of the planet is unfolding much as climate scientists expected (though generally faster and worse than forecast). But the politics remain in just the same frozen state as they were 28 years ago.
All the wasted years. 🧵
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'I had a very strong mind and I rebelled against a lot of things.'

Shazia Mirza joins Rachel Johnson to discuss what it's like to be a 'difficult woman'.

Listen on Global Player ⬇️

Bite the air in Britain and you can taste the prejudices that haunt us. I’m sorry I became part of it | Martin Rowson theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This week’s Difficult Woman is shaziamirza - Britain’s first female Muslim standup comedian - who is a walking talking trigger warning.

Praying her parents never hear a single word of this. globalplayer.com/podcasts/episo…

'Liberation'

'I would like to think that Nigel Farage can bank with Coutts, just as I would like to think that Jeremy Clarkson is free to express his extremely unsavoury opinions about the Duchess of Sussex. That is the country I want to be in.'

Rachel Johnson condemns 'woke capitalism'.

'It would anchor us in a group of countries who all face the same problems.'

Environmentalist and former MEP ＠StanleyPJohnson tells ＠RachelSJohnson the UK needs to rejoin 'at the very least the European Environment Agency'.
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'I want to believe everything is going to be fine, but the evidence before us is that it's not.'

This caller says climate change has 'saved lives' and accuses Rachel Johnson of only 'wanting to believe bad things'...

In defence of ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees (and in praise of @djokonole) spectator.co.uk/article/in-def…