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I am COMPLETELY shocked: the Wall Street Journal has named Good Girls one of its top 10 books of the year! Thank you so much to the WSJ editors and to
@slsatel
for the original brilliant review. You have honestly made my year
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Banning abortion never actually bans abortions. It just bans safe abortions. And everybody knows it.
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That thing when in October you smugly book a Xmas supermarket delivery slot and stick in some champagne bottles to reserve the slot, fully planning to put the food in later. Then one Tuesday evening in December a delivery man brings you three champagne bottles. That.
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This is magnificent. Sinead O’Connor’s 2013 open letter in response to Miley Cyrus saying the video for Wrecking Ball was inspired by O’Connor
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Listening to the audio of that teacher calling those 13 year old girls “despicable” for saying girls have a vagina and boys have a penis has really upset me. Those girls are heroic for standing up to that idiotic bully of a teacher
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Having slept on it now, this is my hot take on the Oscars: men are just too emotional
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Do musicians who play private concerts for dictators and tour countries where homosexuality is illegal have a “nasty stain” on their albums? Or just the ones whose concerns about medicalising children are in line with NHS policy? Asking for me
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Feminists: We are living through a deeply misogynistic backlash against women.
Many people: That’s absurd!
[JK Rowling opens a shelter for vulnerable women]
Headline:
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I can’t believe, in 2022, people are tweeting furiously about Harry Potter, but fwiw, here’s JK Rowling’s actual description of the goblins in the actual book. I dunno, man, but if you read this and think “Jew!”, maybe Rowling isn’t the one with the problem
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Tom Daley knitting a cosy for his gold medal is extremely my kinda Olympics content
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I try to avoid criticising my former employer. I also support the freedom of opinion writers to write whatever they believe. But it is also my right to say: wow, this is intellectually, historically and morally bankrupt
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It must be exhausting to be Boris Johnson. Every day is like a series finale
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I am very much not leaving The Guardian, but I will now be contributing occasionally to Unherd. This is my first piece for them: Why I Stopped Being a Good Girl
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Women who defend their sex-based rights lose their jobs, get taken to court and are publicly denounced as fascists. But someone who spent 30yrs in prison for violent crimes can tell people to punch women in the face and they get cheered, while the Met looks on doing nothing
An official speaker on the stage of an event promoted by
@MayorofLondon
(‘I will always be on your side’) with police watching. Organisers proudly posted this afterwards. The speaker is a violent ex-con, friend of several Labour MPs. This is the UK’s shame
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Hmmmm I could remember that JK Rowling is donating millions to Ukrainian orphans - or I could let myself be successfully trolled by Putin and denounce JK Rowling as a witch. What to choose?
I will personally match donations to this appeal, up to £1m. Thank you so, so much to all who’ve already donated, you’re enabling
@lumos
to do crucial work for some of the most vulnerable children in Ukraine.
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Anyone who still thinks of Stonewall as the laudable organisation it once was should know that it now insists that two year olds - many of whom can barely say their name - understand the difference between sex and gender identity
Research suggests that children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity. Yet, many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.
LGBTQ-inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the wellbeing of all young people! 🌈
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V pleased I named Ralph Fiennes as my ultimate actor in a recent Guardian series 💪
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I was lucky enough to interview Salman Rushdie last year and we talked a lot about how he refuses to let the constant threats of violence against him define his life. He is a truly brave, thoughtful and kind man
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I find it fascinating that Sex and the City - a show about a bunch of white women making jokes and shagging - is considered embarrassingly retro and borderline offensive, but The Sopranos - a show about a bunch of white men killing each other -is considered an untouchable classic
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Funny how these actors’ determination to distinguish themselves from JK Rowling never extends to giving back the money and career her films gave them
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@stellacreasy
@jk_rowling
Instead of quote-retweeting someone to all your followers - when they didn’t even mention you in the first place - you could just read the article about vulnerable incarcerated women, instead of assuming it’s all an attack on you
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Gender ideology is not a men’s rights movement. It just says that women aren’t allowed to define themselves, prioritise their needs, vocalise their concerns, discuss their experiences, have single sex spaces, wear colours of their choosing or hold events about any of the above
We are astonished that
@Eventbrite
has cancelled our book launch for
@K_IngalaSmith
's Defending Women's Spaces due to take place on 24 Nov with
@bindelj
, unbelievably citing violation of their policy on Hateful, Dangerous, or Violent Content!
#DefendingWomensSpaces
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It’s fascinating to watch the unravelling of Mermaids. I started questioning it 6 years ago and was called a bigot, a child-killer and a bitch. I want to say “I TOLD YOU SO” but first I want to scream “HOW COULD THIS HAVE TAKEN SO LONG FFS?!?!”
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Will the celebrities and politicians who unthinkingly endorsed Mermaids ever apologise? Will the activists and ‘journalists’ who said anyone who questioned it were bigots? Of course not
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If you’re angry about Nike hiring Dylan Mulvaney to advertise sports bras, just wait until you remember they cut their sponsored female athletes’ pay when they got pregnant, and only stopped when they were publicly shamed
And
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Boys can wear dresses and play with dolls, girls can wear trousers and play with trucks. They don’t need medical intervention - they just need to be kids. Didn’t feminism and the gay rights movement sort this out several decades ago?
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Today’s column: so long, farewell
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The reactions to this piece are fascinating. They're basically "How dare a woman not be 100% supportive of her boyfriend all the time and how dare she have feelings of her own?"
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@DouthatNYT
@zackbeauchamp
Really glad you men are sorting this out. While you’re here, maybe you could do something about the crushing of US women’s access to abortion and the lack of maternity leave in the US? That’s the kind of stuff UK women discuss on Mumsnet
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All Kate Middleton coverage, forever: “She’s, like, really real, just like a normal person. But also completely perfect, to a degree never before witnessed by the human race”
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I have been at The Guardian for 22 years, and I still can't believe how lucky I've been to work there. But now, it is time for me to follow in the footsteps of other former longterm colleagues like
@suzanne_moore
and
@garyyounge
and try something new
Long-serving Guardian columnist
@HadleyFreeman
is leaving the paper at the end of November.
She will begin as a columnist, interviewer and features writer at The Sunday Times in January
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Mind boggling to think this man was a barrister
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It is really is kind of amazing that the one athlete in Vogue's list of "25 Powerhouse Women" is - not a Lioness, not an Olympian, but... Emily Bridges
Cyclist Emily Bridges has been competitively racing since she was 10 years old, but now, due to new policies introduced by British Cycling, she’s been banned from competing in the women’s category.
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@oliverburkeman
@billybragg
@Jane66588568
@void_if_removed
@twtomwilson
Nothing like using the memory of murdered Jews to bolster one’s ideological argument on Twitter
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Devastating, beautiful, righteously furious and heart-shattering piece by
@meropemills
about her daughter Martha, who was so grievously failed by the doctors who were supposed to look after her
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The brilliant
@DeccaJourno
interviews Angela Rayner and absolutely nails her on the idiocy of her support of self-ID
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I know people are talking, rightly, about the politicians who enabled Trump and are now dumping him. But let’s not forget his former defenders on here who encouraged their millions of followers to pile on anyone who criticised their BFF
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I’m in court watching Rebekah Vardy try to remember whether she was referring to Coleen Rooney or Danielle Lloyd when she was texting about a “nasty bitch” and all I can think is I REALLY HAVE THE GREATEST JOB IN THE WORLD
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@campbellclaret
Sounds like that’s hugely beneficial to men. Good for you! And the benefits to women are 🤷♀️0️⃣🫥
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I have written for
@UnHerd
about the week in which it was finally acknowledged that extreme gender ideology doesn’t make sense, and doesn’t work
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Stonewall is comparing women defending sex-based rights to anti-semites and anti-vaxxers are wearing yellow stars, all - they say - to defend their causes. All they are actually doing is exploiting Jewish history and demonstrating how little they care about the feelings of Jews
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I’ll tell you what I look for in a politician: one who tweets about a report - consisting of several hundred pages, involving years of work and relying on many interviews with experts and those most affected - without even reading it
As the Cass review is published, my thoughts are with the trans community.
Young trans people already face huge barriers to healthcare, including years-long waiting lists.
Their health and wellbeing should not be a front in a toxic culture war.
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“Oxford and Cambridge should each have just one University Challenge team, not separate ones from each college” is the hill I will die on
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Shame on anyone who has validated this behaviour, encouraged it or just stayed silent, insisting it’s just a niche issue, a silly ladies’ argument, these angry women probably brought it on themselves. This is misogyny and THIS is the wrong side of history. Team
@Docstockk
Listen now: In an exclusive interview, Professor Kathleen Stock
@Docstockk
speaks to
@Emmabarnett
about resigning from her post at the University of Sussex, her experiences while still at the university and the concept of academic freedom
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This is insane. Transwomen *are* male - otherwise they wouldn’t be trans!
@JustinOnWeb
was explaining the controversy to a mainstream audience, who might otherwise assume a transwoman is a woman who identifies as trans. Why would the BBC want to obfuscate a news story?
BBC upholds complaint against Today presenter Justin Webb for using the phrase “trans women, in other words males” on air
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@elle_hunt
@sarahditum
@JonathanHaynes
Trans people should define themselves as they wish, and so can I. I am not “cis” because I do not have a gender identity. I’m a woman because of my sex. That’s it. Defining oneself does not mean imposing one’s belief system on others
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So weird, all these people dismissing the 10 part podcast about Stonewall without even listening to it. It’s almost like they put ideology ahead of research and evidence
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For the cover of tomorrow’s Sunday Times Magazine, I’ve interviewed
@hannahsbee
about her brilliant, devastating and absolute game-changing book, Time to Think, about the collapse of GIDS, and how the NHS betrayed so many children
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My only take on Emily Ratajkowski's book is that the Emily Ratajkowski who wrote about the problems of capitalism, the male gaze and female beauty standards seems to be a very different Emily Ratajkowski from the one who runs her instagram account
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Quick question, re the insane Costa drawing: are mastectomies super cool and aspirational and zeitgeisty when women with breast cancer have them? Or only when they're being marketed to healthy females as a solution for body dysmorphia?
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I really love getting pornified misogyny from guys who proudly show how much they love their daughter in their Twitter photo
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The main complaint in this piece seems to be that Rowling does not write nice ladylike novels about nice ladylike things
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First prize I’ve won since I got the Good Friend award in 4th grade. That’s still a life peak, but this is pretty nice too! Genuinely ASTONISHED
Congratulations to The
#PressAwards
Broadsheet Columnist of the Year category winner Hadley Freeman / Sunday
@thetimes
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If US feminist organisations cannot say the word “woman” they cannot defend women’s rights. Me for
@unherd
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This video was taken today by one of my neighbours in Camden. As my neighbour says, people are more than free to post remembrances of the Palestinian victims. But no, they just want to rip up photos of kidnapped Israelis. Funny, that
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@billybragg
@ewendj
@suzanne_moore
Do you ever think “Hmm, I wonder if defending the bullying of a female singer because she dared to question the intentions of Big Pharma is *actually* a progressive position?”
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I’ve written about the demographic at the heart of the Cass review: teenage girls. How could the NHS have betrayed so many unhappy, vulnerable girls by medicalising them to be boys?
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Goodbye, Guardian
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To all the people insisting there was toxicity on “both sides” and it was always possible to debate gender issues, this article was described by an activist group to my colleagues as “transphobic” (I was away), and I wasn’t allowed to write on gender again
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This week’s column is about women and the thought police. When they can’t find an incriminating quote to damn you for, they’ll accuse you of Wrongthink
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But remember, there’s really no difference, ultimately, between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
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We are living in a baby-led world, and babies know nothing. It’s time for the adults to grow up
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@elle_hunt
@sarahditum
@JonathanHaynes
I do not have a “gender identity”, I have a biological sex. Other people believe they do have a gender identity and that’s fine. But you don’t get to impose your belief system on others anymore than I force my religion on you
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In today’s
@thetimes
- Sunday paper of the year! - I’ve written about The Spectator’s massage parlour correspondent and why I think men who pay for sex are no better than rapists
Let’s stop pretending that paying for sex is anything but abuse
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In my Sunday Times column this week, I’ve written about how gender activism has become the paper thin mask for misogyny
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“Everyone who disagrees with me is a fascist” is a really reasonable, persuasive and intelligent argument and it’s one I wish I’d thought of years ago. Could have saved me so much bother
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My column in tomorrow’s Sunday Times: now British Jews know
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This is one of the most insane things I've ever read. Why couldn't the mother just let her little boy have a doll and a dress? My twin boys got a baby doll and pram on their last birthday and they play dress-up in my clothes all the time. Who cares?
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@bindelj
@POLITICOEurope
I'm proud to be cited alongside
@soniasodha
as being on your and JKR's side, Julie. And that's a truth that will long outlast all this craven, cowardly, misogynistic nonsense xxx
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Roisin Murphy: Big Pharma is taking advantage of vulnerable children
Reaction: Roisin is an evil bigot terf and her new album must be ignored!
Trans activist: Punch women in the f***ing face!
Reaction: Meh, no harm done
This is the double standard
Full story here, as Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker is cleared of encouraging her followers to 'punch a TERF'.
We are told she may stay in prison until next March despite today's acquittal.
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I love how the most right-on stance currently is “White Feminists Are The Root Of All Evil.” Amazing how the new woke looks so much like the old sexism
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Today’s column: I prefer plurality of opinion to purity of threat, but I seem to be increasingly alone in that
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Look, I’m glad Labour have finally found the courage to state the obvious truth. But I’m not going to be double gaslit by them that they’ve always been on women’s side about this, given they spent the past few years gaslighting women that they didn’t know what a woman is
@HadleyFreeman
They've seen how well it worked for the Scottish Parliament who tried to railroad in Self-ID despite poll after poll of the Scottish electorate overwhelmingly rejecting the proposal.
We have the receipts. Labour have zero respect for women.
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Sure, your train was probably cancelled this weekend due to staff shortages. But the important thing is asexuals finally have their own special train
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It's quite something to see the same people who refused to defend female colleagues when they were attacked for wrongthink about sex and gender now tweeting their support for Chimamanda's great piece. How the winds change
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I have been wanting to write about this blatant medical scandal for a long time. I am enormously grateful to
@thetimes
for letting me do so, and with nothing but support from my editors Ben Taylor
@km_km_km_
@MattRudd
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Some women -
@VictoriaPeckham
@helenlewis
@sarahditum
myself - have been writing about this for a decade. And we were called bigots. We lost jobs and friends. This ideology - and the vilification of those who questioned it - was all in plain sight. If you looked, you’d have known
I understand that. But we allowed it to happen. In my case because I had no idea such things could be done to young, vulnerable people. I feel ashamed and angry. It must be stopped.
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God bless
@MumsnetTowers
.
Proof that there is nothing more scary to some people than smart and funny women
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This story is just mad. A long-running and highly effective women’s refuge loses its contract because it’s deemed insufficiently inclusive, because protecting women isn’t a worthy enough cause anymore
#Brighton
and
#Hove
City Council
@BrightonHoveCC
has defended the decision that cost a Brighton domestic violence charity a £5 million contract as more than 20,000 people sign a petition to stand up for RISE
@riseuk
in just six days. Read our report ...
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Seven Met officers outside my childhood synagogue on this Shabbat. Seven. And no one attending even blinked. Do non-Jews in this city know that this is what Jewish life is like here?
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Got on my rant box about Oxfam and
@jk_rowling
. You're welcome, Times Radio listeners!
“The pride movement has been so taken over by corporations doing their woke-washing by planting their rainbow flags on social media.”
Oxfam is ‘woke washing’ Pride Month, says columnist
@HadleyFreeman
.
@MattChorley
|
#TimesRadio
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220k followers. “Jews need to lose their jobs. Call me what you want.” Ok, you’re a Nazi
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@billybragg
@bindelj
People aren't angry at JH because of her support for trans rights. They're angry at her failure to support women who think differently from her
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2018: Believe women!
2021: Reframe your trauma!
The CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis has said "Sexual violence happens to bigoted people too. But if you bring beliefs that are discriminatory, expect to be challenged on your prejudice. Reframe your trauma"
Apparently, survivors are to be "educated" in this service.
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It is incredibly revealing that these Labour men can’t just say “It’s disgusting to advocate violence against women. End of.”
An official speaker on the stage of an event promoted by
@MayorofLondon
(‘I will always be on your side’) with police watching. Organisers proudly posted this afterwards. The speaker is a violent ex-con, friend of several Labour MPs. This is the UK’s shame
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@billybragg
@ewendj
@suzanne_moore
How is that not what you’re doing? Murphy is being attacked and losing work for being sceptical about big pharmaceutical companies. You’re saying you won’t defend her because that might put you on the same side as people you don’t like. Am I missing anything here?
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Trans male athletes: We must compete in the women’s categories!
Democrats: Oh yes, it’s a human rights issue, absolutely
Women athletes: Why are you making sport mixed sex when that’s clearly going against women’s rights?
Democrats: Suck it up, cry babies
It can be hard, when we're young, to not win a trophy sometimes. But we grow up and realize it’s not the end of the world and we don't need to turn that loss into our entire personality.
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Not what I say, as anyone who listens to the clip can actually hear. But it’s always good to hear from a former colleague, especially one who felt equipped to tell Jews what is and isn’t antisemitic, and to tell women what a woman is
We now have straight people being invited onto media outlets to denounce Pride for being too 'woke'.
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
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I honestly think the best job in the world ever was working with the Muppets in the 70s and 80s. The second best job is interviewing those who worked with the Muppets. Last week I got to interview the magnificent
@TheFrankOzJam
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I get that a lot of people on today’s March say they’re just campaigning for peace. But after four weeks of these marches, I honestly just don’t understand how they justify to themselves walking alongside all those cranks and antisemites
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I’m not sure what’s worse: this appalling McCarthyite behaviour from Labour, or that Labour can’t even see how completely insane this looks to the vast, vast majority of people
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I really do wonder how all the activists, journalists and even medical professionals who insisted blockers were totally fine for children are explaining their deranged behaviour to themselves
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Obviously Jolyon blocked me years ago when I asked him why he thought biological males should be in women’s rugby. But it’s always good to get financial tips from this modern day St Francis of Assisi about how I should spend money I earn myself
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Ageism really is the acceptable prejudice among allegedly progressive people, isn’t it
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I see
@VictoriaPeckham
has very much taken off her gloves 💅
Why’s the
#MeToo
crowd silent on Hamas rape?
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@DavidLammy
Dinosaurs one day, vulnerable people the next. It's hard to keep up with your ever-changing views of women.
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