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.@Strava supports male Veronica Ivy who has destroyed women’s cycling & now plays women’s golf, and wants women who say no to “die in a grease fire”. Brands supporting males in women’s sports are contemptible & deserve to go bankrupt.

64 out of 532 Crown Court courtrooms across England and Wales are sitting empty today — that’s 12%. At the same time, the Government is trying to push through legislation that would slash our ancient right to jury trials. David Lammy claims that curbing this right is the only way to cut the Crown Court backlog of 80,000 cases. He couldn’t be more wrong. Jury trials are not the cause of the backlog, nor the delay and denial of justice for victims — it is the fact that courts are not sitting on working days. Open the courtrooms. Protect our fundamental right to jury trials.

Funny, I haven’t heard from @BBCWomansHour yet. You’d think they’d be interested in speaking to a woman whose mainly female choir was dropped from a major sporting event by a leading disability charity - apparently because she publicly defended women’s rights. Sure the call will come soon!

@RawaneOsmane 💪

A man sitting next to me on a plane asked what I did for a living. I told him I was a public speaker. He asked what I spoke about. I said antisemitism in the Arab world. But that was not precise enough. The truth is more specific, and perhaps more controversial: I am a professional advocate for Israel. I was born to Lebanese and Syrian Muslim parents, yet I chose to stand publicly and unapologetically with the Jewish state. The real question is not what I do, but why. I grew up in Lebanon surrounded by sectarian hostility, with communities convinced of each other’s flaws. It pushed me away from dogma and toward questioning. Later, living across Europe, I realized you can leave the Middle East physically, but not mentally. Its conflicts follow you. I came to believe that lasting peace in the region requires reconciliation with Israel, not endless obsession with its destruction. That conviction led me back to university, where I studied Islamic and Jewish Studies in Germany. There, I developed deep admiration for Judaism, for the Jewish people, and for Israel: not because they are perfect, but because of their resilience, continuity, and strength against extraordinary odds. I knew supporting Israel publicly would cost me relationships and distance me from parts of my past. It did. Yet I chose this path deliberately. On October 7, I put everything aside and went to Israel, not as an observer, but out of solidarity. I wanted to stand with people I had come to see as family. So the most honest way to describe what I do is this: I am a professional advocate for Israel, and I do it out of love, conviction, and admiration. #Israel #Lebanon #Syria #October7attack Photo taken before my first trip of twenty to Israel 👇

@truthcanbehard Entitled prick. Looked like a great rally otherwise. Would have liked to have joined-I have affection for EA. Next time though, for numbers 💪 We'll be there Sister

Even after wiping his spit off my face, this guy had to be repeatedly told not to touch me when he grabbed my arm on Saturday in Ipswich. Aggressive little man brought a whole bunch of misogyny to shut women up when talking about same sex intimate care.

@aphorism_monkey @DoctorLemma Yes yes

@YouTooCat @DoctorLemma That's in the works, believe me. What do you think Covid was all about?

Apparently when the government refused to fix a closed road, one guy just built his own and charged drivers £2 ($3) to use it. This happened 12 years ago in England, when a landslide took out a main road in the countryside. The local council said they weren’t going to build a temporary route. Drivers were now stuck with a 22-kilometre detour every trip. Businesses in the nearby village started bleeding money. A 62-year-old man called Mike Watts decided he’d had enough. He rented a field next to the closed road from a local farmer. Put his house up as collateral. Hired three guys. They built a 400-metre gravel road across the field in ten days. It cost him £150,000 (around $250,000). He charged £2 per car (about $3). Locals and motorbikes paid half. Emergency vehicles went through free. The council was livid. He’d skipped planning permission. But he hadn’t actually broken any laws, so all they could do was ask him to apply for it after the fact. Over the next few months, more than 100,000 cars used his road. People flew in from other countries just to drive on it for fun. He nearly made his money back. Neighbours started sending him cakes and whisky. When the road finally closed, his wife went out and collected stones from it. She painted little eyes on each one and sold them as souvenirs. Would you have just sat in traffic, or are you the type who’d build the road?

@hogotheforsaken ❤️ 📢

I’m a diaspora, secular Jew, British born/raised. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father. No religious background at all. I’m telling you - this is a frightening and heartbreaking time for Jews, not just in UK. I’m quite a brave person, and would speak up for you. Speak up for us.

Oh look, @UniofOxford St Hilda's College, is breaking its own (admittedly incoherent), sexual harassment policy. I'd say Matt Rattley's strap-on Z-cups are: 1. Indimidating 2. Hostile, 3. Degrading 4. Humiliating 5. Offensive For his female students and colleagues!

Ummm, @UniofOxford, please reassure us that you understand that this man does not have gender dysphoria (he has a very visible male gender marker that does not bother him, at all) and is, in fact, an AGP. You understand that he's getting off on making people feel uncomfortable and on humiliating young people by demanding they submit to/obey him regarding pronouns etc, yes? Why are you allowing him to perform his fetish? Have you even tried to say 'no' to him? Or are you submitting to him, too, and encouraging his sexual psychopath behaviour?

@LouiseDistras 💪

Three years ago this week is when it all started. They tried to bury me for speaking a basic biological truth. The blacklisters, the stalkers, the police dragging me out of my own home... all because I refused to lie and say men can become women. It’s taken a lot of hard, ugly, daily work not to become like them... because if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss starts gazing back at you. I didn’t soften the truth to stay liked or bookable. I just kept being me. And somehow, life is still good. I’m grateful for every single day I get to live as myself, as a free woman who still tells the truth. That shit is not easy. If you’re still standing for reality in this clown world, be proud of yourself. You didn’t break. You didn’t lie. You didn’t become them.

@DoctorLemma Better close the pubs down and stop people meeting like that then.

Oh, and I forgot to mention how the idea even came up. Mike was at his local pub one evening with his wife Wendy. The farmer who owned the field next to the closed road came over to their table to complain. People were already cutting across his field illegally to avoid the detour, and his land was getting torn up. Wendy looked at her husband and said, well, why don’t we just build a proper road across it and charge people? That was it. That was the whole planning meeting.

@RestoreBritain_ Sunset Clauses please, if you are intending on draconian measures to solve this problem. Otherwise you will bring in Totalitarianism.

As Restore Britain's mass deportation policy is implemented, there will be resistance or even riots. A Restore Britain Government would use the full power of the state to enforce what the British people elected us to do. Mass deportations. Don't like it? Get out of the way.

We've all rightly been outraged at the way the disability charity @scope treated @jan_murray's choir by dropping them from performing at Sunday's London Marathon and then (presumably having sought legal advice) reinstated them in *very* bad grace. It's a scandal that cancellations like this for legally-held beliefs are still happening. However, I think many people have forgotten what Scope is supposed to do and what implications this attitude from its leadership has for the (actually) most vulnerable people in society. Scope is a disability charity. Its remit is to campaign and lobby on behalf of disabled people, to provide information, advice and support when they need it and to create opportunities for disabled people. How can disabled people trust Scope to have our interests at heart when it has demonstrated such intolerance for sex realist views? In particular, how can disabled women who need same-sex care trust Scope to advocate on their behalf, provide them with accurate and up to date information and advice on this subject and to support them - and give them a voice - when they need it most? Disabled people - especially women - who need care face extreme risk from those who are supposed to provide it. Disabled women are physically and sexually assaulted by male carers at a sickening rate. Same-sex intimate care for disabled women who require it is an urgent priority. But the major disability charities, including Scope, do not agree. They've been silent on the matter for years. They're silent because they've pulled a Stonewall; they know they'll lose donations if they work in the interests of the people who need them most. And yet they hoover up donations from brilliant, well-meaning people who don't know this. So can everyone who has been so brilliantly vocal in support of Jan's choir please, please also consider contacting Scope to ask them about their policy regarding same-sex intimate care for disabled women? Could you ask them what they do and plan to do to lobby for same-sex care, to support disabled women who need it and to make the voices of those women heard? Thank you so much. @hen10freeman @sharrond62 @jan_murray @WomensRightsNet @BevJacksonAuth @Glinner

Thanks to everyone who’s been in touch over the last 24 hours to offer support. Life has to go on, so I was volunteering at parkrun this morning. Since then, it’s been back-to-back calls with lawyers, choir members and others. One of the most difficult conversations has been with my choir members - who have done absolutely nothing to deserve any of this. Nor have I. My gender critical views are lawfully held and I’ve never brought them into the choir anyway. Because that’s not what we’re about. I still have no idea what their views are - because that’s not what the choir is about. It’s about a shared love of music and helping runners raise money for charity. One of them said: “They don’t care about us. They just want to destroy you - we’re just collateral damage.” And based on everything that’s happened, sadly, it's hard to disagree.

Absolute two-tier madness at Royal Holloway. My “tea towel” comment about a keffiyeh got me: kicked out of accommodation for a week, locked in my Halls of residence like a prisoner, one single place to eat, and suspended for 7 academic weeks. Yet the Palestine society president can publicly brand me a racist, Islamophobic ATTACKER and THREAT to campus - breaching our Non-Contact Agreement - posting photos of me, videos of me, and naming me in full, and RHUL SU & Wellbeing Team shrug: “Free speech. No incitement.” If it’s free speech to smear me and trigger death threats, “he needs to get jumped” messages, “I’m going to murder this racist cunt”, doxxing and on-campus abuse… then it’s also free speech to say: we have serious demographic problems on campus. Most of the harassment I’ve faced comes from Muslim students - the largest religious group here. My friends have witnessed it all. Pakistani Muslim leaking my address? They don’t belong here. Send them home. Royal Holloway disgusts me. Protect British students or shut these radical societies down NOW. #RHUL #TwoTierCampus #CampusHate #FreeSpeech #cancelled @RoyalHolloway @GBNews

Another public statement from Scope that targets me - suggesting that my lawful views 'alienate others'. And that I am not an 'appropriate' volunteer for the charity. In a thread on Scope's own discussion forum - where multiple disabled people defend my position. Including one who says they're taking Scope out of their will - as a direct result of their actions towards me and my choir. Just extraordinary 🤷‍♀️

This post started a small but significant rumble for women in the Middle East, particularly Saudi.

This relationship between Europe and Muslims from the 3rd World, whether it’s the Islamic regime occupying Iran, the Palestinians, the Syrians, is like a woman in marriage to a violent, narcissistic addict. She is living in absolute hell. There is no future. Her children are in real danger every single day. Yet she refuses to leave him. No matter how much support she is given, no matter how many times she steps away, she always goes back to playing the long-suffering, self-sacrificing wife. She simply cannot let go of that role. And he knows it. That’s why he never stops. Why would he? He gets whatever he wants. He beats her, cheats, abuses the children, steals from her, and forces her to go out and work just to pay for his next fix. There is no bottom for him, because she is always there to enable him. On the surface, everyone sees him as the problem. But when you look closer, the real pathology is her, the wife. She is the other side of the narcissistic coin. She is addicted to that warm glow of moral superiority she gets from her endless sacrifice and compassion. She can’t stop chasing it. She will never walk away from the very thing that gives her the sense of being the “good one.” These kinds of relationships are disastrous. They don’t just destroy the woman, they poison the entire family, exhaust everyone around them, and create misery and chaos for all the people forced to live with the consequences. And far too often, the woman ends up beaten to death in one of his sudden rages. Look at what Europe has actually done to Iran. You sent Khomeini from Paris, you created and fed this monster in Iran, you laundered its money, you dressed it up with endless talk of engagement and democracy, and you kept the Islamic regime alive for decades, at the direct cost of Iranian blood and lives. You still pretend the regime has not slaughtered 40,000 of its own people. You pretend it is the victim of America and Israel. It’s your costume, you reward and cover savagery as long as they are Muslim from 3rd world. You pretend the men who raped women, mutilated children, and paraded hostages like savages on 7 October were not Palestinians. Yeah Israel were committing genocide, by blockading Gaza, as if Gaza never had a border with Egypt. You push for a Palestinian state anyway and keep calling them pure victims, while sweeping every obvious fact under the carpet and laundering lies and libels through your “human right“ activism. You continued legitimising Assad after he butchered hundreds of thousands of his own people, destroyed Syria, and created millions of refugees, then opened your doors wide to his followers and others like them. Then came the waves of refugees and migrants. They brought terror attack after terror attack, turned neighbourhoods into no-go zones, and left your daughters raped and assaulted in shocking numbers. Yet instead of drawing any line, you keep paying them more with your own taxpayers’ money while they grow ever more entitled and demanding. You bow, you apologise, you make excuses, you strengthen your favourite muslim terrorists. Go ahead. It’s your choice. But we Iranians have learned the truth about your so-called human rights the hardest way possible. We now know our real enemy is you. We are no longer waiting for you. We will take our country back, with the help of America and Israel, with the leadership of our crown holder, the rightous ruler of our country, we will rebuild it, and we will push your destructive influence out of the way. You can keep defending the terrorists of the Islamic regime occupying Iran. You can write glowing articles about them in your papers, and attack America and Israel while congratulating yourselves on your virtue. You can celebrate the Pope who never said a word about the regime hanging innocent people from cranes, but made sure to condemn Trump for not respecting the “rights” of terrorists and murderers. We don’t care anymore. We will push you away, we will not let your sick, corrupted virtue-signalling continue to enable the people who are killing us. We will cut you off. But remember, you’ve earned every bit of what’s coming. And at this point, a lot of us have no sympathy left for you. #JavidShah‌‌‌‌‌ #MIGA #ThankYouTrump‌ #ThankYouBiBi‌

A charity that represents the needs of people with disabilities, which will include women who need intimate care, doesn’t want to associate with a woman who thinks those women should have same sex carers. The charity sector is rotten to the core, full of overpaid morons who couldn’t care less about the cause. @jan_murray was due to sing with her choir in support of @scope at the London Marathon this weekend. I think we might need to check whether this charity adopts the right safeguarding for women and girls, I suspect not.

@StandingforXX Have a great one, hope the sun shines 💪

☀️TOMORROW☀️ 🇬🇧 LWS IPSWICH 🇬🇧 Saturday 1pm at the Corn Exchange Can’t wait to see you all there!!