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@GMK1706 @JamesMelville Don't be such a child. I'm leftwing and this is spot on.

@JamesMelville Notice how the right absolutely hate anyone Northern daring to challenge

Here’s Andy Burnham being dead normal. Credit to Russell Kane for this.

@Greg0wen This trend of privileged people making up some bullshit in an attempt to pretend they're oppressed or a victim is so fucking tedious.

Being queer in the UK is f'ing exhausting. I'm not even trans & even I have a sort of by-proxy/vicarious feeling of exhaustion over this pointlessly cruel, muddled & disproportionate EHRC code of practice mess - plus the inevitable cess pit it creates in broadcast & social media

@EAzizlerli @windinthemeadow @soniasodha Butch lesbians still look like women. Because they are.

@windinthemeadow @soniasodha You can’t tell who is trans or not. Admit it. I know some butch lesbians in London who could easily pass for a well shaven uncle at a Turkish wedding. Are you going to question their ‘femininity’? They are women.

It’s extraordinary that the BBC consistently platforms men upset they have to use gender neutral toilets instead of women’s toilets over the female rape survivors who have been unable to access a female-only support group, in relation to the EHRC guidance. It says it all, really.

@Heccles94 Oh, fuck off, you stupid misogynist. You lost.

Hating Trans people does nothing to make women’s lives better. It just makes you a bigot.

@EAzizlerli @soniasodha Are you suggesting that some trans women will try to enter women's toilets, despite being banned? Sounds a bit predatory.

@soniasodha Are you going to have to take down your knickers for control before entering toilets? How can anyone judge who is trans or not? We have always pissed and taken a dump alongside trans people since the beginning of time.

@riptide1776 @FondOfBeetles Fucking hell. Chill out.

@FondOfBeetles Said by every insecure doughy woman with zero discipline who can’t bed down the guy she’d love to bang. Age old tradition—the only time women take a break from tearing each other down, is to tear high value men down. Pure. Fcking. Cope.

No. Just no. Big muscles wrapped in too-low body fat is uncomfortable to cuddle, and means the fella is gonna be counting not just his but your calories/macros, obsessively. No thanks. A strong, squishy man is cool.

@Michael_Druggan @upgyre @justalexoki Surely you'd cook the same meal. Cooking your own meal and not your partner's is weird.

@upgyre @justalexoki I can say the same about being a bodybuilder. I'm happy to cook my own meals and go to the gym by myself. It would have minimal impact on any girlfriend I got.

this goes around a lot but what is it actually that makes women like this body type so much? why this specifically?

@eelemsti @soniasodha @matt_tennant @RichParkerLab Yougov polling shows that the majority of women want single sex spaces. Trans people quite rightly have rights enshrined in law - being granted access to the opposite sex's spaces isn't one of them.

@soniasodha @matt_tennant @RichParkerLab But Sonia, you fail to understand that the majority of women - including many, many lesbians - are inclusive and welcoming to trans women and trans men. Trans people have rights too. And those are enshrined in law.

West Midlands emergency services have confirmed they won’t be participating in Birmingham Pride this weekend, citing legal uncertainty following a High Court ruling on uniformed attendance at Pride events. I want to be clear about where I stand.

@JuwayriyyahAlam @PaulEmbery Oh piss off. It's perfectly legitimate to question a British police force commenting on something completely unrelated to them that took place in another country. Why this attack and not one of the thousands of others that happened around the world this week?

@PaulEmbery You're an absolute sicko, Paul. Maybe wait till their bury their dead before you complain about anti Muslim murders getting attention.

This is, erm, a bit weird.

@B16pal @moorehn He's not British.

@moorehn I'm curiously obsessed with wondering why Brits only have two sleep temp options: hot or cold Having a top sheet is the only thing that allows for a middle ground, but they refuse it

Obsessed with how mad this British man is at the way people make their beds

@hitchrogers @RichardDawkins Of course they're cultural - that's the point. Men in high heels are still men.

@RichardDawkins 👆🤡🚨 As a fan of your work, I find it incredibly disappointing you STILL haven't accepted that there's a difference between BIOLOGY and CULTURE. By now we must assume your bigotry is intentional. Biologically, zero PEOPLE have high heels. ZERO have dresses—these are Cultural.

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

@M79037645Awan @BBCWorld @NotDGSE Can't possibly be the fault of Afghani men, eh? The racism of low expectations. And you probably think you're progressive.

@BBCWorld @NotDGSE Thank you to Western democracies for installing barbarians on women and children of Afghanistan

Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices bbc.in/49UQzLU

@waqzwaqz @MaajidNawaz People can do what they want, within the law. You're trying to police other people's opinions and actions. It's completely intolerant and at odds with liberal, western values.

@Alj__Rogan @MaajidNawaz My point was to a muslim. He should be encouraging mocking of the religion.

1) Wearing the Niqab (full face veil) is excessive and deserves to be scrutinised by anyone using speech, protest and performance art 2) Those behind this rally have ulterior motives beyond just the Niqab, such as stoking communitarian division to split the populist right wing vote by outflanking it to its right, in order to harm @reformparty_uk & @Nigel_Farage electorally 3) This rally was organised by people who need to maintain a dialectic of conflict in order to achieve their aims: securitising the response towards a surveillance state 4) loud & censorious left/liberal opponents of this rally feed this dialectic to accelerate the surveillance state, often knowingly 5) Hence, ignoring this rally and its censorious opponents, while focusing on winning power to completely shrink the surveillance state & restore our liberty is the best “action” one can do

@waqzwaqz @MaajidNawaz This is Britain. We can and do mock religion here, and many other things for that matter. We dont have blasphemy laws. If you're offended, tough.

@MaajidNawaz As a muslim have a back bone regarding the mocking of niqaab. Regardless of your personal opinion about it being excessive, it is a valid position. And those that mock the niqaab will also mock other aspects of Islam. Will that be ok using speech and performance art?

@GilesLevesonG @AndyMatheson3 @TomCotterillX I don't doubt it.

@Alj__Rogan @AndyMatheson3 @TomCotterillX I will wear it as a badge of honour as the labels and that phrase mean nothing for its abuse.

I’ve just walked through central London and passed a group of maybe 30 Jewish schoolchildren. They’re perhaps eight and nine years old. They’re being escorted through the city by two security personnel wearing stab proof vests. What has London become? Are we really a place where Jewish children out in a school trip need guards? It’s a tragic state of affairs.

@GilesLevesonG @AndyMatheson3 @TomCotterillX That you're an anti-semite? Yes, I'd say so.

@Alj__Rogan @AndyMatheson3 @TomCotterillX Not really as it is an absolute lie. I would not trust a Zionist wuth his mother, do we not have enough evidence?

@GilesLevesonG @AndyMatheson3 @TomCotterillX You're clutching at straws.

@Alj__Rogan @AndyMatheson3 @TomCotterillX Of the guards and he is a journalist. Faces can be faded.

@jamiecam43 @TomCotterillX What do Jewish kids in London have to do with the Israeli government?

@TomCotterillX Your London hasn't changed. Their London has changed to reflect the consequence of zionists standing behind a genocide for 2 years even as we all watched it play out.

@AndyMatheson3 @TomCotterillX Adult male taking pictures of kids in the street? Bit weird.

@TomCotterillX Hard to believe a ‘journalist’ would see such a shocking thing and not take photo! Almost as if it’s a complete lie

@JuwayriyyahAlam @policylaila James is paying for Shaheed.

Yeah but James' predicament is not the fault of Shaheed. It's the fault of govts who refuse to put the majority of the people first and instead cater to the 1%. Instead of implementing a wealth tax, govts have bailed out the banks. That's the problem and Reform is just more of the same.

Two men live in Zone 2 London. Both are around 30. Both sleep in a one-bed flat. But only one believes he has a future in the city. James was born in London. He went to university, got a degree, found a decent job and now works at a marketing firm near Old Street. He earns just under £60,000 a year. On paper, he is doing well. But every month James opens his payslip and watches a third of it vanish before he ever sees it. Income tax.National Insurance.Student loan.Then comes the rent. Nearly £2,000 a month for a small one-bed flat with mould around the windows and a landlord who only renews the tenancy six months at a time. Every evening James scrolls Rightmove looking at tiny flats he cannot afford in the city he grew up in. Even the cheapest one-beds near him now cost around £400,000. The deposit alone feels impossible despite earning more than most people in Britain. His parents bought their first home younger than he is now. James still does not know if he will ever own one. So he keeps renting.Keeps waiting. He watches friends delay children. People earning what used to be considered “good money” still checking every direct debit before payday. Now meet Shaheed. He arrived in Britain recently and was granted refugee status. He does not work. He lives in a one-bed flat in East London. His housing costs and council tax are largely covered through the welfare system. He qualifies for free prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests. He does not spend his evenings worrying whether the next rent rise will wipe out what little he has left at the end of the month. And this is the part driving so much public anger. James works full time, pays a fortune in tax and still cannot see a long-term future in the city he was born in. Shaheed does not work, yet has more housing security than the man whose taxes help fund the system. That is how a city loses its young people, because they stop believing hard work leads anywhere. London has to become a city where the people who work, contribute and build lives here can realistically afford homes, raise families and feel secure again.