Barry Pollen

@AndyGoode10 Listen up people - ‘He who pays the piper calls the tune’…and the broadcasters pay the piper. Why do you think games are played on Friday, Saturday at 3 different times, and Sunday.

Geoff Parling had a stinker today pushing Craig Doyle, no need for acting like that when the TV broadcasters fund the game

Andrew Garfield says he recently watched the Harry Potter films for the first time, but added: “we shouldn’t be putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now through she that shall remain nameless.”

@The_GM_is_God I give a f**k

I will immediately think less of you as a person if you have any form of excitement for this

@NadiaWhittomeMP Nope

Efforts to narrow the definition of womanhood, police people’s gender expression, and reduce people to their biology don't protect women - they harm us. Attacks on trans rights should never be done in our name. We must stand in solidarity with our trans siblings.

@Heccles94 OMG - they’re stopping boys joining the GIRL guides…how very dare they!

What a nasty little country we have become

@QuadeCooper 15 games in the six nations - 111 tries!!

I’ve been watching a lot of Rugby lately, and it got me thinking about how we could speed the game up and open it up a bit more. One idea I had, hear me out. To encourage more offloads and reduce the number of rucks, what if when a team knocks the ball on, they’re not allowed to touch it next which currently results in a scrum. If they do, it’s a long arm penalty. That gives the opposition guaranteed first rights to the ball. They can pick it up and play immediately with a backward pass, or if they want to slow it down, it could work similar to an AFL mark and you have 10 seconds to resume play or it’s a turn over again. If you step off the mark, you’re live and can be tackled. The goal is simple, reward teams that want to play fast, create more chaos, and reduce stoppages? Questions - would this ruin our beautiful game and allow less skilled players to play (which is what most people want inclusivity) Would it make it slower? Faster? There’s nothing wrong with our game?

@adamndsmith What is ‘lived experience’

Here's a list of all the criticisms of her expertise made in the article: 1) 2) 3) They're only challenging her 'lack of lived experience', at 73. Imagine if we said a doctor needed to have experienced every illness in order to treat it?

@daniellismore BS

I posted about the 46 children who ended their lives following the puberty blocker ban in the United Kingdom. Some of the responses I received were from people blaming the parents. To those people I want to say something and I want to say it clearly. I hope your children are transgender. I hope your grandchildren are transgender. I hope your brothers and sisters have transgender kids. I hope there is a transgender person somewhere in your family close enough that you cannot look away. I do not say this to hurt you. I say it because it is the only education that seems to reach people like you. Not statistics. Not the names of 46 dead children. Not science. Not grief. Personal proximity. Transgender people are full of life and love and every quality that makes us human. They are not a tragedy. They are not a cautionary tale. They are people. When you meet one in your own family you will discover that. Some of you will discover it too late. Only around one percent of the population is transgender so the odds are not in my favour here. But I hold out hope. Not as a curse. As a wish. That you might one day sit across a table from someone you love who is transgender and remember what you wrote in a comment section about 46 dead children. Remember what you said about their parents. Then sit with that. I wish you all the best. I genuinely do. I know two people who were gender critical one of them had a transgender kid some years later after their hate campaign and they cannot forgive themselves and another lady I know who has a niece who is transgender and they realised all the hurting pain. They caused other people and they changed their mind and they started advocating for transgender people. I hope that’s your path too. Maybe one day you might act human enough to understand what I’m saying. But until then. You’re a cruelness kills. Your hate campaign kills children. Your rage towards people you will never even try and understand ends lives and makes families and miserable. So yes, I hope your kids are transgender. They will still be the greatest gift to your life that you ever had. But you might just think differently.

@lumsdengolf @TEnglishSport Craig - you’re an idiot!

@TEnglishSport Ireland's 7 South Africans & 2 New Zealanders were just too good today against our 6 South Africans & 1 New Zealander. We're just a couple of rugged Maoris short of a team that can challenge for 6 Nations in future... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉

Ireland too good. Too powerful, too clinical, too unforgiving in defence and attack. Scotland well beaten by a better team. GT has made definite progress this season but still a long way to go. Podcast here…

@TheRealJamieKay 🤣

Here are two real patriots!

@JebraFaushay Yes

Phoebe Plummer, the Just Stop Oil activist, received a two year prison sentence for hurling soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflower painting in London's National Gallery back in October 2022. Does the punishment fit the crime?

@BladeoftheS No

The Green Party have proposed a policy where the highest paid person in a company could only earn 10x as much as the lowest, currently the ratio is over 1000x in some companies. Do you agree?

@williamnhutton @richardpbacon Yes, of course. The right apparently created everything bad in the world while the left was… running universities, media, NGOs, tech and most Western governments for 30 years. Quite the invisible opposition.

We live in a world the right has created and carries on creating. Trump. Brexit. Tariffs. Iran war. Ethno-nationalism. International law shredded. The rise of misogyny. The tech bros. Germany’s ADF. France’s le Pen. Yet still they barrel on unrepentant. It’s not a better world.

@TheRealJamieKay No

Does anyone else think Zack Polanski would make for an excellent prime minister?

@ThomasWillett9 you are an idiot

Snowflakes. It’s a drag act. It’s not some existential threat to women and children. Call this wave of anti-queer panic what it is: homophobia.

@DaleVince So you’re a terrorist sympathiser?

Iran has the right to defend itself.  Just want to say that, shouldn’t be controversial but you never know, right wing types love a pile on.  We hear this all the time in defence of the indefensible actions of another Middle Eastern state.  Needs saying in my view.

@JaclynPMoore How many doctors say this?

On one side of trans issues are the vast majority of doctors who say transitioning is medically necessary and valid. On the other we have Joe Rogan, JK Rowling, and a member of congress so crazy her entire staff keeps quitting. Yeah, so hard to figure out who’s right here.

@OborneTweets Ah yes, the silent “majority of Britons” you personally polled over tea. Nothing says clarity like slogans and vibes dressed as leadership

Zack Polanski showing clarity, leadership and courage. I would guess he speaks for the majority of Britons.

@ThomasWillett9 You are an idiot!

What about the fact that JK Rowling is funding efforts to roll back trans’ rights, has a record of ridiculing and launching hate campaigns against trans women online, and even called for an M&S employee to be fired for appearing to be trans?