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@salltweets Gender is like belief in a soul. Fine for those with faith. But utterly irrelevant to everyone else and absolutely not the basis on which society or its laws should be organised. I am not gender critical. I am a gender atheist.

Taking a break. Everything is either pointless or depressing. Nothing I can say here or anywhere else will make any difference. Time for a retreat.

Simply wonderful and divine ❤️ 🎶✨Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 echoing through the magical streets of Paris! ✨🇫🇷

@nmdacosta Euthanasia was always the intended destination. As it is for the Bill Leadbetter and Falconer are trying to push through.

This has just been removed from the Scottish Bill. The door is now open to euthanasia.. “Subsection (4A) does not authorise the coordinating registered medical practitioner to administer an approved substance to another person with the intention of causing that person’s death”

@KarlTurnerMP @nmdacosta You felt so strongly about it that you did absolutely nothing in the end.

3 years isn’t long in jail is it, Luke? And what if you hadn’t done it? Like the 900 plus sub-postmasters that under these ludicrous proposals wouldn’t get a jury trial. Remember what the Labour Party exists for? It would serve us all good to think about that. Wrong, Luke. Wrong

@nmdacosta When parents divorce the courts are required to ensure the children's interests are put first. But if the state helps a parent kill themselves, it should simply ignore the children? What if the parent is the sole carer? What if the child is a baby or toddler?

Now Lord Falconer says its a "bad proposal" to require children to be told before assisted death/suicide, or ensure adequate arrangements for their care.

The Lords are back in Committee scrutinising the assisted suicide bill. You can watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/34…

@LucyHunterB @LWDScotland @LissaKEvans @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @labourpress @oliviabaileymp That just makes it worse. This is either (1) basic unjustified ignorance or (2) a giant FU to women. And to the courts. And taxpayers who paid the cost of Wadhwa's unlawful misbehaviour. I'm going with (2).

@Cyclefree2 @LWDScotland @LissaKEvans @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @labourpress @oliviabaileymp A minister, not just an MP. The researchers they have are the civil service.

@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @labourpress Have a look at the responses to this - the vast majority polite (if outraged), knowledgeable (far more so, apparently, than @oliviabaileymp) and (I’m surmising) ex Labour voters. Bye bye.

@LucyHunterB @LWDScotland @LissaKEvans @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @labourpress @oliviabaileymp Are we supposed to believe that an MP who claims to be interested in trans issues had not heard of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre legal action and Mridul Wadhwa? They have expenses for researchers. They are expected to do some basic due diligence. FFS!

@LissaKEvans @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @labourpress @oliviabaileymp I'll keep saying it. Either Cabinet Office officials told her who she was meeting and she went ahead with celebrating that, or they didn't. Either should worry a government that wants to function and survive.

@oliviabaileymp Pleased to share a table with a man who lied about his sex when applying for a job at a rape crisis centre & who told women to ‘reframe their trauma’ if they were distressed at the idea of talking to male staff? Shame on you. You’ve lost a vast cohort of lifelong Labour Voters.

Only the best for the cat.

Feeling very low atm so bought some flowers.

@thomasknox Loving the pots on the balcony.

New addition. Sphere of solid labradorite. Posed on a Georgian jelly glass. On a bed of fossils, rocks, foreign coins, metal detector finds (Roman buckles to 30s car badges). Ammonite next door. Delft tile one end, Regency decanter (for watering) the other

@7NewsMelbourne @georgia_bm_ In Australia, there is more punishment for a woman creating a female only space than there is for a man secretly filming 150 women in what should be a female only space.

@Steven_Swinford One of those friends was a man who was friends with and campaigned for a convicted paedophile. If Starmer did not speak to him how can he say that Mandelson lied to him?

Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer did not speak to Lord Mandelson before appointing him as the ambassador to the US and instead delegated the vetting of his links to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to two personal friends of the peer The prime minister was presented with a catalogue of explicit warnings about Mandelson’s close relationship with Epstein, which continued after the American financier was convicted of child sex offences Starmer instructed Morgan McSweeney, his chief of staff and a personal friend of Mandelson, to ask the peer just three questions about his links to Epstein. McSweeney did not express any view about Mandelson’s responses Mandelson’s responses were assessed by Matthew Doyle, who was the prime minister’s director of communications at the time and also a personal friend of the peer. He declared that he was “satisfied” with Mandelson’s answers. He subsequently admitted to socialising with him at around the time of the appointment It will raise further questions about Starmer’s claim in the Commons that he followed “full due process” in the appointment of Mandelson thetimes.com/article/58d4ab…

@JournalismSEEN @mc_simmy @oliviabaileymp Unsurprising that Starmer should show poor judgment when one of his MPs behaves like this. Wadhwa should be persona non grata after the court rulings on his disgraceful and unlawful behaviour which cost taxpayers thousands of pounds.

This will look very troublesome to those women fighting for the implementation of the Supreme Court ruling who don’t get this kind of access and government PR, and never have. It’s a poor look. Helen Belcher, on the left with a fringe, was a co-founder of Trans Media Watch. He’s indirectly and directly partly responsible for the industrial scale UK media capture, from around 2010 onwards, from which we are only just emerging. That media capture put him where he is today, arguably - excessive affirmation that ‘trans’ people are uniquely vulnerable gets him the government’s ear on ‘trans’ ‘hate’ ‘crime’. Apologies for all the inverted commas but it’s all activist jargon. Mridul Wadhwa (two away from Belcher) resigned from running a rape crisis centre when a review found he failed to protect women-only spaces and did not ‘prioritise the needs of survivors’. Very shocking that the government is this 👇proud to be working with him. Meanwhile Olivia Bailey has now told the Commons twice, and additionally an audience at a Stonewall event, that her government plans to ban ‘gender identity’ ‘conversion therapy’. If she can define gender identity she’ll be the only person in the world ever to so. In fact she’d be hard pushed to define ‘trans’. Retweeted by Bridget Phillipson’s team.

This week alone: • Truck-ramming and shooting at a synagogue in Michigan • Explosion outside a synagogue in Liège, Belgium • Security emergency at a synagogue in Trondheim, Norway • Armed-person incident at the Trossamfunn synagogue • Multiple synagogues targeted with gunfire in Canada • Israeli men brutally assaulted in San Jose for speaking Hebrew • Jewish men attacked in Italy with antisemitic slurs I never thought we would see this in our lifetime, and yet here we are. Dehumanization and propaganda have consequences— we are seeing them in real time.

An explosion on the steps of a synagogue in Belgium. A Jewish man pushed into traffic by an antisemite in London. Israelis beaten in LA for speaking Hebrew. An attempted attack in Norway. Now the ramming and near murder of Jewish kids in Detroit. It’s been a HORRIBLE week.

That’s *a thousand people* in this country who are *annually* held by the Crown Court to have been not guilty when the Magistrates’ Court found them guilty. Think about the impact a criminal conviction can have on a life. A family. Then times that by a thousand. Every year.

@AttitudeMag There has been no regression in trans rights. The right to go into a space reserved for a member of the opposite sex has never been a right, either in British law or under the ECHR. It's been a demand of TRAs but let's call it what it is - a demand to remove rights from women.

Zack Polanski blames both Conservative and Labour governments for regression in trans rights (EXCLUSIVE) attitude.co.uk/news/zack-pola…

Excl: Leading barrister quits legal services watchdog in protest at David Lammy's "tyrannical" jury reforms. Flora Page KC, widely praised for her role helping sub-postmasters to overturn their wrongful convictions, has written a brutal letter to Lammy: thetimes.com/uk/law/article…

@SerioJoshehe @DuncanHenry78 There isn't one. It's a mantra designed to disguise that their demands are to take away women's rights.

Can anyone tell me one right, that a normal person has, that a trans person doesn’t? Just 1. Because if it’s ’to go to the toilet they feel comfortable in’ I’m not comfortable in any men’s public toilet, they’re all disgusting, but that doesn’t mean I get to decide to use the women’s. People confuse rights with what they really, really want.