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I’m often tickled by press articles asserting that I’m furious about things that actually gave me a proper belly laugh. This time, though, knock yourselves out. Amnesty’s attack on Beira’s Place has left me burning with the kind of fury that mounts with every passing hour.

We lost beautiful Tofu yesterday. One of the original members of the retirement village. He was with us for 10 months of bliss. It never gets any easier seeing them off but I love how much respect the dogs feel from our team at the end. He is buried beside bis friend Atlas.

He could have died alone in his own mess yesterday. Instead he is tucked up in his fresh blanket ready for another big sleep. We’ll take that win for now. Tomorrow we go again 🤞❤️ (7/7)

Well would you look at that… On the very day we launched our Northern Ireland Leisure Centre report yet another incident has been reported in Omagh Leisure Centre. A 28-year-old man has been charged after a 13-year-old child was allegedly sexually assaulted in the mixed-sex changing rooms. The mixed-sex changing village replaced single-sex changing during the refurbishment of the leisure centre in 2012. In 2020, an investigation by the local newspaper revealed there had been TWELVE separate sexual assaults in the changing rooms between 2014 and 2020. The safest changing room is a single-sex changing room.

Dear Adam, I have taken time to think about your apology. Mostly because, having made a mistake publicly before, I was keen to accept yours. It hurts when people don’t understand that you are sorry for messing up. I get that, probably more than most. But here’s the thing… I’m not sure you understand what you did wrong. And so you don’t really understand what you are apologising for or why. With that in mind, I want to help you. I didn’t know Ann, except as a powerhouse in politics and that so many people have spoken of her friendship and great loyalty. How lovely, I wish I had known her. I am utterly disinterested in her sexual prowess or the state of her virginity. But I would have enjoyed hearing you speak of her great accomplishments. Not as a woman, but simply as a human being. Here’s a list. She served in the House of Commons for 23 years and won five general elections. She served as a government minister in Social Security, Employment and the Home Office, where she was Minister of State for Prisons. She rose to become Shadow Health Secretary and then Shadow Home Secretary. She was appointed to the Privy Council. After leaving Westminster, she built an entirely new career as an author, broadcaster, documentary-maker, stage performer and television personality. Then, at the age of 71, she returned to elected politics and became a Member of the European Parliament. She was a longstanding advocate for Britain leaving the European Union and, when the political establishment failed to deliver the referendum result, she left the Conservative Party after more than 50 years and stood for the Brexit Party. She was elected as an MEP and took the argument for British independence directly into the European Parliament. She was also an unapologetic defender of free speech. She continued to speak openly on difficult and unfashionable subjects when others chose silence, it was easier to do that, she accepted the criticism and hostility that came with it rather than surrendering her convictions. Her Catholic faith was central to her life. She converted to Catholicism, met Pope John Paul II in Rome and was later made a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI for her service to politics and public life. She remained a powerful public voice well into her late seventies, defending her beliefs despite decades of ridicule and hostility. That is an extraordinary life of public service, courage and reinvention. Yet, when asked to speak about her after her sudden and violent death, you chose to tell the country that she was a “spinster”, an “old maid” and a virgin. You discussed a failed relationship and suggested that afterwards she simply dedicated herself to other activities. Do you understand the reduction involved in that? You took the life of a highly accomplished woman and assessed it according to whether she had married, whether she had sex and whether a man had wanted her. That is what was wrong. That is what you should have known. It wasn’t simply that your words were poorly chosen or badly timed. It was the instinct to view a woman’s entire life through her relationship with men, even when her achievements should have rendered that completely irrelevant. Nobody discussing the death of an accomplished male politician would think it necessary to tell viewers whether he was a virgin, speculate about his sex life or describe him as an ageing bachelor whose romance had failed. I don’t want you cancelled. I don’t believe that people should be denied forgiveness when they make mistakes. But a meaningful apology has to identify the actual wrong. Ann was murdered after a lifetime of public service. At the moment her achievements should have been remembered, you diminished her to an unmarried woman who apparently hadn’t had sex. She deserved better than that. And I’m still not sure you get it. But every woman who watched you speak of her and then read your apology does. Bernie.

My heart is sore, I loved Sam, one of the most beautiful men I ever knew. Sam Neill, Jurassic Park actor, dies aged 78 - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/live/crl1…

Most excellent. Well deserved sleepless nights, high level meetings, internal arguments & fear of internal purge will all now follow. There will also be legal expenses, donor's money being wasted in trying to explain, justify & make amends for Amnesty's idiotic hate list blooper.

Coming up to 4 weeks since she lost all power in her legs from poisoning. Today little Espresso Martini did this. I’m punching the air with happiness. It looks like we might get her back fully walking ❤️

Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax." Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?" Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely." Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke." Activist: "But the land's worth millions." Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm." Activist: "So sell a corner of it." Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way." Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it." Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill." Activist: "It's still an asset." Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."

If you’ve ever loved a dog, you know exactly how this feels.🫶🐾🐕💕

We see a 12-fold rise in suicide after transition, because of: 1. Chronic pain, dysfunction and steadily increasing physical collapse. 2. Shattered interpersonal relationships. 3. Inability to function at a developmentally-congruent social and vocational level. 4. Internally-directed rage which should be more appropriately focused on the doctors and therapists who carried out 'Permanent, Irreversible, Mutilating Procedures', (PIMPs). 4. Sheer mental exhaustion at having to grapple with one's cognitive distortions (attached), for every waking second of every day.

@BevJacksonAuth @Glinner @chiaracapraro Chiara, I was Chair of AIUK for 6 years. Who on earth authorised this absolutely ridiculous and defamatory report? I want to know, as I imagine do the members, if you have any left that is.The checks and balances, where were they?

We wrote to the FM asking that an inquiry into political funding include third sector orgs, funded by the gov, who engage in political campaigning. Today we received a reply. Not from the FM, but the “LGBTQI+ Equality Team” who told us what EN/STA do 🙄 forwomen.scot/12/06/2026/let…

I had a quick look at @AmnestyUK ‘s accounts, three years ago they had £10m in cash to carry over, it’s down to £2m Income is down by nearly £3m If they carry on this way, this year they will go into the red - turns out shitting on women isn’t as profitable as they thought

It appears that (as many of us have suspected for years) Amnesty believes certain kinds of humans don’t deserve rights: women, girls and those who are proudly same-sex attracted. I hope donors from those groups are taking note.

Maybe they’ve decided to belatedly seek legal advice. Unless they’re even more reckless and arrogant than Stonewall, they must surely have anticipated that the organisations they targeted would do so.

When we first met Tofu, someone had decided he was "too old" and walked away. But we just saw a sweet soul who needed a safe place to land. We promised him he would never feel unwanted again. Watching him slow down more and more each day is a deeply bittersweet experience. Even though his physical body is failing, his spirit still loves the outdoors, the fresh air, and being part of the pack. So, we found a new way for him to explore the world. Now, it is our turn to carry him. It is an absolute privilege to load up his wagon, surround him with comfort, and push him through his golden days so he can still experience the joy of a daily walk. You are so loved, Tofu. We have got you, and we will be right by your side all the way to the very end.

When you think you’re the coolest guy in the parking lot and then this BASSET pulls in…😂😂😂

I heard that Ann Widdecombe had "died". I now learn she was killed. If "security" turns out to be an issue, this will have an impact on public's perception of another politician's current travails caused, he has said, by concerns as to his own security. Events change perceptions.