Stephen Knight 🎙️

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Remember that Scottish bloke with tourettes "y'all" Americans went to war over? Something tells me you won't be as animated about this.

Iran executes 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings trib.al/E63jG1q

Reports of children as young as 11 abused in West Midlands mini-marts, BBC reveals bbc.in/47TdGWc

A teacher has been barred for ‘offensive’ views on immigration. A 29-year-old PE teacher has been barred from teaching after comments made on X criticising immigration and integration. Samuel Everett was found guilty of “unacceptable conduct” by a panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency. This decision relates to a number of posts made on X between December 2023 and February 2024 which, according to the panel, “brought the profession into disrepute”. The posts include him commenting: “If you don’t respect our laws, culture and way of life, you should leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay. We don’t go to other people’s countries and tell them they’re wrong for how they do things.” Mr Everett was dismissed in June 2024. While the panel recommended that he be allowed to continue teaching after showing remorse, Marc Cavey — the decision-maker on behalf of the Education Secretary — ruled that he should be barred from teaching for life. Cavey found: “In this case, and while noting the evidence of insight and remorse found by the panel, I have placed considerable weight on the seriousness of the misconduct that it has found, which included a teacher engaging in offensive dialogue on a public social media platform, thereby demonstrating a lack of tolerance and a lack of respect for the rights and beliefs of others. “I have also placed considerable weight on the likely negative impact of this behaviour on the reputation of the profession. “I have also noted the panel’s findings that Mr Everett’s behaviour was deliberate and that there was no evidence that he was acting under duress. “In my judgment, the panel has, in making its recommendation that a prohibition order should not be imposed, failed to give sufficient weight to these factors.” It appears that Mr Everett is one of a growing number of teachers who have been struck off for perfectly legitimate comments made on social media. Read more below 👇

I physically slapped my head watching this. I think it's a fairly good sanity test for anyone

@Tillytilly567 You're preaching to the wrong person.

@GSpellchecker Are you saying men don't already have rights?. What they want is to redefine women in law as an idea or a fetish in their heads and dictate which rights women can and cannot have on that basis!. That's privilege!

I'd just like to say (yet again), that you don't even need to claim absurd falsehoods like this to defend equal rights for trans people. This sort of harmful, anti-scientific, religious dogma has no place in law, academia and healthcare etc.

@D4dependant And why did they bomb Iran, Phil? Weird how your summing up has a very peculiar starting point.

@GSpellchecker Are you slow? Would certainly seem so if you cant understand how cause and effect/action and reaction. Fuck me you probably genuinely dont realise billions of ppl think exactly that. Same way prices wouldnt be up if they hadnt bombed Iran. 1 causes the other dummy

Iran bombs Qatar. Ash blames Israel.

@Tryfan_73 Do you genuinely just think it makes sense to breeze past the decades of Iranian 'tormenting' and its proxies? Yes, poor Iran. They had absolutely no choice but to spend decades funding global terror and attacking Israel via proxies whilst attempting to make a nuke.

@GSpellchecker So weird, how Iran just woke up one day and decided, out of the blue, to inflict damage on its tormentor's ally. Can't begin to imagine what motivated this completely random act of aggression. A real headscratcher

@patrickd2019 Yes. I'm just stricken by grief. There I go again. Replying and demonstrating huge hurty feelings. I'm going to have to cancel the rest of today's plans now.

@GSpellchecker Hurt enough to reply GSpellchecker

@patrickd2019 That really hurts coming from you, patrickd2019.

@GSpellchecker What a bellend you are, Gervais must be embarasssed having you on that shitty podcast thing

@MathKunyu I'll just block you to avoid having any more time wasted. Everyone wins.

@GSpellchecker I usually reply 'dishonest or dumb?' But I thought I could assume it was the first case here. My bad.

@Bigcoffinhunt No, Hamas and a number of Iranian proxies started this war.

@GSpellchecker Israel started this war, Qatar hosts US bases and forces

@MathKunyu I always find it interesting when people are incapable of understanding that others may think differently to them, so start from the default assumption of dishonesty. Such people make adult discussion incredibly difficult.

@GSpellchecker As an advocate of scepticism and secularism, it is interesting why you aren't more honest when crafting this tweet.

@Ventril98417585 @philby_harold @jucielucie84 x.com/i/status/20345…

@GSpellchecker @philby_harold @jucielucie84 Ah yes, being advised to leave,then this, is the humane way of relocating people.

He's calling for the eradication of the only Jewish state on the planet. Were people to speak about any other country on earth like this, the anti-racists™ would lose their minds.

@jucielucie84 Ah, you blew it.

@GSpellchecker Not irrelevant though is it

@Ventril98417585 @philby_harold @jucielucie84 Yes. War does that. War is bad. I'll give you one last run at this: x.com/i/status/20345…

@jucielucie84 Irrelevant to whether it DOES exist. Unless you are proposing time travel. I'll give you one last run at it: What's being English got to do with it? How do you suppose we get rid of the only Jewish state on the planet then?

@GSpellchecker Why does it exist?

@Ventril98417585 @philby_harold @jucielucie84 Haha. What? Are they being told to move from their homeland? What should happen to Israel?

@GSpellchecker @philby_harold @jucielucie84 Are the English, Welsh, Scots, French, Germans, Italians being 'ethnically cleansed' just by living with other citizens in their homelands?

@philby_harold @jucielucie84 So, ethnic cleansing then? Do you recall what happened the last time Jews attempted to settle in Europe? This is embarrassing.

@GSpellchecker @jucielucie84 Why can't they be expected to live in a multicultural society like modern Europe? Like we are obliged to live with fellow 'Brits' from 4 corners of the earth. Why the special appeal for a 'Jewish state' ? Religion?