Gina McAuliffe
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@TheLiberal_ie we need warrior-priests who drive out invaders and are willing to die for Christ.
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@RiebvJanbeeck I am over it. Only matters if you make it matter.
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@Mrdecent000 She probably paid for that seat in booking. Airlines charge for seat allocation.
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Woman loses job over controversial viral video! 😱 Viral Aisle Seat Incident Leads to Job Loss, Lawsuit, and Internet Infamy A viral in-flight video shows a pregnant woman asking to swap for an aisle seat, but another passenger flat-out refused. That refusal got intense, and after another passenger stepped in, the video blew up online. The passenger who refused ended up losing her job over the backlash. Now, she’s suing both the airline and the person who filmed it, claiming it caused her unjust harm. The internet, of course, is still debating who really owns the aisle seat “moral high ground,” but the legal turbulence is just beginning!
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@JChimirie66677 These elderly should have regular musical evenings with pink floyd, led zeppelin, etc. Also pork sausages cooked every morning for breakfast. Screenings of all the alien movies at full volume. Gee, I can think of lots. Call the grandchildren round for a knees up.
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Shahidul Haque (59), a father of nine, moved his wife and young children into a retirement home reserved for the elderly. He did it without permission. He breached his tenancy, misused emergency alarms meant for pensioners in distress, and turned a protected space into something it was never meant to be. When challenged, he did not apologise or comply. He reached for the law and claimed victimhood. This is modern Britain in miniature.
The facts are not in dispute. David Smith Court is an over-55s complex. Haque signed the tenancy agreement and confirmed he understood it. Months later, he brought his wife and three-year-old twins into a single-room flat and stayed put. Elderly residents complained of noise, sleepless nights, and repeated disruption. Emergency cords were pulled again and again, diverting staff from residents who genuinely needed help. Walls were damaged. The residents the housing was built to protect were pushed aside.
He remains because Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights has been deployed to override everything else. Contract law is sidelined. Housing rules are voided. The rights of elderly residents are treated as secondary. Quiet enjoyment is erased. All of it is trumped by an abstract claim to "family life." This is the inversion at the heart of the system.
Article 8 was meant to prevent arbitrary cruelty by the state. It was not designed to nullify agreements freely entered into, to convert specialist housing into a free-for-all, or to compel pensioners to endure disruption so that breaches can be indulged indefinitely. Yet that is how it now functions. The court avoids the central question: whose rights take precedence when one claim destroys many others?
The elderly residents also have families. They also have dignity. They were promised a safe, quiet place to live out their later years. That promise has been broken, not by accident, but by design. Their rights evaporate the moment someone else asserts vulnerability with sufficient legal backing.
The most corrosive detail is that everyone agrees the flat is unsuitable for a family. Even Haque accepts this. Yet the response is not enforcement, but escalation. Break the contract, then demand a larger entitlement. This is not compassion. It is moral sabotage.
Delay becomes the strategy. Each adjournment entrenches occupation. Each passing month strengthens the claim. The longer the breach persists, the harder it becomes to correct. The law quietly teaches people that compliance is foolish and defiance is rewarded.
This case is not about one man in Reading. It is about a legal order that elevates abstraction over reality, process over people, and theory over consequence. It is a system that cannot say "no," where contracts are optional, the elderly are told to endure, and common sense has been legislated out of existence. Such a system is not humane. It is hostile to the society it claims to serve.
Once a system reaches that point, it is no longer protecting rights. It is dismantling responsibility itself.
"Haque signed the tenancy agreement and confirmed he understood it. Months later, he brought his wife and three-year-old twins into a single-room flat and stayed put."

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@gpatterson828 Oh yes! Very scary! So many scrapes and bangs but we all did it.
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@TempleEC4Y7BB @UK_Needs_Reform You read my mind! Especially the dad's army patrolling the beachheads
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@UK_Needs_Reform Yes and a Winston Churchill prime minister to back them up
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@Sadie_NC I can think of a few replies - none of them comfortable or flattering
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@ElonMuskNews47 Being in South Africa with our current exclusion I definitely would!
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@helenzille I use the wheelchair facilities at O R Tambo. It's so scary. I have been wheeled down empty corridors, parked for an extended time, asked for a 'contribution' to lunch and/or refreshments whilst so isolated. Only there. My home airport is Cape Town. A totally different experience
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@jk_rowling Some of us have clear sight. You are an amazing human being and true to yourself at all times. I admire you greatly.
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I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.
Sex Matters@SexMattersOrg
“I think she’s going to find that you can’t sit on the fence... The real win is when ordinary people can say these things.” @DerryBanShee speaks to @joshxhowie about Emma Watson’s comments about JK Rowling. 📺 youtu.be/r2OGEITYe2Y
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@gatorgar You can just walk in. Someone might greet you. It's all good. Congratulations on your decision.
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As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?
Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?
That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?
That men don’t belong in women’s sport?
That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?
That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?
That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?
That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?
That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?
That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?
That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?
That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?
That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?
That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?
Let me have your thoughts.
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@RadioGenoa Ha ha ha do that in front of an elderly lady. Where the timer has already off on that bladder. He has seconds before he has an embarrassing event happen to him.
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