Howard Clark

@VictoriaPeckham @ramsay_colettei @thetimes Your article made no mention of Southport and Starmer's reaction to it. He took the knee so endorsed BLM rioters and condemned those as far right thugs who reacted to the bloodthirsty murder of 3 girls.

Why is there such hatred for Keir Starmer? It is strange why the animosity is greater for him than for any past PM: my @thetimes column. thetimes.com/article/c7f6af…

🚨 NEW A formal legal letter alleging discrimination under the Equality Act was sent to Scope this week on behalf of me and a number of singers. This follows the disability charity’s decision to drop my choir from its official London Marathon cheer team last month - over concerns relating to my gender-critical beliefs. While that decision was later reversed - at 6pm on the evening before the marathon - by that stage much harm had already been caused. And this is not about one choir or one performance. It’s about whether women who hold lawful beliefs about biological sex should be ‘punished’ for expressing them publicly. And whether other people should face discrimination simply for being associated with that woman. Something I believe should concern everyone - whatever their views on this particular topic. I want to make clear that this is not the whole choir bringing the legal challenge. It is myself and a number of singers. The fact I feel the need to spell that out perhaps says something about the upset and division this situation has caused amongst people who simply wanted to sing - and never asked to find themselves caught up in a national news story. While the focus has remained on me - deliberately so - for some singers, even the feeling of being placed in the spotlight has been distressing. And that matters. Particularly because it was, I believe, entirely avoidable on the charity’s part. People should also be able to enjoy their hobbies and friendships - without fear of others bringing politics into non-political communities - and causing unnecessary division and distress. Which I believe is what happened here. Those who decided to join the action did so with considerable thought. One thing I know I considered carefully was the potential impact on an organisation that - if public commentary is anything to go by - has already lost donations due to what many see as a blind spot around the rights of women and girls. But being a not-for-profit organisation does not remove accountability. And as a large disability charity, responsible for thousands of staff and volunteers - and entrusted with millions of pounds a year in public donations - Scope is accountable for the consequences of its decisions, like any other organisation. I personally believe public trust can now only be restored through a clear recognition of the organisation’s obligations under the Equality Act - particularly given Scope works with disabled women and girls, some of the most vulnerable people in society. Legal support has been provided via @FreeSpeechUnion for which we are extremely grateful. Link to story by @Craig_Simpson_ in comments below (gift link) 👇

@Shomrim @metpoliceuk @JewishPoliceAs @MetCC @antisemitism @ASWSec Dear @metpoliceuk will you get this offensive Jew threatening scum off our streets please? x.com/i/status/20553…

You’ve allowed “offensive banners, slogans, chants and symbols” to fill the streets week after week… Yet the moment working-class people decide to speak out, suddenly there’s “new legal guidance.”

You destroyed yourself and your premiership when you adopted a tone of such visceral antipathy towards those bewildered and infuriated by the Southport killings unleashing full state power, whilst treating other communities with ridiculous leniency. Division is your legacy.

@PippyBing Yeah of course because like you he thinks some women have cocks. He's anti women's rights and has never worked outside politics.

A bit of Andy Burnham lore that shows exactly why I rate him so highly. I was chatting to a homeless guy who’d fallen on hard times one late evening recently. As a long shot, I messaged Burnham. Within minutes he replied and helped. He’s genuinely one of life’s good guys.

You’ve spent your entire mayoralty dividing us by ethnicity, sexuality, religion, creed and colour. I can think of few more hateful and divisive individuals in British public life than you

You were the people that failed to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Pakistani grooming gang scum. You are the people that have failed to prosecute thousands of pro-Palestinians that are calling for the genocide of Jews on a Saturday afternoon. Go FUrself.

@owenjonesjourno But you support actual terrorists who if they met you would think you're a vile degenerate.

@owenjonesjourno Your masked TRA friends have been making cities unsafe for women for years.

How can a prime minister be so completely clueless and out of touch?

Andy Burnham doesn’t offer “change”. He’s just a machine politician who has never done a job outside of politics or political bag carrying. His policy prospectus is dismal, high tax, pro-EU job-destroying socialism. Voters in Makerfield shouldn’t touch him with a barge pole.

🇬🇧 Sikhs are allowed to bring their knives into football stadiums. Weapons are forbidden for everyone at sports gatherings … except for Sikhs. This is pretty insane. How about no knives for everyone, and if you can’t deal with it, you don’t go to the stadium? Why is Britain bending over to such bad ideas?

I see the genocide in Gaza is going well.

Shocking that the Westminster Synagogue is directly on the route of today's anti-Jewish hate march and on Shabbat. Starmer's words to the Jewish community are an utter sham just like his leadership

The so called tolerant left will have faces covered today, you watch. That’s who the Green & Labour MPs will be standing with. Telling.

The man who destroyed my equipment last night is one of those who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk.

@NYCMayor @arash_tehran The “Nakba” was when an Arab paramilitary group led by a former colonel in the Nazi Wehrmacht - with an official emblem featuring a sword stabbing a Jewish Star of David - failed to carry out a second Holocaust against Jews three years after the Nazi Holocaust

Brave and brilliant from Carrie. She has not only protected more women from this horrendous man, she has also shone a light on the treatment of many women by the police after sexual assault.

Non men, can I ask why you’re not making your husband breakfast in bed dressed like this? I’ll wait.