Jonny Best

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Jonny Best

@JonnyWorst

Yorkshire Katılım Ekim 2020

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Kathleen Stock@Docstockk·1d

This Friday 27th March, I'll be at the Oxford Literary Festival, debating Rabbi Jonathan Romain on "Assisted Dying: A Dignified end or a Collective Fantasy?". Sheldonian Theatre, 4:00PM. Tickets here ticketsource.co.uk/oxford-literar…

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·1d

@TAFKAMacM Aw, Relationship Purposes Robin🥰. I wonder where he is now...

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TAFKAMacM@TAFKAMacM·1d

Like vintage burgundy, it never stales.

Pop Base@PopBase

Twitter turns 20. What is your favorite tweet of all time?

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·1d

@jjulieanderson @ClaphamBookFest @elizabethbuchan Leeds has lots of trans activists, with quite a few of them working in the arts sector. So this was always likely to kick off...

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@julieandersonwriter@jjulieanderson·1d

@JonnyWorst She appeared at the @ClaphamBookFest in 2022, attracting a good-sized audience, which enjoyed her in conversation with @elizabethbuchan. I think we were probably too small to attract much attention.

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·2d

A little tale about Jenni Murray in Leeds...In February 2019, the first ever Leeds Literature Festival was announced and on the programme was Bradford-born Jenni Murray, who was scheduled to talk about her book, ‘A History of the World in 21 Women’.

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Wodehouse Tweets@inimitablepgw·2d

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·1d

@philkirby Didn’t know that, but am unsurprised…

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Phil Kirby@philkirby·1d

@JonnyWorst Remember it well. And at least one of those men protesting a female presenter of Women's Hour, outside a library at a literature festival (hardly Cable Street lads!) was a sex offender... now that's an interesting tale.

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·1d

@rosereeve Yes, I spotted my mis-typing as soon as I tweeted it 😂

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Rose Reeve 🏁♀️ 💚🤍💜 KPSS@rosereeve·1d

@JonnyWorst Thanks for reminding us of this. One small point: she wasn't born in Bradford, she was born in Barnsley.

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·1d

@naomi_oh I mis-typed that - she was actually born in Barnsley, not Bradford!

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naomi 🫶@naomi_oh·1d

@JonnyWorst When I saw “backlash” I assumed it would be because she was from Bradford! Not because she believed in biology 🤦🏻‍♀️

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teresa smith@treesey·1d

“…one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings…In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie…” hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the…

teresa smith@treesey

“…that was bullshit. I did not want to leave @BBCWomansHour. I loved it. I absolutely loved it. But I couldn’t stay in that atmosphere…” In her own words: Jenni Murray, speaking in 2021, on how she was muzzled

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·1d

@treesey Thanks for this

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@AKAsusangreen 💯

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Sue Green Sex Realist@AKAsusangreen·2d

I truly believe that if the BBC had allowed journalist Jenni Murray to do her job, we'd have smashed NoDebate years ago. From 2018 GRA consultation on, Womens Hour would have looked at it all. We'd have had the debate. That's how important she was & why she had to be silenced.

Cath Leng@leng_cath

Was told outright in a BBC training session that Jenni Murray ‘had been silenced’. A travesty. She was terrific.

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·2d

Anyway, back in spring 2019 - when trans activism was at its most powerful - Leeds Lit Fest and Jenni Murray showed how straightforward it *should* be to put free expression and artistic freedom into action simply by carrying on.

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·2d

It was rare to see Jenni Murray on any literature festival programmes after Leeds. Most have either been enthusiastic no-platformers or too scared of what they see as reputational damage. But things are now slowly improving...but very slowly.

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·2d

Jenni Murray had an almost old-fashioned integrity, never more clearly demonstrated than by her reluctance to criticise the BBC publicly, even though it failed her so deeply. She was truly great.

BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking

Dame Jenni Murray, who presented the BBC's Woman's Hour for more than 30 years, has died bbc.in/4bkxpjW

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·4d

Arts leaders who truly believe in freedom of expression are very rare. Most pay lip service at best, but simply don't have the guts. Sally Dunsmore of Oxford Lit Fest is the real deal. We need more like her.

Julie Bindel@bindelj

A brilliant piece by the principled Sally Dunsmore: I was branded a Nazi & told I would burn alive for defending free speech. I've run Oxford Literary Festival for 30 years. Our commitment to intellectual freedom will not be dampened by cowardly bullying telegraph.co.uk/gift/db6f43703…

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Jonny Best@JonnyWorst·6d

@OldRoberts953 This is v good. Thanks.

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Gareth Roberts@OldRoberts953·15 Mar

This series gets a strong recommend from me.

Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)@_HelenDale

The final piece from yours truly & @LorenzoFrom on the disaster that is developed-world immigration policy—a disaster borne of listening to academic economists too much, and not too little. As always, link in first reply.

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Julie Bindel@bindelj·14 Mar

1/4 In 2009, when Olivia Bailey was Women's Officer for the National Union of Students (NUS), I asked for a meeting with her, to ask if she would consider overturning the decision by the NUS to no-platform me

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@TAFKAMacM @jjulieanderson @ClaphamBookFest @elizabethbuchan @philkirby @rosereeve @naomi_oh @treesey