Dorothy Luckhurst

Wogan: "They don't seem to make any concession to the fact that you're a woman." Thatcher: "No. Why should they? I don't make any concession to the fact that they're men."😂

There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so. By “we,” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others. Thank you to all who have helped and continue to do so. And respect to those who have been fighting since the beginning—because they are fighting for their dignity, their independence, their children, and the security of Europe.

President Zelensky has led Ukraine through its darkest hour. His leadership, coupled with the remarkable courage of the Ukrainian people, have inspired us all and crucially held back Russia’s illegal invasion. The Ukrainian people have faced horrors that few of us could imagine and we stand shoulder to shoulder with them today and always. Our support remains unwavering.

Even if the UK is the only country in the world supporting Ukraine, we should keep supporting them. They are on the front line of our defence. Their sons and daughters are fighting and dying for our freedom. We should be thanking them.

Greater Manchester Police fails to solve 75% of shoplifting cases—yet two officers found time to visit a grandmother over a Facebook post criticising Labour politicians. No further action was taken, but the chilling effect of the knock on the door is clear.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Starmer and his Labour ideological lawyer friends are a threat to our national security. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/0…

I tried to stop the ludicrous British government plastic straw ban back in 2018. These lefty policies resulted in the Conservatives getting trounced in 2024. Good for @realDonaldTrump for standing up for common sense.

But remember, it is only the cab rank principle that has meant Lord Hermer has only ever taken on cases hostile to Britain and any criticism of him is an assault on the rule of law.

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids. Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters. When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was. Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs. The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.

This Chagos bullshit came to my desk in No10. It's all total shit from a few government lawyers. MI6 knows it. GCHQ knows it. MoD knows it. Everyone knows this is just the far left international law Grieve wankers. I told them -- 'no negotiations, we don't care what any lawyers or international tribunals say about Chagos and neither does Washington, no process, no meeting with the PM, bin it all and don't bring it back'. The issue vanished. The deep state was HAPPY. Then the lawyers had another crack at the useless Trolley in 2021 who told the useless NPC minister 'Chagos' Cleverley to start a 'process' just cos of lawyer whining. Cleverley handled it with his usual skill: total car crash fiasco. All this 'classified satellites' briefing is ludicrous spin and the whole deep state knows it

Why is Downing Street furious that I revealed @Keir_Starmer 's secret Southport visit? Apparently they think it was "irresponsible" to report it. Say what? No10 - do call me to explain? PS - if you want to keep a meeting secret, maybe don't hold it in a sixth form college?!

What a picture of Hamas - thousands of armed young men jeering these brave, defenceless and totally innocent women. How is that supposed to promote reconciliation?

The release of the first of Hamas’ hostages, including British hostage Emily Damari, is very welcome. The footage of the handover is horrific and a stark reminder of the nature of the people who took them and others.

"To borrow and to borrow and to borrow" is not Macbeth with a heavy cold—it is Labour Party policy.

First he had "full confidence" in Sue Gray. And then Tulip Siddiq. He thinks Rachel Reeves is doing a "fantastic" job. Has anyone got any confidence in Keir Starmer? telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

If the Chagos sell-out is rushed through by @Keir_Starmer ahead of Trump’s inauguration then our relationship with the new administration will be off to the worst of starts.

Disgraceful that @Keir_Starmer is trying to rush through the give-away of a key strategic territory (at a cost of £9bn to British taxpayers) ahead of the inauguration of @realDonaldTrump. I hope this shabby piece of China-appeasement is stopped. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

I am gobsmacked by how stupid Sir Keir Starmer is. (Labour loves a title.) He has managed to alienate the United States but, hey, in good news, we have invited the Chinese to infiltrate Britain. Wow.

Suspending a nurse for refusing to change in front of a man 🤯. Absolutely disgusting treatment and misogyny at its worst with a man trying to force his way into a woman only space. thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/51…

Rachel from Accounts has been rumbled. It's time for her to make her way to HR and collect her P45 - or stay in China, where they're almost as commie as she is dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…