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@newsaboutwomen @jk_rowling @suzanne_moore Frankly, I don’t totally blame Campbell in this situation. If I had a highly political wife and daughter arguing seemingly from a feminist perspective that trans women are women, I might believe them. In this case, I blame his wife and daughter.

@jk_rowling @suzanne_moore Alastair Campbell’s attempt to argue against the Supreme Court ruling is just embarrassing The Rest is Politics host still thinks women fighting trans activism are the enemy. It’s a subject he knows nothing about archive.ph/ctS1T

Absolutely spot on by @suzanne_moore, who eviscerates two men whose classism has never been more in evidence than on this issue. Why listen to Keira Bell, Sandie Peggie or the Darlington nurses when women inside your hyper-privileged bubble agree with you? telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/2…

@PahlaviReza @OkayBiology What a stupid post! What exactly was the United Kingdom supposed to do to stop the Iranian government from slaughtering its own citizens.

The United Kingdom has endlessly appeased the criminal regime in Iran. The Prime Minister speaks of protecting the innocent civilians of Iran but failed to act to help stop the regime’s massacre of 40,000 innocent Iranians in January. Only an end to this regime - that brings terror to Britain’s own shores - will yield lasting peace and regional stability. Keir Starmer should follow in the footsteps of Churchill, not Chamberlain. He should support the Iranian people’s fight for liberty. The Iranian people will remember who stood with them in their hour of need and who stood against them. There is still time for the Government to change course: prosecute the IRGC that slaughters innocents, expel the illegitimate regime's ambassador, and act to support the people of Iran.

@TheAtlantic @davidfrum Ah but Trump is unable to avoid it

Nobody executes a “madman” theory of foreign policy when they’re winning—and Trump’s use of it signals his desperation, @davidfrum argues. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…

@afneil I don’t think HMS St Albans, which is apparently deployed, is a type 45 destroyer.

I agree. So best delete your post to minimise looking foolish. Read and learn: Type 45 destroyers are not primarily designed or used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW). They are specialist anti-air warfare (AAW) platforms, with the Sea Viper system and multi-function radar to defend task groups against aircraft, missiles, and drones. They do have limited ASW features. But they are secondary and constrained, such as hull-mounted sonar (you mention), though that is mainly for torpedo warnings. It is not as capable or optimised for offensive ASW as the sonars on dedicated ASW frigates like Type 23s. Nor do they carry any shipboard ASW weapons. You’re welcome.

@SCynic1 Who the hell is qualified to know right from wrong?

The combined voice of the privileged upper-middle class & of the tabloid press are wrong. Again. On every important issue - wrong. One went for a walk in Afghanistan. One gave publicity advice to a PM 30 years ago. Neither are qualified to know right from wrong. And they don’t.

@Bladesman77 @HJoyceGender Short memory

@HJoyceGender This Government is the most incompetent, dishonest & unethical in living memory, so I am not surprised they are still trying to ignore last year's Supreme Court ruling.

The disingenuousness is an outrage. The law is the law, the government needs to obey it and tell everyone else to do so too

@Rio782330795251 @Kevmcg25 @MrStephenHowson If true that does not prove that the standards in the Premier League were better back then. Just that the teams were more equal in standard.

@Kevmcg25 @MrStephenHowson Kevin you have no idea what you are saying because football was a lot better back then teams we’re getting relegated at 43 points not it’s 30 or 28 🤷🏻‍♂️now at 43 you will play in Europe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Utter nonsense... United in 99 don't lose to a single team that got 90+

@SandyHorne61 Beautiful picture. It’s a miserable, horrible, depressing, rainy day where I live in England.

Sunset over Lake Menindee, New South Wales.

@GuillemBalague Considering what they’ve been put through, I think the old Trafford crowd has been amazingly supportive of Ruben Amorim, up to the point when he fired himself.

Seeing the video of Robert Sanchez telling the Chelsea fans to relax as it was only half time, made me want to talk about something that has been on my mind for a while: why football stadiums are becoming more impatient, more toxic and polarised. The pandemic changed our routines and it accelerated a transformation that was already happening in society: overnight, our lives moved onto screens. We watched sport through devices, we debated online, we consumed information in fragments and, importantly for this point, we lived inside a constant stream of opinions. And with that, something else grew stronger: extremisation. We have become less able to accept what doesn’t match our own perception. The world has turned into a place where difference is a threat and disagreement feels personal.  Even when those opinions are built on incomplete information, we treat them as unquestionable truths. The most important voice is no longer the most informed one, but the loudest one, the strongest in the moment. And football, as always, reflects society. In stadiums now, we increasingly see impatience that would have been unthinkable years ago. Fans protesting a team even before half-time. Whistling after one mistake, even teams that are top of the table. Demanding changes immediately, as if football were a video game and not a complex sport shaped by confidence, form (both appearing in waves during a campaign), injuries, personalities, the limits of a squad or the finances. We forget that coaches work every day with these players. That they know the realities behind the scenes. That progress is not always instant. But patience has become rare, because the modern world trains us to expect immediate solutions. What’s worse is that creating a toxic atmosphere no longer feels like a problem for many supporters. The priority becomes: “I want what I want, and I want it now.” Even if it damages the team. Even if it poisons the environment. Even if it turns the stadium into a place of tension instead of support. I cannot think of anything worse than your own fans chanting, “you are going to be sacked in the morning.” This phenomenon is particularly noticeable in England right now, where protests and frustration inside grounds are becoming more common. Perhaps it is less frequent in Spain, where there is still — sometimes — a different relationship with suffering, with time, with process, with football clubs and the role of fans. At Real Madrid, the whistling to the team lasted a game and it was a protest against the sacking of Xabi Alonso, or a message to the players. The following game, they had moved on. I feel that is legitimate. But the trend is spreading.  The truth is hardly any club lives in happiness anymore. And I feel it is not because football has changed dramatically, but surely because society has. The modern fan experience is shaped by constant noise, constant judgement, constant outrage. And football, which used to be an escape, has become another space where people project frustration and impatience. It’s not really about the manager. Or the player. Or even the result. What we are hearing is basically about the world we have become. Although I do feel there is another way.  I know none of this is new. But how about if we thought we might not be right. Someone else might be. Or changing an opinion. Or listening a bit more. Or considering we might not know everything. And respect our differences.

@JamesEsses Cass has recently been quoted on the BBC as being still in favour of the trial.

Where is Hilary Cass? Wes Streeting made it clear today that he is passing the buck to her. If she withdraws her support for the trial, it should be dead in the water. I know that she knows the harms caused by this poison. She needs to do the right thing before it’s too late.

If Robin Ince has been cancelled by the BBC for supporting trans rights that truly would be a unique event. I think there’s more to it than that.

@HJoyceGender It looks like Americans are going to have an awful choice at their next presidential election. For who could vote for Newsom, or anyone like him and the opponent is likely to be just as bad in a different way.

What a disgusting post

@SVPhillimore I would like to make a contribution to your libel case against Jolyon Maugham. I can’t afford very much but it does seem like a very worthy action! Could you point me in the right direction, please?

@NadiaWhittomeMP When Labour are doing so badly, it seems silly to advocate changes to the law which will mean even more people voting against them. And don’t doubt that this would do that.

▪️ Lift the puberty blockers ban ▪️ Reject EHRC guidance ▪️ Legislate to ensure single-sex spaces are trans-inclusive by default. Posting this from my speech at the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil, because yet again trans women and girls are being excluded from their spaces. As Ess Dennis puts it: “Trans girls, you have always been part of girlhood. And I am at home with girlhood when you’re there with me.”

@RBReich This is a totally made up prize that is totally worthless and meaningless and has never been awarded to anybody apart from Donald Trump. It’s just a way for the President of FIFA to kiss Trump‘s arse.

Trump increased U.S. military spending to record levels. He bombed Iran without approval from Congress. He's launched deadly air strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean — while presenting no evidence to back up allegations of drug smuggling. "The peace president."

@nickwallis @glennagoldis That was very interesting but, excuse my ignorance, what changes to criminal law involving trans people are being proposed?

@glennagoldis Isn’t it just? I do seem to code sarcastic a lot of the time. Definitely not attempting to on this occasion.

Goldis is so good. We need to pick this language apart, clause by clause. And no interviewer willing to do this can find an interviewee willing to let them.

@C_Kavanagh The British law may be an arse, but Americans are being prosecuted for political reasons which is even worse!

Thank God for the brave journalists like Ryan Grim holding the wall against the authoritarian UK government and their war on ‘conspiracy theorists’.

@RoryStewartUK Ironic that the US is clearly much closer and always will be much closer to civil War given the number of guns that they have.

No. It isn’t. Even though you and your friends are eagerly trying to make your prediction come true. The Britain you see on your phone and that you are making other people see on their phones is not Britain. Come and visit.

@MrStephenHowson enjoying your morning walks because I do every day 5K walks in about an hour. (Though I’m 71 so I get to do a bit less than you!) Very interested in what camera gear you’re using when you do that and what’s that on your head?

@NinoushkaLondon @JamesEsses Exactly!

@JamesEsses James why don't you compare like with like. Compare sentences for British nationals who are found guilty of similar crimes.

An ‘asylum seeker’ sexually assaults a teenager girl, yet receives a significantly shorter prison sentence than a British woman who posted something offensive on social media. This is two-tier justice. news.sky.com/story/epping-h…