Paul Saxton

I would love to read a long piece explaining exactly what happened to the TU movement and when they abandoned any interest in women’s rights at work. It’s the most colossal betrayal of female workers

@mehdirhasan Dogs can’t be trained to anally rape people on command, you stupid stupid man.

@DreamsUnchartd Watterson’s stance on knowing exactly when to finish his strip and not licensing his characters is beyond refreshing, beyond admirable.

Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes is an interesting figure in my life. On the one hand, Calvin and Hobbes is, for my money, the greatest newspaper strip of all time. I wish I had one tenth of this man's talent. I still think back on how the stories he told got me through some of the rough patches in my childhood by giving me this example of another kid with a vivid imagination who was a bit of a loner (depending on what your views on Hobbes are) who I could identify with. On the other hand, I'm on the complete opposite side of the scale from him when it comes to our views on licensing and comics as a business. He had in his mind the notion that seeing a comic book character made into a toy and put on a store shelf cheapens it somehow. I think that's idiotic. Seeing a character in different contexts is what makes it into an enduring part of the culture. Watterson was inspired greatly in his work by Peanuts, which was extensively licensed out. I, as someone born decades later than Watterson, wouldn't have any connection to Peanuts at all if not for the holiday specials. Licensing keeps characters alive. Meanwhile, I'm worried that Calvin and Hobbes is starting to fade away as a new generation grows up without it. But maybe I'm also just salty that my childhood wish to see a Calvin and Hobbes movie about "the noodle incident" never came true.

I guess it’s finally time to tell my TERF origin story Loads of people suddenly started saying that men can literally be women & I thought ‘That’s mental.’ The end

‘The Times can report that Kennedy had shared posts describing an attack on Jewish ambulances in north London as a “false flag” operation.’ These people have no decency, and @TheGreenParty is a magnet for them.

It’s extraordinary that the BBC consistently platforms men upset they have to use gender neutral toilets instead of women’s toilets over the female rape survivors who have been unable to access a female-only support group, in relation to the EHRC guidance. It says it all, really.

I think it's genuinely sad that a once-mighty human rights organisation like Amnesty International - an unalloyed force for good - has beclowned itself by producing something as cranky as this. Just another proof point that there's nothing more stultifying than gender ideology.

@matt_tennant @soniasodha @RichParkerLab Come on, Matt. Stop this. You’re a misogynist. Everyone can see that. You don’t have to put in any more work on that front.

@soniasodha @RichParkerLab You’re free, Sonia, to argue for women’s rights. What you’re not free to do is assume disagreement automatically makes someone anti-women. Reducing every opposing view to “men like you” isn’t advocacy - it’s just hostility dressed up as principle.

West Midlands emergency services have confirmed they won’t be participating in Birmingham Pride this weekend, citing legal uncertainty following a High Court ruling on uniformed attendance at Pride events. I want to be clear about where I stand.

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

@ripx4nutmeg @JonPegasus @BBCWorld Yep. I thought exactly the same.

@BBCWorld Every single child sold on this story is a girl. The BBC does not question or even mention this. And portrays the fathers selling their daughters in an entirety sympathetic light.

Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices bbc.in/49UQzLU

@ClickingSeason Christ. I assume you wrote this just to elicit grrr responses?

Ulysses doesn’t really belong on the greatest novels list because it’s really not a novel. What it’s doing is not the same thing as what other novels do

Any woman who doesn’t unconditionally condemn the Oct 7 mass rapes in Israel is no feminist. Period.

@rbnmckenna86 @BlowhardEsq What? Is that it? That’s incredibly thin evidence for your sweeping claim. Come on, give it up - I know you know you were just talking balls to elicit grrr reactions.

@PaulSaxton @BlowhardEsq x.com/rkylesmith/sta…

One thing I’m enjoying about the top 100 books discourse is the divide between the conservatives who realize Austen is one of theirs and celebrate her and the conservatives who are so stupid they think she’s a diversity inclusion.

@DavidRandallNAS I can only imagine what level of absolute fucking berk you’d have to be to get wound up by a best books list.

The Guardian's clickbait "100 Best Novels" list is DEI-corrupted, natch. But also astonishingly provincial. Only 22 novels not written in English. The Guardian was aware of its polemics within the Anglophone canon, not of how ignorant it is of the world beyond. 1/5

Not even dead Jews are safe in London. I can barely recognise my city anymore.

@BlowhardEsq @rbnmckenna86 Nobody thinks that. He just made it up for likes,

@rbnmckenna86 No idea who you're talking about. Austen has been widely considered among conservatives as one of the great novelists in English -- top 10, maybe top 5 -- for decades. Who thinks she's a diversity inclusion?

@rbnmckenna86 @Baddiel Has there really been anybody who thinks Austen was a diversity inclusion? Or have you just made that up?

Comrade Mamdani says "Nakba survivor" as if they survived the Holocaust or something. Only one problem: 🔸️The "Nakba" survival rate was 99%. 🔸️The Holocaust survival rate was 33%. The "Gaza Genocide," by the way, has a survival rate of roughly 97%

@TimMont81408968 @jpodhoretz I’ve read it twice. So shut your face.

@jpodhoretz No one has actually read ulysses

The Guardian’s panel has chosen the 100 greatest novels of all time and has put BELOVED second. That is among the most ludicrous aesthetic judgments in the annals of Western culture. Embarrassing tokenism.

@a_guyin @jpodhoretz Ha! Good one.

@jpodhoretz Dune should have been on that list. If Frankenstein can be on that list, Dune can be on that list. Name a deeper, more fully conceived world than that?