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Sliabh Liag ascending into the mists on a calm spring morning. (The sea was not so calm). County Donegal, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

@NiallHarbison She's a beauty 🐶

I just love how regal Sienna now looks. It is as if for the first time in her life she is proud of herself ❤️

@Channel4News Vile.

A nursery worker in Bristol has been jailed for 24 years for the rape and sexual abuse of young children. Nathan Bennett worked at Partou King Street nursery in Bristol where preyed on children as young as two. Prosecutors described the case as "every parent's nightmare". Bennett will spend at least 24 years in custody, with a further six years on licence.

The problem with Thatcherism is you run out of utilities to sell off to other countries

Isabel Oakeshott moved to Dubai to avoid paying VAT on private school fees. Richard Tice avoided £600K in corporation tax. The Temu George and Mildred are a pair of brazen, unpatriotic ninnies. #Taxes #HMRC

facebook.com/share/v/18bKrA… @MadnessNews @MadDaily2 @Mad

@BBCNWT Takes some balls to behave like that though, eh? Oh.... wait.

@BBCNWT Vile.

Trans woman who stalked her surgeon jailed bbc.in/3PaILyg

Do you remember that time they knew people were dying but wouldn’t do anything about it because the Cheltenham Festival was on & then they gave the test & trace job to a goblin from the Jockey Club & she disappeared £39b without saving a single life? Mad eh?

I didn’t really get the problem with gender ideology at first. I’m liberal-minded about most things. 'Live and let' live has generally been my motto. I believed inclusion mattered. I believed in being kind. In not using language that might upset people unnecessarily. I knew people who identified as transgender. I knew some adults chose medical treatments or surgery to resemble the opposite sex. That seemed to me a matter of personal autonomy. Adults can do what they wish with their own bodies. What I hadn’t realised - and I feel slightly embarrassed admitting this - was that I’d misunderstood what was being claimed. I thought “transgender” meant a form of self-expression. A man who liked wearing women’s clothes. Someone changing their name. Gender non-conformity. What I hadn’t grasped was that some activists weren’t just asking for tolerance. They were asserting that declaring yourself the opposite sex made you the opposite sex. Not metaphorically. Literally. And that this wasn’t just cultural. It had legal consequences. - It meant men who said they were women were demanding access to women’s sports, prisons, domestic violence shelters and hospital wards - It meant the rewriting of healthcare language - “pregnant people”, “bodies with cervixes” - to avoid saying “women” - It meant children struggling with identity being affirmed onto medical pathways with lifelong implications And also redefining same-sex attraction. Lesbians called 'bigoted' for not wanting relationships with men who identify as women. Gay men accused of prejudice for saying they're not attracted to female bodies. None of which made any sense. But I'd also overlooked how far this had travelled - into HR policies, professional bodies, schools, political parties and public institutions. And how easily disagreement was framed as cruelty. Speaking up felt risky - because others were being publicly humiliated for doing so. None of this is abstract. Because sex is the basis on which safeguarding works. On which data is collected. On which cancer screening programmes run. On which fair sport and single-sex spaces depend. It’s written into law - including the Equality Act - because material differences matter. If sex becomes a 'feeling' rather than a biological category, those protections become unstable. And once reality becomes negotiable, everything does. Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it. But I needed to be sure. So I read. Books, research papers, policy documents. When I finally spoke publicly, there was backlash from all directions. Many women thanked me - both quietly and publicly. But some feminists criticised me for speaking too late. Others were angry about a past interview I’d done with the parent of a transgender person, accusing me of promoting harm. It takes courage to change your mind publicly. It takes courage to speak when you know your reputation, friendships or livelihood may be on the line - when you know raising your voice could strain, or even end, relationships you value. Once I understood what was at stake, staying silent was no longer an option. I lost my livelihood simply for saying I didn’t like the phrase “pregnant people”. That alone tells you something is deeply wrong. It shouldn’t be this way. I will never judge any woman for when she finds her voice. Because every voice adds value - whenever it is raised. And I know how persuasive this ideology can be. I know how easily it bypassed me. And I know how much courage it takes to admit, publicly, that you got something wrong.

WAR! What is it good for? The share price of weapons manufacturers. Making insecure men feel important. Distracting the media from other crimes. Land-grabbing for development or resources. etc.

@AntiTrumpCanada Bonkers

Marco Rubio: "Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics" Paula White, Trump’s religious fanatic lunatic ‘Spiritual Advisor’… *You need to see the entire clip just to appreciate how batshit fucking crazy she is.

@BookDevon @LeachLorna I do believe this is taught at A-level. Shakespeare still dominates though (at GCSE and A-level). My son also studied gothic texts for his GCSEs.

@LeachLorna I'd love everyone's thoughts - I'd certainly go or something like Margaret Attwood's Handmaids tale #devonbookhour

Books that are 100 years old - To The Lighthouse (V Woolf), Ulysses (J. Joyce), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), The Sun Also Rises (E. Hemingway) Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence) - what makes these books and others like them stand the test of time? #devonbookhour

@NiallHarbison He's absolutely lovely 🐶

Not sure who needs a smile today but Stormzy was at the beach with his family and... He has his own DOGGY DRESSING GOWN! Unbelievable scenes! Who knew they were a thing?

We don’t need more food banks, we need change. Repost if you agree.

Normalize letting introverts eat their lunch alone if they want & decompressing for 30 min - 1 hr without the pressure of being considered antisocial in the workplace

@EuropeanPowell #Eps

@EuropeanPowell Truth ☝

It starts to make sense why billionaires and millionaires want to bunker down and create their own 'CEO-run free cities' #EpsteinFiles