Connie Shaw

The distinction between "Islamism" and normative Islamic beliefs is becoming totally meaningless. We need to recognise that there is a fundamental incompatibility between normal Islamic views and preserving a culture of free speech: - 52% of British Muslims think depicting Mohammed should be illegal - 32% favour making Sharia the law of the land and Islam the national religion - 1-in-10 young Muslims in Britain agreed that organisations which publish images of Mohammed "deserve to be attacked" I spoke to @joshxhowie on @GBNews about this last week, and about my new book, 'Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis'

Every time someone says this, they are saying the quiet part out loud. That they know trans women - men who pretend to be women - are incapable of staying out of women only spaces. Ask them, are you saying trans women - who as you know are acutely aware that they are male - are literally unable to respect women’s privacy? Why can’t they ‘police’ themselves? All that is required is for them to stay out.

'It needs brave young people to stand up.' Secretary of Ideas Matter, Alastair Donald, and GB News contributor Connie Shaw, debate whether young people are shifting right and pushing back against progressive ideologies. 🖥️ GB News on YouTube: bit.ly/3vAYaw0

Independent councillor John Edwards is being punished for telling the truth about the scale and impact of the Afghan resettlement scheme. @John_EdwardsUK raised concerns about Afghan migrants being housed in a local four-star hotel, with onsite healthcare, wraparound support, and assistance moving into the private rental market — including deposits being paid for them. None of this was secret. It was all in the public domain. But the council didn’t like John asking questions. Anonymous complaints from a Lib Dem councillor and council staff triggered a year-long investigation costing taxpayers £15,000. After John was cleared, the council brought forward yet another charge — accusing him of bringing his office into disrepute. John now faces a hearing before some of the very councillors who branded him a racist. The Free Speech Union is proud to support John. But he now needs your help. Because if they succeed against him, this will become the blueprint for councillors and unelected officials to silence political opponents. If you can, please donate to John’s Crowdfunder below — and watch him on @GBNEWS👇

Here’s some pics. Keep your didgeridoos out of women’s loos! @janine_humphrey

“Stay out of the ladies toilets, Sir” Those protesting in support of @salltweets were heckled by a man pretending to be a woman. @MrMennoTweets and the terfs got him told.

A boiling Bank Holiday weekend is the best time to settle down with a beer or g&t and watch some Free Speech Nation @GBNEWS tonight 7pm! ⭐️The government has finally published the EHRC guidance- are women’s rights now safe? Legend @MForstater is here to reveal what’s right and what’s wrong. ⭐️Writer @sophielouisecc is taking an internship programme to court for being racist. Against white people. ⭐️The @novaexhibition has now come to the UK, and we meet the American pro-Palestinian activist whose life was forever changed after she saw it. ⭐️@SVPhillimore is suing the GLP after a threat to the freedom of speech for all regulated professionals. ⭐️@MaximumCities and @_ConnieShaw discuss why young people seem to be pushing back against progressive ideology, and how to help them. ⭐️And the councillor fighting his own council from censure after daring to question the implications of local housing for hundreds of Afghan men. ⭐️Plus @Nico_DeSanto and @CressidaWetton talk dinner lady indoctrination and other gems from our live audience. I’m not putting on my suit until I absolutely have to!

This is a fabulous piece. One real-life context factor I would add is that, as very clearly explained, young women are the overwhelming majority of those who adopt trans identities, meaning that the other young women (myself formerly being one of these other young women) around them consider all 'trans people' to be of exactly the same category. In other words, when I was at school, all the trans identified students were female. From what I remember, they still used the female facilities, and no one had an issue with that. I imagine because we all knew they were female, even if they didn't want to be regarded as such. There were no cases, that I was aware of, of male students adopting a trans identity. So we were never faced with the consideration of (let alone a real scenario) a male person going into a female-only space. Everyone knew that a 'trans woman' was someone born a man but wished to be a woman. But we were never faced with the real-life consequences of affirming that wish, because the female trans identified students did not demand to use the boys' changing room. Therefore the opposite scenario was just not something that was ever thought about. It was never something I had considered until I left school and realised that the females who had a trans identity were very different to males who did. But I think for some young women who had only really had close contact with the females, they had bought into the ideology so much that their minds did not allow them to question this. Because if they questioned the difference, the conclusion must also follow that the 'trans men' or 'non binary' people they knew were still just young women, and that fact has real-life consequences that would destroy all of the ideas they had so fiercely bought into.

Basically if you’re a nurse or a midwife, you are now banned from expressing the view that the growth of the Muslim population in Britain poses a particular issue for British way of life. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

As of Wednesday, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has adopted the Government’s official definition of “Anti-Muslim Hostility”. The FSU is in no doubt that the NMC will enforce this de facto Islamic blasphemy code zealously. After all, the regulator initially deemed NHS nurse Jennifer Melle — who had served for 12 years — unfit to practise after she refused, on grounds of her Christian faith, to refer to a trans paedophile patient by his preferred pronouns. The NMC has already offered an example of what it considers “anti-Muslim hostility”. It says that if an employee posts an image on social media stereotyping Muslims — for example, “an image depicting women with headscarves, men with long beards and a mosque in the background” — alongside a call for the deportation of “anyone who undermines British values and the British way of life”, it would likely take action against them and deem them unfit to practise. The FSU will be keeping a very close eye on the NMC and would support anyone struck off for such speech.

Not all young women. Not by any means. And any 'consensus' is meaningless when the price of disagreement is harassment and social exile. You're not measuring opinion, you're measuring fear.

@JakeRWeston @Glinner I couldn’t think of a better start to a glorious bank holiday

@_ConnieShaw @Glinner Rather your weekend than mine Connie

“She opposes immigration because she’s a FASCIST” Well that went well 🤣 got chased around Parliament Square. As @Glinner has said, trans rights is the only civil rights movement that wants to avoid the media. Can’t imagine why…

If you could ask this lot anything, what would you ask them? 🤗 “Bring something to hold like a sign or a dirty toilet brush…” to “signify your disgust at systemic cistern segregation” — ie the fact that women now have single sex spaces

Join us at the Australian High Commission on Saturday 23rd May, 1pm standing in solidarity with Sall. There will be speeches and possibly singing. Bring your banners. @salltweets #IStandWithSallGrover #FixTheSDA

Please don't just be angry and outraged. Please take the time to request a Sentencing Review and try to help get these sentences overturned: gov.uk/ask-crown-cour… It will ask you for some case details as you go through the submission, I will put the necessary answers below. It takes less than 5 minutes — we need to do this for the sake of these poor children. Answers needed... Names of the convicted: "Have been withheld from the public. Sentencing Judge is Judge Nicholas Rowland. Date of sentence: "21 / 05 / 2026" and "within the past 28 days" Crown Court where this sentence was issued: "Southampton" Which offence(s) was the sentence given for?: "Rape, and Taking and Possessing Indecent Images" Why do you think the sentence is unduly lenient?: Insert your own answer, and do not use profanity no matter how upset you are. Mine was: The crimes here are violent crimes that have destroyed the lives of the victims, at least one of which is now suicidal and the sentence is not remotely proportional to the severity of the crime. Additionally, the Judge's comments seem to indicate a bias in favour of the convicted, as he offers up justifications for their behaviour such as being low IQ. These crimes were not spontaneous, they were premeditated and planned. They were also filmed. So we know what happened, and we know that they were intelligent enough to plan and execute the luring and entrapment of their victims, which does not indicate that they were the kind of simpletons the Judge suggests. If they had the capacity to plan the crimes in advance, then they have the capacity to be held criminally responsible for those actions.

One of the victims said: 'All I want to do is die, I no longer have fear for when that comes.'

Judge Nicholas Rowland praised the boys for their conduct during the trial. “I think of you as very young and none of you have been in any big trouble before” Never mind these evil monsters — hope the women in your life are proud, Nicolas Rowland. Jesus Christ.

A reminder that when the @SpeechUnion overturned Hamit Coskun’s conviction for burning a Koran (originally on the CPS charge paper it said he had allegedly harassed “the religious institution of Islam”), the CPS tried to overturn his acquittal to find him guilty of blasphemy. The evidence that he had caused “harassment, alarm or distress” was that a Muslim man swung a knife at him whilst saying “I’m going to kill you” in response. That guy was spared jail time, but the CPS tried everything to find Hamit guilty.