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@OwlDarling @David90shaw He will have to agree an orderly transfer by September. It’s the only way to distract the throng (leadership contest = reality show), placate the markets at least short term, and keep Labour in power.

@JGillRay @AliJune_22 @donmcgowan If your days are spent among children and your comfortable retirement is assured you are less likely to develop the commercial side of your mind. You are also expected to hold certain opinions by your peers, with consequences likely for not holding them.

@AliJune_22 @donmcgowan There is fundamental divide in politics/society. Those who think govt spending & regulation (almost) always good thing. Vs those who realise there’s significant opportunity costs. Most of former group is people who’ve only every worked in one public sector. Including teachers.

That educated people won't vote for the far-right? Not quite the slam dunk you were hoping for, Dan.

@spanglesart @SandyofSuffolk Tattoos. Actual moaning about money while the cling film is still on the wound. It’s unreal.

@SandyofSuffolk Right? Maybe they should stop Door Dashing every night, also. Purses, nails, lashes, tattoos…

For everyone who doesn't know. And there seems to be lots of you. A babymoon is a holiday most young women seem to require now before they give birth. They spend 5 grand on stag and hen weekends, they spend 25 grand on a wedding, 5 grand on a honeymoon, 5 grand on a babymoon and their husbands spend all day on here abusing me because they can't afford a deposit on a house. Apparently it's all my fault. Because I'm a boomer. 🙄🤣

@WalterWhize @malmesburyman A whole Richard Yates spree is a good idea.

@malmesburyman Revolutionary road.

I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?

@Bongoon1 @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC We’re not getting anywhere with this imo as my point goes only to motivation, not to nawalt, namalt, Millie Tant nor anything else you’re pulling in. I’m not a bit smug about it, I find it shocking that 51% of the population has had to fight, and is still fighting, this battle.

I didn't say women were a hive mind. But they do (all too often), respond eagerly to the incentive structure laid out by feminist activists/activism. And as a movement feminism has striven to do away with men's spaces, using the cry of "equality" as the rallying mantra. So you can smugly claim "not all, not all", all you like. You're just obfuscating, and guaranteeing the problem persists.

My thoughts on the @EHRC guidance laid yesterday; this is not about non-existent "rights". It is about the safety of women - mothers, sisters, wives, daughters. We men need to hear their voices. Virginia Woolf : "Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". My intro on @TimesRadio yesterday: Where I live there are two different routes to and from the tube station. One, let’s call it Acacia Avenue, is quiet and residential. The other, London Road, is a busy major route with lots of traffic. At all times of the day, I automatically head for Acacia Road. It’s just much nicer. The women in my family, on the other hand, will never willingly make that walk after dark. They live with an anxiety that most men find it hard to imagine, and frankly, rarely think about unprompted. Last year 739,000 women were sexually assaulted in Britain. Virtually all such assaults - nine out of ten - are perpetrated by men. One in four women have been attacked at some time in their lives. Acacia Avenue is exactly the sort of place in which most women fear that they become vulnerable, and they are right. As the author Virginia Woolf once wrote " Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes". I think this is the right context in which to understand the furore over the guidance being laid today by the government, over the meaning of the words man and woman when it comes to providing services and facilities in workplaces. Many men think this is about a rather arcane dispute about who gets to use what loo. For their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, it isn’t. In a previous life, as Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, I had a hand in writing this country’s equality laws, in particular the 2010 Equality Act. It never occurred to any of us that there could be any confusion or dispute over the meaning of the words man and woman. But it has taken a decade of campaigning, a Supreme Court judgement and now hundreds of pages of guidance to settle the issue. This is not about so called trans rights, which are completely unaffected by this guidance, since no-one has ever had the right to walk into a changing room reserved for teenage girls. What it does mean is that women and girls are guaranteed the protection they deserve, and that their safety, which we spent half a decade drafting law to ensure, is protected. But the whole business illuminates some serious issues in our politics. First that many of our institutions, in spite of the fact that they always knew what the right thing to do was, decided to ignore the fears of their women customers and employees, under pressure from noisy pressure groups. Instead, the people who were supposed to be the grown ups behaved as though the law said what campaigners wanted it to say, rather than what it actually said. They settled for what they hoped would be a quiet life. In a democracy, there’s little point in Parliament deciding anything if the law is then made an ass by activists intimidating bosses in companies, schools, universities and the media into doing something different. Second, at the heart of the campaign to undermine the Equality Act is an idea that we specifically rejected in 2010, so called self-identification. That is to say, that it should be up to the individual to decide whether they have what’s called a protected characteristic - are you male or female, are you black or white. The problem is that self-ID would destroy the operation of any law against discrimination. Look, it would almost certainly have been to my advantage as a young man to self-identify as a handsome, white public schoolboy. None of those things is true of me. And at various points I am pretty sure it’s been to my disadvantage. It is certainly statistically likely to have been to my disadvantage. But according to the logic of those who say that self-ID should be the rule and that anyone should be able to decide for themselves whether they are male or female, black or white or Asian, were I to complain about racial discrimination, it would be difficult for anyone prove that I’d been discriminated against because of my race since anybody to whom I’d lost out could just tell the courts that they too were black. I know that sounds like Alice in Wonderland but you can google the case where a chap, both of whose parents are white, insisted he should get money from the Arts Council because he so identified with the black struggle that he considered himself black, and everyone should accept his point of view. In the United States and Brazil exactly such outlandish claims have been made and people rewarded to the disadvantage of people actually born into minority families. I have even been told about firms who, when reporting their gender pay gaps have put men who just happen to like wearing dresses at weekends - nothing wrong with that, let me be clear - into the female column and told their women employees that they really haven’t got anything to moan about because statistically they are paid equally, and they should get back in their box. So today’s guidance isn’t just another tiresome chapter in culture wars. It is , I hope, a halt to the efforts to undermine one of the most important pieces of legislation on the statute book, by people who, for their own reasons, would prefer us to be living in the 1950s world of Mad Men.

@Bongoon1 @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Women aren’t a hive mind. I agreed with you about gender studies being the origin of the crazy. But “terfs” (three of the words are often disputed by the holders of this title) aren’t all the same and in 10 years of reading I have never seen even one opposed to Men’s Sheds, etc.

@ajusted @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Then you're ignorant. Whether or not it's wilful or not, IDK, but it was feminists that pushed the narrative I mentioned.

@Bongoon1 @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Convos are better when bio sex isn’t obvious. I don’t dispute either the link which was exploited by academics and as you say flattened (unto absurdity) but I don’t know a “terf” who would want to ruin Men’s Sheds and I support segregated kids’ groups and education if wanted.

Rude or not, I had no idea you were a woman, but I guess that tracks. Your timeline is somewhat based, but you refuse to accept how these problems are linked. The charge to flatten gender expectations and distinction was driven by feminists (and even women denying such a label). Now terfs and other women act like this is a unique horror of modernity, which shows what b@stards men are, while ignoring the selfish c*nts campaigning to make "Mens' Sheds" accept female members. Yes, this trans toilet paradigm is quite icky and gross, but women are somewhat responsible for how this is going.

@PeterPaulGuy @_internalexile Why didn’t the interviewer challenge that comment? He should have been all over it.

@_internalexile Disgusting comment.

🇮🇪🚨 Delighted that this arrogant Nigerian was not elected to the Irish Parliment. We are seeing more abusive Africans who are neck deep with NGOs & left-wing parties talk about Ireland & Irish people with great disrespect. Ireland is not Nigeria 🇳🇬

@Bongoon1 @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC You’re very ill-mannered, not that I’d expect a hugely different attitude just because I’m a woman. I don’t dispute women’s invasions, but I can guarantee none have been anything to do with wanting to experience euphoria by listening to Geoff having a wee, etcetera. Get real.

Your victory is palpably vain, matey. The fact is that women have been invading male only spaces for a long time now, starting nearly two centuries ago. And some will have done it for perverse reasons. Aristocratic men's clubs, working mens' clubs, and even the boy scouts was not safe. All while pr1cks like you prat about with word games and try to feel superior.

@Bongoon1 @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Ha ha. It seems so obvious to me. One restriction limits female power, the other male perversion. So there is no equivalence.

@ajusted @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Then you are pointless.

@Egon_the_Dog @VeeEmYou I have no skin in the game but I am puzzled as to why you think a 20 year old who works for 30 years can suddenly just give up work at 50? Also, they weren’t in power at 20 and won’t cede power to a 20 yo; more likely to be someone around 38-45.

@VeeEmYou Those 20 years olds are now around 50 and are refusing to let go of power and are gating high positions from younger generation. To make it clear: I'm not talking about Craig or animation business specifically here. Just my general observations.

30 years ago you didn't need to be 50 years old to head major projects or have responsibility.

@bobfortheworld @Beherren @MoneyTelegraph Whenever they quantified it (and I think that is new) it’s another horrible unforced error. It never ends.

@Beherren @MoneyTelegraph Where did they say its 22% charge on interest?

Rachel Reeves is poised to introduce a 22pc charge on interest earned from cash held in a stocks and shares Isa, under reforms to take effect next April. Savers under the age of 65 will have their cash Isa limit cut to just £12,000 from April 6, 2027, although they will retain their full £20,000 Isa allowance via a stocks and shares Isa 👇 telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/news…

This is great, but it's also worth noting that someone who is 63 today was in their early 30s during peak electronica (1995-97) and time goes by much faster than you think it does.

I am old enough to remember when asylum seekers were, you know - human rights activists, opposition party leaders, religious and political dissidents. Not just thugs.

@Bongoon1 @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC That wasn’t my point either.

@ajusted @Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC No, you misunderstood his. There WERE no female toilets (originally) in said Garrick club.

@Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC You failed to understand my point.

@ajusted @TrevorPTweets @EHRC Women will need to urinate in the Garrick. Hope this helps. Also, msn-hating feminists demanded access to men’s locker rooms in the 1970s and have been invading them ever since. Where’s your outrage?

@Suffragent_ @TrevorPTweets @EHRC The equivalent would be access to the Garrick Club loos. I hope this helps.

@TrevorPTweets @EHRC Ok, but if men are such a threat, why do women demand access to their spaces? Garrick Club just one example. There are countless others.

@Not_Gilmore A pleasing combination of Dutch and Irish.

girls what kind of accent does the king of spain have in english?

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

@MartinCorryTD @Reuters Nothing about the 80 year old with a broken hip.

@Reuters this completely misrespresents the public mood. imagine my surprise

Passers-by in Dublin expressed shock after the death of Yves Sakila, a Congolese-born man who was restrained by security guards outside a department store reut.rs/3Ro6Dzw

I was arguing with a guy at a bar. He said he was a big pop star in the 80s. I didn’t believe him, but he was adamant…