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In just the last nine months, at least six UK Pride activists have been charged with, or convicted of, child sexual abuse offences. And these are just the ones whose crimes were serious enough, and Pride activism well known enough, to be reported on

@MishalHusain Fabulous interview, had the pleasure of meeting Lionel last year

And read as the Bloomberg Weekend interview - with my notes bbgcomms.net/41dsV8S

New episode - on her book about a New York home taken over by outsiders, immigration in America then and now, and her own story, including changing her name from Margaret to Lionel. Listen here 🔽 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

@joerichlaw My heart hurts just thinking of the added pain, insult and loss this heaps on all who love Grace. Unforgivably wicked

Nottingham University threw out murder victim Grace O’Malley Kumar’s most treasured possessions - including England Hockey and Club memorabilia as well as intimate keepsakes from her childhood - which her grieving family planned to give Grace’s closest friends to remember her by.

@JohnJamesNI @KTHopkins @sharrond62 Also consider what she lost by IOC failures on doping depriving her of Olympic gold. Sharron’s career has been defined by the 🔥 lit by her mistreatment and her refusal to be beaten. She has always been right. What a resilient warrior and inspiration she is. Kemi recognised this

.@KTHopkins quite rightly says that @sharrond62 is owed an apology after the IOC kicked men out of women’s events at the Olympics. Hear, hear Katie - Sharron has been an incredible ambassador for female sports women while others looked away when it mattered most!!

The brave Eve Barlow describes here the moral and spiritual hollowness of the European elite that parades around as humane and compassionate. If you did not know of the plight of Noelia Castillo Ramos, now you know. “This week, they lauded death for a survivor. Noelia no longer survives. She was encouraged to surrender. At every turn, the society who failed her was protected, including her rapists. She was murdered by the state. It was an honor killing, let’s face it. Spain decided she should die, claiming it was her wish. She was in no position to make that decision. She was 25-years-old. She had never known life outside the cage of the trauma she suffered since childhood. Her agency was stripped from her years before she was euthanized. This is no victory. This is evil. Spain sets a fatal precedent for its women and girls, and their future. The details of the case read like a dispatch from a society that lost the plot. Gang-raped while under state guardianship as a vulnerable girl, she jumped from a window in a suicide attempt that left her paraplegic. Years later, after her father fought the courts all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, the state granted her a lethal injection. She did her makeup, said her goodbyes, and died alone on March 26 in a Catalan hospital. The official line: unbearable suffering from an incurable condition. The unspoken one: a system that neglected her, then offered death as the dignified solution. This isn’t some isolated tragedy of personal despair. Noelia was housed in facilities overloaded with unaccompanied foreign minors – “menas” – under Pedro Sánchez’s permissive migration policies. Spain has welcomed irregular arrivals with open arms and closed borders for deportation. Bilateral deals make removal a nightmare. Vulnerable Spanish girls paid the price in state care. The rapists? Never publicly named or aggressively pursued in ways that satisfied basic justice. Why? Who were they? What nationality? What ethnicity? Doesn’t it matter? Does the machinery of progressive compassion stall if the perpetrators belong to the demographic the state imported and shielded? “ @Eve_Barlow open.substack.com/pub/evebarlow/…

I had missed this and it’s shocked me to the core. It’s been my life’s work that this should never happen. It’s in every university training I do. It’s in the national guidance for Universities on tragedies like this. How the hell did this happen?

@LucyGoBag Everything about this tragedy and the inquiry revelations appalls me as the mother of a first year uni student. But this is truly shocking.

@DaveHP_ @CurlyKing79 @AthleticsWeekly Lynsey Sharp post race interview on BBC available. Received death threats for her pains. Melissa Bishop’s coach written about how his career was threatened by sports bodies if he spoke out. Everyone knew. And no one wanted to know.

@CurlyKing79 @AthleticsImages @AthleticsWeekly They could've mailed the whole thing to the wall on the post race interview, live to the world. Everyone would want to know what was happening

After today's excellent decision by the IOC.,if the Rio 2016 women's 800m. was held today, the 3 medallists in my photo. Wambui, Niyonsaba & Semenya would be barred and the medals would go to Canada's Melissa Bishop, Poland's Joanna Jozwik & GB's Lynsey Sharp @AthleticsWeekly

This surely ought to win some sort of euphemism prize

@jfullerucla @TessW62 @KemiBadenoch Plenty of instances of women and girls being robbed (or, most egregiously, punched) out of wins by males. It’s not about trans per se (trans identifying females participate in the female category). Here’s as good a place for you to see the evidence as any hecheated.org/Myths.html

At least now little girls who dream of Olympic medals will know that biological males can't cheat their way onto their podium...or punch them relentlessly in the face and get a medal for it. Credit to Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova, who spoke up despite attacks from those who should've known better. They spoke up when it was easier to stay quiet and paid the price in lost income and support.

The moment you finally realise you’re leading the most authoritarian government in our country’s history: 1️⃣ Introducing an official definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” that silences legitimate criticism of religion — 18 years after Parliament abolished such laws. 2️⃣ Removing the right of most defendants to have a jury trial, in the biggest assault on English liberty in over 800 years. 3️⃣ Requiring pub landlords to monitor customers’ private conversations to protect staff from remarks, comments, or jokes they may find “offensive”. 4️⃣ Clamping down on lawful social media posts, arresting an Irish comedian for gender-critical tweets and even threatening to ban access to X in the UK. It’s not a great look, is it, Prime Minister…

I still think about this.

@VeniceLaura @SportSEENuk @Cambridge_Uni @BritishRowing Yes not much room in the poll to show support for the political and linguistic shift of the last few years. Fealty to group-right-think is baked in 😅

@SportSEENuk @Cambridge_Uni @BritishRowing Interesting survey popped up on that page. Not sure whether it was random or everyone gets it. Biased questions but interesting.

“Instead of changing the eligibility criteria, what happened? The programme was closed down. Life chances for girls were scuppered by this perceived need to include men who identify as women” @suzanne_moore Another sports event for women that was shut down for excluding males…

Having been told the definition of 'Islamophobia' or 'anti-muslim-hatred' would not be used to stop people critiquing Islam, Keir Starmer promptly called for Nick Timothy to be fired after he critiqued Islam.

Still seething re Harman disparagingly referring to Jenni Murray as a “protagonist” on sex/gender this morning. Why would you go on radio to talk about someone who just died if you can’t reflect how positively she was regarded by so many, precisely because of her bravery on this?

There are over 3 billion women in the world but BBC Woman's Hour couldn't find a woman to talk about misogyny so they asked a bloke who thinks he's a woman instead. You couldn't make it up.

@AjaTheEmpress @CharlotteCGill @NJ_Timothy Is it just me or is time accelerating? 9pm with the redirection of the Green Party and redefined Islamophobia laws. And my 10yr old being invited to fast in primary school this week.

@NJ_Timothy 7pm

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.

"The 6th biggest economy in the world is run by infantile fantasists with no understanding of financial markets.... There's nothing progressive about driving the economy of a cliff"📉⛰️ @LiamHalligan @ #BattleFest 2025 "From steel to railways: can the state revitalise British industry?"👨‍🏭🚆 👇

@MichaelRosenYes @spikedonline A well integrated multi ethnic citizenry

@spikedonline What is the alternative to people of different (and many ) cultures living side by side (ie multiculturalism)?

The ideology of multiculturalism has destroyed Britain. Just look at today’s Al-Quds demo in London. The mob swore allegiance to Ayatollah Khamenei, an enemy of the West. They agitated for the annihilation of Israel. It was horrific, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/0fOhiJA