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@StephenORahilly Absolutely Steve! This was precisely my thought as well

The shooter in the Canadian tragedy was a biol male presenting as female. The vast majority of such violent events are carried out by biol males. It does a disservice to truth and the understanding of criminal violence for the press to describe the mass murderer as female.

@RichardDawkins I spent 3 months with Iain in the OMO valley southern Ethiopia in 1972. He was a quite remarkable man who made an extraordinary contribution

Elephants are said to mourn their dead. From all over Africa, I seem to hear them trumpet a Last Post for this gallant hero who devoted his life to the elephants, fought the ivory traders with words and the poachers with guns . savetheelephants.org

@williamnhutton @campbellclaret At last!!

Very powerful piece by Gordon Brown. Difficult for the Starmer government to ignore what is looking a very dangerous case for the Murdoch empire. I have now spoken to police officers who say they were misled by Murdoch’s empire. I won’t let this rest theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@RichardDawkins At last!!

theguardian.com/law/live/2025/… “But we counsel against reading this judgement as a triumph of one or more groups in our society at the expense of another, it is not.” Yes it is. It’s a triumph of science and commonsense. Rejoice.

@PeterStefanovi2 Stop eating supermarket bagged salads if you are so worried about chlorine

I don’t think so

@StephenORahilly @timeshighered @wellcometrust Agree!!!!

timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelists… via @timeshighered If only @wellcometrust had not stopped funding Principal Res. Fellowships. This was a wonderful scheme which would, if it still existed, be the perfect way to attract world class scientists to the UK. Not difficult to dust it off?

@StephenORahilly At last! Have any senior heads rolled down there?

This is very good news for those who think that UK universities should be tolerant places that permit, even encourage, the expression of a wide range of opinions, so long as they are within the limits set by the country’s laws.

@campbellclaret @BenWallace70 @BBCr4today Agree!!

Superb interview @BenWallace70 on @BBCr4today just now. Tough, realistic, values based but also hopeful.

@BenWallace70 Great to hear you today on R4. The best PM we never had

An article by the Defence Secretary on the situation in Ukraine - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/new…

@SamerHattar Trump claimed that the DOGE team had found “$8 million for making mice transgender,” and added: “This is real.” The mice in question were not “transgender”; they were “transgenic,” and were genetically altered for use in scientific experiments to learn more about human health.

I am going to put this here without comment to understand how I feel.

@VictoriaPeckham @StephenORahilly Dear God! What have we become?

England men lost the match. Afghan women have lost everything.

@BenWallace70 Agree! Quite ridiculous. And what was the first thing this government did? A £135m pay rise for the train drivers, no questions asked.

extra 0.2% of GDP by 2027 on Defence?? A staggering desertion of leadership. Tone deaf to dangers of the world and demands of the United States. Such a weak commitment to our security and Nation puts us all at risk.

@BarretK @BenWallace70 @tomhfh Spot on! Myself included

@tomhfh @BenWallace70 Wait till Tom realises that the ADP feature Apple has removed from the UK has only been active for just over two years. Most people in the Uk haven’t even enabled it

BREAK: Absolutely horrific news for iPhone users in the UK. Apple is removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data. This is a move that Apple has never made before in any market.

@Gabriel64869839 @BenWallace70 As always Ben, you bring sense to the table

So, in practice, a year of internal Cabinet bickering and SDR-ing to arrive back to the Defence spending profile already set out by Sunak's government in April 2024.

@jk_rowling Quite brilliant!!

This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous. Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids. Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters. When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was. Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs. The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second.

@jbhclock A great president whose star rose with time. Undone by the dirty politics of Reagan.

A great man passed. Emory University at 15, the Naval Academy at 18, served under admiral Rickover, was governor, president, and a big fan of the Allman Brothers Band. Wrote and read books.

@labourlewis A fine piece of writing and crystal clear. All solutions come from acknowledging the problem. A longer article on similar theme appeared in the FT last week. Thanks for this Clive.

10. Therefore we either develop a story as the agents of progressive change, identifying those responsible and pledging to fix it, or we make way for the inevitability of a far-right victory, just like in the US.

This post is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵 1. For those attempting to make sense of Trump’s victory and the rise of the far-right across Europe - look no further than the PMs statement below. Whether you like it or not, the far-right has a set of common narratives. We can probably all recite them…

@BGatesIsaPyscho @BenWallace70 Steady on folks! The debate has become irrational and hysterical lead by Clarkson types. Massive land purchases by no. Farming wealthy as a tax avoidance scheme rightly has to stop!

Keir Starmer on the Farmers:- “I grew up on a Farm, I know how hard it is, I milked the Cows, I ploughed the fields, my Dad even made Farm tools” What he lies about everything else - why is this any different?

@TorstenBell Completely agree. The behaviour of the BBC and Channel 4 News quite reprehensible. In our area, farmland has been brought up by a British property developer living in Dubai who has jacked up local land prices. The debate is hysterical and irrational. Lazy press reporters at work.

Main BBC website story littered with errors bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Big day for reasoned debate on farms/inheritance today - a debate undermined by @BBCNews repeatedly and wrongly reporting as fact that “farms worth more than £1m would have to pay inheritance tax”. This is just flatly wrong in vast vast majority of cases

@campbellclaret He’s a totally deranged nutter. Note the Faragist phrases. “It has been reported that….” It? By whom?

The man Trump wants to trust with healthcare