- “Forget the election – Rishi Sunak’s allies wonder if he’ll get that far” – Senior figures around the Prime Minister think he’ll face a confidence vote if the Tories are thrashed at the local elections in May, which they will be. After that, all bets are off, says the Times.
- “U.K. military ‘couldn’t fight Russia for longer than two months’” – Failure to secure more funding for the Armed Forces puts Britain at a major disadvantage, warns the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff in the Telegraph.
- “There’s nothing conservative about the Tories’ free childcare rollout” – From April, parents of two-year-olds will get 15 hours of free childcare. In September, this will be extended to infants of nine months or more. Why, exactly, is this a Conservative policy? asks Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
- “Tory MPs plan for migrant crime league tables” – A ranking system that shows the percentage of crimes committed by different ethnic groups would allow the Home Office to tighten restrictions on certain countries, according to a group of Conservative MPs, as reported in the Telegraph.
- “Illegal immigrants still come in their thousands. This will be the end of Rishi Sunak” – Ross Clark in the Telegraph is disillusioned by the gap between the Government’s rhetoric on illegal immigration and its actions.
- “Boost for Rwanda plan as ECHR makes it harder to block deportations” – A rule change embraced by the European Court of Human Rights allows injunctions against deportations of illegal migrants only where they face an “imminent risk of irreparable harm”, reports the Telegraph.
- “Justin Welby says he will not block Rwanda Bill” – In a surprising move, the Archbishop of Canterbury accepts that “open borders” are not the answer and promises not to block the Rwanda Bill, says the Telegraph.
- “Let’s kick ‘racial justice’ out of the Church of England” – The Venerable Dr. Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, archdeacon of Liverpool, should read the Bible rather than attend racial justice conferences, says Gareth Roberts in the Spectator.
- “Church tribunal clears clergyman who called trans archdeacon ‘a bloke’” – Brett Murphy described Rachel Mann, a biological male who identifies as a woman who’s an archdeacon in the Church of England, a ‘bloke’ and a ‘fella’, but a CofE review ruled the words were “not in themselves offensive”, according to the Times.
- “Civil servant sued over gender critical beliefs has case dropped” – Elspeth Duemmer-Wrigley, who works alongside Defra, was due to appear at an Employment Tribunal this week accused of harassment for comments including “only women menstruate”. But her colleague has dropped the complaint, reports the Times.
- “If the West abandons Israel, we all lose” – The UN ceasefire vote confirms that our rulers are retreating in the war to defend democracy, argues Mick Hume in Spiked.
- “Westminster council scrambles to celebrate Easter after only putting up Ramadan display” – Labour-run Westminster Council rushes to put up Christian decorations after Tory councillor Paul Swaddle pointed out that so far the Council has just honoured Ramadan, says the Telegraph.
- “BBC ‘abandons Christianity’ after dropping traditional Easter service broadcast” – Corporation criticised as celebratory mass from King’s College, Cambridge is no longer being broadcast on the BBC, reports the Telegraph.
- “Why you’re more at risk of cancer than 25 years ago – here’s what to do about it” – Cases of cancer in the U.K. have jumped by about 50% over the past 25 years due to an ongoing rise in risk factors, says the Telegraph.
- “Why are more young people getting cancer?” – Experts say the increase in diagnoses could be down to a rise in obesity, alcohol and smoking, as well as changes in diet and the microbiome, reports the Times. Nothing to do with mRNA vaccines, then?
- “Ultimate guide to going private for cancer treatment amid NHS waits” – Chaotic scenes facing the thousands of cancer patients receiving NHS care every day are comparable to ‘Heathrow on a Bank Holiday’ according to a respected oncologist. Is going private the solution? asks the Mail.
- “Follow the vast sums of money” – Public health is a racket, says Christopher Snowdon on Substack.
- “RKI protocols reveal pandemic managers providing ‘fictitiously accurate’ R-values and overstating Covid risk on the explicit directions of their political overseers in the Health Ministry” – Eugyppius on the latest revelations in Germany about the manipulation of public health authorities by the federal government.
- “Covid and the politics of panic” – Good leading article in the Spectator criticising the panic that informed the pandemic response four years ago.
- “Andrew Bridgen must pay Matt Hancock legal fees of £40,000 in libel claim” – The independent MP cases a costs bill of £40,000, not including his own costs, in his libel case against the former Health Secretary, repots the Guardian.
- “Dems, media push new study linking climate change to inflation, but economists aren’t buying It” – The Earth’s average temperature does not affect the amount of currency in circulation, says Nick Pope in Whats Up With That.
- “New York first U.S. city to introduce congestion charge” – Manhattan motorists will pay a $15 toll from June despite a fierce backlash and string of lawsuits designed to stifle the plan, reports the Telegraph.
- “In the new world of EVs and AI, renewable green energy means more gas or coal capacity, not less” – The development of EVs and AI requires a huge amount of electricity, points out the Telegraph.
- “Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute shows January Arctic sea ice now 20 years stable!” – Winter sea ice in Arctic stable over past 20 years hasn’t disappeared; on the contrary, it’s become more plentiful, according to Whats Up With That.
- “Some classics are slapped with warnings to appease modern readers” – Over recent years, many classic tales and childhood favourites have been given trigger warnings, says the Mail, including Harry Potter, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and more.
- “Barristers should be allowed to join the Garrick” – the Bar Council is hinting it will forbid any member of the Bar from being a member of the Garrick. That’s a monstrous intrusion into individual liberty, argues Andrew Tettenborn in the Spectator.
- “Police Scotland could reveal complaints over ‘hate incidents” to employers” – Scottish police officers could disclose ‘non-crime hate incidents’ recorded against people’s names in enhanced criminal record checks, according to the Scottish Sun.
- “Bullying, cowardice, and careerism behind BBC disinformation on gender” – Current and former BBC journalists have condemned the media giant for embracing trans rights dogma, says Michael Shellenberger on his Public Substack.
- “Sir Jeffrey Donaldson latest: DUP leader quits after being charged with historical sex offences” – The leader of the DUP has resigned after he’s charged over historic allegations of rape, reports the Telegraph.
- “Iranian journalist stabbed multiple times outside London home” – A U.K.-based Iranian journalist who’s critical of the current regime is in a stable condition after being attacked by two people outside his house in London, according to the Telegraph.
- “Easter egg hunt in Wrexham cemetery pulled after backlash” – Friends of Wrexham Cemetery, who organised the Easter egg hunt, say their aim was to get young people “interested in local genealogy”, reports the BBC. But the event has been cancelled after a backlash from locals whose relatives are buried in the cemetery.
- “Copying the mistakes of Greece” – Labour’s tax raid on private schools was tried by Syriza in Greece and proved to be a disaster that was quickly abandoned, says Mr. Chips on Substack.
- “The UAE bid for the Spectator is over” – In the Spectator, Fraser Nelson celebrates the Government’s amendment to the Digital Markets Bill which will make it impossible for foreign states to own even 0.1% of British newspapers or magazines.
- “This is magnificent to watch” – Watch this clip of the President of Guyana putting a BBC journalist in his place when he tries to lecture him about the risks of climate change.
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I didnt realise the degree of insanity amongst the population until gender ideology arrived.
It’s appeared at the same time that a much higher proportion of the population has been to “university” and thus were exposed to the unopposed deranged Leftwaffe “professors” and their running dogs.
Meanwhile Sir Two-Tier owns up to needing a Supreme Court Beak to tell him what most of us outside the Westminster bubble worked out for ourselves in nursery-school.
The present government seems to prove Machiavelli correct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU0ydXfieGA
Is he still waiting for the Supreme Court to tell him what a Nonce is?
One of the all too predictable consequences of the ruling will be the widespread adoption of gender neutral toilets & changing rooms. You can discriminate if you don’t discriminate. Of course the downside is that whilst at present it’s rare for a woman to encounter a bloke in the loo it will now become common.
All the grim dealing with lifting/lowering toilet seats. Blokes peeing all over the seat & generally making a mess.
No more ‘safe space’ in pubs or nightclubs where women can get away from nuisance blokes.
A campaign needs to be waged to keep single sex loos & not let the tail wag the dog .
Except there are men on here who maintain having single sex ( presumably they’re referring to men-only loos too ) toilets is a privilege, not a right. I’m not quite clear if having disabled toilets for the wheelchair users to access is also supposed to be somehow a ‘privilege’ for them…..I think the general point they’re making is that we’re whinging about being ‘oppressed’ if we want to keep our private spaces and sports single-sex.
At our local theatre the loos became gender neutral 2 years ago. The net result is far fewer loos & more queuing for everyone. Where there were 10 urinals there are now 5 cubicles. What’s more, people take at least 2x as long in a cubicle as they did stood at a urinal.
Act 2 being interrupted by people drifting back late to their seats, another unintended consequence of trans nutter to accommodate virtually no one.
The upside is no more rent boys using the men’s toiled as business parlour and no more sexual or other assaults by cocained-overfilled gays looking for a quick romp. And no more Wetherspoon guys telling customers who complain about this, like, glases of mine worth about £170 just got smashed and I barely escaped a seriously mauling as two guys who were both taller and heavier than claimed to be dead-set to have a go at me, that safety on their premises is really none of their business. I’m pretty sure it would immediately become very much their business if one of these bullies suffered as much as a scratch of the hand. That’s the problem here: They may do everything. And in case of any blacklash, security to the rescue!
What do mean by “a right”?
Given that ‘sex’ is a category on the list of ‘protected characteristics’ it is unlawful to change existing single-sex toilets into ‘gender neutral’ facilities or not provide such facilities at all. And I’m afraid having a ‘gender recognition certificate’ does not mean a man can magically morph into the opposite sex in order to circumvent the law. This is why your PM and his colleagues had such difficulty defining what a woman is, because as long as women can have penises they can access our private spaces and intrude in female sports, ergo effectively erasing ‘woman’ as a protected sex category. Men appear to be left unscathed though, on the whole;
”From 1 October 2024, when working on the design of a workplace or public building in England that requires Building Regulations approval, you will now be obligated to provide separate gendered toilets for men and women.
Gender neutral, universal toilets (Superloos) can still be provided, but only in addition to single-sex provision and where space allows. And all toilets will need clear signage to meet the regulations.
Part T– also referred to as Approved Document T – is a new requirement of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010, which states:
Toilet accommodation in buildings other than residential must consist of:
Single-sex toilet refers to toilet facilities which are:
https://www.materialsource.co.uk/working-on-a-new-workplace-build-single-sex-toilets-may-soon-be-required/
It would appear that the majority possess common sense and are in agreement that toilets should be single-sex, for obvious reasons that shouldn’t need spelling out, based on 17,000 respondents here;
”The government’s decision is grounded in feedback from the consultation, where 81% of respondents supported separate single-sex toilet facilities, and 82% agreed with the provision of universal toilets where space allows. The government argues that gender-neutral facilities have led to longer queues, decreased choice, and reduced privacy and dignity.”
https://www.thelawyerportal.com/blog/understanding-the-new-single-sex-toilet-law-in-england/
You can’t even escape propaganda in single-sex loos. In a pub Gents last week, plastic mats in the urinals had an NHS logo and “Blood in your pee? See your GP.”
Not in schools they can’t. Scottish Schools must provide single sex facilities as opposed to gender neutral toilets. Some great news coming out of Scotland tonight.
Well the collective public pissing ( because that totally convinces us you’re a woman! ) didn’t get the desired effect, so now they’re moving on to getting their moobs out for a ‘topless march’ in London. Toxic narcissism at it’s finest;
https://x.com/StandingforXX/status/1914631048580702578
Agreed. Heavy reliance on the ‘transmaidens’ for this one, methinks;
”I would be surprised if they can muster 1,000 men with moobs.
My impression is that the majority of protestors are unmodified violent misogynist males.
Perhaps they are relying on handmaidens to..errr…swell the numbers?”
How many of these people openly threatening women and especially JK Rowling with violence have been arrested and hopefully sentenced to a minimum of 3 years, without visits etc, just like the lady who tweeted?
Or are the Police waiting until these men carry out their threats and injure or kill a woman before they act? will lessons be learned then you think? Where is Sir Kier on this and the Solicitor general? no words, nothing! obviously they think violence against women and the threats to JK Rowlings life are ok.
Ironic given that Westminster must have the highest level of CCTV and security in the Country and yet they cannot find the people who held up the signs and trashed the statues.
These buffoons do not speak even for the propensity of the men who just want the freedom to live as best and respectably as they can, without fear or unreasonable prejudice, as if they are women. They are realists.
Many gay people resent their multi decade long hard fight being usurped, and tarnished, by an essentially very differently argued campaign. Gay people don’t really ask for other’s belief of anything, but just demand legal equality.
Everyone, but the buffoons, wants them to pack it in, let it drop. Finish with this nonsense.
So, let me get this right:
1.) Somebody saying “I don’t think a man can change to a woman.” – that’s hate speech.
2.) A demonstration with a placard calling for the murder of women that possess the above opinion – that’s not hate speech.
Did I get it right?
They keep talking about the LGBTQ+ “community”. It’s no “community” when it’s very clear that the Ls and the Ts don’t like each other.
Slightly off topic but vaguely related, my local council-owned cinema just sent me their weekly listings email. It went way over budget and it’s rather nice, and we can walk to it, so we try to support it. I noticed they have a new initiative showcasing films off the beaten track. Ah, that sounds interesting I thought. The first one they’ve chosen is about “queers”. I never used to care what films were about as long as they were interestingly made, but these days I have learned to avoid most of them as they are just another unsubtle preaching session.
I have no intention of “Wising up”, “Standing up”, or “Showing up”. Nor will I support businesses that subscribe to this violent ideology.
I am Spartacus!
After the Supreme Court judgment that a woman is an adult female it must follow that a man is an adult male. However the gender ideology battle goes on….
Firstly, appearance. For example, if a trans ‘man’ ( a biological woman), dressed in masculine clothes enters the ladies toilet now she would be set on by other biological women demanding she leave and they would have a case against her. Now this is unlikely as the trans ‘woman’ would probably be fine in the men’s loo and carry on going there. But it follows from the court ruling.
Many trans ‘women’ who have lived quietly and successfully as female ( with or without surgeries etc) will continue to use the ladies loos undetected but what if, either by his appearance or behaviour he creates suspicion what kind of reaction is he going to get from women in there? Those aggressive types who are protesting with banners saying they will carry on “pissing where they like” are relying on women not making a fuss. I don’t think I want to take on some bloke in a dress with a five o’clock shadow.
Secondly, pronouns. After the ruling does it follow that only the correct pronoun that corresponds to the biological sex be used? Sometimes it’s hard to tell a trans person, other times it’s obvious….. The police got into a right muddle called the trans rapist “she”…… are they going to stop this now ? Or will “ misgendering ” still be a hate crime as transsexuals must be protected? The whole thing is such a twisted mess it’s going to drag on forever. Any answers?
I saw one Labour MP complaining that one of her constituents, a trans woman since a young age (biological man) had been using the ladies’ toilets for decades but under the new ruling, would now have to use men’s toilets for the first time in 50 years. I’ll admit that this kind of issue hadn’t quite occurred to me but like you I would argue, if someone has lived successfully as a woman for 50 years then they are probably very genuine and will continue to be able to use the ladies’ loos undetected. Most women I think (whether rightly or wrongly) wouldn’t make a fuss about someone who overall appears to be female quietly and unobtrusively using the toilet even if they were unsure of their biological sex.
Of course it is exactly this kind of person (i.e. the “real” and genuine trans people, who I do believe exist) that is being harmed by the increasingly rabid demands of the modern trans lobby, but never mind.