In a chilling crackdown on free speech, two police officers have shown up at a grandmother’s door – her crime? Criticising Labour politicians on Facebook. The Mail has more.
Detectives were last night accused of acting like East Germany’s feared Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal exposed by the Mail on Sunday. …
Toby Young, Director of the Free Speech Union, said: “This is typical of the weird authoritarian atmosphere that has grown up in Britain since Sir Keir Starmer took control. Good luck persuading Greater Manchester Police to send two police officers to your house if you’re burgled or your car is stolen.” …
The two plain-clothes officers arrived at Mrs Jones’s home and demanded to talk to her after she commented on the offensive messages shared in a Labour WhatsApp group that the Mail on Sunday exposed this month. Our story led to the sacking of Health minister Andrew Gwynne and the suspension of Burnley MP Oliver Ryan and 11 Labour councillors.
Police knocked on her door in Stockport within 48 hours of receiving a complaint, in contrast to how they have responded to other crime reports. Mrs Jones, a school administrator, said police failed to investigate a spate of car thefts in the surrounding streets last year. …
In the wake of the scandal, Mrs Jones repeatedly posted that Cllr Sedgwick must resign from his Heatons North seat on a closed Facebook group called 4Heatons Hub, and another publicly available page called Reddish Matters.
In one post on 4Heatons Hub, Mrs Jones said of Cllr Sedgwick: “Let’s hope he does the decent thing and resigns. I somehow think his ego won’t allow it.” In another, after posting screenshots from the Trigger Me Timbers group, Mrs Jones wrote: “Not looking good for Cllr Sedgwick!!!” to which another member added: “Cllr Sedgwick, will you be resigning?”
At around 1.30pm last Tuesday, while Mrs Jones was looking after her baby grandson at a nearby house, a detective sergeant and another officer knocked at her door and spoke to her husband Lee, 54, via an intercom.
A shocked Mrs Jones rushed home fearing something tragic had happened to a loved one. At 2.15pm she received a phone call from an officer thought to be the same sergeant who knocked on her door and was told the police had received a complaint about her recent social media posts.
Speaking exclusively to the MoS, she said: “[The officer] said, ‘We’ve had a complaint,’ and I immediately asked, ‘From who?’ and he said, ‘Well, I can’t tell you that.’”
She asked if Cllr Sedgwick or his partner had made the complaint. “[The officer’s] exact words were ‘Your thought process is correct in that,’” said Mrs Jones. “I asked the police officer, have I committed any sort of crime. Why did you call at my door? They said, ‘Someone has spoken to us about your social media posts.’
“I then said, ‘If I don’t take your advice and continue doing what I am doing, will I be committing a crime?’ He said no. I then asked. ‘What will you do about it?’ He said, ‘There’s not a lot we can do, we are just giving you advice.’” …
After six minutes, Mrs Jones hung up, furious that she was made to feel like a criminal in front of her husband and four children. She said: “It was actually quite scary. I’m living my life day to day, law-abiding, and then suddenly I’ve got the police at the door showing a warrant card.”
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Knowing how the world was at the end of the 20th century, I am willing to concede that this piece of legislation was done in good faith with the spirit of tolerance and acceptance of others that was typical of the time.
But almost all state action seems to take place with complete disregard for unintended consequences. They see the problem they want to solve but can hardly ever bring themselves to just let it be and accept that the solution will probably be worse than the problem.
And so here we are in the madness of 2025, with an epidemic of teenage girls thinking they are boys and mentally disturbed men trying to pretend they are women.
We will never learn. I doubt I will ever see the time when the state just keeps its big clumsy, destructive hands out of our lives.
You might argue that the State takes its guidance on big things from the EU, the UN, the WHO, the IMF etc.
That only leaves them the trivial things to exercise their desire to meddle and control over.
factsnotfiction
5 months ago
Sex is binary, no matter how skilled the mental gymnast. Trans ideology, like Critical Race Theory, is another third-wave Postmodernistic devisive dud that escapes scrutiny only thanks to captured academic institutions and useful idiot liberal progressives.
Fair enough. You wouldn’t affirm an anorexic’s viewpoint that they are indeed fat and urge them to go hit the treadmill to burn off that single lettuce leaf they’ve consumed in an entire day. So why on earth would we do this for others, thereby encouraging them to go mutilate themselves into becoming the opposite sex?
Top comment:
”James, the problem is the treatment. We don’t remove the limbs of people with Body Identity Integrity Disorder, we don’t give anorexics liposuction. We shouldn’t be ‘transitioning’ people to the opposite sex and turning sex on its head. It’s beyond crazy.
Gender Identity is being used as a pretext to select one’s sex, just by saying you are the opposite sex.”
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago
Every other bloody article on this page is about gender. Yes of course this nonsense is irksome but concern with it suggests some lack of perspective to me given the gravity of world affairs. Do you think that people who concern themselves with world affairs devote fifty percent of their time to lamenting the rise of the trannies and gays? It isn’t just a second tier discussion it is about a fifth tier discussion. We don’t need further Jeremiads about the decline of the culture it has been going this way for sixty years and a good hundred years before that if you want to be correct about it. For me tranny baiting is pure distraction. I have lived far and wide and I have never even bloody met one of these people.
Mogwai
5 months ago
Great post by J.K Rowling. It’s long so here’s an excerpt;
”In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it’s possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn’t a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.
I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women’s and girls’ rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?
I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it’s a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They’re not repeating it because it’s true – they know full well it’s not true – but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you’re one of the Godly, and an exorcist’s weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry.”
I had no idea how much this trans ideology crap was affecting lesbians until I heard about ‘breaking the cotton ceiling’, which is when intact men who identify as lesbians want to have sex with actual lesbians. Apparently this is a thing and Stonewall ( along with others, inc judiciary ) have called lesbians ”sexual racists” and ”transphobic” for not wanting to have sex with men cosplaying women. And here’s me thinking the main part of being a lesbian is that you wish to avoid dicks;
”Is a lesbian transphobic if she does not want to have sex with trans women? Some lesbians say they are increasingly being pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners – then shunned and even threatened for speaking out. Several have spoken to the BBC, along with trans women who are concerned about the issue too.
“I’ve had someone saying they would rather kill me than Hitler,” says 24-year-old Jennie*.
“They said they would strangle me with a belt if they were in a room with me and Hitler. That was so bizarrely violent, just because I won’t have sex with trans women.”
Jennie is a lesbian woman. She says she is only sexually attracted to women who are biologically female and have vaginas. She therefore only has sex and relationships with women who are biologically female.
Jennie doesn’t think this should be controversial, but not everyone agrees. She has been described as transphobic, a genital fetishist, a pervert and a “terf” – a trans exclusionary radical feminist.
“There’s a common argument that they try and use that goes ‘What if you met a woman in a bar and she’s really beautiful and you got on really well and you went home and you discovered that she has a penis? Would you just not be interested?'” says Jennie, who lives in London and works in fashion.
“Yes, because even if someone seems attractive at first you can go off them. I just don’t possess the capacity to be sexually attracted to people who are biologically male, regardless of how they identify.”
I became aware of this particular issue after I wrote an article about sex, lies and legal consent.
Several people got in touch with me to say there was a “huge problem” for lesbians, who were being pressured to “accept the idea that a penis can be a female sex organ”.
I knew this would be a hugely divisive subject, but I wanted to find out how widespread the issue was.”
(The people bullying lesbians because they don’t like the D, I mean).
Last edited 5 months ago by Tonka Rigger
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago
It wasn’t that long ago that feminists were arguing that men are essentially redundant and that the world would be a better place with a male plague. You didn’t hear men standing up stating the contrary. This is all predicated on bull crap. I could easily spin a narrative with the transgenders that they were essentially a weapon employed by the incels as revenge against the feminists. My point is that they are just wrapping you around their fingers in making you feel whatever they want you to feel.
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago
Don’t get all protective abut females, the tribe’s womenfolk. They have undermined you for decades. This transgender distaster is on them. Don’t intervene. If a transgender entered a female toilet and raped my sister or mother I would feel a bit disgusted by it but I would move on. It is irrelevant.
Ah yes, this is another perfect example of how everyone turns a blind eye to blatant misogyny and leaves comments unchallenged ( apart from me, as per, naturally😴 ) but as soon as I say anything remotely critical about *some men* I get accused of being a “misandrist” ( ironically, by proven misogynists. Go figure. A sensitive bunch, these women-haters ) and can expect the inevitable pile-on. Such are the hypocritical rules of the game here in the DS Boys Club…But “free speech for the win”, right?? Just not equally applicable.🤷♀️
Oh, and I think you’ll find “this transgender disaster” is all on MEN, as the sexologists, psychiatrists, physicians etc who created this entire toxic shitshow were all male, many were unethical perverts, actually. And I’ve shared that particular evidence enough times now, but do feel free to fact check me.
What a nice son and brother you are, that’s exactly the attitude that instils fear in most women…ie it was their fault for being in that situation.
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago
Five years ago I had visceral contempt for those who wore the mask, obeyed the rules, took the shot etc. In my mind I thought that I could never become like them, so utterly weak. But since then I have felt the frailty that they must’ve felt in the sense that my physical health has deteriorated massively. Complete physical weakness is your contact with the outside world. I can well envision a time when my mind and spirit will be weakened by this physical reality. So I don’t have contempt for them anymore it is more like pity because the weakness attacked them earlier. Given this reality at least as Englishmen we should try to push the limits. The English language is often criticised for its restraints but it is actually the most expansive language in the history of humankind.
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago
We talk about globalism and world trade for better or worse. The underlying language and grammar is English. You can earn good money teaching English to Chinese businessmen. I was in a cafe in Europe and there were a couple of African businessmen sitting at a table close by and I heard their converation and they really got it. Way above the average Anglo-American understanding. It is crazy you have destroyed yourself but even after the cataclysm there will be plenty of us still promoting English.
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago
If you are born in the British Isles then you are born in the oak grove. It is only recently that I learned about our Druidic past. We must protect our groves. If we discern real threats from outside then we need to deal with them. At this stage it is more a matter of saying hello to each other.
Jabby Mcstiff
5 months ago
Just remember that a couple of years ago they wanted all males out of the way. Just in case you were feeling oriented in a more traditional direction.
Gezza England
5 months ago
What should really leave us aghast is how did it require 88 – yes, EIGHTY-EIGHT – pages to decide women do not have a penis.
PeterM
5 months ago
“Sexual orientation means a person’s sexual orientation”
So the GRA contains a circular definition. That line is similar to:
”hate speech is speech that is hateful”!!!!
ACW
5 months ago
‘9(1) When a full gender recognition certificate is issued, the person’s gender, for all purposes, is legally their certified gender.’
History being repeated?
‘The Nuremberg Race Laws were two in a series of key decrees, legislative acts, and case law in the gradual process by which the Nazi leadership moved Germany from a democracy to a dictatorship.’ ‘ https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nuremberg-laws
The use of certification doesn’t make something right.
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Knowing how the world was at the end of the 20th century, I am willing to concede that this piece of legislation was done in good faith with the spirit of tolerance and acceptance of others that was typical of the time.
But almost all state action seems to take place with complete disregard for unintended consequences. They see the problem they want to solve but can hardly ever bring themselves to just let it be and accept that the solution will probably be worse than the problem.
And so here we are in the madness of 2025, with an epidemic of teenage girls thinking they are boys and mentally disturbed men trying to pretend they are women.
We will never learn. I doubt I will ever see the time when the state just keeps its big clumsy, destructive hands out of our lives.
100%
You might argue that the State takes its guidance on big things from the EU, the UN, the WHO, the IMF etc.
That only leaves them the trivial things to exercise their desire to meddle and control over.
Sex is binary, no matter how skilled the mental gymnast. Trans ideology, like Critical Race Theory, is another third-wave Postmodernistic devisive dud that escapes scrutiny only thanks to captured academic institutions and useful idiot liberal progressives.
”There is no such thing as a ‘trans person’. Just like there is no such thing as an ‘anorexic person’.
There are people with dysphoria and there are people with anorexia. Both are mental health conditions.
We need to stop viewing mental ill-health as an identity.”
https://x.com/JamesEsses/status/1919032308780220436
Fair enough. You wouldn’t affirm an anorexic’s viewpoint that they are indeed fat and urge them to go hit the treadmill to burn off that single lettuce leaf they’ve consumed in an entire day. So why on earth would we do this for others, thereby encouraging them to go mutilate themselves into becoming the opposite sex?
Top comment:
”James, the problem is the treatment. We don’t remove the limbs of people with Body Identity Integrity Disorder, we don’t give anorexics liposuction. We shouldn’t be ‘transitioning’ people to the opposite sex and turning sex on its head. It’s beyond crazy.
Gender Identity is being used as a pretext to select one’s sex, just by saying you are the opposite sex.”
Every other bloody article on this page is about gender. Yes of course this nonsense is irksome but concern with it suggests some lack of perspective to me given the gravity of world affairs. Do you think that people who concern themselves with world affairs devote fifty percent of their time to lamenting the rise of the trannies and gays? It isn’t just a second tier discussion it is about a fifth tier discussion. We don’t need further Jeremiads about the decline of the culture it has been going this way for sixty years and a good hundred years before that if you want to be correct about it. For me tranny baiting is pure distraction. I have lived far and wide and I have never even bloody met one of these people.
Great post by J.K Rowling. It’s long so here’s an excerpt;
”In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it’s possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn’t a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.
I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women’s and girls’ rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?
I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it’s a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They’re not repeating it because it’s true – they know full well it’s not true – but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you’re one of the Godly, and an exorcist’s weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry.”
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1918747065460420745
I had no idea how much this trans ideology crap was affecting lesbians until I heard about ‘breaking the cotton ceiling’, which is when intact men who identify as lesbians want to have sex with actual lesbians. Apparently this is a thing and Stonewall ( along with others, inc judiciary ) have called lesbians ”sexual racists” and ”transphobic” for not wanting to have sex with men cosplaying women. And here’s me thinking the main part of being a lesbian is that you wish to avoid dicks;
”Is a lesbian transphobic if she does not want to have sex with trans women? Some lesbians say they are increasingly being pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners – then shunned and even threatened for speaking out. Several have spoken to the BBC, along with trans women who are concerned about the issue too.
“I’ve had someone saying they would rather kill me than Hitler,” says 24-year-old Jennie*.
“They said they would strangle me with a belt if they were in a room with me and Hitler. That was so bizarrely violent, just because I won’t have sex with trans women.”
Jennie is a lesbian woman. She says she is only sexually attracted to women who are biologically female and have vaginas. She therefore only has sex and relationships with women who are biologically female.
Jennie doesn’t think this should be controversial, but not everyone agrees. She has been described as transphobic, a genital fetishist, a pervert and a “terf” – a trans exclusionary radical feminist.
“There’s a common argument that they try and use that goes ‘What if you met a woman in a bar and she’s really beautiful and you got on really well and you went home and you discovered that she has a penis? Would you just not be interested?'” says Jennie, who lives in London and works in fashion.
“Yes, because even if someone seems attractive at first you can go off them. I just don’t possess the capacity to be sexually attracted to people who are biologically male, regardless of how they identify.”
I became aware of this particular issue after I wrote an article about sex, lies and legal consent.
Several people got in touch with me to say there was a “huge problem” for lesbians, who were being pressured to “accept the idea that a penis can be a female sex organ”.
I knew this would be a hugely divisive subject, but I wanted to find out how widespread the issue was.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385
Utterly, utterly bonkers…
(The people bullying lesbians because they don’t like the D, I mean).
It wasn’t that long ago that feminists were arguing that men are essentially redundant and that the world would be a better place with a male plague. You didn’t hear men standing up stating the contrary. This is all predicated on bull crap. I could easily spin a narrative with the transgenders that they were essentially a weapon employed by the incels as revenge against the feminists. My point is that they are just wrapping you around their fingers in making you feel whatever they want you to feel.
Don’t get all protective abut females, the tribe’s womenfolk. They have undermined you for decades. This transgender distaster is on them. Don’t intervene. If a transgender entered a female toilet and raped my sister or mother I would feel a bit disgusted by it but I would move on. It is irrelevant.
Ah yes, this is another perfect example of how everyone turns a blind eye to blatant misogyny and leaves comments unchallenged ( apart from me, as per, naturally😴 ) but as soon as I say anything remotely critical about *some men* I get accused of being a “misandrist” ( ironically, by proven misogynists. Go figure. A sensitive bunch, these women-haters ) and can expect the inevitable pile-on. Such are the hypocritical rules of the game here in the DS Boys Club…But “free speech for the win”, right?? Just not equally applicable.🤷♀️
Oh, and I think you’ll find “this transgender disaster” is all on MEN, as the sexologists, psychiatrists, physicians etc who created this entire toxic shitshow were all male, many were unethical perverts, actually. And I’ve shared that particular evidence enough times now, but do feel free to fact check me.
What a nice son and brother you are, that’s exactly the attitude that instils fear in most women…ie it was their fault for being in that situation.
Five years ago I had visceral contempt for those who wore the mask, obeyed the rules, took the shot etc. In my mind I thought that I could never become like them, so utterly weak. But since then I have felt the frailty that they must’ve felt in the sense that my physical health has deteriorated massively. Complete physical weakness is your contact with the outside world. I can well envision a time when my mind and spirit will be weakened by this physical reality. So I don’t have contempt for them anymore it is more like pity because the weakness attacked them earlier. Given this reality at least as Englishmen we should try to push the limits. The English language is often criticised for its restraints but it is actually the most expansive language in the history of humankind.
We talk about globalism and world trade for better or worse. The underlying language and grammar is English. You can earn good money teaching English to Chinese businessmen. I was in a cafe in Europe and there were a couple of African businessmen sitting at a table close by and I heard their converation and they really got it. Way above the average Anglo-American understanding. It is crazy you have destroyed yourself but even after the cataclysm there will be plenty of us still promoting English.
If you are born in the British Isles then you are born in the oak grove. It is only recently that I learned about our Druidic past. We must protect our groves. If we discern real threats from outside then we need to deal with them. At this stage it is more a matter of saying hello to each other.
Just remember that a couple of years ago they wanted all males out of the way. Just in case you were feeling oriented in a more traditional direction.
What should really leave us aghast is how did it require 88 – yes, EIGHTY-EIGHT – pages to decide women do not have a penis.
“Sexual orientation means a person’s sexual orientation”
So the GRA contains a circular definition. That line is similar to:
”hate speech is speech that is hateful”!!!!
‘9(1) When a full gender recognition certificate is issued, the person’s gender, for all purposes, is legally their certified gender.’
History being repeated?
‘The Nuremberg Race Laws were two in a series of key decrees, legislative acts, and case law in the gradual process by which the Nazi leadership moved Germany from a democracy to a dictatorship.’ ‘
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nuremberg-laws
The use of certification doesn’t make something right.