In this week’s episode of London calling, James and I discuss the recent forest fires in Greece and whether climate change or arsonists are to blame; James thinks it’s arsonists in the pay of environmental lobby groups, but I say that would be too dangerous since if it came out then the groups would then be liable for tens of millions of pounds in damages as well as causing untold harm to their reputations; this leads to an argument about whether there are enough honest reporters left to expose such wrongdoing and that, in turn, triggers a heated discussion about whether the journalist Ross Clark is a genuine climate contrarian because he often prefaces his pieces by saying he doesn’t dispute that the world has got a little bit warmer in the past 150 years (which I think is sensible); we then segue into a discussion of our holidays this year, both those we’ve already had and those we’re planning, with James saying he may go to Amsterdam; we then agree that cannabis should probably not be legalised; and, in Culture Corner, James discusses the new University Challenge as well as having almost finished Anna Karenina – which he declares the best novel he’s ever read – while Toby gives a lukewarm review to Hijack.
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The last time I was “asked” to leave a venue occurred last Sunday when I was waiting in front of a door to a performance room for a concert to start to be allowed to enter. It materialized itself in form of two guys suddenly approaching me and trying to throw me down a steep stairwell of seven or eight meters length. I have no idea why they did this because they didn’t bother telling me and only started yelling that I must absolutely leave now (still without telling me why) when I frustrated their attempts by holding fast to a door frame.
Such is everyday life for people who are guilty of the two social crimes of being both male and alone.
I didn’t hold amplified speeches about topics guaranteed to infuriate certain other paying customers.
So, you were trying to steal their doorframe! No wonder.
Just counterbalancing two guys who were both taller and significantly heavier than me who were trying to use their combined weight to push me over the edge of the staircase. Objectively, they were a bunch of pretty harmless attackers, but not for want of good intentions.
So not only do we have a man who evidently has a problem with free speech but also is supportive of kids being indoctrinated into the toxic trans ideology cult at school. Evidently this is a clear-cut example of the ”feminisation of society” being to blame for the downfall of civilization once again. Well what else could it be?
Meanwhile, you absolutely do need an ugly lump of concrete called ‘art’ that nobody is even going to look at in London. And what is ”transmisogyny” or ”transfemicide” when it’s at home?
”New statue unveiled in Londons Trafalgar Square to honor TRANS people.
The installment features the face of 726 trans activists from Mexico and the UK and is designed to ‘unite the trans community around the world.’”
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1836443411345248495
Transmisogyny — Claiming that men costumed as women are men because of hostility to women.
I’ll pass on transfemicide because femicide is already a nonsense propaganda term. The only thing that’s sort-of special about murders of women as opposed to murders in general is that they a lot rarer. But dividing murder victims posthumously into groups of different inherent value is IMHO something only a totally perverted mind could come up with. All violent crimes are equally despiccable and none of the victims should have had to suffer them.
I think femicide is focusing on the murder of women and girls because they are women/girls by men. I’ve never heard of women killing men because they are men?
Femicide is a term associated with the so-called war on women, ie, that there’s an organized global “culturally driven” effort of men to commit violent crimes against women because – as everyone knows – men just hate women because women are not men. That’s a term invented people having their own heads so much up their respective posteriors that their (theoretical) worldview is seriously at odds with the actual world.
As I already wrote: I refuse to concern myself with ideas of people who think that what they call femicide is qualitatively different from and much more serious than mere homicide as the overwhelming majority of homicides are just mascucides, to coin a term in the same lineage. IMO, people who believe something likes this urgently need a couple of loose screws in their heads tightened.
What did you expect? It’s Brighton. LGBTQXYZ and all that malarkey is practically a religion there.
I just watched a bit on GB news where Bev Turner was in fits of laughter at this nonsense of children identifying as wolves etc and them actually being indulged in their absurdity instead of what should happen is them told off and made to stop this utter garbage. Bev even managed to squeeze in a little joke that “what if there is a full moon”, which went totally un-noticed. Ofcourse we had the token Liberal on Jonathan somebody or other trying to defend this nonsense as Liberals tend to do, and even manged to link this crap to the Trans issue. Well done to GB News and Bev Turner for doing what other mainstream channels don’t do and laugh right in the face of this garbage.
What, you mean to say that Bev, a woman, is *against* this dangerous nonsense and Jonathan, a man, is defending it??
You’re telling me that Liberal woketards come in a male variety as well??
Well I’m flabbergasted at learning about this truism.
Seriously though, I’m just waiting to see how the resident misogynists are going to spin this article/general topic to be all the fault of women, because so far it’s Jiminy
Good at doing a ‘dump and run’ post, hurling accusations, leaving disparaging remarks and pointing fingers, not so keen on offering up any supporting evidence. It’s what happens when one has a pathological obsession and carries contempt around like an extra appendage though. You ignore all the facts which contradict your world view because to acknowledge reality means your protective bubble of delusion might just implode, and then where would you be?
Every human behaviour to the Liberal Progressive is now some kind of malady or other instead of what it really is —-which is a jumble of crap, stupidity or criminality. But along come the Liberal Progressives riding over the hill to cure us all of our absurd acquired malady’s at great taxpayer expense, and in the process creating whole armies of therapists, psychologists and ever more bureaucrats to administer all the clutter
I suspect he was a Lib Dem. He was certainly not Liberal or liberal.
I wouldn’t want to drink in a pub where the landlord was such a priggish woke twat.
Seconded.
Although I have the feeling he won’t lose much custom in a place like Brighton.
Oh no! David Lammy and the Labour government, which happens to have Keir Starmer at the helm. Utterly epic Woketards. And yet we’re being told this is a white, middle-class woman’s gig…tut tut, chaps;
”I tried to warn you that Labour are obsessed with this utter woke nonsense.. bisexual flags ffs.”
https://x.com/EssexPR/status/1836676368400007613
Some comments;
”This is a big part of what is wrong with Britain. The woke mind virus. Virtue signalling nonsense – not a serious government or country. What an utter embarrassment Lammy is.”
”Can Lammy please stop it !! He is making a mockery of this country wherever he goes around the world and everytime he opens his mouth. Personally, it makes me ashamed !”
”Absolute madness, I wonder how this is going to go down with Countries that do not approve of this nonsense? How can the Foreign Secretary promote this, he is an imbecile.”
My 18 year old son asked me the other week, “if I identify as a cat or dog, would I still have to pay tax, because cats and dogs don’t pay tax?” He has his feet firmly on the ground and is not going to ‘identify’ as anything, but it was and is a serious question. How serious are these people and the government about treating people as they ‘identify’? It would appear they are totally serious, therefore if identifying as another animal, i.e. not a human being, isn’t accepted as a reason not to pay tax, surely you could sue them for discrimination under The Equality Act 2010, and if not, why not?
As marriage is neither based on religion nor on permanence and freely entered-into unions can be ended on six months notice, without cause, by either party, why are marriages to animals or siblings not permitted.
This is NOT something I favour but I just wonder what is the logic and when will the animalists get around to making it lawful.
It seems like some of our vibrant diverse communities suffer from such insecurity that they cannot tolerate a small group of people having a different opinion.
Ironically when they say they don’t feel safe, I think actually they are telling the truth. They don’t feel safe because their world view is extremely fragile and in permanent danger of collapsing due to its inherent contractions.
At some point they might discover that the truth cannot be expelled even by the most skilled security guards.
I think all 50 people thrown out should claim compensation for the trauma of being evicted for holding a protected view under the Equality Act. Forcing the landlord to re-host the meeting would only give him extra sales. I would never wish to darken his woke doorstep again.
Brighton
All you need to know.
A grubby seedy and rather tatty town.
Who knew there were that many free-speechers in basket-case Brighton?
How can a belief be unlawful?