- “Scrapping of universities cancel culture law faces legal challenge” – The Free Speech Union has legally challenged the Education Secretary over her decision to scrap the Freedom of Speech Act, according to the Telegraph.
- “Protesters let off flares in Sunderland amid fears of fresh riot wave” – Sunderland protesters overturn a car before setting it alight, while others sprayed fire extinguisher foam and threw bricks at armed police officers, reports the Mail.
- “Southport stabbing suspect Axel Rudakubana starred in BBC advert” – Footage unearthed by MailOnline shows Axel Rudakubana, the aggressor in the stabbing incident on Monday, then aged 11, emerging from the Tardis in David Tennant’s trademark trenchcoat and tie.
- “Kemi Badenoch interview: We must stop pretending that integration is working” – In her first interview since announcing her leadership bid, Kemi Badenoch tells the Telegraph about her anti-identity politics and the future of the Tories.
- “The militant BMA is becoming an enemy of the people” – The BMA has obviously been captured by radical progressive ideology, saya Ella Whelan in Spiked.
- “Huw Edwards free to retire on £300,000-a-year BBC pension” – The former BBC broadcaster is entitled to a gold-plated, pension deal, according to the Telegraph.
- “Churchill would never have defended today’s ECHR” – Evil racist or champion of the international courts? The progressive Left cannot have it both ways, says Andrew Roberts in the Telegraph.
- “LGBT charity CEO used funds for first-class flights and $20k home office makeover” – LGBT activist Sarah Kate Ellis used funds for luxurious chalet, first-class flights and $20k home office makeover, New York Times investigation claims
- “Starmer shelves £1.3 billion supercomputer projects in blow to British tech” – Decision to cancel funding for Edinburgh facility and AI computing criticised as ‘short sighted‘, says the Telegraph.
- “How raw ambition blew up the unlikely alliance of Braverman, Jenrick and Tugendhat” – The trio formed a strong team in the Home Office, but the fight to become the next Conservative leader has shattered any unity, says the Telegraph.
- “The National Trust’s abuse of language” – In the Spectator, Jim Lawley documents the grammar and spelling errors on the National Trust website.
- “Is Farage already sick of being an MP?” – Nigel Farage was elected as MP for Clacton by a solid margin of 8,405, but doesn’t seem that interested in lighting up the commons, says Eliot Wilson the Spectator.
- “Imane Khelif’s next opponent shares incendiary picture portraying boxer as a ‘beast’” – Hungarian boxer Anna Luca Hamori says she is looking forward to taking on Imane Khelif – even if they’re genetically male, reports the Telegraph.
- “Second female boxer in tears after losing to ‘failed gender test‘” – Those watching the Olympics reacted in fury after a boxer who previously failed a gender test beat her opponent, says the Mail.
- “Ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine is moral necessity, says Justin Welby” – The Archbishop of Canterbury calls for U.K. to support United Nations court ruling that Israel is acting ‘unlawfully’, reports the Telegraph.
- “President Kamala would make Biden’s green energy madness look like nothing” – Goodbye U.S. oil and gas. Hello blackouts. If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election, it will be like having AOC in charge of energy, says David Blackman in the Telegraph.
- “All of us should join the Free Speech Union” – During an appearance on the Spiked podcast, historian David Starkey urges all everyone to join the Free Speech Union.
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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.