Iain Sankey
@IainSankey
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Retired Teacher Books History Writing Cats Critical Race Theory is racist, gender ideology is misogynistic and homophobic, Queer Theory is decadent.
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@MayorofLondon
Your use of the euphemism 'passed away' for a victim of murder does nothing but trivialise his death. It is an extremely poor choice of words under the circumstances.
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@Serena_Partrick
Sorry to hear this. It must be very unsettling for your father. What a horrible, dishonesdy, greedy landlady! Well done to your nephew and his neighbours for rallying round.
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I've come to the conclusion that the Gender Recognition Act of 2004 needs to be repealed. I understand that it was formulated out of kindness to a small minority, but it is colluding with fantasy and the effects on society that it has led to are malign and intolerable.
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@_katya_long
If your ideology depends on suppressing all ideas which contradict it then it's obviously an intellectual broken reed.
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Kemi Badenoch is being criticised for saying that some cultures are more valid than others. She is right. The 150 year UK campaign against slavery was an assertion of this principle. Should we have just allowed it to continue out of respect for other cultures? I think not.
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Just had a leaflet put through the door from the Green candidate for the post of London Mayor.
Can someone please tell me why they always have pink or purple hair?
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It's rare that I lose my temper these days, but pictures like this, all over Twitter, have made me very angry. Do these politicians actually understand the issues here? The implications for gay and lesbian children who might think they're 'in the wrong body' are horrendous.
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As a teacher who worked with mainly black students in London over the past 40 years, I am getting very tired of this constant refusal by politicians of all ethnicities and parties to tackle the issue of black-on-black violence in our cities. 1/6
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@guardianopinion
So child safeguarding is 'right wing' now? Okay. Let's hope for the sake of our children that everyone's 'right wing' then. 🙄
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@libsoftiktok
"Blood has no gender, baby!"
It's actually sexed, which is why you can tell if a baby is male or female via a blood test.
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The idea that anyone can change their sex is a delusion. Sex is an innate and immutable characteristic, like age, ethnicity and ancestry. There is no such thing as 'trans'.
There; I've said it.
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@Botanygeek
I feel really sorry for people who really are victims of racism when I see tweets like this. The way the word is used now to describe any view or opinion people do not agree with is ridiculous. The concept of racism is becoming debased through trivial overuse.
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@kwetoday
This has to be one of the silliest and least well thought out threads I have ever read on Twitter. Sex work is exploitative and totally unsafe on so many levels that the fact you could be suggesting it as an 'early career prospect' beggars belief.
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@Slatzism
@AskingQns191
Emergency court order required to put the poor child into care until some sane parents can be found.
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The C of E has just announced that there is 'no official definition' of a woman.
From now on, all copies of Genesis in England and Wales will be amended to read:
"And God created human beings; non-binary and of changing gender He created them..."
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The C of E has just announced that there is 'no official definition' of a woman.
In line with this, I expect the Book of Common Prayer burial service will shortly be re-written:
"Humans that are born of a birth parent hath but a short time to live..."
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@theneonrequiem
Children always identify with the main protagonist in children's films and stories, whether they are black, white, asian, hispanic, male, female, animal, bird, fish or alien. Bringing identity politics into it misses the point and spoils the magical make-believe.
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@Telegraph
Joan Smith, author of the feminist volume Misogynies, said: “Women and girls are entitled to reject stereotypes without losing our sex. “We didn’t have enough female role models to start with... And now a regressive ideology is trying to take them away.”
That's the truth.
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@OliLondonTV
@Riley_Gaines_
Absolutely disgusting that a university should lie in this way. There is nothing 'peaceful' or 'brave' about a mob bullying a single individual; the complete opposite, in fact. The only brave and peaceful person present was Riley Gaines.
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@PoliticsForAlI
@DailyMailUK
School uniform provides:
1. Equality
2. A sense of belonging / group identity
3. Fast identification of truants
4. A work mindset
5. A taste of future working life
6. A little discipline
7. The inability to show off fancy casual clothes
In other words, it's a good thing.
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@eleanorsalter
@Right_2Roam
Britain has never had racial segregation and does not have it today. There is nothing to stop non-white people visiting or living in the countryside. Making up imaginary 'racism' where it doesn't exist is divisive and very harmful to social cohesion.
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@BrianEskow
I taught in mixed schools for 40 years. Girls routinely have to put up with quite a lot from boys. Girls' toilets are a refuge from banter and harrassment. They are also required for dealing with menstruation issues and by Muslim girls to adjust their hair covering. So, no.
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@Jebadoo2
Rowling has sensibly ensured that she has complete control over film adaptations of her work, so they will have to find a replacement for Radcliffe, which serves him right.
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@eric_lang
The fact that you describe 'women' as 'non-men' might give you a clue about why. Absurd sexism.
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@Serena_Partrick
What an outstanding woman your mother is. I can tell that you are really proud of her; quite rightly too. Thank you for sharing some of her story.
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My account was suspended for a few hours because I stated a scientific fact. 🙄
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@FemmeLoves
I can see no difference between this radical trans 'cotton ceiling' idea and the more old-fashioned way some men used to speak about lesbians just needing a good 'seeing to' for them to become heterosexual women. Society has gone full circle back to misogyny and homophobia..
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I've been a voracious reader since my childhood. The first time I ever stayed up all night was to finish an Enid Blyton, aged 8. Not daring to tell my mother I'd not slept at all, I went to school as usual, but had great difficulty staying awake in class. 1/7
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@ChiefMI6
Speaking as a gay man, gazing up at rainbows doesn't strike me as the best focus for MI6.
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@HRC
'Living your truth' is fine so long as it does not harm others. Lia's 'truth' is harmful to female swimmers trying to compete against the unfair advantages Lia has.
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@WomenReadWomen
@PatzwaldtPetra
This is absurd. One of the first realisations I had when I knew I was gay was that I probably wouldn't be having any children and I haven't. Gay male couples desperate to be parents can adopt. It is not ethical to rent a woman's body for 9 months and buy her child.
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@them
Having stuffed my pockets with tampons for my female friends, perhaps I should also grab a first aid kit, some asthma inhalers, aspirin and maybe also a defibrillator for those in my circle whose health is not what it was?
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@andrewdoyle_com
@DiGada1
Having taught both books many times in mainly black London schools, the amount of meaningful discussion on racial issues which can be stimulated by them makes their removal from the curriculum completely counter-productive.
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@GBNEWS
The UK has black govt ministers, peers, MPs, councillors, judges, lawyers, bishops, clergy, business leaders, lecturers, teachers, doctors, police, full legal equality, equal suffrage and no history of segregation. It's one of the least racist countries in the world.
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@TheNorskaPaul
While his comment was perhaps a little sweeping and ill-advised, he should be able to state an opinion without being fired from his job, particularly from a university which is supposed to encourage freedom of thought. Taboo topics lead to educational mediocrity.
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It's my birthday today and I've reached the grand old age of 65, which means I'm now in the most elderly age bracket on most forms and questionnaires. Ah well... I feel quite lucky to have got this far 😀
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@Kali__Yuga__
The old saying, 'Cheats never prosper' obviously didn't see gender ideology coming... 🙄
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@ZubyMusic
@sophiacol
I saw a reply to her tweet with a packet of pasta with the Italian flag on it. The tweet said: 'I was horrified to find this symbol of Italian nationalism on my pasta, reminding me of the horrific fascism of Mussolini in the 1930s...' 🤣
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@vagina_museum
The language you propose is not 'gender-neutral', it's 'sex-neutral'. Fine for professions such as 'firefighter' or 'police officer', but deeply sexist for things exclusive to women, such as vagina, menstruation or motherhood. Stop erasing half of humanity from our language!
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@Alias_Rosie
@femaleisbiolog1
The use of clinically inaccurate and vague language like this is actually potentially dangerous to women. I'm totally disgusted. The terms remind me of prudish euphemisms that a Victorian doctor might use.
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BBC News website has no less than SEVEN negative stories on Boris today (it was 6 yesterday). I'm no great fan of the man, but surely the BBC needs to give it a rest? This contant twisting of the knife is starting to look suspiciously obsessive.
@BBCNews
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Much as people criticise social media, I have to say that if I wasn't on Twitter, I wouldn't even know about the present unrest in South Africa or some European countries. There is almost nothing on the BBC about it. It was the same with the unrest in the US last year, too.
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@KellGardner
@LoneGeorgie
How would he know that the dog was tied to the track unless he had done it himself? Why would you do that? Also, the timing is so close to disaster, rather like a movie. I smell a big rat with this one.
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Cadbury's was originally founded by a Quaker family, as were many other British sweet manufacturers. Renaming your Easter eggs 'Gesture eggs' is an insult to them and to all Christians living in this country today. An empty, soulless gesture, in fact.
@CadburyUK
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@guardian
To all those on here continuing the abuse of JKR, please let us have one concrete example of something she said that was hateful. I'll wait...
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I sometimes think that modern society is trawling history to resurrect the most appalling practices it possibly can. Making young men into eunuchs is back, along with corsets for young women (aka chest binders). What next? Slavery? Gladatorial combat to the death?
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@flaminhaystacks
My lovely mother died of ovarian cancer too and it was certainly not caused by 'sleeping around'. Not that that should be an issue. What a disgusting thing to say!
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@bindelj
A trumped up charge of anti-semitism simply because she agreed with Lineham that Izzard was outrageous to suggest that he would have been a Nazi victim in the 1930s. If Labour had any integrity, they would criticise Izzard for trivialising and appropriating the Holocaust.
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Sadly, some people never reach that effortless stage, so reading is always a boring chore. I can quite understand why they might find it very tedious; decoding is. Like languages, it's best learnt as early as possible. Teaching reading is the best gift a parent can give. 7/7
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@AllianceLGB
Shameful filibustering to avoid debating a bill because they don't like the MP who introduced it. No wonder people in the UK are becoming completely disillusioned with our 'democracy' and the shameful political representatives we seem to be saddled with.
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@GBNEWS
No it hasn't. It's caused 'outrage' among upper middle class virtue signalling luvvies.
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@Cambridge_Uni
@HSBC_UK
Even Cecil Rhodes, so villified by anti-racists, opened his world famous scholarship to people of every ethnicity. If it was a white artist giving money to fund a scholarship for white youths only, that person would rightly be condemned as racist.
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@YardleyShooting
@BBC
You are absolutely correct. BBC bias is not even subtle these days. Every news, current affairs, documentary and even quiz and comedy shows are all pumping out the same blatant identity politics / critical race theory narrative. They fail to inform, educate or entertain.
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Queue-jumping is one of the cardinal sins of British life; right up there with 'making a fuss', 'causing a scene', 'complaining to the waiter' or standing on the left side of the escalator.
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When I was a child, advent calendars didn't have sweets or chocolates in them. The excitement was seeing the picture behind the door and knowing you were one day closer to Christmas. I guess we were more easily pleased, back then 🤣
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@holmescnn
What saddens me about this is that she is just an ordinary person who felt impelled to do something illegal like storming the Capitol. The fact that she actually went out and did this means that there is something very fundamentally wrong with US society at the moment.
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@Finn_Mackay
Almost everyone in this thread is asking what rights you don't have, Finn. Are you going to answer at some point? While you're there, what happened to my right not to be called 'queer'?
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@sleeepysandy
@dinahbrand2
@SimonBelfield
@GSpellchecker
What we need is more suffragette statues. I suggest dotting about 20 in each city, 5 in every town and 1 per village. That would get these weirdoes outside in the fresh air and off the internet for a change. 🤣
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@WasiqUK
People who have never owned slaves apologising to people who have never been slaves. 🙄
Looking forward to having my feet kissed by some Italians for what their Roman ancestors did to my people...
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@AjaTheEmpress
I just replied to her with this:
I usually agree with you Allison, but:
1. No one in the UK today has been a slave or a slaver.
2. Some white people fought against slavery.
3. Some black people colluded with it.
4. White people were slaves too.
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@HelenWebberley
These are essential life-saving treatments. 'Gender reassignment' is unnecessary and ultimately futile medical butchery which ruins lives rather than saving them. Actual sex change is impossible. Be honest and please stop twisting the truth!
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@MayorofLondon
I await your further tweets on the numbers of women and black youths who have died as a result of violence in the city you claim to run. I think you'll find that far more of them have been murdered on your watch than trans people.
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@bindelj
Until quite recently, 'woman exposes penis' would have been called a contradiction in terms or even a paradox. When language loses its meaning like this, nothing means anything anymore.
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I end by saying that I really hope our society prefers to see happy young gay men and lesbians living healthy lives with the capacity to experience orgasm and have children if they wish, rather than pushing them into being 'corrected' to fit with heterosexual 'norms'.
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@AudreySuffolk
@MrsKrabapple
I was working as an openly gay teacher when Section 28 became law. I'm pleased to say that my school ignored it. There is a huge difference between that law's total ban on mentioning homosexuality and today's call for impartiality. To compare them is ridiculous hyperbole.
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@Haytham_MG
I'm not sure what point this man is trying to make. Any educated person knows what Christians did in Medieval times. The point is that they stopped doing this after the 17th century whereas many Muslims continue to commit atrocities today.
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@marclamonthill
What 'rattles' people are untrue statements. Sex change is impossible. Hairstyles, make-up, tattoos, clothes and even genital surgery do not change our sex. Women who lose their breasts and / or wombs due to disease are still women.
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@addicted2newz
Diane's attitude is part of the reason why black on black crime is not being properly tackled in the UK. Everyone is scared to delve into the underlying reasons for it because they are scared of being labelled as 'racist'. How many young people must die before this stops?
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@JoeDanMedia
Watching this as a UK teacher who taught in mainly black schools for 40 years, I feel a huge sense of sadness. Critical race theory falsely separates and divides society into victims and oppressors simply due to their skin colour. That is no way to build a healthy society.
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@MForstater
The psychologist described the prisoner as so "nacissistic, compulsive, aggressive, violent and sadistic," that he would be more trouble if 'thwarted' by being kept in the men's prison. Wow!
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I wish I'd known about this before I retired. I'd have got my students all to identify as silent, calm animals with good listening skills. Possibly giraffes? 😀
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@xxclusionary
I'm an English teacher who taught about pronouns. The dfifference is, I taught children how to use them grammatically, not in a silly, conceited way to draw attention to myself.
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Ooh, I'm excited! I've just been added to a list called 'Transphobic Trash'.
Apparently, it's very easy to get onto. You just have to tweet a bit of common sense or scientific fact. It also helps if you care about the rights of women, gay men and lesbians too.
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@GBNEWS
During my long teaching career, I was called 'Sir' by the children and, occasionally, 'Miss' if they hadn't woken up yet. These formal titles are necessary to preserve distance and to maintain a professional working relationship. Get rid of them and it will end in tears.
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@MrMennoTweets
British prisons were mixed sex until 1824, when the Gaols Act was passed separating the sexes. Elizabeth Fry and other campaigners for the Act knew that female prisoners were being assaulted, raped and made pregnant. Incredible that 200 years later people can think that's okay.
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@OkBiology
@big_figgot
He's absolutely right. Good to hear an intelligent drag queen talking total sense and proving he understands child safeguarding and responsible parenting.
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@JamesEsses
@PEMcNeil
It's all humbug. Language being twisted away from its original meaning to satisfy the fantasies of a tiny minority of people. The result is meaningless, box-ticking, infantile prattle which cancels women and their unique health issues and experiences.
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@ReduxxMag
A total travesty. This effectively puts Australian lesbians back to the 1950s; having to meet in secret in case they get unwelcome attention from men dressed as women demanding inclusion.
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@kimcollison
@TomSyvret
The sad thing is that everyone in Britain loved her at first. The wedding was celebrated almost everywhere. People were pleased that the royal family was getting more diverse. If it's all gone sour, it's due to her actions and words; nothing else, and certainly not racism.
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@HomoLittlest
@jameelajamil
I'm pretty sure she's wrong about this anyway. Puberty blockers were not prescribed for 'early, heavy periods'. Surely she is confusing blockers with the contraceptive pill?
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@neilfawcett
@francesbarber13
A ridiculous, failed analogy. It's like saying that sleeping on the streets is as safe and warm as sleeping in your own bed. Absurd.
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@DavidSevern7
@laurenpattison
My grandparents had exactly the same set-up in their tiny house. The front room was only ever used when visitors (not relatives) called. The minister was always shown in there as was the doctor. It was kept scrupulously clean and had all their best things in it.
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A child or teenager who is confused about their 'gender' is most likely autistic or gay / lesbian or both. Surely, the first step in helping them should be counselling and therapy? Not merely saying "Yes! You're right! You must be trans and in the wrong body!"
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Noticing how filthy my 25 y/o old kitchen Roberts radio was, I tried to clean it, but it was so coated with grease that I gave up and chucked it in the recycle bin. Checked on Amazon for a new one. £160! 😱 Out to the bin to retrieve the old one. I'll clean it somehow... 🤣
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Strangely, the BBC news webpage has nothing about Eddie Izzard's failure to gain selection as the Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion. I wonder why that might be? They often feature him and people have been talking about the story on here since midday.
🤔🤐
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@NeepsnTatties
@CostaCoffee
Totally unfair and unacceptable
@CostaCoffee
You can't enhance the rights of a few at the expense of half of humanity.
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@sally_hines
This is not only absurd, but trivialises an extremely serious crime. You might as well say that some murders are 'bad arguments', or that child abuse was 'bad parenting'. Dangerous nonsense.
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@eternalmoonshne
Woke white people in the US are so hyped up with guilt for 'past wrongs' that they seem to feel a desperate need to kneel and abase themselves before various identity politics totems. It saves them having to pay taxes for any actual social reforms, of course...
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We need to cut through these simplistic platitudes and labels and work together as a united community to figure out what the true, likely complex, underlying reasons for this gang culture are. The present 'ostrich' approach isn't working. 6/6
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@SiobhanBenita
Why hate it? Many people in the world would love to have a British passport, so count your blessings...
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@peytonology
It is never a good idea to impose today's zeitgeist onto the dead. Rebelling against or acting outside traditional gender stereotypes does not make people 'trans'. You might as well say that Boudicca was trans because she personally fought in wars. It's ridiculous.
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@JuliaHB1
@Grumpy40274816
@Waterstones
I think that you need to consider the staff working in Waterstones, who are carrying out their jobs for a great deal less financial remuneration than you.
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@stuartf100
@MyahaQueenie171
@piersmorgan
Doing what they generally do on Twitter; make an outrageously untrue statement and then childishly shout down any reasoned argument with baseless 'hate' accusations. I'm glad people are starting to see what they're really like.
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@Locati0ns
@dannicmac
Yes, but Rome fell, after which Constantinople became the Roman capital for the next 1000 years and the last place on Earth where Roman law and culture still survived. 😀
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