I look at the back of the tapestry now
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My old friend. It knew a time before the British Empire, the Tory Party, the Labour Party, the USA, the Maxim Gun, Marxism, the chainsaw. It may outlive them all.
We don't talk much. All it takes from me is protection. It's not folly to love a source of sense of perspective.
Those pushing the bill are going right to the heart of the safeguarding culture we've built over decades and saying guarding is harm and hurting is safe.
It's audacious. Thank you for standing up to it RD.
Thank you to @Telegraph for their strong campaign against the terrible #conversiontherapy Bill. And to these Labour colleagues for speaking out.
MPs urge Burnham to scrap trans bill
telegraph.co.uk/gift/5d88a34…
OUCH! Indeed. Rosie speaks the truth. DEI in theatre and dance gives some deserving people a chance, but cuts out the middle. If you're deserving and destitute, or well-heeled and well-connected - you can play. Everyone else has to push off. This is not well.
OUCH! Why did the arts embrace political activism and performative 'inclusion'? Because their leaders failed on social mobility - and they found a plaster to cover their shame. Wow - @RosieKayK2CO @Freedom_in_Arts doesn't hold back in our new episode! Links ⬇️
If you couldn't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it. You haven't read it. Not like you're asking me to read it. Push off.
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"The English" were a ruling class that is now gone. That's why it feels like no one is in charge now. What was the possession of "The English" is up for grabs.
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Like I say, I don't know - yet.
It's mysterious, a shift mythic.
When ministers of the National Government in 1940 thundered from the pulpit about "The British Race", they were not talking about black, brown or Jew.
So have we expanded our idea of who can be British? Like we've expanded our idea of who can be a woman? It's a mess. I dunno.
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I'm reading a book by Jolyon Maugham's father, David Benedictus. I have to say that the first paragraph suggests JM fully inherited his father's literary gift.
This is dark satire, indeed. The sun vomits itself into the sky then leaves a day in shreds. Jolly-dee.
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"Porn is ... more consistent than parents, more repeated than school"
Stark truth.
Gladwell wiffles his hands about his ears and says there are "two competing values".
Nope. It's not about values. Or even rights. It's about setting a limit to male desire. Heaven forfend!
In a very, very strong field, this is one of the stupidest things ever said in response to gender ideology.
“It’s irresolvable” - @Gladwell
They’re men. They compete in men’s sports & use men’s spaces. Men accommodate them.
There, solved it.
Hold your nerve, save your money, and stay where you are. If you're of any consequence, the world will come to you.
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This is well said, unanswerable.
What characteristics do all women share with men who insist they are women and demand we all comply, that we don't share with every other man?
What do we have in common with those men that necessitates we allow them into our intimate single sex spaces, to enter our sports and to use our services, that we don't have in common with every other man?
English cricket franchises owned by Indian businesses are *reluctant* to employ cricketers from Pakistan.
The ECB says robust anti-discrimination rules are in place. Let's see.
It could be marketing puff or the bar is real and will blow up into something serious.
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I realised someone thought "kicking over the traces" meant the same as "raking over the coals".
Although that itself assumes he knew what "raking over the coals" meant. Park bench time.
I didn't think it was possible to hate a mutation more than "begs the question" to mean "invites the question", but "free reign" narrowly pips it to the post
Any other pedants want to join me drinking on park benches and shaking your fist at clouds, I'm over here 🍷
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