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I have never denied that people who call themselves trans exist and in the UK, they rightly have exactly the same rights as every other citizen. What you want is for women to lose their sex-based rights to accommodate men who say they're women. That's the conflict.
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ben2world retweeted
Suppose a female academic turned up to lecture with an enormous prosthetic phallus on display. Or in blackface? Would the college say 'free expression, nothing to see here.'? This stuff shouldn't be difficult.
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Patrick Stewart. Turned up so early and so unobtrusively to be a star in the reasonably priced car, we mistook him for a delivery driver and asked him to go round the back. Took his hat off and said, “But I’m the captain of the Enterprise”. Fucking nice guy.
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No one is challenging the existence of the infinite ways in which human misery and anxiety expresses itself. What many of us are challenging, is the notion that what a miserable and anxious child needs is irreversible, serious and unevidenced medical interventions.
Even Cass explicitly said she wasn't challenging the validity of trans identities. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health also recognises trans young people and cautions against the harms of a hostile environment.. I'll take their professional expertise.
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On Tuesday, Landsec shelved its £1.5bn plan for Lewisham Shopping Centre. Today, Goldsmiths has walked away from its planned Catford campus: 600+ students, a 10-year lease, millions of council investment. The Green Mayor @LiamShrivastava promised hope. Where is it for Catford?
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Landsec has pulled out of its £1.5bn investment in Lewisham shopping centre, citing Mayor @LiamShrivastava's Green administration's lack of support. 300+ affordable homes, jobs, a park and a music venue: gone. Our Group Leader @Ese_Journo has written to the Mayor 👇
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To announce my pronouns costs me an awful lot. It says that I comply with and offer fealty to a quasi religious ideology that direct harms the rights of women, the safety of children and the rule of law. I will not comply.
Just got an email from a press officer at the Cabinet Office who has her pronouns in her email signature along with a link to an article saying we should all be doing the same thing Is this the official position of the government? because if so I think we should know
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Congratulations to Carole Cadwalladr, @carolecadwalla, who together with colleagues first revealed this story.
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When the Guardian went on strike to protest the Observer sale, I became a de facto spokesperson. Later a Tortoise employee I’d never met wrote to me to cancel my 20-year contract. No goodbye & no pay-off. This is how they now take credit for my work..but write me out of the story
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ben2world retweeted
Sort your mess out @limebike - currently blocking the entire Tooley Street crossing outside London Bridge station. Greens/LibDem Coalition running Southwark Council want more of this…🤦🏻‍♂️
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Good news Jews. Victor is reassured
I was deeply troubled by the motion passed at Green Party conference yesterday, which I completely condemn. I have had conversations today with Southwark Green Party colleagues which I feel reassured by, and has led to this joint statement being released. 1/3
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ben2world retweeted
How did Southwark Green delegates vote at their conference? If they voted in favour of the motion this statement is void - and an insult to our local community.
Joint Administration statement against antisemitism southwark.gov.uk/news/2026/j…
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ben2world retweeted
Those of you who have, like me, knocked about on the Left for years, will recognize many of the anti-Zionists who have turned up in the GP. The same names and faces expelled from the Labour party, ex UCU activists, soixante-huitards from IS. There are new recruits but also the odd notorious Antisemite. This will be a victory night for them. And a devastating night for environmentalism
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Nearly all the billionaires queuing up to quit Britain and trash Britain funded Brexit, backed Brexit and conspired with the Brexit editors to push it over the line.... and now they abandon the very ship they holed...
Another Brexiteer trashing the country he helped wreck. An apology would be in order…
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These idiots praise trump who caused this and blame Labour who have nothing to do with it. Never bet against human stupidity
Well done Labour voters. It’s now £200 to fill up with diesel on my work van. Please let me know if you’re a Labour voter when you’re asking me for a job quote, as I will be sure to add at least £150 on as an expense for being an IDIOT.
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Replying to @dieworkwear
It's important for AI safety that the house be sold to someone with properly tailored outfit
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Dear the BBC News (UK). I see you forgot to add context to your clickbait again, so I'm here to help. Richard Tice is lying. The announcement was made on 25th March 2026 and states that it will apply from that date. NOT retrospective. NOT a change of rules. You're welcome.
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Trade Union members are patriotic Brits.
Labour received £100m’s and gave the Trade Unions exactly what they wanted vs two patriotic Brits that are so rich they don’t need or want anything from a political party.
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Be clear. Reform now has the resource to buy every billboard in the UK, blanket wall to wall advertising across written and broadcast media and saturation leafleting. The British will be blitzed into voting for the ultra right - against every best instinct. It is a dark moment.
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So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..." Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!
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