Nicola 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Hatred is what happens when life hasn’t given you enough to be proud of. So you borrow someone else’s fear and call it conviction.
Get a hobby. Get a friend. Get a life.
The rest of us are busy building something.

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If you spend your evenings round the table talking about immigrants and refugees let me be honest with you. That’s not passion. That’s emptiness.
People with full lives don’t do that. People with love in them don’t do that. People with something to show for themselves don’t do that.

Eni Aluko wins Joey Barton libel case over X posts The court heard how Joey Barton published dozens of posts relating to former footballer and pundit Eni Aluko [Credit: PA Media]

What a truly delightful end to the day.

I shall be clinking a glass of Meerlust to Ms Aluko for this well deserved victory.

Don’t you just love it when entitled dickheads have to face the consequences of their misogynistic, blatantly racist campaigns of hate?

Deee-licious.

Cheshire Women’s Institute branch to close in solidarity with trans women A Cheshire Women’s Institute branch has announced it will close at the end of March after members voted overwhelmingly to suspend the group in protest at the national organisation’s exclusion of trans...

So sad, and so unnecessary. We offered a legal indemnity, against all legal risks, to the leadership of Women's Institute, and Girlguiding, so they could continue to include all women.

Both declined.

The idea that opposing and rolling back trans rights is good for cis women and girls is ludicrous on every level and absolutely enraging when applied in legislation and policy that obviously limits and rolls backs rights for ALL women and girls

Oh, heck. These could be dangerous! 🤤

I can imagine. I've seen what a vicious, vindictive little bitch he can be.

You're blocked by Jimmy Detritus? Nice one!

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

The National Theatre will stream The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa for free. The performance from the winter 2024/25 run will be on YouTube from 12 March. A watch-along premiere will be at 7pm GMT, during which viewers will have the opportunity to interact through chat/polls. 👜

She did, and I promptly unfollowed her.

In his interview with Sayeeda Warsi, Nick Robinson said: "he gives an example of where in another area, the debate about trans rights, you end up with police arresting a man at an airport for allegedly being anti-trans, something I think almost no one defends now." Robinson was referring back to comments made by Jonathan Hall KC ("do you remember the non-crime hate incidents, the arrest of Graham Linehan.") As the BBC's own reporting (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07p7v2nn8mo) makes clear Linehan was arrested "on suspicion of inciting violence" for a tweet which read "If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls" and he went on to add "I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. Fuck em.” Both Nick Robinson's description of the reason for Linehan's arrest ; and his description of Linehan's attitude towards trans people, are grossly inaccurate. Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inviting violence and he could hardly have been more explicit about how he feels about trans people.

I've made a further complaint to the BBC about the hideously bigoted - and inaccurate - Radio 4 Today programme.

With news that Joey Barton has been arrested and charged with yet another serious assault, on top of numerous other incidents (including being convicted for kicking his wife in the head) a reminder that not a single "gender critical" activist expressed distaste at Graham Linehan doing his podcast.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I wrote this piece just five days ago - predicting Trump would walk away and leave everyone else to clear up his mess ….and here we are - concluding extract below:

Private clinics must follow NHS and ban child gender drugs The Daily Telegraph10 Mar 2026By Michael Searles DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR Wes Streeting ordered a review into gender hormone treatments last year WES STREETING has been told to ban private prescriptions of cross-sex hormones to children. The NHS said yesterday that it would stop prescribing the drugs to gender-questioning under-18s because the “available evidence does not support the continued use” of them. A group bringing legal action to secure a ban welcomed the NHS decision but said it would be an “abdication of responsibility” if the Health Secretary allowed private clinics to continue providing them. The drugs, also known as gender-affirming hormones, are now mostly obtained by children and their families from private clinics and online, often unregulated, markets. Mr Streeting announced a review of the medication last May, but no details have been published and private clinics continue to supply them. Legal action to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s was halted last year in order to give time for this review to be undertaken. However, those behind that challenge are set to issue proceedings once again this week, it is understood, almost one year later. Cross-sex hormones include testosterone and oestrogen, which are taken to help someone change their physical appearance to align with their desired gender, such as by growing hair or breasts. They are different to puberty blockers, which suppress the hormones that support a child’s body and brain to develop into an adult. Paul Conrathe, partner at Conrathe Gardner LLP, which is representing the claimants in this case, told The Telegraph the NHS decision was “overdue”. “While protecting teenagers treated in the NHS, it leaves others vulnerable to treatment from gender activists in the private sector. It would now be irrational and an abdication of the Secretary of State’s responsibility for him to allow private providers to continue to prescri

As expected, they are going after private clinics again [Telegraph]

Paul Conrathe.

There's something particularly grotesque about admitting that you commit war crimes for shits and giggles.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday said the Israeli military unlawfully fired white phosphorus munitions in the town of Yohmor in southern Lebanon. The highly toxic white phosphorus can be used by militaries to obscure operations and is not listed a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), but use of it against humans in a civilian setting is considered a violation of Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCCW).

The IDF just compulsively does war crimes.

It's like they're playing bingo with human rights law. Trying to tick off a full row of ways to murder innocent civilians and forgetting they already filled three.

That is an ~appalling~ pun, James! 😂 Great choice of track, though!

Only @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social could include the word masturbatin' in a song and get away with it.

Pitch-perfect, as ever.

I spent WAY too long making this.

The Eclegraph Log in Q News Iran crisis Sport Business Money See all News Iran war LIVE Latest updates LIvE Markets Expats fleeing Dubai abandon pets in scramble to leave Travel restrictions and costs force animal owners to take drastic action as Iran targets Gulf states Tr

Two points:

1. They’re not “expats” they’re “migrants.”

2. Them abandoning their pets will hopefully give each and every one of these people just a little bit of insight into the incredibly hard decisions refugees have to make when they’re fleeing war zones.

Genocide Joyce is probably too busy celebrating the ban on puberty blockers for trans children. 🤬

This really highlights the hypocrisy of the Gender Critical.

They care nothing for women despite pretending to defend women from the non-existent threat of trans people.

Has Rowling condemned the abusive actions of these Gender Critical men acting on their behalf?

Has H Joyce? Have any of them?

Russia very suspiciously missing from this particular list.

Is there perhaps something that Senator Scott isn’t telling us?

The Gender Critical are anti-women.

They are:

Anti-bodily bodily autonomy for women.

Gate keepers of the female body

They frequently body shame and bully women who don't fit their very narrow definition of "Woman ".

They boost misogynistic men, who champion and amplify their hate.

Just leave it to the women, lads

If you’re a Labour MP who doesn’t want to be called transphobic or be tarred with the bigoted stench this Labour government’s policies leave behind?

Leave Trans kids alone you absolute freaks.

💕🫂

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name