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The Green Party v Reality:

The Green Party was once, however briefly, a genuine refuge for people who believed that politics ought to be grounded in material reality: in the physical world, in measurable consequences, in science. It believed in ecosystems and feedback loops; in the hard logic of cause and effect. It understood that you cannot simply wish away inconvenient truths, whether those truths concern carbon emissions or the biological distinction between male and female human beings. That, at least, is what many of its founding members believed they had joined.

What they discovered instead is something altogether more alarming: a party leadership so in thrall to a well-funded ideological orthodoxy that it is prepared to break its

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Thinly veiled misogyny
By Ophelia Benson, March 7, 2026

The Green Party v Reality:

The Green Party was once, however briefly, a genuine refuge for people who believed that politics ought to be grounded in material reality: in the physical world, in measurable consequences, in science. It believed in ecosystems and feedback loops; in the hard logic of cause and effect. It understood that you cannot simply wish away inconvenient truths, whether those truths concern carbon emissions or the biological distinction between male and female human beings. That, at least, is what many of its founding members believed they had joined.

What they discovered instead is something altogether more alarming: a party leadership so in thrall to a well-funded ideological orthodoxy that it is prepared to break its

… Read the rest

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Thinly veiled misogyny 

The Green Party v Reality:

The Green Party was once, however briefly, a genuine refuge for people who believed that politics ought to be grounded in material reality: in the physical world, in measurable consequences, in science. It believed in ecosystems and feedback loops; in the hard logic of cause and effect. It understood that you cannot simply wish away inconvenient truths, whether those truths concern carbon emissions or the biological distinction between male and female human beings. That, at least, is what many of its founding members believed they had joined.

What they discovered instead is something altogether more alarming: a party leadership so in thrall to a well-funded ideological orthodoxy that it is prepared to break its

… Read the rest
Narcissist shares his story on Women’s Day 

Yes kids it’s International Women’s Day soooooooooo it’s time to talk about men!

He does. He actually does.

For International Women’s Day 2026, the Gazette has been speaking to women across the city. Here is Councillor Amy Kirkby Taylor’s contribution, in her own words.

I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to focus on here, my first thought was to focus on the barriers that women face in life, and how it feels to have them appearing in my life as I begin my transition. But this year’s Women’s Day theme is Give to Gain, and I want to return

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Move over, sluts 

Trans “activists” invade a women’s march on Women’s Day. Of course they do.

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Alarmed and distressed by questions 

I saw this

So I decided to seek information on this centre. On its home page you get enormous corporate Memphis balloon women and two headlines.

Run by women for all women.

We provide a supportive space to help all self-identifying women achieve their goals.

Got that? All women, by which they mean including the ones who are men. All self-identifying women, by which … Read the rest

Matching the instruments 

Tom Nichols explains that having a highly competent military in the hands of a highly incompetent idiot is not a good thing.

Strategy is about matching the instruments of national power—and especially military force—to the goals of national policy. The president and his team, however, have not enunciated an overarching goal for this war—or, more accurately, they have presented multiple goals and chosen among them almost randomly, depending on the day or the hour. This means that highly effective military operations are taking place in a strategic vacuum.

Worse, Donald Trump is now pointing to these missions as if the excellence with which they have been conducted somehow constitutes a strategy in itself. He appears so enthralled by the execution

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In wrong place 

Are they just impossibly stupid?

Starmer ‘in wrong place’ on trans rights, says Thornberry

Sir Keir Starmer has “ended up in the wrong place” on trans issues, Dame Emily Thornberry has said.

The senior Labour MP, who was Sir Keir’s shadow attorney general before the general election, claimed the party had not been “following our hearts” when it came to trans people.

So trans people=following hearts and women=not following hearts? Why would that be? Are women as a group strikingly unlovable? Or what? Please explain.

The Prime Minister’s public position on trans issues has significantly changed since he became leader of the Labour Party in 2020, backtracking last year on his previous stance that “trans women

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were fizzikkly SIKK 

Via Humans of Dewsbury:

A primary school teacher from Batley has caused uproar today after they refused to teach two 9 year olds who had dressed up as Harry Potter characters for World Book Day!

Ze Berry who does not use conventional pronouns and uses ‘Ze’ instead, says were [sic] physically SICK after seeing the two pupils walk into the classroom who were dressed as Harry Potter and Dobbie The Elf.

Despite parents of the children saying it was an insane overreaction, Ze Berry stood by her decision and said;

“JK Rowling is a transphobic bigot and any character she has created therefore has transphobic undertones which are not tolerated in the classroom.”

Ze Berry is a reasonablepeoplephobic bigot … Read the rest

Well, Johnny Well, Johnny 

He rates it? As one would rate a movie or a coffee shop? We’re grading these things now? Will there be tourism guides that rate the local wars for the convenience of tourists?

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You’ve been thinking 

Oh dear god.

Click play.

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Just days 

Huh. What a surprise. It turns out not to be easy to slap a country and make it do what you want.

Trump insists he’s willing to wage war on Iran “forever.”

But just days into the fight, many of those around him are already itching to get out.

Just days, eh? So what were they thinking just days ago? That Iran would go belly-up like a giggling puppy? That it would be a very fun day out and then all would go back to normal?

“It’s a political risk, no ands, ifs or buts,” one Trump adviser said of an attack that the president has forecast could continue for weeks. “Let’s just hope something doesn’t go really wrong. Because

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“Potential” doing a lot of work there 

There’s no other source for this, so treat it with caution. But if it’s real…hooboy.

If it’s real…I’m guessing the idea is that conservatives are more likely to defend and/or read Shakespeare and Chaucer and so on, but even so. Come on.

And Beowulf? It’s my bet that no one is likely to read Beowulf.… Read the rest

Grab nearest bucket 

Ewwwwwwwww

There isn’t enough bleach in the world. … Read the rest

Buhbye 

Noem out.

Trump on Thursday announced he was replacing Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, after the killing of two US citizens by immigration agents and mounting reports of her questionable personal conduct attracted bipartisan criticism.

After or because of?

A Republican former congresswoman and governor of South Dakota, Noem was considered a potential running mate for Trump as he sought re-election in 2024, but ultimately passed over after she admitted in a memoir to killing a dog she owned. The president instead nominated her to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the border patrol and other agencies that took to the streets of major US cities during Trump’s second term

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When crazy people 

Yes, we know.

We know. It’s even worse when crazy stupid corrupt sadistic ignorant impulsive conceited slobbery people have a nuclear weapon.

(What is it with the slobber? Possible symptom of dementia is one answer.)… Read the rest

We include you, get out 

And another thing about that gender-critical lawsuit. The final paragraph:

A spokeswoman for the Green Party said: “The Green Party always strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place. After careful consideration, we were unable to grant GWD a stall at our autumn conference 2025, for reasons we explained to them at the time. As this matter is now the subject of threatened court proceedings, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.”

Do they even see it? ““The Green Party always strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place, so we banish women who know which people are women.”

You can’t do both. You can’t preen yourself on how welcoming and inclusive you are and… Read the rest

Easy being green 

What is “Green” about banning and punishing women?

Green Party faces gender-critical group lawsuit over trans ‘witch-hunt’

The Green Party has been accused of carrying out a “witch-hunt” against people with gender-critical views after it allegedly refused to allow campaigners a stall at party conference.

Lawyers for Green Women’s Declaration claim the decision was “a deliberate and unlawful attempt to prevent women from expressing gender-critical views”.

Well what else would it be? That’s not a claim, it’s a definition.

The gender-critical group also plans to sue over the party’s definition of “queerphobia”, which rules it is transphobic to suggest trans women are “not real women”. In a pre-action letter sent last week, the group claimed the definition “precisely encapsulates a

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Told to cool off 

Oops.

Kelly Wilkinson was turned away from Southport police station and told to “cool off, give Brian a break” while seeking help just four days before her estranged husband, Brian Earl Johnston, burned her to death in 2021, an inquest has heard.

The allegation was made in an extraordinary 11th hour submission by the lawyer acting for her family as they successfully applied to adjourn the coronial inquiry to hear additional evidence about the allegation.

Their lawyer, Mitch Rawlings, said Queensland police’s claim during the inquest that 12 April 2021 was the last time Wilkinson engaged with police was false. He said that she also attended the police station on 16 April – four days before her murder –

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Guest post: There’s a smuggle going on here 

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Is versus labeled as.

Gender identity is a term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.

But where did this term come from? When did it emerge? And what material thing does it point to, if anything?

Thetan is also a term used by some people — namely, Scientologists — to describe their sense of who they are.

Indigo Child is another term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.

I could pick out a thousand terms various cults use to describe their deeply felt inner sense of self. The whole fucking point of religion is that it gives people deep feelings about … Read the rest

Wait WHO is stupid and incompetent? 

Ok that’s disgusting.

You know what else was stupid in Leavitt-world? Lend-lease! The US should have just let Hitler win!… Read the rest

Is versus labeled as 

I can’t even deal with this anymore. It’s too stupid.

The BBC asks from the pulpit:

What does trans mean and why is there a debate about transgender people’s rights?

Gosh, BBC, what fascinating questions. Please explain it all to us.

The UK Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological sex.

No, really?! Who knew? We thought it meant armadillo. No, ice cream soda. No, Lithuania. One of those, or something like them. Nothing to do with bibliological sekks.

What is biological sex?

The Supreme Court judgment used a simple definition of biological sex: it is the sex recorded at birth. The court said this is widely used

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