Speaking of community leaders…
Put your hands together for…
the Green Party.
"We need a sporting and cultural boycott of all Israeli teams, like we saw for South African teams under apartheid."@MothinAli responds to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans being banned from attending a football game against Aston Villa. pic.twitter.com/5ltHl3woUj
— The Green Party (@TheGreenParty) October 17, 2025
I’ve been asking these questions for YEARS. It’s good to see others asking them.
What is a “community leader”? How do they get their mandate? To whom are they accountable? How can they be removed? And why are they always men?
— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) October 17, 2025
One more urgent question is how do we get the BBC to stop using it so relentlessly and so entirely without thought?… Read the rest
Originally a comment by Arcadia on Beneath his notice.
Malinauskas is in fact, my state Premier, so this feels personal, even though I’ve never been to jail.
I take issue with this: “ adding he would not characterise as “the number one priority” the issue of transgender women in female prisons”.
The persistent magical take on priorities. It is apparently simultaneously so low a priority that it need not be given any thought, while also such a high and urgent priority that they must turn prison policy upside down over it.
Let’s be honest, shall we? It is not a high priority to record on official documents what convicted prisoners think of their gender. It is not a high … Read the rest
Joan Smith on yet another protest against women talking:
… Read the restStudents at the London School of Economics (LSE) have tried to cancel a private meeting to discuss sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 attacks of 2023. The event went ahead last night with a heavy police presence as pro-Palestinian protesters chanted anti-Israel slogans outside the building. Inside, an Israeli lawyer spoke about the problem of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in several countries where women have been targeted by mass rape and other kinds of sexual assault.
Notably, one of the organisations calling for the meeting to be cancelled was a feminist society at the university. In an “open letter to LSE management”, they demanded that the “egregious”
World’s hugest woman wins another prize for his womanyness.
Will Thomas won the Voice of Inspiration Award last night at the 2025 Violet Visionary Awards, an event sponsored by the LA Dodgers.
Just an absolute joke we're still doing this. pic.twitter.com/PAhr7LJI7t
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) October 17, 2025
The ban is not universally admired.
… Read the restThe decision to ban fans of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a Europa League match in Birmingham has ignited a storm of criticism, underlining deep divisions over public safety, antisemitism, and political accountability.
The ban, recommended by Birmingham City Council’s Safety Advisory Group and supported by West Midlands Police, was labelled “utterly unacceptable” by Culture Minister Ian Murray and denounced as a “national disgrace” by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer condemned the ban, calling it the “wrong decision” and emphasising that the UK must actively combat antisemitism. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch warned that barring Maccabi Tel Aviv fans risks sending a “horrendous and shameful message” that Jews
In a landmark decision for trans rights, the High Court has ruled that a panel acted unlawfully in denying a trans man a gender recognition certificate because he was trying to conceive.
Ooooh they never, did they?! Those fiends! Imagine telling a woman she’s not a man merely because she’s trying to do what only a woman can do?!
… Read the restIn February, a gender recognition panel denied the man, whose identity is protected by an anonymity order and is referred to in the judgment as W, a gender recognition certificate. This was on the basis that he had been trying to conceive a child – concluding that this meant he was not living as a
How to deal with anti-Semitism: tell the Jews to get out.
Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns.
West Midlands police said it had classified the fixture as “high risk” based on “current intelligence and previous incidents, including violent clashes and hate crime offences that occurred during the 2024 Uefa Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam”.
The police said it believed the measure would “help mitigate risks to public safety” and that it remained “steadfast in our support of all affected communities, and reaffirm our zero-tolerance stance on hate crime in all its forms”.
I think … Read the rest
Unbelievable.
Thank you all who put the safety of Aston Villa fans, Birmingham residents snd the British public above the zionist and political pressure to let Israeli hooligans and terrorists run riot in our country. https://t.co/9TmdL1ZmbQ
— Iqbal Mohamed MP (@iqbalmohamedMP) October 16, 2025
… Read the restFans of Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns.
West Midlands police said it had classified the fixture as “high risk” based on “current intelligence and previous incidents, including violent clashes and hate crime offences that occurred during the 2024 Uefa Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam”.
The police said it
Today we learn that women’s safety is a niche issue that the bosses can’t be bothered to notice.
Premier Peter Malinauskas is resisting pressure to ban transgender women from female prisons in South Australia, labelling it a “niche issue” behind reducing reoffending and indigenous incarceration rates.
In an interview with The Advertiser, Mr Malinauskas said he had “not turned my mind to our policy pertaining to trans prisoners”. Mr Malinauskas repeated his early 2023 definition of a woman as “an adult female”, adding he would not characterise as “the number one priority” the issue of transgender women in female prisons.
Dude. It doesn’t need to be the number one priority. Saying it’s not the number one priority is not … Read the rest
The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere jumped by a record amount last year, amid growing concern that forests and other carbon “sponges” are starting to fail.
The amount pumped into the air by factories, power plants and vehicles was almost static last year, a report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) found.
However, the Geneva-based UN organisation said atmospheric concentrations of CO₂, the main driver of climate change, had increased by a record 3.5 parts per million (ppm). Between 2011 and 2020, the average rise was 2.4ppm a year. The finding, scientists said, raised the “scary” prospect of even more global warming.
Not doing it right. We want to go the other… Read the rest
Oh good, yet more vulgar ostentation, because we haven’t had enough of that yet. The mix of evil and ludicrous gets more nauseating every week.
Trump wants to build a triumphal arch across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, the latest in his efforts to make over the capital city in his style.
The so-called Arc de Trump would commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary next year and is reportedly being privately funded by Trump’s supporters.
Can we not? There’s enough of that already thanks to Trump’s previous riots in the gilt shop, we don’t need more.
… Read the restHis other second-term developments include a gilded makeover for the White House, paving over the Rose Garden and constructing a $25
Jolyon is furious.
The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month. pic.twitter.com/W5l7JALvul
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) October 15, 2025
Also in today, the EHRC offers legal advice.
… Read the restThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities, urging the UK government to ensure that accurate and up-to-date statutory guidance on the Equality Act 2010 is available to those that need it.
The EHRC provides expert advice on how to comply with the Equality Act and put the law into practice. On 4 September the
More on Michael O’Flaherty.
No country knows better than Ireland, the negative impact that Michael O’Flaherty has on women’s rights.
His influence over the Irish Govt resulted in the “most progressive” gender self ID model that the legislature could pass. They just stopped short of allowing babies to… pic.twitter.com/aIlZyHNmAt
— The Countess (@TheCountessIE) October 16, 2025
… Read the restHis influence over the Irish Govt resulted in the “most progressive” gender self ID model that the legislature could pass. They just stopped short of allowing babies to “transition” Irish Govt & media are controlled by aggressive trans NGOs who receive state funding. We have full state capture of this aggressive ideology marketed as “being kind to a vulnerable minority”.
@MichealMartinTD nominated O’Flaherty for
Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power. The nation’s leadership called the new rules “common sense” to help regulate a “very disruptive” press.
News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that would leave journalists vulnerable to expulsion if they sought to report on information — classified or otherwise — that had not been approved by Hegseth for release.
Yeah that’s not how that works.
… Read the restIt is unclear what practical impact the new rules will have, though news
They’re just children, barely out of nursery school.
JD Vance sought to downplay the revelation that leaders of a group called the Young Republicans exchanged hundreds of racist, sexist text messages – including one in which rape was called “epic”, and another in which someone wrote “I love Hitler” – as youthful indiscretions.
Vance, speaking on a new episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, the podcast run by colleagues of the late conservative activist, suggested that the participants in the leaked chats were much younger than they in fact are. Some of the participants are barely younger than the 41-year-old vice-president.
Right, and he’s just a baby too, so we can’t criticize him either. Have a heart.
… Read the rest“The reality
Oh dear. “Erase those other women but don’t you dare erase me!“
Woman who argued men could be women is upset a woman is being overlooked. The woman is herself of course. pic.twitter.com/jZ6ajANBR3
— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) October 14, 2025
We knew that already.
Scotland’s national library ‘caved in to activists’ by removing gender-critical book
Scotland’s national library removed a gender-critical book from an exhibition because it caved in to pressure from activist members of staff, an independent review has found.
The library removed The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, a collection of essays by feminists including JK Rowling and Joanna Cherry about their fight against Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID laws.
The book was selected to be included in an exhibition opening in June celebrating the library’s centenary, but was removed after pressure from the library’s LGBT staff network, which called it “hate speech”.
Let this be a lesson to you. Never ever give in to the LGBT staff network. … Read the rest
Leave no stone unturned in the quest to destroy women’s rights.
… Read the restThe equalities watchdog has withdrawn interim advice on how institutions should respond to the supreme court ruling on transgender rights, which some campaign groups said could effectively exclude trans people from many public spaces.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said the advice, published in April, shortly after that month’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only, had been taken down from its website.
In its place, the EHRC says organisations seeking to understand how to implement the ruling should “take specialist legal advice” ahead of the approval by parliament of the watchdog’s statutory guidance, submitted to
Chanting death threats now are we?
A University of Oxford student filmed allegedly chanting for Gaza to “put the Zios in the ground” at a pro-Palestinian march has been arrested.
Officers investigating chants at a Palestine Coalition demonstration in central London on Saturday arrested a 20-year-old-man on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, the Metropolitan Police said.
Videos appeared to show a man, who has been widely named as Samuel Williams, telling demonstrators that the chant had been “workshopped” in Oxford.
Oh well as long as they workshopped it that’s all right then. Due process etcetera.
… Read the restIn videos he appears to tell the crowd: “A steadfast and noble resistance in Palestine and in Gaza to look to, to be inspired by
