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The Gish gallop
This is the 3rd in my ‘time savers’ series, for activists who are horrified to see the same hollow arguments of the gender ideology cult doing the rounds again. Thanks to JH for drawing my attention to this one. As always seems to happen, an example turned up on a local page and exasperated a…
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A plague on both your houses
AirBnB and Amazon – which one do you reckon is doing the most harm to the world? Or, as I am feeling today, which one would you least want to touch with a barge-pole? Towards the end of last year, I spent several months trying to have a conversation with AirBnB about their alleged platforming…
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Unknowers trying to find out
Every now and then my blog loses a bunch of followers, and I look back at the last few articles to see who I’ve offended, and how. Occasionally, someone tells me, then I do a lot of thinking. I don’t get anywhere near everything right but for some reason, that doesn’t bother me the way…
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Not a single firefighter, police officer or soldier had come
“Nearly 20 minutes had passed since Huda and her staff had come across the burning bus … she and the UN nurses gently carried burned children to waiting volunteer cars…” The drivers would take the burn victims to “the nearest accessible hospital. For most of them, that was Ramallah. The hospitals in Jerusalem were far…
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The ageist, sexist woke v nasty old Billionairesses
Disclaimer first: I believe unequivocally that any government with its people’s interests at heart would run its finances in such a way that it would be impossible to become ‘super rich’. That said, two statistics stick in my mind. Number One: J K Rowling is, as far as I know, the only billionaire who’s ever…
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Sweet little UXB
Why am I tempted to say ‘this is a sweet little book’? It’s no such thing and anyway, I don’t say things like that but I’m trying to figure out how Xiaolu Guo has cunningly disguised an unusual and important piece of work as a sweet little book. The rare and quiet determination of someone…
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What to do about immigration
Okay, for the sake of argument, let’s do what politicians are always so keen for us to do – let’s worry about immigration. It is after all very sad that so many people are wandering the world, desperately looking for a safe place they can stay. People are moving around a lot in our times.…
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The night something broke
How did we get here? yes, corruption, yes, attacks on Corbyn, yes, failures by Corbyn — and the theft of the Labour Party but most of those tragic conversations on the left are leaving something out. Something huge. Here’s a flashback… Standing in the foyer at the 2019 Labour Party Women’s Conference in Telford, talking…
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The first principle of safe-guarding
I have seen this misrepresented or sidelined in dozens of conversations on soc media lately, just as it was last time the women’s rights issue was a hot topic. This is the point that’s ill-understood: Being told to stay away because of safeguarding is not a judgement on you. Take women’s refuges for example. They…
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Scurrilous sex scams
I am appalled by the dramatic nonsense being bandied around over this week’s judicial review about the Equality Act. It’s not just the gender ideology cultists, although they are out there spouting turbo-charged nonsense. It’s those MPs, journos and high-profile commentators who still, incredibly, write, speak and tweet on this topic with no regard for…
Kay Green 