Sadiq
Here is Sadiq Khan, newly elected Mayor of London, on the EU today: I believe being part of Europe will mean more jobs and opportunities for all Londoners and more trade, business and exports for our city. We also know … Continue reading Sadiq
Tag: freespeech
Naz
Hah! Farewell then, to the appalling, despicable, terrorist-sympathising[i], holocaust-denying[ii] Naz Shah, from her role as parliamentary aide to John McDonnell, and let’s hope that she gets dumped from the parliamentary select committee on anti-Semitism too! Exposed in her opinions by … Continue reading Naz
La-la-la
It’s never easy to hear bad news, and that’s true whether it’s bad news in a literal sense – some new atrocity or catastrophe on the ten o’clock bulletin, or something more local: some sinister diagnosis, or some shocking trauma suffered by friend or … Continue reading La-la-la
Mealy mouthed
The intemperate Matthew Doyle of Croydon, a man who clearly thinks that the link between Islam and Islamism is more direct and universal than many intelligent people are prepared to accept, reported on his own activism on the matter via … Continue reading Mealy mouthed
Brussels
There were bombs in Brussels today, and I’m not going to talk about it. I’m not going to post on social media about it, and I’m not going to change my profile picture so that it is overlaid with the … Continue reading Brussels
Terror
Terrorism is a scary subject. That’s mainly the point. In fact, that’s more or less all it is. Cancer is scary too, but that fear is a bit more justifiable. Rack up the deaths attributable to cancer in the UK … Continue reading Terror
Kesha
Court cases often make the news, it’s true. They excite polarised opinions, it’s true. But they tend to be criminal cases at the very least. It isn’t often that the outcome of an application for an interim injunction in a … Continue reading Kesha
Tatchell – Post script
After my earlier post about the no-platforming of gay and civil rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, I had the advantage of seeing him interviewed on Newsnight (from 32:00) opposite trans-activist Paris Lees, and this experience both settled some of my questions … Continue reading Tatchell – Post script
TERF wars
There are moments when you get that ‘then felt I like some watcher of the skies’ moment; you suddenly realise that there’s a whole world that you have never seen, and that you probably don’t understand. Sometimes it isn’t in … Continue reading TERF wars
Tatchell
So the latest victim of no-platforming is none other than veteran civil and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, proving that no one is sufficiently right-on not to fall foul of the current wave of student Stalinism, should it so happen … Continue reading Tatchell
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