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La-la-la

April 2, 2016April 11, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

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

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Tatchell – Post script

February 22, 2016March 2, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

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

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TERF wars

February 17, 2016March 16, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

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

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Gender

February 3, 2016March 2, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

NB: Warning! Plural pronoun used as genderless here. Deal with it. There are probably a few thinking people still left who haven’t heard of the notion of non-binary gender, and they can be forgiven if they had perhaps come across … Continue reading Gender

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Integration

January 27, 2016March 2, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

Muslims aren’t like us. They won’t integrate. They will always be separate from us. They see the world differently from us. Deal with it. This is the advice of the former head of the Equality and Human Rights commission, Trevor … Continue reading Integration

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Make believe

January 17, 2016March 16, 2016 CabernetVoltaire

I’m in a play. I’ve done this before. It’s fun. There are other people in it with me. It works like this: I pretend to be someone else. It isn’t a real person I’m pretending to be, but a person … Continue reading Make believe

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