Monday 11th March - Witch Burning In The 21st Century THE TELEGRAPH: It has been alleged that police recorded a ‘non-crime hate incident’ against JK Rowling, breaching government regulations on free speech. Last week, as part of a much longer discussion about women’s single-sex spaces,
Thank you JL. What a superb record of the insanity of our times. Anyone reading this in the future could only draw the conclusion ( we would hope) that we have collectively lost our minds. Scotland is fast tracking itself to follow the Tranada path…. soon to be happening here I fear, under Labour. As for the Greens, what a disgrace. A commenter on here, is staying in the Greens in order to try and change them from within. Good luck with that MsGabriel. You’ve got a stronger stomach than me. And as for the MPs who talked out a debate on the protection of women and children in order that ferrets and pets could discussed. I love animals but…..🤬 I can only repeat a phrase I keep hearing at the moment, about the times we’re living through- it’s the banality of evil.
I sort-of welcome that Scottish Hate Crime law because - while I feel for the individuals who'll be caught up in it - nothing is more effective at exposing ideological garbage than introducing it to reality. By trying to pretend a rapist in pink leggings is a woman, Sturgeon (accidentally) did a tremendous amount to raise awareness of the danger of pandering to ideology. This 'Hate Crime' bollocks will also end in humiliation for the handful of clowns who actually believe in it.
This is insanity. After seven and a half years of caring for a husband with Alzheimer’s I learned to deal with loss of reason and total unpredictability. Hated every minute of it but I survived and we will survive this. We are better than this.
Pretty dark times when politicians waste time in parliament so as not to hear legitimate concerns over children’s and young people’s health. Anyone who doesn’t want to hear out safeguarding concerns for kids doesn’t belong in public life. Pathetic self serving low life. Shame on them
Try again... The Scottish hate crime act includes belief. Therefore a woman who believes that sex is immutable and transwomen are men presenting as women should be able to report any IW who gives them grief and tries to call them out. Good enuff for the gander, good enuff fir the goose!
I would hope that the 'transgender identity' protected characteristic ( no 'sex' as a p.c included of course!!)and other appalling bits of the Scottish Act would be open to applications for declarations of incompatibility under article 9 ( freedom of conscience, religion and belief) and article 10 ( freedom of expression) of the Human Rights Act thus perhaps halting any prosecutions for the time being. Just a thought.
Oh Tranada!! If anyone has missed it Arty Morty has done a piece which shows just how bad it is!!!
Relieved to say that the Green Party of England & Wales (GPEW) has no connection with the Scottish Green party -- which sounds too far gone for any hope of dragging it back to sanity or decency.
However, after much trouble within GPEW's affiliated Green Party Women (GPW), with male transactivists fighting to control its Committee, there was a showdown outside last year's Brighton Conference: where the female transactivist co-chair of GPW tore down a Green Women's Declaration display outside the Conference Centre -- so they called the police.
An election of GPW Committee members was then declared invalid on spurious grounds, so all but two of the Committee resigned in protest: leaving two to arrange a further election. The Green Party Executive (GPEx, transactivist dominated) then shut down the GPW Committee completely: denying all former committee members access to GPW membership lists or emailing facilities.
So it looked like the end of GPW.
HOWEVER, Green Feminists UK -- a non-affiliated GC group of GPW members -- kept us all informed by email of what was happening. And, somehow or other, an election of new GPW Committee members was finally held: of all-GC candidates, with no competition between them. All were elected, but only just: by one vote in some instances: where the alternative had been to "Reopen Nominations".
Green Feminists UK instructs all signed-up GPW members how to vote at Conference on EVERY issue involving sex and gender: to try to ensure GC policies and elect GC candidates as party officers. And to exclude the transactivists by voting "Reopen Nominations" wherever there is no GC candidate to vote for.
This is organised resistance.
And the first of three court cases against GPEW for harassment and discrimination has been won, by Dr Shahrar Ali as a former Deputy Party Leader. He was the one who begged GC members to stay and fight back against transactivist capture of the party -- and not to leave (though many had already left).
So currently, Green Party Women's Committee is an all-Terf line-up: and we've won a court case too! With Emma Bateman next.
The "Trans" war seeps into the publishing industry too. The once credible Pluto Press who published John McMurtry, Guido G Preparata and Ted Honderich now serves up this:
“Rebecca Jane Morgan is a transfeminist and evangelical Christian, a historian of modern Britain, popular culture, and queer identities. Her PhD research at the University of Nottingham explores the history of trans politics in the UK since the 1970s.”
Sample the enlightening productivity of this himheritthem:
‘Compellingly explains the anti-trans alliance of radical feminists and conservative evangelicals. Intellectually rich yet accessible’
Pippa Catterall, Professor, University of Westminster and Chair of AIDS Memory UK
‘We live in a time when anti-trans politics is becoming increasingly dehumanising and dangerous. Reading this illuminating book will help the open-minded, open-hearted Christian reader hear, encounter, and love their trans neighbours. I learned much from this book’
David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer University
University professors, eh? Extolling the dear vulnerable “trans community” that doesn’t exist for the simple reason that “trans” is a fantastical puff of vapour.
So let’s have a further look at these distinguished alumni:
“David P. Gushee ... is a Christian ethicist, Baptist pastor, author, professor, and public intellectual. ...Gushee is most known for his activism in climate change, Torture, LGBT inclusion, and Post-evangelicalism.” (Wiki)
The usual roll call of phony cover causes. (And let’s not even go near “Post-evangelicalism”, no doubt another plastic gravy train network.)
“Pippa Poppy Catterall (born Peter Paul Catterall in 1961) is a British academic historian who, since 2016, has been Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster. Her research has focused on twentieth-century history and politics, the mass media, conflict studies and nationalism.” (Wiki)
Yes – note that “Pippa Poppy” was born “Peter Paul”. “Pippa” is not what “she” appears.
And if you have a look inside the Morgan book you will find a preface that reads like a hippie polymorphous orgy on speed, pushing that “bursting out of the bonds of repression” to an increasingly nebulous terminus whilst excoriating a list of villains listed under “evangelical” that is now pure Pavlovian reflex:
“So often, evangelical means cultural conformity and the suppression of diversity; it means Donald Trump; it means weird televangelists, doomsday preppers, and peddlers of quack medicine; it means vaccine scepticism; it means conspiracy theories;”
Anyone not comatose since 2020 can so easily see the technique and the paltry formula at work: “Vaccine scepticism” and “conspiracy theories”. The tacky political agenda is the true core of this 200+ page tome.
And skipping forward, we see the main text begins with an attack on Kellie Jay Keen who is mocked for “reciting the Golden Oldies” i.e. the perfectly rational objections to this totally fabricated trans ideology phrased as something for “old fuddies duddies”. The nomenclature of zappy “youth speak” passed off in sophomoric pseudo-analysis now embarrassingly pushed by a “prestigious” publisher.
But take heart. The Morgan book is listed as having one rating... which leads to a review that isn’t there! Meanwhile Helen Joyce’s Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality has 2,448 ratings ... which lead to actual reviews.
Linked below is my video reading of Catherine Robillard's poetic spring elegy, graciously written in comments on my channel. We are on the cusp of the wheels turning back the lies; be sure to take breaks to soak up the miracles of the natural world, the English spring, in Catherine's words:
To be fair to Willoughby in the CBB clip. He flounced off from the discussion where he was shouting about being a "real woman" in a typical female hissy fit. .. must have been his "time of the month".
Was it something I said, love?
"Yes... you bombarded me with facts and logic. I'm reporting you to the police for a "hate crime".
"Sorry about that, but I've got some tampons here to stick up your backside, because that's the nearest you'll get to menstruating for the past 30 years.".
Dear God ,JL ,I don't even know where to start !!. This dystopian nightmare just keeps getting worse and there seems to be very few people in authority left who still have intact brains and ANY sense of justice or fair play. I'm a Scottish woman and it breaks my heart to see my country's reputation dragged through the mud by the SNP / Green Party government but I vow to continue to speak the truth at all times. No way will I refer to a man as "she" ,no matter what. The police can't arrest everyone ,so we should ALL speak the Truth. As for " India " Willoughby ,he's a horrible misogynist and is jealous of JKR because she's a real woman ,unlike HIM. I'm beside myself with rage at this point and I can scarcely believe that taxpayers money is STILL funding these child mutilating CHARLATANS !! Thanks ,JL . Keep going 👍👏🙏x
I need to find the original poster which had the list on it. It listed bief along sude rekigion as it dies in tbe guidance for the Equslity Act, but since gender is not in tbe Equality Act, there needs to ve a looser interoretation of the Equakity Act that is an unintended consequence of the SNP! Audrey Nicoll wrote an interesting letter to the Chief Cobstqble. Cant save the link this am. But it is easy to find on Google. This is going to run and run until Police Scotland give up and go back to the goverment to say it is taking up too many of their resources. Tbe same blowhards will report over and ovee every time someone looks at them out of the corner of their eye or when they blow snot from their nose and someone takes exception. We can but hope there will be many cases of wasting police time built in...
Thank you JL. What a superb record of the insanity of our times. Anyone reading this in the future could only draw the conclusion ( we would hope) that we have collectively lost our minds. Scotland is fast tracking itself to follow the Tranada path…. soon to be happening here I fear, under Labour. As for the Greens, what a disgrace. A commenter on here, is staying in the Greens in order to try and change them from within. Good luck with that MsGabriel. You’ve got a stronger stomach than me. And as for the MPs who talked out a debate on the protection of women and children in order that ferrets and pets could discussed. I love animals but…..🤬 I can only repeat a phrase I keep hearing at the moment, about the times we’re living through- it’s the banality of evil.
Thank you JL.
I sort-of welcome that Scottish Hate Crime law because - while I feel for the individuals who'll be caught up in it - nothing is more effective at exposing ideological garbage than introducing it to reality. By trying to pretend a rapist in pink leggings is a woman, Sturgeon (accidentally) did a tremendous amount to raise awareness of the danger of pandering to ideology. This 'Hate Crime' bollocks will also end in humiliation for the handful of clowns who actually believe in it.
Thank you JL. Almost anything I can think of to say will just become a rant so I'm restraining myself.
You're a star for doing this. ❤️❤️❤️
This is insanity. After seven and a half years of caring for a husband with Alzheimer’s I learned to deal with loss of reason and total unpredictability. Hated every minute of it but I survived and we will survive this. We are better than this.
Pretty dark times when politicians waste time in parliament so as not to hear legitimate concerns over children’s and young people’s health. Anyone who doesn’t want to hear out safeguarding concerns for kids doesn’t belong in public life. Pathetic self serving low life. Shame on them
Make it stop, please!
Try again... The Scottish hate crime act includes belief. Therefore a woman who believes that sex is immutable and transwomen are men presenting as women should be able to report any IW who gives them grief and tries to call them out. Good enuff for the gander, good enuff fir the goose!
I weep for Scotland.
Whoa, what a marathon, JL, thanks as ever.
I would hope that the 'transgender identity' protected characteristic ( no 'sex' as a p.c included of course!!)and other appalling bits of the Scottish Act would be open to applications for declarations of incompatibility under article 9 ( freedom of conscience, religion and belief) and article 10 ( freedom of expression) of the Human Rights Act thus perhaps halting any prosecutions for the time being. Just a thought.
Oh Tranada!! If anyone has missed it Arty Morty has done a piece which shows just how bad it is!!!
https://artymorty.substack.com/p/a-couple-updates-re-canadas-online?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Appalled at what happened on Friday in the Commons - beneath contempt!
Thanks again
Dusty
Relieved to say that the Green Party of England & Wales (GPEW) has no connection with the Scottish Green party -- which sounds too far gone for any hope of dragging it back to sanity or decency.
However, after much trouble within GPEW's affiliated Green Party Women (GPW), with male transactivists fighting to control its Committee, there was a showdown outside last year's Brighton Conference: where the female transactivist co-chair of GPW tore down a Green Women's Declaration display outside the Conference Centre -- so they called the police.
An election of GPW Committee members was then declared invalid on spurious grounds, so all but two of the Committee resigned in protest: leaving two to arrange a further election. The Green Party Executive (GPEx, transactivist dominated) then shut down the GPW Committee completely: denying all former committee members access to GPW membership lists or emailing facilities.
So it looked like the end of GPW.
HOWEVER, Green Feminists UK -- a non-affiliated GC group of GPW members -- kept us all informed by email of what was happening. And, somehow or other, an election of new GPW Committee members was finally held: of all-GC candidates, with no competition between them. All were elected, but only just: by one vote in some instances: where the alternative had been to "Reopen Nominations".
Green Feminists UK instructs all signed-up GPW members how to vote at Conference on EVERY issue involving sex and gender: to try to ensure GC policies and elect GC candidates as party officers. And to exclude the transactivists by voting "Reopen Nominations" wherever there is no GC candidate to vote for.
This is organised resistance.
And the first of three court cases against GPEW for harassment and discrimination has been won, by Dr Shahrar Ali as a former Deputy Party Leader. He was the one who begged GC members to stay and fight back against transactivist capture of the party -- and not to leave (though many had already left).
So currently, Green Party Women's Committee is an all-Terf line-up: and we've won a court case too! With Emma Bateman next.
The "Trans" war seeps into the publishing industry too. The once credible Pluto Press who published John McMurtry, Guido G Preparata and Ted Honderich now serves up this:
https://www.plutobooks.com/author/rebecca-jane-morgan/
“Rebecca Jane Morgan is a transfeminist and evangelical Christian, a historian of modern Britain, popular culture, and queer identities. Her PhD research at the University of Nottingham explores the history of trans politics in the UK since the 1970s.”
Sample the enlightening productivity of this himheritthem:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gender-Heretics-Evangelicals-Feminists-Liberation/dp/0745349013
Grab a load of these reviews:
‘Compellingly explains the anti-trans alliance of radical feminists and conservative evangelicals. Intellectually rich yet accessible’
Pippa Catterall, Professor, University of Westminster and Chair of AIDS Memory UK
‘We live in a time when anti-trans politics is becoming increasingly dehumanising and dangerous. Reading this illuminating book will help the open-minded, open-hearted Christian reader hear, encounter, and love their trans neighbours. I learned much from this book’
David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer University
University professors, eh? Extolling the dear vulnerable “trans community” that doesn’t exist for the simple reason that “trans” is a fantastical puff of vapour.
So let’s have a further look at these distinguished alumni:
“David P. Gushee ... is a Christian ethicist, Baptist pastor, author, professor, and public intellectual. ...Gushee is most known for his activism in climate change, Torture, LGBT inclusion, and Post-evangelicalism.” (Wiki)
The usual roll call of phony cover causes. (And let’s not even go near “Post-evangelicalism”, no doubt another plastic gravy train network.)
“Pippa Poppy Catterall (born Peter Paul Catterall in 1961) is a British academic historian who, since 2016, has been Professor of History and Policy at the University of Westminster. Her research has focused on twentieth-century history and politics, the mass media, conflict studies and nationalism.” (Wiki)
Yes – note that “Pippa Poppy” was born “Peter Paul”. “Pippa” is not what “she” appears.
And if you have a look inside the Morgan book you will find a preface that reads like a hippie polymorphous orgy on speed, pushing that “bursting out of the bonds of repression” to an increasingly nebulous terminus whilst excoriating a list of villains listed under “evangelical” that is now pure Pavlovian reflex:
“So often, evangelical means cultural conformity and the suppression of diversity; it means Donald Trump; it means weird televangelists, doomsday preppers, and peddlers of quack medicine; it means vaccine scepticism; it means conspiracy theories;”
Anyone not comatose since 2020 can so easily see the technique and the paltry formula at work: “Vaccine scepticism” and “conspiracy theories”. The tacky political agenda is the true core of this 200+ page tome.
And skipping forward, we see the main text begins with an attack on Kellie Jay Keen who is mocked for “reciting the Golden Oldies” i.e. the perfectly rational objections to this totally fabricated trans ideology phrased as something for “old fuddies duddies”. The nomenclature of zappy “youth speak” passed off in sophomoric pseudo-analysis now embarrassingly pushed by a “prestigious” publisher.
But take heart. The Morgan book is listed as having one rating... which leads to a review that isn’t there! Meanwhile Helen Joyce’s Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality has 2,448 ratings ... which lead to actual reviews.
Linked below is my video reading of Catherine Robillard's poetic spring elegy, graciously written in comments on my channel. We are on the cusp of the wheels turning back the lies; be sure to take breaks to soak up the miracles of the natural world, the English spring, in Catherine's words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdZnQMaxAI&t=29s
To be fair to Willoughby in the CBB clip. He flounced off from the discussion where he was shouting about being a "real woman" in a typical female hissy fit. .. must have been his "time of the month".
Was it something I said, love?
"Yes... you bombarded me with facts and logic. I'm reporting you to the police for a "hate crime".
"Sorry about that, but I've got some tampons here to stick up your backside, because that's the nearest you'll get to menstruating for the past 30 years.".
Dear God ,JL ,I don't even know where to start !!. This dystopian nightmare just keeps getting worse and there seems to be very few people in authority left who still have intact brains and ANY sense of justice or fair play. I'm a Scottish woman and it breaks my heart to see my country's reputation dragged through the mud by the SNP / Green Party government but I vow to continue to speak the truth at all times. No way will I refer to a man as "she" ,no matter what. The police can't arrest everyone ,so we should ALL speak the Truth. As for " India " Willoughby ,he's a horrible misogynist and is jealous of JKR because she's a real woman ,unlike HIM. I'm beside myself with rage at this point and I can scarcely believe that taxpayers money is STILL funding these child mutilating CHARLATANS !! Thanks ,JL . Keep going 👍👏🙏x
Hi Dusty
I need to find the original poster which had the list on it. It listed bief along sude rekigion as it dies in tbe guidance for the Equslity Act, but since gender is not in tbe Equality Act, there needs to ve a looser interoretation of the Equakity Act that is an unintended consequence of the SNP! Audrey Nicoll wrote an interesting letter to the Chief Cobstqble. Cant save the link this am. But it is easy to find on Google. This is going to run and run until Police Scotland give up and go back to the goverment to say it is taking up too many of their resources. Tbe same blowhards will report over and ovee every time someone looks at them out of the corner of their eye or when they blow snot from their nose and someone takes exception. We can but hope there will be many cases of wasting police time built in...