Mick Hartley

Brendan O'Neill at Spiked on Blair's latest dramatic intervention:

Here’s everything you need to know about Keir Starmer. When Rosie Duffield, one of his MPs, suggested only women have a cervix, he publicly denounced her. He gave her a Stalinoid dressing down as if she had deviated from some sacred doctrine. That is ‘not right’, he thundered. It is ‘something that shouldn’t be said’, he insisted. And yet when Tony Blair said similar this week – that only a woman ‘has a vagina’ – Starmer lauded him. ‘Tony’s right about that’, he gushed about his dear old chum.

How striking that he damns a woman and cheers a man for giving voice to the same idea. If only there was a word for that, for treating people differently depending on their sex, for rewarding men more highly than women for doing the same job. In this case, the job of reminding a world gone nuts that women and men have different bits.

This is the news that – ‘FINALLY’, in the words of the Daily Mail – Starmer has twigged that women don’t have cocks. Blair said in a magazine interview that he was ‘of the school that says, biologically, a woman is with a vagina and a man is with a penis’. The Telegraph asked Starmer what he thought of Blair’s comments. ‘He put it very well’, he said. ‘I agree with him on that.’

Didn't he just put it well? If only someone had told Starmer that earlier – what a lot of fuss and bother he'd have saved himself.