Mick Hartley

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph on "how many progressives have become the very fascists they claim to deplore": :

There are people who will celebrate the murder of a father of two young children and still think themselves on the side of the angels.:

We have seen this play out in real time. The appalling killing of Charlie Kirk, a Right-wing influencer, key Trump supporter and the founder of the youth activist group Turning Point, has produced widespread shock and horror, and so it should.:

Others, though, have reacted with a smirking celebration of Kirk’s death.:

This is pure malevolence, dressed up in the form of chirpy memes and TikTok videos catapulted into the moral vacuum in which parts of the Left now operate. It is disgusting.

When they say no debate, they mean no debate.

The truth is that anyone who wants to debate or challenge Left-wing orthodoxy in Britain also faces risks, from losing their jobs to constant verbal abuse and serious physical threats. Women who are deemed “gender critical” receive threats of assault, rape and death. That has been my life for more than 10 years.

We have not been protected by the police or by parties of the Left. The brave MP Rosie Duffield, for instance, was warned not to go to the Labour Party conference because of such threats. Kathleen Stock had to attend debates with bodyguards.

The new parties of the hard-Left, the Greens and the Corbyn/Sultana effort, will not accept women members unless they agree that some men (those born male and who now claim to be female) are in fact women. This is the level of intolerance we have now reached.

The cheering at Kirk's murder has been particularly noticeable from trans activists, which makes the latest reports – that authorities found ammunition etched with “expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology” inside the killer's rifle – sound alarmingly plausible.