Further to that Scope cancellation of the Singing Striders…
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More on Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart from Milli Hill:
I do spend a lot of my time telling myself and other women that we should speak with more confidence – because, after all, men do – but when I listen to Alastair and Rory, I find myself thinking that there is definitely a sweet spot for self-belief that they have massively over shot. Their arrogance and self-congratulatory chin-rubbing knows no bounds, particularly on the gender issue, about which they don’t seem to have consulted a single woman, apart from Campbell’s daughter, Grace, who has gone on record to state that the older women who campaigned for the Supreme Court judgment are, ‘uggerly’ and ‘freeaks’.
Campbell and Stewart are the type of men I like to call, ‘walking radio stations’, always on transmit, never on receive; the kind who if you met them at a party would go home for the night safe in the belief that they had been at their most scintillating best, oblivious to the fact they know precisely nothing about a single woman they’ve spoken to.
Seems about right.
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It was a test of the moral and epistemic integrity of that class — a test that those who administered the test knew the takers would fail. Can we make you contort yourself to believe self-evident nonsense and join in treating those who don’t also lobotomize themselves as hated pariahs?
Yes, yes we can.
Yes, that Sarah McBride, last seen talking with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart – a pair of nodding donkeys – about how horrid women are in not letting men use their spaces.
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Another charity, another cancellation for gender-critical – sex realist – views. From the Telegraph:
A choir has been dropped from the London Marathon over a member’s gender-critical views.
The Singing Striders are frequently booked to stand on the sidelines and raise the spirits of runners, and the group had been invited to support the upcoming marathon by Scope, a leading disability charity.
However, the amateur ensemble was dropped because a single member had been critical of gender ideology.
This is the view that gender is defined by self-identification, rather than biological sex, meaning that those born male can become women.
Janet Murray, the choir founder, was informed that her opposition to this worldview went against Scope’s “commitment to diversity and inclusion”.
Charity bosses also told her “we are concerned about your views because we don’t agree with your views”.
As a writer and journalist, Murray has publicly expressed concerns about the inclusion of biological males in women’s sports and organisations such as Girlguiding.
It is understood that the decision to cancel the choir, which was to perform for no fee, came after Scope received two anonymous complaints about these opinions.
How pathetic.
Added:
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What never happens has happened again.
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Owen Jones takes another step down into the pit of antisemitic conspiracies – which is, let’s face it, where he’s been heading for years. From the JC:
Left-wing commentator Owen Jones has shared claims that IDF soldiers are training dogs to rape Palestinian detainees.
The allegation has gained significant traction on social media in recent days after it was promulgated by Israeli-American activist Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, who claimed to have been informed of the practice by guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility.
Following up on the claims, Guardian columnist Jones published an article on his own website titled: “Israel is raping Palestinians with dogs.”
The piece includes a testimony from a 35-year-old Palestinian, named as Amir, who was reportedly an ex-inmate at Sde Teiman
“I was detained in Sde Teiman. They took a group of detainees and me to a corridor between the sections and forced us to strip completely naked,” he said.
“The soldiers brought in several dogs. One of them urinated on me. One of the dogs then raped me, penetrated my anus in a trained manner while I was being beaten. This continued for several minutes. I felt profoundly humiliated and violated.”
Jones’ article also includes several other testimonies.
He posted the article on his X account to his one million followers and as of Friday (April 24), it had been viewed over 100,000 times.
Right.
They make this shit up, Owen. They really do. It’s basically taqiyya. For idiot western journalists.
Has he signed up for the Greens yet?
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At the Isabella Plantation, Richmond Park:
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Gosh, another Green candidate with demented views on Israel. It’s almost like it’s a requirement now. From the JC:
The Green Party has put forward a local election candidate who they previously dropped after he suggested Israel may have paid Hamas to commit the October 7 attack.
Joe Belcher, who is standing for the Rushall-Shelfield seat in the town, was suspended by the party and blocked from running as MP for the West Midlands seat of Aldridge-Brownhills in the 2024 general election.
This came after a series of anti-Israel social media posts came to light including a post from November 2024 in which Belcher questioned why Hamas would have “sold their people down the river” by attacking Israel.
“Why would Hamas commanders order October 7 to then have their territory destroyed and their people killed or displaced from Gaza?” he asked.
“For money? If so, who offered them this money? The Israel government?”
Belcher continued: “It’s certainly convenient now that Israel can attempt to justify wiping out Palestinians from Gaza and to claim Gaza as Israel.
“Why would they do that? To claim rights over the oil and gas reserves in Gazan waters and to clear the way to create the Ben Gurion Canal through Gaza?”
The suggestion that a canal could be dug between the Gulf of Arabia and the Mediterranean Sea to serve as an alternative to the Suez Canal was suggested in a policy paper produced for the US Department of Energy in 1963.
In a separate message posted in 2023, shortly after the attack, Belcher wrote: “My hunch is that the October 7 attack was paid for by Netanyahu and/or the West. In order to wipe out Gaza to claim Gaza along with Gazan waters as Israel’s.
“Gazan waters hold billions of dollars worth of oil and gas.”
In a further post he added: “My hunch is the leaders of Israel, and Gaza conspired to carry out what happened on October 7 for financial gain. But I don’t have any proof. This is why it remains a hunch and nothing more.”
In a separate post uncovered by the Daily Mail, Belcher shared a post claiming that Isis had been run by a Mossad agent.
In another X post, Belcher shared a video titled, “Louis Farrakhan Exposes Rothschild Bankers”.
He was blocked back when the Greens didn’t welcome antisemitic nutters into the party. They had standards. That’s all changed now, under Zack Polanski.
See here for more on the Ben Gurion canal.
The Ben Gurion Canal was a project conceived in the US in the early 1960s and quickly abandoned, involving the construction of a rival to the Suez Canal, from the Mediterranean at Gaza through to the Gulf of Aqaba at the top of the Red Sea. The level of hare-brained crackpottery involved can be seen from the suggestion that the colossal amount of excavation work required would be facilitated by the use of over 500 nuclear explosions. But – this being Israel, and this being Gaza – the story is loved by conspiracy theorists. The blocking of the Suez Canal in 2021 was seen by some as deliberate, and part of a plot by the West to support this alternative Israeli canal. And now, of course, it’s cited as the real reason for Israel’s attack on Gaza. Money, hidden Jewish power, shady deals – what more could you want?
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Another one from Reduxx:
A trans-identified male serving a 35-year sentence for charges including the brutal 2014 murder of his girlfriend has been relocated to a women’s prison and awarded a payout of $295,000. Zera Lola Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, was granted $95,000 with an additional $200,000 for attorney fees as a result of a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging the Oregon Department of Corrections had violated his rights by housing him in a men’s prison.
Mick Hartley 