At the Let Women Speak event, where the usual disruptive masked men shouted and paraded their contempt for women, and especially for lesbians:
As homophobic trans activists in Edinburgh wave placards saying lesbians should entertain cock – Mr @HumzaYousaf was very keen recently to say @PoliceScotland should monitor any “rise in homophobia”.
So where the hell are you?#LetWomenSpeakEdinburgh #LetWomenSpeak pic.twitter.com/CLNTfsa097
— John James (@JohnJamesNI) April 6, 2024
Well who could have predicted this?
As the furore around Scotland’s Hate Crime Act extends into its sixth day, there are now fears about police spending as the force looks set to struggle with the sheer volume of complaints. It is understood that, since the Act was implemented on Monday, 40 officers a day have been required to work overtime to help tackle reports. With officers being paid time and a third for working extra hours, there are concerns about overstretching the Police Scotland budget….
A major issue with the new law is that while Police Scotland said last month that it would not investigate certain minor crimes any longer, the force is having to look at every single report made under Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act. Police training has been rather disorganised, prompting fears that an already overstretched and under-resourced force will reach ‘breaking point’, in the words of Scotish Police Federation general secretary David Kennedy, who warned that the new law ‘has just piled on the pressure’.
r after raping a 12-year-old girl who has since died in Kidlington.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty earlier this year of raping a girl at Exeter Park in June 2021, when he was 13 years of age.
The teenager denied the offence but was found guilty by a jury on February 26 after a week-long trial.
During the trial, the jury heard the girl, whom the Oxford Mail has decided not to name, has since died.
The reason and cause for her passing has not been explicitly disclosed in court.
A victim impact statement written by the girl’s father was read out before sentencing.
He wrote: “She was a bubbly girl and the heart of the household.
“She was selfless and was always doing things for other people. She would always put others before herself.
“What [he] did to her changed her life. I tried to speak to her about what happened but she struggled to open up.
“She wanted to put it all behind her…but I knew what happened to her was eating her up inside.
“She started to push very close friends away. I can’t begin to imagine what she was going through.
“She started listening to emotional music and watching shows about suicide. She began to self-harm three months after the incident.
“No amount of words could quantify the amount of pain we’ve felt from her death."…
Defending the boy, defence barrister Peter du Feu said he has stayed out of trouble since and understands and he wants to become a better member of the community.
He said: “He wasn’t kind that day. He’s trying to do what he can to be better, to be a better member of the community, and withdraw into a family that surrounds him with love and support.
“It’s so tragic that [the girl] is no longer with us. It makes this case exponentially worse.
“But he’s tried to stay out of trouble and be better.”
Addressing the boy, Judge Lamb said: “I’m not sure it’s right to say that you were selfish but you were not kind and you need to understand that women and girls need to be treated with respect…respect and care.”
I realise the age is some kind of mitigating factor, but…what??? Even if a non-custodial sentence can be justified given that he was only 13 at the time…that language: “I’m not sure it’s right to say that you were selfish but you were not kind and you need to understand that women and girls need to be treated with respect…respect and care.” You've been a naughty boy, but no real harm done, eh?
onstant protests outside the Israeli embassy in Amann. Protestors routinely chant pro-Hamas slogans and call for Jordan’s withdrawal from its 1994 peace treaty with Israel. Once more, the Iranians step gratefully in.
A presence in Jordan is of serious strategic value to Iran. It affords greater opportunity for direct strikes into Israel, which it now also surrounds with its proxies. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has already used Jordanian airspace for drone strikes into Israel — one shot down over Irbid in northern Jordan on 12 March was believed to be targeting Ben Gurion Airport. But more than this, it will allow Iran to stir political and social unrest in the West Bank, and to move equipment and materiel more easily over the border. Compared to Hamas, terrorists in the West Bank have limited resources or capacity to attack Israel. If Iran can make a success of its Jordanian proxy, that will change.
In the meantime, new threats emerge each day. On Friday, the CIA reportedly warned Israel that Iran is planning to launch an attack with a “rain” of drones, in revenge for its strike on Zahedi. If that happens, Israel will have to respond to an attack on its territory. Iran knows this, and likely calculates that any response, no matter how justified, will be seen as yet another example of belligerence from Jerusalem.
Yet much of this has been lost beneath the noise created by the focal point of the Gaza war. This week, Britain has been in understandable uproar over the death of seven aid workers, three of whom were British nationals. Condemnation piles upon Israel at the UN. Talk of sanctions grows. Washington, once the guarantor of international security, appears unable to stop the violence on both sides. And all the while, Tehran, the Middle East’s most murderous regime, continues to exploit events to its own advantage, and our cost.
apartheid” and blame the Jewish state’s “hard-right, racist government” for being the main force behind violence in Gaza.
After an occasionally fractious debate held at their annual conference on Thursday, National Education Union (NEU) delegates overwhelmingly backed a motion that Education Secretary Gillian Keegan had claimed would cause hurt to Jewish children and parents.
The text adopted began by noting, “the eruption of deadly violence between the Israeli state and Hamas in October 2023” and efforts by the UK government to, “criminalise peaceful tactics of boycott, divestment and sanctions… and to stigmatise solidarity with Palestinians.”
Conference believes, it continued, “the siege of Gaza, and the collective punishment of its people, must end immediately” adding: “Israel’s hard-right, racist government is the main driver of conflict, violence and war”
A teaching union will campaign against government plans to force schools to tell parents if their child changes gender.
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) agreed on Friday to oppose what teachers described as the “compulsory ‘outing’” of pupils to parents.
Teachers at the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth also said they would campaign against a ban on any aspect of “social transitioning” in schools, which could include allowing children to change their pronouns or use lavatories or changing facilities of the opposite sex….
Midge Lowe, a teacher from Doncaster, said the Government’s draft guidance was “regressive trash” and said teachers must campaign for it to be withdrawn.
She said: “This guidance, refusing to acknowledge the existence of trans children, is a risk, is harmful. Refusing to allow a cautious but early social transition is harmful and encourages risk-taking behaviour in later stages of life where it presents much greater harm.”
No delegates at the conference spoke against the motion, which also stated that “schools, colleges and external providers should not change or remove LGBT+ inclusive policies or curriculum content as ‘knee-jerk’ response to political rhetoric”.
It comes after The Telegraph revealed that primary school teachers are being told to allow children to change gender without informing their parents.
How the hard left take over unions: part 73 in a continuing saga.
people quietly trying to live their lives. And here the fault lies not with Rowling but in an ill-considered, incoherent law.
Even now the police won’t say what becomes of these growing thousands of complaints. They promised to investigate every single one but officer recruitment is low, police stations are closing, burglaries go uninvestigated, campaigners are aghast that aggravated incidents against society’s most vulnerable, the learning disabled, will be swamped by silly or mischievous reports.
Scotland is fast becoming Europe’s crazy policy test lab and this ludicrous law is surely busted along with Yousaf, who as justice minister pushed it through. But every Scottish party, bar the Tories, supported this act. A chorus of interest groups and quangos had convinced them hate was everywhere. So they abandoned the gruelling business of governing and chose to believe in witches instead.
This may be a disaster of the SNP's own making, but it's worth remembering that all the other parties save the Tories – Labour, the Greens, the Lib-Dems – voted for it.
And, in praise of Rowling, Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph:
Rowling deliberately defied the new woolly hate crime laws with a series of tweets calling well-known trans women, men.
Humza Yousaf had been warned that this legislation was unworkable by numerous women’s groups. Men who identified as women were protected but women weren’t. How on earth were the police going to deal with this?
Who would blink first? Rowling or the police? When what she said was not deemed a hate crime, everything began to fall apart. “Oh, it’s OK for her with her wealth” some said and there she was again, asserting that if any other woman was arrested, she would repeat those words and be arrested alongside them.
Here was a lesson in solidarity, in sisterhood and the simple but incendiary power of saying no.
The cases are real, the people are real, the breasts are vinyl, this is Jugs Judy
— Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) April 5, 2024
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-based-womens-rights”>receiving end. (Butler signed the censorious 2017 open letter denouncing the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia for publishing Rebecca Tuvel’s paper on transracialism.)
Another is Butler’s claim that her opponents “refuse to read the material under dispute”. In serving up this dog’s breakfast of a book, Butler shows that she is the one who has not done the reading.
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But anti-Israel activists have shown no such patience. For them, the strike merely confirms their prejudice that Israel is a uniquely bloodthirsty state. This is the contemporary version of the medieval blood libel – the deranged notion that it is in Jews’ nature to want to kill non-Jews, and children in particular….
The reaction to the tragic killing of those aid workers has revealed just how much Israel is up against. Western elites appear convinced that it is in Israel’s nature to want to kill innocent civilians. The success of this anti-Semitic propaganda, this rebranded blood libel, shows that Israel’s position has become even more vulnerable. Not only does it face implacable hostility from the Islamist movement, but it also enjoys increasingly meagre support from the West.
Too few in the West seem to understand the threat that Islamism poses. It is a contemporary form of totalitarianism. Israel may be on the front line, but Islamism is a menace to democracy and freedom everywhere – not to mention the real force for genocide in the Middle East.
With any discussion of Israel and the Jews' fight for survival in the Middle East, a strange mist descends on otherwise seemingly rational people. I think there's a name for it…
s who’ve advised them say that puberty blockers are known to improve mental health — that they are even life-saving — and that they are fully reversible and just give kids “time to think.” None of this is true. […]
Parents should never have been put in the position of having to decide whether to “allow” their kids to go through puberty. Those who would put the onus on parents are letting charlatans in the medical profession off the hook. Puberty is difficult for all teens, and it is not a disease. Puberty blockers offer teens in distress — especially girls with history of sexual abuse, autistic kids and gay kids — false hope by casting puberty as optional.
Puberty is a rite of passage from childhood into adulthood, responsible for the development of the body’s major organs and systems and not just its external sexual features. Puberty blockers rob children of their right to an open future.
Comprehensive, and devastating.