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This is an *NHS consultant*. Claiming not to be an expert in how to figure out whether a baby is male or female. I'm speechless.

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) July 22, 2025

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It's a decision made at birth by the ppl delivering the baby, I believe. I'm not an expert at it.
NC So sex assigned at birth is whether u have a M or F body?
Yes
NC Bio sex is very important [lists re responses to drugs, normal ranges for bld results]
KS Yes

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) July 22, 2025

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Talking of the state of the unions…

Former Unite boss Len McCluskey enjoyed private jet flights and football tickets arranged by the firm building a multi-million pound hotel for the union, according to an internal report.

Flanagan Group, which is run by friends of Mr McCluskey, overcharged Unite by at least £30m for the Birmingham hotel and conference centre project, the Unite report says.

It also found Mr McCluskey "overruled" advice from staff and the union's lawyers in signing the construction contract with Flanagan Group.

Unite's report said the private jet flights and football tickets were "consistently organised and paid for by" the Flanagan Group and there is "no indication" Mr McCluskey later reimbursed them.

It's a huge surprise.

Before he retired in 2021, Mr McCluskey was one of the most powerful figures in the trade union movement and a leading backer of Jeremy Corbyn, during his time as Labour leader. He remains an influential figure on the left of British politics.

Previously (6th June):

There was a "pervasive fraud environment" at one of the UK's largest trade unions Unite, an auditors' report obtained by the BBC has concluded.

In a highly critical 35-page document, auditors BDO said in the 2021 financial year "dominant personalities and a weak control environment facilitated opportunities to commit fraud" at the union.

The BDO report says there were "unusual relationships" between former senior staff and Unite's customers and suppliers, as well as a culture that "did not challenge" financial transactions and "failed to ensure" appropriate financial reporting.

The BBC is running a headline on its front page. It claims '21 children have died from malnutrition in the last 72 hours': pic.twitter.com/JcdG1RZMMU

— David Collier (@mishtal) July 22, 2025

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The claim comes from one source: a man with clear Hamas connections, still lamenting the martrydom of his brother who was an active Hamas fighter targeted by Israel in 2004. But in it goes as the BBC's main headline – like there's a direct line from Hamas to Broadcasting House.

A reminder: despite the BBC's refusal to acknowledge the fact, Hamas are a terrorist group, driven by Islamist ideology and a hatred of Jews.

e-class Britain.

The survey found that 51 percent of Jewish teachers had experienced anti-Semitism in their schools since May 2023. A total of 44 per cent reported swastika graffiti appearing at their school since May 2023, and 39 per cent have witnessed or been subject to Nazi-related comments.

Jewish teaching staff reported being told “it’s not racist to say Jews are rich – it’s just a fact”, while others have faced assumptions that they are Israeli and not British citizens.

And the NASUWT response?

The rise in the abuse is being fuelled by “dangerous” rhetoric from the far-Right and misinformation on social media, according to Matt Wrack, the acting NASUWT general secretary.

How blind must you be to see this as a far-Right issue? The people fomenting Jew hatred now are so clearly from the left-Islam alliance that only a union official – still living somewhere round the 1970s and wilfully determined to stick to the old slogans – could come out with this nonsense. The union problem in a nutshell.

Update. From the JC – Teachers’ union accused of skewing survey to ignore antisemitism on the far left:

Britain’s second-largest teaching union has been accused of publishing a antisemitism survey that highlights right-wing hate while ignoring Israel-related incidents.

Critics also claim that the release of the allegedly skewed survey was timed to boost the profile of a far-left leadership candidate ahead of a critical election.

The survey was conducted in May 2024 but was only released on July 1, 2025, amid a contentious second attempt by the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) to elect pro-Corbyn firebrand Matt Wrack as general secretary.

pondents were asked how they would vote if Labour brought in a definition of Islamophobia, Reform rose to 30 per cent and Labour fell to 20 per cent, indicating a Reform majority of 106. As the polling company’s founder said, the Islamophobia definition would be like Labour “setting off a tinderbox under what remains of their working-class vote”….

While most British Muslims subscribe to core western values and are exemplary citizens, an unsustainably large minority pose a threat. Of the 43,000 people on MI5’s terror watchlist in 2020, 90 per cent were Islamists. People are acutely aware of the attempt by the governing classes to sanitise, excuse and deny these threats. That’s why there is such fury over the mostly Pakistani Muslim-heritage grooming gangs that raped, pimped and prostituted thousands of young white girls.

Last month, Baroness Casey’s report said that these gangs hadn’t been tackled by the authorities, partly because they’d feared appearing racist. Yet people can see the government is still determined to downplay and brush all this under the carpet. Astonishingly, it even awarded an MBE for “services to integration” and “cohesion” to Muhbeen Hussain, who in 2015 called on fellow Muslims in Rotherham to boycott the police over their “pernicious lie” that they had failed to act on grooming allegations “because of fears of being called racist”. He claimed this was an attempt to “scapegoat” Muslims over the grooming gang scandal….

People have been deeply shocked by the nature and scale of that scandal. It has become a lightning rod for the smouldering rage about immigration, national identity and Islam….

An Islamophobia definition would be a breaking-point because it would be seen as silencing an urgent and legitimate public debate over such matters. That’s because the claim of Islamophobia is designed to stop any criticism of Islam or the Muslim world and, worse still, anything that world decides is insulting or unacceptable.

Here we go again. Wife killed husband with samurai sword, court told.

A woman killed her husband with a samurai sword "stabbing and slicing him" more than 50 times before replacing the sword in its sheath on a stand, a court heard.

Not a woman though, is he?

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, was arrested and originally charged with murdering her husband Andrew Rowland-Stuart, 70, after he was pronounced dead at their home in Lavender Street in Brighton on 27 May 2024.

At Lewes Crown Court on Monday, the jury heard that Ms Rowland-Stuart, who has been deemed unfit to plead, told police she had acted in self defence.

Jurors heard that Ms Rowland-Stuart, who is transgender, married Mr Rowland Stuart, known as Andy, in a civil partnership in 2006.

Who is transgender, and therefore not a woman. Not a woman's crime.

Added:

You are never going to guess the plot twist here https://t.co/lJODAydksA

— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) July 22, 2025

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Also:

Irony is not dead. Though the husband of this volunteer for Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum certainly is. “Joanna” who advised police on domestic violence is accused of killing his husband with a samurai sword. Here he says safe spaces are important. Really. 👇 pic.twitter.com/WMNI94ImmL

— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) May 31, 2024

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dding-left: 40px”>In a social post about the visit, Perry wrote: “In this particular version, we are reminded of how regimental political systems, such as extreme nationalism, and fascism, oppress and eradicate individualism, whilst also segregating people, leaving them voiceless, expressionless and helplessly in control by their oppressors.

“I believe we are currently living in similar times.”

Yes, in many ways perhaps we are. Unfortunately this buffoon has misread the situation. The current terrifying rise in antisemitism does echo the rise of the Nazis in the Thirties – but he's picked the wrong side.

ch on sex-differences in plants respond with blank stares.

Among those who can overcome the trauma of having the issue raised, one favored gambit is to act as if it is an unreasonable expectation for academics to know whether or not there are male women. Relatedly, the idea that the academy generally might be held to account in some way for the things that it says – or more likely, fails to say – about the various trans-related controversies that have taken up so much bandwidth in recent political debate is treated as unfair: a political distraction, or perhaps a trap designed to lure sophisticated thinkers onto an unseemly political battlefield. Isn’t it just irrelevant what academics think? is one way that these academics sometimes try to defer answering the question, in the spirit of reticence to which they have spontaneously converted. If that doesn’t work, they might point out how many more important issues there are besides “trans”, as if the sheer number of questions competing for their attention means they simply haven’t got around to deciding whether there are male women yet.

their daughters they are “born in the wrong body” if they like playing with trucks. The people campaigning to stop male sex offenders from being housed in female prisons. The detransitioners left scarred by medical experiments masquerading as care. He means the Supreme Court justices who recently reaffirmed that, under equality law, sex means biology, a decision he decried as “depressing.”

To Roca, all of them – all of us – are unhinged.

But what’s truly depressing is that Parliament is still stacked with unabashed gender goons like Roca, who confuse sneering for superiority and ideology for intellect.

The Labour Party has become a refuge for some of the most absurd and extreme statements ever uttered into a microphone. Dawn Butler once bafflingly informed a Pink News audience that “babies are born without a sex” and that “90 per cent of giraffes are gay.” Stella Creasy earnestly believes that being a feminist means affirming “women with penises.” And Labour’s health minister Ashley Dalton once tweeted that people should be able to identify as llamas if they wish….But what’s most infuriating about Roca’s smug sermon is his deluded belief that all that’s needed is “robust conversation” to “bring people around” to his view that gender identity ought to outweigh the reality of biological sex.

For a decade, gender lobbyists like Stonewall shut down debate, smeared dissenters as bigots, and undermined the democratic process by influencing public policy behind closed doors. When we wanted dialogue, they called it hate. Women trying to arrange discussions about now shelved proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act faced bomb threats and intimidation from activists, and arrest and interrogation from Stonewall trained police forces.

Thanks to their work, common sense has resurfaced, and it is sweeping through the nation. The public can see clearly who the real “swivel-eyed” loons are: those who lock male rapists in women’s prisons, who drug confused children, and earnestly believe you can be born in the wrong body.

Roca is half-right: there are some very unwell people in this maddening debate, and many of them share the green benches he sits on.

What Labour needs from Starmer is an unequivocal commitment to rooting out gender ideology in the same way he committed the party to rooting out antisemitism. We'll see….