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85% of the worlds refugees are Muslim. Not one of the 56 Muslim countries are taking in refugees. Even though 11 of these countries are the richest in the world.
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Indeed.
I know it’s not the main issue just now but….when you recall Russell Brand was once invited to give evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee (on drugs)….maybe celebrity isn’t a good basis for giving advice to Parliament/Govt. Not the only example.
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I want you all to know this. There are 650 MPs in Parliament. Yet the one MP chosen by @UKLabour to Chair the Bill Committee for the controversial, dangerous and dismally bad draft legislation, the Conversion Practices Bill, is Alex Barros-Curtis. Until July 2024, when Alex was given a very safe Labour seat in Cardiff, he was the Head of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in London. This was a department set up to investigate complaints against members of the Labour Party. Complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia, abuse, and of course latterly, mostly women holding legally-protected 'Gender Critical' (sex realist) beliefs. Alex oversaw the investigation of hundreds of members who liked or tweeted gender critical or feminist views. I was one of them. He investigated me, as a sitting Labour MP, for 13 months. 13 months to 'investigate' one like of one tweet. I had a great lawyer, one of the names we're all now familiar with, and I had to crowdfund to pay for his (excellent) work. They first tried in 2020. But the screenshots crudely attached to that passive aggressive, threatening-sounding email from LP admin staff were so risible that I replied that it was too ridiculous for me to waste my precious time on. They left it. Years of Starmer bumbling and stuttering through interviews about whether he had spoken to me, whether he supported me, etc followed. My feminist sins continued apace. And then I 'liked' a tweet by my GC comedian friend @Glinner. He had mocked Eddie'Suzy' for comparing his choice to wear traditional women's clothing, fake plastic breasts and nails, to those being persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. I found his sarcasm, as a award-winning comedy writer in the face of such offensive narcissism amusing and so 'liked' it. I found it absurd and obscene that Izzard, an extremely privileged and wealthy man, who openly changed his 'gender' at will, should write himself into history falseley as someone who would have been oppressed due to a circumstance beyond his control. We all know the groups who were tortured, starved and killed... There is obviously more to my story, I will tell it all, it's just one chapter of the years of spiteful abusive and bullying practices meted out to me by the Labour Party managers. Not those who'd achieved office on merit, or even unexpectedly, but those in the club, often having failed to be elected themselves. So Barros-Curtis who we were repeatedly told led 'the many *independent* inquiries into women members and MPs like me, now often stands as a trans-rights activist on the Labour backbenches. He has also been gifted the role of Chair of this Committee and is a huge supporter of this Bill. And I am not a part of the Bill Committee, although plenty of TRA MPs are. Does that sound like the democratic scrutiny of legislation to you?
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Absolutely, this.
Relief but not celebration. Now it is our collective job to improve palliative care & make sure as a society we fully respect human life even when it is diminished.
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Please share - there are serious questions here!
In March, we wrote to the Independent Advisers of the Scottish Ministerial Code regarding possible breaches by Ministers, including the First Minister. We finally got a reply - but not from them. There is much that is rotten in the state of Scotland. forwomen.scot/05/09/2026/aul…
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Well, well, well. This is quite the thread…
THREAD 🧵1/10 In June 2021 I published research on the SNP's missing ring-fenced indyref funds. Cherry, Chapman, and three finance committee members resigned citing obstruction. The media largely looked away.On 26 May, Murrell pleaded guilty to twelve years of embezzlement. The guilty plea isn't the reckoning. It's the moment the reckoning becomes unavoidable. 🔗 thinkscotland.org/2026/05/is…
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Jenni Murray: “I have no regrets. I stand by everything I’ve written and said. After the Supreme Court ruled in April that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, it’s finally being acknowledged that we’ve been right all along” archive.is/2025.09.11-153323…
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John Davidson with Princess Anne today, there is no doubt in my mind his Tourette’s caused him to say something rude, but thankfully he is in a room full of adults and not professional victims.
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This is heartbreaking. No man ( I suspect it’s been an employee) arrested. Shameful. There’s a reason for single sex health provision and same sex health providers.
- A woman raped to death recovering from a stroke on an NHS ward - Expected to make full recovery - Nobody reported or noticed any of the massive blood loss in her bed after the rape (for 48 hours) - She died from blood loss - All the evidence destroyed bbc.com/news/articles/c209qe…
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This article on the negative impact of menstruation on girls' education is extraordinary. All sexed language is avoided so girls are "people," "young people," "children," "teenagers," "roughly half of the population," "participants," "those who menstruate" theconversation.com/period-p…
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