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I look back at what happened to me and still struggle to comprehend it.
I defended women’s rights. I supported JK Rowling. I raised concerns about the medical treatment of children questioning their gender and the influence of commercial interests.
Then came serious allegations, investigations and BBC coverage that I felt presented a deeply unfair picture of me. I even sought advice about an injunction.
The first investigation cleared me, yet I apologised. A second investigation followed, with lawyers involved.
After resigning, I lost the company I had founded and built over seventeen years, a company bearing my own name. I also lost access to my company email, phone and family photographs. The professional and personal consequences were devastating.
I stand by my defence of women’s rights and my concern for children.
When I think about my experience alongside those of Denise Fahmy, Kate Clanchy, Rachel Rooney and other artists, I see a culture in which expressing a belief can put an entire career at risk.
Against the backdrop of allegations concerning prominent men in entertainment, I keep thinking about how the arts respond to questions of harm and responsibility.
Where was that care when women were losing work for defending our rights and raising concerns about children?
How the fuck did we get here?
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Naming no names but imagine being a PR person, and having a client who was professionally associated with Gaiman, Walliams, Brand & yours truly.
Now guess which one they were told to distance themselves from?
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In each photo, one children's writer and one author of a book about teaching. One set were called child abusers and drummed out of publishing. The others were feted and given millions of pounds. Which is which? @RooneyRach
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Abu Khadar says the online donation entrepreneurs were having a field day yesterday with the rain, filming children in puddles, so they can make millions in donations.
Timestamp: 1 day ago (7 November 2026)
#TheGazaYouDontSee
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Honestly, reading this then reading about the tragedy surrounding the flooded tents is like reading one of those Garfield minus Garfield strips, excepts it's a proscribed terrorist organisation apparently never responsible for anything that happens in Gaza
REVEALED: The scandal surrounding Gaza's failed winterization efforts lays bare a grim reality: Hamas obstructed attempts to protect Palestinian civilians before the devastating winter storms that flooded tens of thousands of tents.
Palestinian Authority employees inside Gaza have reported that professionals from the Ministries of Public Works and Relief Affairs were intimidated, summoned, and coerced by Hamas into signing pledges not to undertake humanitarian projects without the group's approval. According to their accounts, those who defied Hamas risked so-called "field justice," including beatings and worse.
Several officials, including Najla Hammad, Ihab Al-Bahtiti, Khaled Abu Safiya, Wiam Aboul-Nasr, Dr. Adnan Hamouda, and Ahmed Abu Zaiter, have publicly stated that efforts to build more durable fiberglass housing and improve conditions for displaced civilians were blocked.
Another example was a proposal that was put forward to demolish several heavily damaged towers which were at risk of collapse from rainwater after extensive bombardment. According to those involved, Hamas blocked the removal of the “Bank of Palestine Tower” in Gaza City's Rimal neighborhood, reportedly arguing that it would "collapse from the rain anyway." The terrorist group did not show any concern for the civilian lives that would be lost when the tower eventually collapses on its own, because it wants dead Palestinians and news of tragedy to keep Gaza in the news cycle and to gain global sympathy, hoping for more incoming resources and donations for the Strip’s humanitarian and reconstruction needs that it could siphon.
Additionally, Hamas has also been accused of obstructing construction projects intended to create safer communities for displaced Gazans in southern Gaza, prioritizing political control over humanitarian relief.
This is a reminder that Gaza's suffering is not only a consequence of war. It is also the result of a fascist and ruthless governing power that repeatedly places its own interests above the welfare of the people it claims to represent. The same terror group that helped bring catastrophe upon Gaza continues to obstruct efforts to mitigate its consequences.
As floodwaters sweep through displacement camps and families endure another winter in misery, the question is unavoidable: how many Palestinian lives could have been spared had Hamas allowed humanitarian, housing, and reconstruction efforts to proceed unimpeded?
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He doesn't seem like someone who has any particularly firm views on anything, but is just masterful at manipulating people to get what he wants, as well as having a Saville-like approach to ppl who went up against him
I mean it is objectively true that he was fawned over by the left.
It is also objectively true that he was fawned over by the crank/racist right.
It is also objectively true that he was protected and enabled by a liberal media establishment.
Broadly speaking and noted rare exceptions of people who spoke out aside, the only cohort that comes out well here are classical ‘stuffy’ conservatives who never had any time for him.
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Again: if you’ve ever wondered why three Scottish women ended up at the @UKSupremeCourt in 2025 getting a a definitive clarification of the Equality Act 2010, it’s because of Stonewall’s outrageous behaviour. The idea that anyone lets them near legislation drafting is astonishing
This really is an outrage. Stonewall should be apologising to everyone in the UK for its role in misrepresenting the Equality Act since 2015.
Appointed in April, Stephen Kiely is from a PR background & seems to have zero social policy or legal experience
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Anyway, congratulations to America for going from {checks social media} a fascist state to a communist one in two short years
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I do like watching self described progressives redefine words seemingly as a coping mechanism to avoid facing the reality of what they mean. See also: 'top surgery', 'assisted dying'
Guys, if using their original terms makes you feel uncomfortable maybe there's a reason for that
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Duncan retweeted
Honestly thought they were great when they came to prominence, saw them several times as they graduated from upstairs rooms of pubs to bigger venues. Then someone pointed out the similarity between their oeuvre and this and can't take them seriously since
youtu.be/wsrJ3--gm8Q?is=HM1w… – at Berlin, Germany
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It was fortunate ICJ President at the time of the ruling Joan Donoghue was able to correct the widespread disinformation (even from the BBC!) by explaining what the use of the term ‘plausible’ actually meant in the context of the ruling. It refers to the plausibility of rights to bring the case or to be protected from genocide, *not* the plausibility of a genocide being committed.
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Thanks for the accurate summary of my positions, though you forgot helping get Hasan Piker banned from UK.
Who paid for your visits to Iran?
Why do you think you weren't imprisoned like Lindsay & Craig Foreman?
Do you get paid for your appearances on Press TV? If so, how much?
Hi David @DavidTaylor85
You really should be careful about using your position to come after me, because once you do that, people are entitled to look at your own record.
You've gone after the BBC over my appearance and questioned why I was given a platform.
Let's look at your record.
•You backed the proscription of Palestine Action.
•You went after Francesca Albanese and opposed the renewal of her UN mandate.
•You've defended Labour Friends of Israel and pushed back against scrutiny of pro-Israel influence in Parliament.
•You've attacked the Green Party and Zack Polanski over their position on Palestine and Zionism.
•You even opposed parliamentary wording referring to "accusations of genocide" in relation to Israel.
And you've described Israel as a "lone beacon of democracy, freedom of speech and rule of law" in the region, while it disregards international law, refuses to work with Palestinian Arabs and kills journalists.
So forgive me if I'm not going to take lectures from you about who should or shouldn't be given a platform.
You have a very clear political position on Israel and Palestine. That's your right.
But when you then use your position as an MP to put pressure on the BBC because I was given a platform, people are entitled to ask whether this is really about "standards" or whether it's about the fact that you don't like what people like me say.
And if you want to abuse your political power to scrutinise me, I'm going to scrutinise you right back.
Hemel Hempstead should know who you REALLY are. Is the kind of MP they want representing them.
These days, you can't even - you can't EVEN - support a proscribed group for fear of being arrested, These days
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Duncan retweeted
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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Always happy to rebut mendacious anti-semitic activism
Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=Cqf5dOvZ…
We got a furious response from the former Conservative minister Lord Michael Gove when we asked about his position on Israel at the Labour Conference.
Gove claimed he knew more about antisemitism than Zack Polanski, the only Jewish leader of a major political party in the UK. He also accused us of not being journalists and of an obsession with Israel, despite the Labour government's change in position on the occupation of Palestine being the key topic at this year's conference.
Gove now sits in the House of Lords and is editor of right-wing magazine The Spectator.