Neil Hamilton

Why be terrified? Just say you identified as a woman for the duration of the shit you took.

Woman's Hour - Isabel Allende, Sex Matters, Julia Gillard, P Diddy trial - BBC Sounds Best-selling author Isabel Allende on her new novel, My Name Is Emilia Del Valle.

Excellent interview with Helen Joyce of Sex Matters on Woman's Hour today.

From 09:43 to 26:45
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Colossal stupidity on show here but actually hugely revealing about Trump's cancerous view of the world. He can't grasp the concept of mutual benefit. Everything in his life - from relationships to business - must have a winner & loser.

What a tragedy of a man.

Excellent piece. Dishonest activists have been exploiting unclear law for at least a decade, so it's good the UKSC has clarified things. It should never have taken this long.

The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted | Sonia Sodha Last week’s ruling clarified the legal safeguards of the Equality Act. However, it was a travesty that the battle needed to be fought at all

The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted | Sonia Sodha

In my Substack post this morning: "Does anyone doubt that when inflation rises, [Trump will] dismiss it as “fake news”?"

I only got to be prescient for a few hours ...

"trans women are women"

Nobody really believes this. And no, it is still illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of gender reassignment. And no, there's no "systematic violence against trans women" except in your fevered imagination. They're one of the safest demographics.

Trans people have the same protections in law as other groups but men cannot opt into legal protections reserved for women however they identify, and that is how it should be. The end.

No trans person lost any rights today. All that's happened is that "woman" is confirmed as meaning in law what 99% of the population thinks it means.

Rights clearly come into tension. Either women have a right to female-only spaces, or men wearing dresses have the right to invade them. You can only have one or the other.

"Critics of trans rights"? Aren't they just feminists? Why not just say that?

This is a fascinating, must read piece on what a European force in Ukraine should consist of

Starmer literally having Zelenskyy’s back today while trying to build bridges.

Somehow a huge relief to watch Starmer doing this so incredibly well.

The protagonist from the Byelorussian WWII film “Come and See”

Come and see, indeed.

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Vance mistook Ukraine for the Republican congressional caucus

Fault Lines How Trump and Musk are exposing fractures in the global right-wing alliance

Latest from @samfr.bsky.social looks at the shared influences on the far-right in Europe and the US. They appear to be working more together yet those who wish to develop their appeal to voters look to distance themselves from the more extreme and from Trump/Musk. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...?

Ukraine did not misuse or lose half of the aid the United States has provided.

Ukraine repeatedly invited Putin to negotiate in early 2022. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

French President Emmanuel Macron:

"Russia has produced a considerable war effort, with the result that Russia today invests 10% of its gross domestic product in arms production. In France, it's 2%. And we've almost doubled our budget since I've been here.

Transwomen are definitionally male, and it is magical thinking to believe otherwise.

And no I'm not confused. There is no justification for using the word "female" except for actual girls and women, not men pretending to be those things.

The minimum qualification to be a "trans woman" is to be male. An actual "transgender female" is a woman pretending to be a man.

No, this has been done to death. Males retain nearly all their advantage even with hormone reduction. The accumulated benefits (muscle strength, height, etc) don't go away when T is stopped.

And no SRS has ever happened. It's not a thing we have the technology for, even now.

There is absolutely no scientific basis to the idea that any person (or indeed mammal) can "change sex". Nor, for that matter, is there any evidence that males can significantly reduce their sporting advantage over females by hormone reduction.

"Science and material reality show us that people absolutely can change sex"

What a deranged load of bollocks. You people are worse than the Christian evangelicals pushing creationism were.

There are no "special requirements" for trans woman that fully remove male advantage, no, because that can't be done.

I assume more high school boys don't cheat in women's sport because they have a sense of shame.

As a former energy industry professional, this is an EXCELLENT article that details exactly why Canadian crude is such a vital part of the oil supply and CANNOT be replaced by US production.

This kind of horseshit is one of many reasons why I stopped subscribing to the Guardian.

The best they could come up with is the literal actual thing that makes the sexes distinct? What are you wittering on about?