The Gearwitch

Ben Habib is a senior member of Reform. He is, of course, stinking rich. And obviously desperate to be seen as 'One of the good ones'

Good morning.

Gonna have a pop at multi-millionaire Dicky Tice this morning.

The same Dicky Tice that hates foreigners in our country, hates muslims, is an MP for Boston & Skegness but lives in Dubai under SHARIA LAW!

Having a pop at children wearing ear defenders because he's a class 1 knobhead.

The best description of the Telegraph you'll read this week.

Fair comment.

Russia?

British women had to wait until 1919...

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Unable to attend? They accept direct donations and subscriptions. My modest £10 a month is one of the best uses of my money that I can think of.

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Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March

Outstanding! Good show of Trans support and, even better, to raise funds for the Good Law project. This is an organisation dedicated to fight injustice in the Courts and they've been trans allies from the beginning.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

This is a really good comprehensive overview of the current evidence on Devon being the cradle of world civilization

Well worth your time, good maps too

Why do so many of these 'patriots' live abroad?

Must have felt like Christmas to Starmer when Rayner was forced to step down. One of the few Cabinet Ministers with any principles.

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions

Well, I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Who'd have thought it

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When Trumpanzees realize they’ve been catfished by Nigerians.

It is good to see cross-party challenge to overt racism in British political and media discourse: Labour MP Sarah Owen, who chairs the women & equalities select committee, challenges the racist claim from GB News contributor Lucy White that Deputy Speaker Nus Ghani should be barred from parliament

Sigh... just so.

That would totally work....

"How we ate in the 1950s, even before hyperprocessing, was far from exemplary."

Brits too. Vegetables had to be boiled for at least half an hour. And meat cooked so long you needed a hammer and chisel to cut it up.

Oh, I get that...

But with Parma ham and mushroom mixed in, Parmesan on the top.... done that and it's grand.

Some cream in the cheese sauce.... never tried that...

Bugger, I've made myself hungry.... 🙂

2/2 ... and to see them as otherwise, seems to me to be something that only a person (ok, 'man') who has no thought but for their own sexual desires could possibly feel.

I mean, I've done stuff. I've done stuff I can't even spell (Thank you, Spike), but, Jesus, that's repellent....

I was sitting in a traffic jam close to the local school this afternoon - lots of 13-16 yr old girls, milling about and doing what 13-16 yr old girls and, sure, some were really pretty and you could see, in them, the women they were going to be.

But they were, self-evidently, still children... 1/2

Indeed... But such men rely on female facilitators, which I find depressing...

Pen's a cheese fiend, so we have it every couple of weeks. Super-quick and cheap. Never seen the boxed stuff over here but you used to be able to get it in cans. Probably pretty disgusting but I lived on them for my 1st Uni term, when I was totally clueless about actual cooking....

That's fascinating... If only because its a dish that appeared in British cookbooks certainly as early as the 19thC. But it's always been called Macaroni Cheese. Oddly enough, it's the only pasta dish popular in the UK before the '50s & '60s.

A certain kind of emotional wholeness is the price men pay for power, and the renunciations begin early. When I questioned a nephew, as neutrally as possible, just before he turned five, about why pink was no longer among his favorite colors, he knew exactly what we were talking about: “I like girls. I just don’t like girl things,” he exclaimed, and he knew what girl things were and that he must not let them define him. In fact, he already despised them and seg- ued into a tirade against My Little Pony. I thought five was early to be bombarded until I shopped for a friend’s unborn son and was reminded that our roles seize us at birth. Girls get being cuddly, pretty, attractive, and maybe passive: warm colors, kittens and flowers and flourishes. Boys get distance: cool colors and active figures, often menacing ones or ones that are removed from intimacy and emotion—sports figures, balls and bats, rocket ships, cold-blooded animals like reptiles, dinosaurs, and sharks, strange choices for helpless mammals who depend on nurture. Masculinity is a great renunciation. The color pink is a small thing, but emotions, expressiveness, receptiveness, a whole array of possibilities get renounced by successful boys and men in ev- eryday life, and often for men who inhabit masculinized realms—sports, the military, the police, all-male workforces in construction or resource extraction—even more must be renounced to belong.

Wrote about that in The Mother of All Questions.

Latest from CBS...

"Is rape really always a bad thing? We need to have that discussion."

Unpacked our nativity scene yesterday. Removed all the Jews, Arabs, and foreigners. Ended up with a jackass and a handful of sheep.

When do we start zip tying Russian flags to the lampposts?

Signed it a couple of days ago.

😀

It aso struck me that the guy's looking like a Tom of Finland character. In fact, the sort of hyper-masculinity that rightwing illustrators try and portray, ends up looking distinctly homo-erotic. Interesting....