I’m flabbergasted after an exchange with @thevikingdane that ended with him equating me to the Norwegian Nazi collaborator Quisling. All I did was make the simple point that Iceland and Greenland both know exactly where their national security insurance lies. Both Iceland and Greenland cannot rely on defence from Europe. This is a fact. Iceland remains a sovereign nation based on international treaties, NATO membership, and a robust defence agreement with the United States. I’ve noticed increased hostility from Icelandic and European left-wing mainstream media toward the United States, and an orchestrated undermining of our deep relationship with Washington DC leading up to the referendum where we voted not to resume negotiations with the EU. The week after, Ursula von der Leyen cancelled her visit to Iceland (phew!) but arrived in Greenland loaded with European taxpayers’ cash to buy the Greenlandic people’s goodwill toward the EU. Today’s move inviting Canada to join the EU underlines how corrupt this political elite is. Mark Carney, who as Governor of the Bank of England meddled in the Brexit campaign and attempted to thwart the British referendum, is still in bed with Brussels as Canadian Prime Minister. The media have led people to believe that the USA is an enemy that has threatened Denmark, Greenland, and now Iceland. None of this is true. The truth is the EU wants the Arctic. And they can’t have it. Carney is their last chance of access because Norway isn’t giving in. Sweden and Finland don’t have access to the Arctic Ocean. Alberta should be thinking very hard right now. And Iceland needs a new government. A new foreign minister who respects the allyship the US has shown us. Iceland needs to move closer to Washington and let the EUSSR in Brussels and Strasbourg continue sinking.

While Earl Spencer may think he's speaking on Diana's behalf, I imagine she would have preferred it if he'd spoken to her in the last, desperate months of her life. The King's elegant rebuttal got only one thing wrong, it's not just grief that gripes Charles Spencer, it's guilt.

Kit Malthouse, who threatened that non-compliant hospices could be defunded, speaks on Friday. Recommend watching the reactions of Sarah Bool, sitting behind him – a thoughtful MP whose proposed safeguards were voted down by Malthouse and co.

Meghan Markle is embracing her family’s new chapter in the UK 🇬🇧❤️ The Duchess of Sussex shared a sweet glimpse at life back on British soil with Prince Harry and their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5 - from bike rides and family adventures to cozy fires… and, naturally, some very muddy puddles! ☔️🥾 The Sussexes returned to England with their children at the end of August, six years after making California their home. 📽️: meghan #meghanmarkle #princeharry

Jennifer Sey, the founder of XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear startup that openly calls transgender people’s identity a “lie,” has spent the last two and a half years stoking the flames of the national panic over trans athletes. Enter Sophie Cunningham. motherjones.com/politics/202…

"This has turned out to be... a bad day for democracy." Former Home Secretary Lord David Blunkett, a supporter of assisted dying, after MPs voted to reject it - saying there would now not be "a genuine debate" on a change in the law. #Newsnight

It was an absolute pleasure to volunteer with TSA today at the Trans Lobby, alongside many others from various trans organisations. Superb conversations with many MPs, trans people themselves and great allies like @daniellismore.

I see that Stella Creasy is accusing me of leading a pitchfork mob against her, because I opined that she is less likeable and more hypocritical than the wild parakeet she mistook for an escaped pet. For those who don’t know, Creasy is an elected politician and self-proclaimed ‘old-fashioned feminist’ who is ‘still fighting the patriarchy’. She’s more than once publicly defined herself against me (and my reaction was not to accuse her of leading a mob, even though I was probably averaging a dozen death threats a day at the point when the article below appeared.) I thought it might be instructive for those of us who don’t share Creasy’s brand of ‘feminism’ to examine her campaigning record, so we can learn to do better. Creasy wants women admitted to the male-only, exclusive, London-based private members Garrick Club, a change that would benefit rather privileged women like Creasy. Creasy is a mother who wants better accommodations for working mothers, a change that would benefit Creasy. Creasy takes selfies at a men-only Muslim march because that reminds everyone how non-racist she is, which benefits Creasy. Creasy asserts that ‘trans women are women’, which keeps her in good odour with her party’s most aggressive activists, and benefits Creasy. However, keeping cross-dressing heterosexual men out of nurses’ changing rooms doesn’t benefit Creasy, because Creasy has never had to mop up other people’s piss, blood and vomit at work. Challenging the notion that a male basketball player becomes a girl if he says he is doesn’t benefit Creasy, who has no sporting ambitions. Speaking up against the patriarchy as practised by non-white men doesn’t benefit Creasy, who wants those selfie-opportunities. Criticising an ideological movement that persecutes, harasses and openly threatens women who don’t believe some women have penises wouldn't benefit Creasy, because she's already fully-signed up to self-id, where any man who says he's a woman must be taken at his word. As the late Gloria Steinem said: ‘“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere.’ Creasy the patriarchy-challenger is provably more than happy to cosy up to men and misogynist movements when it suits her public profile and career advancement, no matter the harms those men might be causing less privileged women. By Steinem’s definition, what Stella espouses is not feminism, but Creasyism, and I suggest the emblem for this brave new rights movement should be an indignant parakeet with severely ruffled feathers. telegraph.co.uk/women/life/s…

There’s no point on here trying to have any form of debate - the algorithms alone make it pointless to make time to do so as would legitimise that behaviour. But there is another point of view. Posting this here to show it does exist and not going to be cowed by the seeming blood sport of abuse so many seem now to think the public realm.

The reason I’ve not been on as much the last few days is purely because the stark-staringly obvious reality that Twitter is a site calibrated solely to generate hate kicks in. Sometimes you need to take a shower - wash the contact with scumbags and radicalised biddies down the plug hole. Having a great time! 🙂🩷🏖️

Journalists should be asking why the Canary’s major funder, Cecil Hetherington, ended his association with the business today.

EXCL: The Green Party confirms co-deputy leader Rachel Millward is not a landlord, but her husband is. Millward refused to say if she was a landlord on the BBC yesterday, when defending co deputy leader Mothin Ali who owns two rental properties in Leeds. This is despite the party adopting a policy last year to "abolish landlords". Green spox says: “Rachel Millward is not a landlord in any other capacity. Her husband is sole owner of a flat that he currently rents out, below market rate. This is a separate financial arrangement to Ms Millward. Rachel absolutely advocates for the Green Party’s policy to address the housing crisis with more social housing and regulating landlords.” I understand Millward also no longer rents out part of her property on Air BnB - that came to an end in Jan 2025