Amnesty is no longer the organisation that defended all who were persecuted for their freedom of speech. It has become a self-appointed, vainglorious policeman of wrongthink. It tweets out ideological slogans. It demonises those who disagree with those slogans. It intervened in FWS v Scottish Ministers, on the side of those determined to keep men in women’s prisons and rape crisis centres. Some of us haven’t forgotten that Amnesty stopped supporting the since-murdered prisoner of conscience Alexei Navalny because they deemed he’d said unacceptable things in the past. They reversed that decision due to public backlash, exactly as they withdrew the recent defamatory report, before I or anyone else had responded to it, because they panicked on seeing the reaction. A cynic might think they changed their minds on both occasions, not on principle, but because they were afraid of losing money. You cannot be simultaneously an impartial defender of freedom and speech and a wealthy international witch hunter that publicly vilifies and intimidates small campaigning groups with whom you disagree. As for ‘silencing’ Amnesty, I have neither the power nor the desire to do so. I want them to explain as loudly and extensively as possible why they are using their might and formerly lustrous reputation to attack small non-violent campaigning organisations with legally protected beliefs.

I love kids. I love stuffed animals. But she is an MP!!! If she were a nursery nurse, this would make sense. How are these our politicians?! These are our leaders!! 🫪🤯

That fatuous grin on the archbishop’s face is what gets to me. No sensitivity or awareness at all to that poor poor woman standing next to her.

Why? What is her reasoning?

It’s wild that every single Labour MP in the House of Commons was considered too shit to be leader, so they literally manufactured a by-election to get a new guy in by coup, and he’s still *completely* shit.

This is false, but anyway what is this horrible man's point? Do the grooming cases cease being an outrage after a decade? Do the victims "get over it"? Do they cease caring about the failure to protect them and pursue justice?

"Archbishop retracts cleric’s award over Osama Bin Laden comments The Most Rev Sarah Mullally presented the prize on the anniversary of 9/11 Lambeth Palace pictured Mullally and Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi beside a woman in a niqab referred to only as “his wife” The Archbishop of Canterbury has been forced to retract an award given on September 11 to a Pakistani cleric who once suggested bestowing an honorary title on Osama bin Laden. Lambeth Palace confirmed the award had been “reconsidered” since the Lambeth Awards ceremony, held last week on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The Most Rev Sarah Mullally faced criticism from MPs, members of the church’s own General Synod and secular groups" The Times archive.today/XC9oJ

First day at uni studying my masters. Which one should I pick? I hear labels are all the rage these days.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit once said “A kid's sexuality is absolutely fantastic," You know, when a five-year-old girl starts undressing you, it's fantastic, it's an absolutely erotic-maniacal game."