I will live by my own policies I will sleep with a clear conscience I will sleep in peace.
Belfast
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Sara retweeted
Oh dear. Whatever else it is, it ain't populism.
Zack Polanski slumps to worst poll rating as Green Party leader
Polanski’s overall rating falls to minus 36, the lowest rating of any national party leader, according to Ipsos survey
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Sara retweeted
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart sharing the stage in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (2013). Two extraordinary actors bringing one of theatre’s most celebrated plays to life.
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Oh you man among men, Sir Pat, we shall not see your like again. Working as your dialect coach was a deep honor, and I so cherish that work -- the long nights, the laughs... and, huddled in a trailer in the dank Oregon dark, when you recited your favorite Shakespearean monologues, just for me. Fair winds and following seas, my friend. Travel well.
Sara retweeted
‘People don’t expect me to have a Yorkshire accent.’
Sir Patrick Stewart @sirpatstew has been embracing his Yorkshire roots with @SamiraAhmedUK on @bbcRadio4 this week.
Catch up with the full interview on @bbcsounds now. ⬇️
Sara retweeted
Patrick Stewart, who died today at 86, became Professor X and Captain Picard. As a boy, he watched his father beat his mother, and heard the doctors who came to help tell her it was her own fault.
In the video below, a woman thanks him for helping her survive her own abuse, and his answer brings the whole room to its feet.
He grew up in a poor mill town in England. His father came home from World War II a different man and turned his violence on Patrick's mother.
Every time the doctors and ambulance men came, they told her she must have provoked him, that it takes two to make an argument.
Decades later, Stewart learned from his father's war records that he had been suffering from severe shell shock that was never treated.
So he spent the rest of his life working for two charities: one for abused women, in his mother's name, and one for traumatized soldiers, in his father's.
He could have spent his life hating his father. Instead, he spent it helping others. Is that the kind of legacy that matters more than fame?
Sara retweeted
While we all have terf island fatigue and squabble amongst our political, cultural and religious tribes, the state is trying to criminalise not believing in trans.
All hands on deck #thisisnotadrill #binthebill
Sara retweeted
Travelled through 30 years to interview Patrick Stewart four times. He was born in a lost world in which a working class boy from a mining village could join one of many am dram clubs &win a scholarship to drama school with backing from his council. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rqr…
Sara retweeted
I was asked to show him around for a day when he came to Brighton to canvass for Labour. What a sweet man. And his Macbeth was terrifying. So what a great actor. So lucky to have spent a little time with him.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Sara retweeted
Tennyson is an idiot!! End!
Jeff became a friend during my cancellation. He took the case that got homosexuality decriminalised in Northern Ireland, and he’s now warning that this conversion therapy bill does the opposite.
‘It’s anti-gay. It’s transing the gay away.’
Those who seek to push it through would do well to listen to @JeffDudgeon - he knows his onions.
Sara retweeted
Patrick Stewart was a passionate defender of women's rights and spoke up tirelessly about domestic abuse, after witnessing his dad beating his mum when he was little. If there's an afterlife, I hope she's giving him a huge hug right now. She brought up the very best type of man❤️
One of the implicit effects of this bill looks like prioritising state-approved ‘rainbow families’ over biological parents when there’s disagreement over gender identity
Sara retweeted
For the transactivists who've decided I abused my son, here are the sorts of reasons he said he'd tell the police on me: no to fire-eater at b'day party/£200 football boots/drinking vinegar; requests to pick up towel/put plate in sink/get dressed. He was a kid, arrest me. More /1
Sara retweeted
Very sad to hear about Sir Patrick Stewart. Will never forget his moving and courageous testimony about his experience of domestic abuse as a child. #RIP
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‘In an instant all will vanish and we will be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.’
Rest in peace.
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
Jeff became a friend during my cancellation. He took the case that got homosexuality decriminalised in Northern Ireland, and he’s now warning that this conversion therapy bill does the opposite.
‘It’s anti-gay. It’s transing the gay away.’
Those who seek to push it through would do well to listen to @JeffDudgeon - he knows his onions.
“We are gay men and we consider this legislation to be anti-gay. It is transing the gay away.”
Jeff Dudgeon played a vital role in the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Northern Ireland. He now opposes the Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill, which is before the Northern Ireland Assembly.
A founding member of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association, Jeff brought the first successful challenge to the criminalisation of homosexuality at the European Court of Human Rights. On 22 October 1981, the Court ruled that Northern Ireland’s law violated his right to respect for private life. The Homosexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 followed, bringing the law in line with the rest of the UK.
Forty-five years later, he is campaigning against a Bill presented as necessary to protect LGBT people. As he points out, those who oppose it are routinely smeared as homophobes.
“Conversion practices” conjures up electric shock treatment and corrective rape — horrific practices that are already illegal.
So what would this Bill criminalise?
It would expose parents to prosecution, and up to two years in prison, for having honest conversations with children who are confused about their gender identity.
Gender identity issues can cause great turmoil within families. Many parents already feel pressured to affirm their child’s belief that they were born in the wrong body, for fear of damaging their relationship. The Bill would add the threat of prosecution for parents who wish to guide their child away from life-changing, irreversible medicalisation. It would rip families apart.
This is of particular concern to gay rights campaigners such as Jeff, because the vast majority of gender-confused children are same-sex attracted, and same-sex attraction often goes hand in hand with gender non-conformity in childhood.
Watch @JeffDudgeon👇
Sara retweeted
"Someone must know the password?!" 🤣
It’s fair to say connecting to Wi-Fi isn’t Big Dunc’s strong point.
Watch the latest Overlap Daily episode at 4pm on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts 🙌⚽️
Sara retweeted
Well said by Helen.
Factors relevant to adult coercive control and not appropriate for the parent child relationship.
The conversion bill is hopelessly misconceived
“If my husband takes my phone away from me because he doesn’t want me contacting people, that’s coercive control. If I do that to my child, that maybe responsible parenting”
Well said @HJoyceGender! #BinTheBill
