I will live by my own policies I will sleep with a clear conscience I will sleep in peace.
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Proper belly laughing at this. Why is she trying to identify as the forgotten Marx bro?
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By popular demand - a new list of what's coming up on @bookclubpodhq.
3 Nov THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
10 Nov MASTER AND COMMANDER
17 Nov TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
24 Nov MONEY
1 Dec TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY
8 Dec TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
15 Dec DUNE
22 Dec HARRY POTTER
Sara retweeted
Cllr Micky Murray (Alliance) wrote below - Jeff has rarely supported any further steps towards equality after decriminalisation. Not shocking that he’s not supportive of this proposed legislation, he got what he wanted and stopped caring about others.
My answer: Councillor Micky Murray’s statement about me here is a despicable lie. It is defamatory hate speech.
My seven-year ECHR case brought about the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1982. That was a group effort by the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association (NIGRA) which I spearheaded at Strasbourg.
For the next 35 years I spent much of my life working, almost alone, to get Northern Ireland included in five further pieces of gay law reform legislation at Westminster.
I did not “stop caring”, as he alleges so nastily, because I got what I ‘wanted’.
The reforms were the gay age of consent equalisations in 1994 and 1998 (the former with the assistance of Kate Hoey MP) that moved the age from 21 to 18 to 17.
The hugely important Sexual Offences Act 2003 which equalised criminal laws and penalties as between gays and straights, removing archaic gay-only offences. (That was achieved despite opposition from some professional gays in Belfast!)
The Civil Partnership Act 2005 and the gay pardons and disregards section of the 2017 Policing and Crime Act.
All these reforms initially excluded Northern Ireland.
The evidence for my campaigning work is on my website jeffdudgeon.com.
What was the Alliance Party contribution to these campaigns? Oh yes, its vote to stop civil partnership ceremonies in Lisburn council’s Cherry Room.
I don’t expect praise or thanks but vicious attacks from woke triumphalists like Murray must be challenged. I ask him now to withdraw his statement and apologise.
This is a withering analysis of @EoinTennyson's Stormont gay conversion bill by @JeffDudgeon, who led the 1970s push to decriminalise homosexuality in Northern Ireland
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The Cass Review: what the recommendations miss.
I welcomed Cass’s seminal report and its scrutiny of the evidence. But some of its recommendations reveal a lack of understanding of the clinical problem at the heart of this presentation.
In my clinical experience, rigid beliefs often hold together a fragile sense of self, keeping anxiety and uncertainty out of view. We cannot understand the clinical problem without examining why that certainty is so necessary and what the person fears would happen if they began to question it. Care that simply confirms the belief risks reinforcing the very difficulty we need to understand.
marcusevanspsych.substack.co… @NazShahBfd @BaronessDeech @ClaireCoutinho @sharrond62 @Transgendertrd @YvetteCooperMP
Sara retweeted
This whole thread - ranting at middle-aged women who are crap, but then again they're treated like crap by 'the patriarchy', which they should fight-- is hilarious, esp the "Of course it’s all a distraction from the severe economic problems that this country is facing" at the end
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This bill is unfit for any purpose. Scrap it. 🗑️
“I think this bill is ripe for a declaration of incompatibility. And what an embarrassment that would be for the signature centre piece of human rights legislation to run a risk of incompatibility. Particularly on Article 8 when the first poor, unfortunate parents, I suspect mothers, are arrested under this bill”.
Yesterday, at the first oral evidence session at the Joint Committee on the draft Conversion Practices Bill in Westminster, the panel was asked how the bill will interact with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Watch criminal barrister Dennis Kavanagh @Jebadoo2 set out how the bill will be incompatible with Article 7, 8, 9, 10 and 14 of the ECHR.
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This is an SNP politician, who also doesn't know that Scottish banknotes are underwritten by the Bank of England.
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This is what the bill does
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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
standard.co.uk/news/politics…
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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.
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‘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. ⬇️
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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?
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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