Well this is a huge surprise. Good for you @GaryLineker

Here’s a 🎁link on the BBC investigating Megha Mohan’s signature on the Sally Rooney open letter. Let’s be honest - no investigation required. It’s a breach. She won’t understand why, however slowly it’s explained to her. telegraph.co.uk/gift/7e82ce7…

I appreciate the very fair articles from @fatima_gunning and @seanmccarthaigh - it's all I would ever ask of anyone in that line of work is to give me a fair shake, and both have given me that today. I will make the point however that the volume of articles across social media on October 15th 2024 and November 3rd upon my arrest / charge is very noticeable. When the system seeks to smear you it is a tsunami but when you get to the point of showing the truth and clearing your name they vanish. thejournal.ie/social-media-p… gript.ie/man-denies-making-h…

Mornin' all. Bah.

I'm on a plane to Ireland tonight. Tomorrow a man goes on trial for a tweet. I'm writing this from the airport. In a few hours I'll be in the air, and tomorrow morning I'll be sitting in the public gallery of Bray District Court, south of Dublin, for the trial of Kirk Loco. You may remember Kirk. He's an ordinary Irishman. Two years ago someone in that group posted a warning: a migrant man had exposed himself on a public bus, in front of a 14-year-old girl. The bus driver stopped the bus. There were half a dozen witnesses. It was on CCTV. Kirk did what any of us would do. He reposted the warning so other parents would know. The migrant wasn't charged. Kirk was. The Irish police charged him under a so-called "fake news" law, Section 12A of the Criminal Justice Act, 1976. It was passed during the Troubles to fight terrorist propaganda. It had never been used against anyone, in fifty years, until they used it on Kirk. He is the first and only person in Irish history to be prosecuted under it. They picked him because of his politics: he's a critic of mass immigration. They are making an example of him. Here's what has happened since. Kirk has been dragged into that courtroom in Bray again and again, almost ten times, for a single retweet. Each time he takes a day off, each time his lawyers prepare, each time the Gardaí (that's what the Irish call their police) turn up and the thing gets put off again. I've flown over for one of those hearings myself. In May the judge lifted an outrageous bail condition that had banned Kirk from attending any protest, anywhere in Ireland. That was a real win. But the same judge refused to order the police to hand over the bus CCTV or the names of the witnesses. The people who saw what happened on that bus could clear him in five minutes, and the state won't tell his lawyers who they are. Kirk said it best himself: "I just can't believe that I'm eight court appearances in for a retweet." That was in May. There have been more since. The process is the punishment. Even if Kirk wins tomorrow, he's already been punished for two years: the stress, the lost days, the cloud over his name, the ban on protesting. That's the point. It's not really about convicting Kirk. It's about making sure every other Irish person who sees something on a bus thinks twice before saying a word. Tomorrow is finally the trial itself. A full day. Kirk's barrister, Laoise de Brún, and his solicitor, Padraig Langsch, will fight it in open court. They are principled lawyers who refused to do what Irish legal aid lawyers do, which is tell you to plead guilty, pay the fine and go home. Kirk won't plead guilty to telling the truth. And then I'm staying on. Because four days later, on Tuesday, the same two lawyers are back in court in Wexford, for Hugh Fagan. Hugh is the man I wrote to you about this week: he sits quietly on a bench in his town square with homemade signs, wearing headphones, and for that he's charged with a public order offence. Same country, same pattern, same week. One man for a tweet, one man for cardboard. I'm going alone this time, no videographer, economy flight, cheap hotel, to keep the costs down. I'll live-tweet from inside both courtrooms (I'll be the only journalist there; RTÉ never shows up) and I'll film my own reports outside on the courthouse steps and send them to you the same day. Ireland's "fake news" law had never been used on anyone until Kirk Loco. If they get a conviction, it becomes the template. That's why this one trial matters far beyond one man. Kirk's trial is Friday, October 23 in Bray. Hugh Fagan's is Tuesday, October 27 in Wexford. One trip, two trials. REPORT by @ezralevant:

Transactivism - a movement that fails to state what rights it's fighting for on the grounds that it may incriminate itself.

Looooools, I do love it when these woke bros insist that men in dresses are women, but then get all flustered when you ask if they would ever date one. TRA on the streets, terf in the sheets!

A politician in the UK filed a police report saying he was being maliciously harassed on the internet. The posts that hurt his feelings were jokes written by a 15-year-old boy. Instead of laughing in the politician's face, the police took him seriously and arrested the boy. Somehow — I don't know how — this is a true story.

I need everyone to understand that I am not exaggerating even a little bit when I say that this is how a certain type of serial killer thinks. This man is going to end up killing someone, and it’s probably going to be a girl who was just trying to be nice to him.

"Again"

Registered sex offender, 29, busted trying to enroll in high school as teen girl again 👀

Owen Jones has done a 16 tweet thread explaining how a 14 year old Jewish student being called a “Jew bitch” and physically assaulted while another is taunted with gas chamber noises is just criticism of Israel.

We have been warning this is what would happen. We said it clearly: women’s rights are under attack, if you don’t accurately define a woman you cannot protect any rights specific to women. We were called bigots. Received countless death threats from trans activists. The prime minister dismissed it as a “culture war”. But we were right.

If these @ThornsFC fans were around 100 years ago, they would have formed mobs to lynch black people. Shirts aren’t violence. Violence is violence. And Portland condones it.

This is the the 'woman' that 'Ellie' (another man) is referring to

This is one of the most illiberal, invasive and appalling pieces of legislation ever to come before Parliament. The Conversion Practices Bill isn’t about preventing gay children from being abusively coerced into being straight. That is already rightly illegal. It will criminalise well-intentioned conversations between parents and gender-confused children, discussions with therapists, and religious leaders sharing their faith’s teachings with their congregations. A parent could face up to five years in prison simply for trying to dissuade their child from embarking on irreversible, dangerous and life-changing medical pathways before the age of 18. In his letter to the pre-legislative scrutiny committee, the Minister for Equalities attempts to reassure us that the bill respects “freedom of religion and parental rights”. It does no such thing. So much for the Labour Government’s promise to tread more lightly on our lives. It is not the state’s role to dictate what conversations parents can have with their young children around the dinner table. Parents know best — not ministers. Read the letter below 👇

Woman explains how traumatic her top surgery was, while she hides the mysterious hernia she got for no reason while weight lifting.

What a shitty country where antisemitism is normalised on the national channel.

The Left always eat their own. Vittorio Angelone is a generic,woke, millennial comedian who's built a career on relentless virtue signalling. He specialises in the sort of trite, sanctimonious lecturing pomposity that passes for comedy in Britain these days. But now his woke, 'progressive' mates have cancelled him over a joke they didn't like. Whoops...

Trans activists talking about children having 'bodily autonomy'

These are the shirts allowed for the @ThornsFC fans. None of them were removed. They have chants about burning people alive. Fans assaulted multiple people wearing @xx_xyathletics shirts. None of them were removed. I am quite literally in shock.