“It’s Thursday … we have steak on Thursday,”. RIP ‘Shirley Valentine’ ❤️ - what a loss … Pauline Collins was one of the most delightful of actresses and will be forever Shirley V … one of my all time favourite films 💕

John Lydon blames woke culture on “horribly, horribly tempestuous, spoiled children coming out of colleges and universities with shit for brains”.

Musician and painter Joni Mitchell (with artist David Hockney...RIP) #WomensArt

“I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the snivelling self-righteous twats, going around shaming everyone.” - John Lydon, The Sex Pistols

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time! The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier — Capri, Italy (1936)

Well done to the social media person at Rowhead Farm near Stirling in Scotland for what is possibly the greatest Facebook post of all time …

Link in first reply. My podcast series on the Stephen Ireland, Pride in Surrey scandal:

Sad to hear Anthony Head has passed away. The Gold Blend “will they, won’t they” ad campaign was a cultural phenomenon, an ongoing saga that lasted for 6 years, captivating audiences of 30 million. The inevitable kiss even made front page news. A landmark TV moment. RIP Anthony

What very sad news that Tony Head has passed over. We sang Happy Birthday when he starred in The Pirates of Penzance at the Savoy Theatre. A lovely man who was very generous with his time when we were filming down the line from the TV Studio. Sending his loved ones much comfort at this time.

Veteran news anchor Jon Snow has shared that he’s living with dementia, speaking publicly for the first time to raise awareness of a condition affecting around 1 million people across the UK. Jon and his wife, neurologist Dr Precious Lunga, are supporting Alzheimer’s Society @alzheimerssoc and shared the story of Jon’s diagnosis in @DailyMail as part of our Defeating Dementia campaign with the newspaper. dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/arti… We’ve partnered with Jon, in association with @Channel4, on a powerful new documentary airing on 20 June. Jon Snow: A Last Big Story looks at how he’s navigating life with dementia, and how, when we all come together, we can change the story. Thank you to Jon and Precious for their courage and openness to bring much-needed attention to dementia 💙 @jonsnowC4 Photo credit: Cynthia R Matonhodze

The Scottish Court of Session has just ruled that providing multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils. scotcourts.gov.uk/media/mv5d…

Not sure I could love Germaine Greer any more than I do. Everytime I watch this clip 💜💜 her a little more. For all the sex denialists this is the original critique of “gender”. Take note: Women are a sex class.

🚩🚨 Today I reported 'Bonnie Blue' to Derbyshire child protection due to her REVOLTING plan to have a 'golden shower' on her body while 6 months pregnant. Her reprehensible behaviour's putting her unborn child in danger. Your body should be SACRED during pregnancy. Who knows what potential harm can befall her unborn baby in these circumstances? @bonnieblue_xoxo you MUST dump this vile plan. In years to come think of your child's devastation when they see this online. And to the disgusting perverted men happy to denigrate an unborn child, I hope you rot in hell. This was what she said on @LBC to @ShelaghFogarty

Ed Davey has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson demanding she WITHDRAW official EHRC guidance protecting female-only spaces in toilets and changing rooms. Let that land. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission — a statutory body — has produced legally grounded guidance telling employers and public bodies that biological men should not access women’s single-sex spaces. This is not opinion. This is not politics. This is the settled legal position following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the meaning of “woman” under the Equality Act. And Ed Davey wants it gone. His stated reason? The guidance is not “compatible with long-standing British values.” British values. He used those words to argue AGAINST protecting women’s single-sex spaces. The same Liberal Democrats who lecture the country about tolerance, inclusion and human rights are now lobbying a Labour minister to tear up statutory guidance that protects every woman in Britain who walks into a changing room, a refuge or a hospital ward. This is not a fringe position within the Lib Dems. Their leader wrote the letter. The party has chosen its side. It is not the side of women. Repost if you think women’s single-sex spaces should be protected.

Remembering Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode who passed away on this day in 2022 🖤

I would: (1) ignore a trans-identified male in the gents (just as I ignore everyone else) (2) quickly defend them against any teasing, or, obviously, assault. (3) Have a - fairly minimal - level of respect for them for doing the decent thing. I'm think I'm like a lot of blokes in this respect.

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“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality. If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal. Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told. If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.” - my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today. Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”