For all you ignorant folks out there who think this is a troll account. Go away. I was on Twitter from the start. I was stalked through my account. I had to set up a new one. Real life might mean seemingly contradictory views. But I really don't give a toss what you think of me.

#IStandWithSallGrover needs to said over and over... Australia has completely lost the plot and females deserve so much better. All the women who fought for female rights for years have been let down by women who benefitted from their fight. How is that right in 2026?

I see Australia’s courts have decided to internationally embarrass themselves with this patently absurd ruling… #IStandWithSallGrover

Stating the very obvious here but we want to get it trending.. #IStandWithSallGrover

The original post from @jamesmelville sensationalizes the Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah positions in Beirut's southern suburbs as some kind of unprovoked humanitarian catastrophe, throwing around inflated figures like "over 800,000 displacements" and a death toll "surpassing prior Lebanon wars" to paint Israel as the aggressor dragging the region into chaos. This is classic selective outrage that ignores the root cause: Hezbollah's repeated rocket barrages into northern Israel, its role as Iran's forward proxy militia, and its deliberate embedding of military assets in civilian areas. Hezbollah isn't a legitimate resistance force, it's a terrorist organization designated as such by Canada, the US, UK, EU, and others, armed and directed by Tehran to destabilize the region and threaten Israel's existence. Their latest escalation, launching hundreds of rockets in response to broader conflicts involving Iran, forced Israel's hand. The IDF targets Hezbollah infrastructure precisely because that's where the threats originate, command centers, weapons caches, launch sites, in densely populated zones because Hezbollah uses Lebanese civilians as human shields. That's not Israel's war crime; it's Hezbollah's standard operating procedure. The current figures, around 700 killed in Lebanon over the past two weeks, including civilians unfortunately caught in crossfire, and mass displacement, are tragic but directly attributable to Hezbollah's decision to drag Lebanon into yet another war it can't win. Lebanon’s own government has now banned Hezbollah's military activities in an unprecedented move, recognizing the group as the reckless actor pulling the country toward ruin. Southern suburbs like Haret Hreik and Kafaat aren't neutral neighborhoods; they're Hezbollah strongholds where the group has built its arsenal and tunnels under apartment blocks. I am calling out ideological blindness that excuses authoritarian proxies like Hezbollah under the guise of "anti-imperialism" or "resistance." Campism, blindly cheering any state or group opposing the West, no matter how oppressive or violent, has no place in evidence-based analysis. Hezbollah's Iranian-backed aggression has killed far more Lebanese (through past wars, assassinations, and economic sabotage) than any Israeli response ever could. Sovereign realism demands reciprocity: if a group fires rockets at your cities, you dismantle its capabilities, period. Precision strikes against military targets, even in urban settings forced by the enemy's tactics, are justified self-defense, not genocide or disproportionate force. Those clutching pearls over Beirut's smoke-filled skyline should ask why Hezbollah keeps provoking a far stronger adversary while hiding among its own people. The real scandal is Lebanon's capture by this Iran-controlled militia, which has turned a once-thriving nation into a failed state proxy battlefield. Israel is ending the cycle of impunity; Hezbollah started it. Until the group is neutralized or disarmed, Lebanon will pay the price, not because of Israeli "aggression," but because of Hezbollah's fanaticism and Iran's regional meddling. Evidence over ideology, always. Freedom and security require confronting threats head-on, not sanitizing them with victim narratives. Barry Sharp

Are they all female? Of course not... There always has to be at least on male in the line up, because makes are so much more important than demales everywhere 🙄

The grandson of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Ahmad Khomeini, made it crystal clear last month on 4th February 2026: "The Israelis know damn well: The day the Islamic nation gets the chance, WE'LL ERASE ISRAEL – just like Hamas tried!" You won’t see THIS on the mainstream media. What were the USA and Israel supposed to do with Iran being so defiant amid supposed ‘negotiations’? Operation Epic Fury was launched by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on February 28, 2026.

It's still legal in Denmark to call a man a man. @lotteingerslev has won one for the team. Congrats, Lotte. Nadia Jacobsen is a man. Pass it on.

The letter highlighted information received regarding the severe and escalating violence against civilians in Syria, with particular impact on women, children, and religious minorities, including the Alawite population. It described widespread looting, property destruction, and forced displacement under threat of execution, alongside reports of targeted killings, torture, kidnappings, and enforced disappearances. Women were especially vulnerable, facing heightened risks amid the broader patterns of abuse and persecution.

Super-helpful, all-in-one-place article about the identities of the 25 #spycops we know deceived women into intimate, sexual relationships. We expect there are more but as most have got anonymity in the public inquiry it's hard to find out who & how many. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…

Scottish Labour conference rejects motion calling for single-sex spaces based on biology.

I am very concerned by the increasing onslaught on women-specific language, which seeks to erase the reality of womanhood itself and deny its innate and sex-related specificity. A number of influential media outlets, organizations, academic and health institutions, and experts are complicit in what can only be described as a new form of #ViolenceAgainstWomen. It must be stated that words such as "non-transgender women”, "cis women" and the like do not reflect any UN- or otherwise internationally-agreed standards. I call on media and all stakeholders to uphold the dignity of women and respect their human rights.

Aberdeen: Meet up at 3pm at top end of Union Street (close to Starbucks) then walk to William Wallace statue, opposite His Majesty's theatre, Rosemount Viaduct at 4pm for silent vigil

SCOTLAND Glasgow: Meet at 3.30pm on the steps of the Concert Hall, behind the Donald Dewar statue. Silent vigil at 4pm Edinburgh: Meet at 3.30pm at the Witches Well, situated just outside the gates of Edinburgh castle. Silent vigil at 4pm.

Advice please - patients, doctors, solicitors. My dad has been waiting for a hip replacement for 81 weeks. Started having a sore hip in March 2023 and promptly saw his GP. The XR showed severe osteoarthritis of his left hip. The GP could not refer directly to orthopaedics... 1/

We’re watching how this is reported and who reports this. This morning it’s made the @Independent, following yesterday’s @Telegraph It’s such a stunning story we thought there’d be more coverage. One problem is that @AP and @Reuters didn’t pick it up yet >

This is charming. On women making all the human beings:

Oh this poor... What is this, a person? Someone should have represented her constituents better. We asked and were told to go away because the whip wouldn't let her. Well , where's yer party whip now, mmmmmm. Job centre is on Victoria Road, dear..

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime. Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students. TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association. May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote. I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel . That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby. Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for. It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of. Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is. That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population). In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa . Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank. On the same wards, in the same operating theatres. In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid. Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home. It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief. Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke? University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak. I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens. Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on? The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side. Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and that is to protect them from one-sided argument. They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it? Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence. It's up to you to find out more. Yours sincerely, Denis MacEoin