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Pure Storage Founder John “Coz” Colgrove
As always, we ask our latest interviewee for a headshot to accompany the article -- the highest resolution possible please; no fuzzy thumbnails. “We will have a photo from a modern camera that will be several megabytes,” he says, deadpan.
Gays against the conversion therapy ban
Gay men oppose these proposals not in spite of being gay, but because they are gay Gay men against the conversion therapy ban? Is it April already? Or just a bunch of self-hating homosexuals who think electrodes, beatings and prayer are the best way to protect kids from the lifestyle they failed to escape? Neither. We are a group of gay men and their supporters who have submitted a detailed response to the government consultation on the proposed conversion therapy bill.
Banned for speaking out against medical mutilation
I‘ll admit it, I felt pretty untouchable on Twitter. Pushing the boundaries of what I could say on the platform, I was surprised — even a little bit disappointed — how rarely I was handed a temporary suspension, Twitter’s equivalent of the “naughty step”.
Miller’s victory
2021 will be remembered as the turning of the tide of gender ideology It started in 2018 with a tweet, and ended yesterday in a Court of Appeal ruling that struck a blow for freedom that will ring down the ages. Everyone knows Harry Miller by now: the self-described hairy-arsed docker who was visited by one of Humberside Police’s finest to “check his thinking” after an anonymous complainant reported him for retweeting a bit of feminist doggerel.
Maiming a generation
The medicalisation of gender non-conforming young people is the biggest medical scandal of our time In 1961 an Australian doctor, William McBride, wrote to the Lancet about a significant rise in the number of babies born with serious deformities at his hospital, noting that all the mothers had taken a recently developed anti-morning sickness drug. Thalidomide was withdrawn later the same year. The only good thing about the subsequent scandal was the speed with which the authorities moved.
Is my t-shirt a hate crime?
Yesterday we glimpsed what Scotland’s new hate-free utopia might look like In the first episode of The Thick of It, hapless minister Hugh Abbott is forced to come up with a new policy in the back of a car just minutes before his first major speech in front of the media. “What we need is something that the public want, is incredibly popular and is free,” says one aide. “Return of capital punishment,” deadpans the other. The Scottish Government is far too woke to bring back the rope.
Why are UK police promoting 'age play'?
(Republished with permission from The Critic, which is running some excellent stuff by GC writers at the moment.) We called him Troll. Not because he was a bully (he was, but this was long before social media) but in light of his dyspeptic demeanour and appalling personal hygiene. Living in a public school boarding house, you become intimately acquainted with people who, in other circumstances, you’d cross the street to avoid. And so it was for Peter Bright and me.
The Kink Kontroversy
Wiltshire Police are flying the flag for paedophilia — literally We called him Troll. Not because he was a bully (he was, but this was long before social media) but in light of his dyspeptic demeanour and appalling personal hygiene. Living in a public school boarding house, you become intimately acquainted with someone who, in other circumstances, you’d cross the street to avoid. And so it was for Peter Bright and me.
The shame of BBC Sport
The BBC threatens to report gender critical women to the police Laurel Hubbard is a woman. If you don’t believe so, you’re a bigot and should be reported to the police for hate crime. That was the message BBC Sport tweeted to its 9.3 million followers yesterday evening in response to criticism of its gushing profile on the 43-year-old male New Zealand weightlifter. As it happens, Hubbard failed all his lifts yesterday.
Activism works | Rob Jessel | The Critic Magazine
If this stuttery, scatterbrained autist can become an activist, there really is no excuse for anybody else “What’s with all this trans business?” sniffed my father. It was 2018 and he’d been following me on Twitter for a few years; he had seen my timeline turn from deathly dull tweets about business technology to a monomaniacal fixation on gender.
#techforgood and human rights.
“The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within its field of vision he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.” – 1984 Innovation always comes with an implicit warning, and the same technology that offers us so much freedom can just as easily be used to take our liberty away.
Check out these 5 pioneering #techforgood projects
We’ve sent dozens of missions to Mars but can’t provide safe drinking water to billions of people on our own planet. So, if you want to know how lucky you are, just turn on the tap. Few people understand the difficulties of providing clean water to remote communities as well as Francesca O’Hanlon.
Grand ambitions for open pensions dashboards face a challenging reality.
Time was when a pension was something you had, not something you did. We all know how it used to work: every month you’d put a portion of your pay packet into an employer-administered pension; then at 65 — along with your carriage clock — you received a guaranteed monthly income for the rest of your life.
"Through a glass, darkly?"
How did you get here? I’m not talking existentially, but here, to this page. If you searched data centre sustainability and clicked on the link, your request pinged across the Internet, probably passing through three or four data centre switches, consuming about 0.0003kWh of electricity and emitting 0.2 grams of carbon. Hardly the end of the world.
Stonewall take another hostage
At Fair Cop we spent 18 months helping to reveal Stonewall’s pernicious influence on public life. Last Tuesday, Ofcom’s chief executive, Melanie Dawes, managed it in a sentence. Pink News, the blog that breaks important stories about how everyone is a bigot, homophobe and transphobe, gleefully reported Ms Dawes’ appearance before the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee.
Should the Government be policing hate?
Hatred is the worst of all human emotions. It destroys relationships, causes chaos and destruction to others; saddest of all, it hurts the hater just as much as the object of their animosity. Gandhi had a good line about anger, hatred’s close cousin, which applies just as well: holding onto these emotions is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die. I know a thing or two about hate.
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