These guys are very inventive, I must say:
With Ulez cameras being stolen, toppled or painted over throughout the capital, the Labour Mayor has deployed vans with cameras mounted on their roofs. Some of the Transport for London (TfL) vehicles have been vandalised with paint, their tyres deflated and their cameras covered.
“Blade Runners” who have been vandalising the scheme’s infrastructure have been boxing in the vans with much larger vehicles to block the line of sight of the automatic number plate cameras.
As I started to write, an OUP editor told me that my book would be ‘an important one’. I was drawing on anthropology, sociology, psychology, sexology and biology, as well as philosophy. But one connecting thread ran through every chapter: the fact that humans, like many animals, come in significantly different male and female forms.
This is crucial to dispelling the modern swirl of confusion around gender.
Perhaps naively, I thought that all this could prove an important subject for lively philosophical study. Most book-buyers are inquisitive people who want to be provoked and challenged, and are willing to change their views if the evidence is strong.
Yet when I delivered the text exactly as promised, OUP changed its tune entirely. To my shock and dismay, the publisher rejected my manuscript, alleging that the book did not treat the subject ‘in a sufficiently serious and respectful way’.
https://thecritic.co.uk/we-cant-lose-the-word-woman/
I was shown a picture of a quite ludicrous advertisement placed in staff toilets in the hospital. It detailed ten different support and information sessions around menopause to be held on site. In the entire body of description of the sessions, one word was conspicuously and infuriatingly missing.
It was, of course, the word “woman”. In today’s performatively “inclusive” times, the dreaded word “woman” is the one most frequently sacrificed at the altar of “gender identity”. This word strikes instant fear into the hearts of interviewed politicians and makes them eat their own heads, live on camera, in an attempt not to define it. It is the word to be scrubbed from public documents as often as possible after quiet lobbying by pressure groups like Stonewall, the word to be twisted and stretched out of all meaning as often as possible to allow men to slide into women’s spaces unnoticed. It is women who always notice. We do notice when you move us out of language and move into our spaces, and we assume that you think we are stupid when you do.
So the new handset didn’t fix it? Ffs.
Someone was saying last night that he’s been keeping it quiet with super injunctions, might be either actual or habitual reaction to that?
As my mother used to say when asked what was for pudding, “shit with sugar on and you’ll like it.”
I also do not like. May give up.
Tell me you’ve never cleaned a shower without….
YouTube, not content with buggering up my homepage so that it’s unreadably small on mobile, has now also deleted my viewing history, so I’m now seeng stuff based on search terms rather than algorithms.
It’s funny how UK off-grid types are crunchy vegans when I’m used to them being robust homesteaders.
Oh, that’s great Josie news!
(And my boy would be most offended if he didn’t get to do a pre-wash!)
It’s the hostility that worries me. Dog adores meeting passing walkers (as long as they don’t have dogs), and he always looks bewildered if they don’t stop to give him a pat.
But, equally, if they do have dogs then I shout to warn them and keep him well away.
I had one last week who’d been talking to a neighbour when I came past. She’d warned him, but when I passed him again a bit later he dutifully put his dog on the lead and was very much “is he really that ba— oh, ok, she wasn’t exaggerating!”
OMG, it sounds like the Libyan authorities did indeed impose a curfew and tell people not to leave their homes :(
On a personal level, I’m slightly concerned as Dog is a well-muscled Staffie cross. I’m pretty sure he’s too leggy to be mistaken, though.
Did you see Brendan’s good piece about it?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/13/the-bully-xl-and-the-fraying-of-community-life/
Well, statistically they probably all are, in a small village in the English Midlands.
It’s a small village in the English Midlands. After the Reformation, the landowner who bought the nearby monastery decided to let all the villagers use the monks’ fish ponds, which was unusually fair and led to the popular saying.
Someone did and it might well have been her, but she’s away for a few days so you might need to ask her again when she’s back.
Dog people, any thoughts on this? https://www.k9bridle.com/fitting-instructions/
I like the attachment point and the safety strap, and the fact that it’s held together by the lead clip.
I have been using a Sporn halter, but the plastic clip’s going on it and I can’t get a new one easily any more (would have to come from the US). Haltis are right out, because of the attachment point location.