This article doesn't even mention the anti-trans rights LGB Alliance, for which Kathleen Stock is a Trustee, and which is the *main focus of the Sussex students' objections*, which shows how utterly bereft of basic journalistic standards this is.
If this piece was a proper piece of journalism, it would note that Kathleen Stock signed the "WHRC Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, which Sussex University students contend seeks to abolish trans rights".
If you are going to write a piece about why Sussex University students are objecting to a certain academic, and you don't even mention the reasons why those students are objecting, then you are clearly not telling your readers the truth.
This is an insult to basic journalism.
Fascinating to watch some journalists cheer on this farcical omission of any of the facts about Sussex students' objections to Kathleen Stock.
If this was an article with the same method opposing something they believed in, they would - rightly! - cry foul. Completely unserious.
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This from a man who has spent years vilifying and demonising the left in the most over the top way possible, in a newspaper which whips up bigotry against entire communities, knowing the left and minorities face violence from right-wing partisans.
Nauseating.
We have to be honest about what's happening here: some are trying to use the sickening murder of an MP to suggest passionate critiques of our ruling party - and their gruesome policies, including tens of thousands of avoidable COVID deaths - are tantamount to inciting violence.
When parents refuse to accept their child coming out as gay, they almost always justify it on the basis of love. They’re convinced it’s a terrible act of self harm that will destroy their child’s lives.
They are wrong. It’s their failure to affirm their child which risks harm.
Mental distress is much higher among LGBTQ people than the rest of the population and, as a consequence, alcohol and drug abuse is higher.
One of the reasons for this is the failure of parents to accept their LGBTQ children for who they are.
The same people who dismissed anyone mentioning the daily relentless media monstering Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership faced as a factor in his defeat are now claiming that me, a single newspaper columnist, will single handedly make the Tories win again by criticising Keir Starmer
The same people who spent years full of self righteous indignation about the lies and broken promises of Brexiteers and Boris Johnson now say well Keir Starmer deceiving his way to the Labour leadership is fine, actually, because the left are fair game so anything goes
The same people who spent years denouncing the abuse and vitriol they received from Corbyn supporters, and for being denounced as Red Tories, are now calling me every name under the sun on my timeline, as well as a Tory for that matter
The Labour leadership is reintroducing the electoral college to elect the next leader, meaning MPs' votes will be worth hundreds of times more than Labour members.
Here's what it means.
It means - conclusively - that Keir Starmer and his team lied their way to the Labour leadership, when they promised party unity, not to "trash" the 4 years preceding his victory, and to end internal navel gazing.
They wouldn't have won if they'd be honest about their intentions
It means many will ask that if Labour leadership are willing to lie their way into power in the party, they will do so again and again.
British democracy has been corrupted by liars and charlatans like Boris Johnson. How is the Labour leadership able to argue it is different?
Watching a Labour MP use the full might of the Murdoch press to demonise LGBTQ Labour activists and portray themselves as the real victim - when many LGBTQ people attending Labour Conference are actual victims of real and surging hate crimes - makes make sick to my stomach.
This has been pinned to my fridge for the last 2 years.
That's because, unlike the obsessive anti-trans cult, I've actually been repeatedly physically targeted - and beaten up! - for being a) left-wing and b) gay.
Yet bigots are portrayed as the real victims in this country.
LGBTQ and/or left-wing? - Suffer threats of physical violence which have been repeatedly acted upon - get portrayed as an aggressive dangerous mob.
Obsessed with trans people? Get yelled at on twitter, and then get portrayed as a victim by the British media.
I proudly backed Steve Turner, and felt by winning the most nominations, he'd be best placed to defeat the right-wing Gerard Coyne.
But Graham managed it which is a huge testament to her campaigning, skill and commitment.
For those of us who feared, above all else, Gerard Coyne winning - which would have been an extinction level event for the left - it is impossible to say how much of a relief his victory is.
In the end, our worst fears didn't transpire: Coyne came third - but a solid third.
How did Graham win? As a very skilful organiser, she won a base that bypassed Unite's powerful officers and won often very dedicated support among Unite's representatives.