1./ 🧵 The truth behind that Jaguar ad.
Last week's 'Copy Nothing' advert for Jaguar was so bonkers it's tempting to assume it was a joke or an accident. It was neither. It represents the culmination of a campaign to groom a great British brand by the insane LGBTQ+ lobby.
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2./ One sign of that was a review by Attitude the LGBTQ+ magazine which claimed the fact @Nigel_Farage and @elonmusk loathed the ad proved it was genius. Is Kamala a genius then since they loathe her too? Attitude is at the heart of this bizarre story. attitude.co.uk/life/how-hate-…
3./ The roots of the ad campaign can be traced back to October 2021 when Jaguar tried out bold primary colours and meaningless slogans in ads specifically for Attitude. Then the slogan was Live Loud. Hilariously, @Kantar_UKI claimed it was one of the top UK ads ever. 🤣
4./ The LGBTQ+ lobby can always be relied on to rope in its mates to tell you anything you want to hear. Kantar were themselves LGBTQ+ lotus eaters. But their claims were music to Jaguar's marketing director Anthony Bradbury who said LGBTQ+ would now be the new focus for Jaguar.
5./ "We’ve seen really good synergy between Attitude’s ...audience and our brand," he told Marketing Week before pointing out the ad embodied the Jaguar founder's motto: 'Copy nothing'. In 2022 Global Head of PR @McCons went even further citing Attitude as "the right audience."
6./ PR Week observed that, "historically, Jaguar was an old-fashioned, British brand...today, one of its key media partners is Attitude magazine." In fact Jaguar had begun its strangely intimate relationship with Attitude in 2016 when the magazine became a Strategic Partner.
7./ In 2016 Attitude had only just been bought by the gay publisher and car enthusiast Darren Styles. He used to publish Jaguar's inhouse magazines. Together car company and gay publisher began producing Jaguar branded LGBTQ+ content. One was Jag Race. Of course it was.
8./ The constant immersion in Attitude's LGBTQ+ propaganda soon pushed Jaguar's management further down the rabbit hole until they seemed never to stop banging on about all things LGBTQ+. At the centre of their partnership was their sponsorship of Attitude's Annual Awards.
9./ Attitude's Awards were emblazoned with the slogan "powered by Jaguar". But what was the company powering exactly? Jaguar's Brand Director Santino Pietrosanti made clear it shared the LGBTQ+ lobby's mission to change how the public think and behave.
10./ The problem is for almost a decade Jaguar's bosses had only been listening to one side in important and highly contested debates not least about "gender identity." That one side was provided by Attitude and its silly and opinionated publisher, Darren Styles.
11./ Any careful, moderate management might have been concerned at their Strategic Partner's online war against women including @jk_rowling whom he regularly dubbed a peddler of hate and blamed for "trans deaths". He also urged trans activists to sue her. She wishes.
12./ He demanded @RosieDuffield1 be disciplined, ranted about the NHS ban on puberty blockers and Health Secretary @wesstreeting (a gay man), ridiculed @JNHanvey (a gay MP) and called @BluskyeAllison (a black lesbian) a terrible person. He was blatantly partisan in other words.
13./ Misogyny in LGBTQ+ activism is never far from the surface and so Styles said he looked forward to "hairy-assed, bearded transmen taking a big dump in the cubicle next to..." @AnnelieseDodds. "So she feels safe". Imagining a woman MP feeling unsafe is so very progressive.
14./ This is also a man whose magazine celebrated a mentally troubled woman who said, "I have a period once a month and I have no qualms openly talking about how my pussy bleeds and how difficult that makes navigating spaces as a gay man.” WTAF.
15./ Styles's magazine also awarded trans activist Dylan Mulvaney Woman of the Year. "No matter how hard I try, or what I wear, or what surgeries I have, I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people’s standards.” Mulvaney said. True dat, Dylan.
16./ None of this nonsense gave Jaguar pause for thought. Nor did they wonder whether it was appropriate when at the Attitude Awards, Styles lambasted lesbians and gay men like @AllianceLGB who wanted to distance themselves from trans ideology.
17./ This highly partisan statement was allowed despite the fact the Jaguar logo was on the podium and keeps reappearing as a caption on the video. What does this prove? Only that by this year Jaguar were so groomed by Styles they had lost the ability to think for themselves.
18./ Styles and Attitude helped convince Jaguar it made sense to chase the weird menagerie of the LGBTQ+ lobby and ignore the general public; and it was genius if Jaguar's usual buyers were offended. That attitude found perfect expression in Copy Nothing.
19./ Despite its management's idiocy I hope the electric supercar Jaguar unveils on Monday is a success. 42,000 hardworking men and women are employed by Jaguar Landrover. Its owners have also lavished money on the company. They both deserve better from the brand's executives.
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1./ 🧵What does 'Queer' mean? In its new show the Tate claims Leigh Bowery is a queer icon. In my latest article I argue the designer's life and work suggest his kind of pathological narcissism defines Queer. I first met Bowery when I was filmed in a sex scene in his flat. Really.
2./ It was 1984 and I was having a fling with dancer Michael Clark who was being celebrated in a Channel 4 film following his life. He asked me to play a bit of rough trade. Typecast again. We would be filmed in Bowery's flat where he lived with his boyfriend Trojan.
3./ We are told now Bowery's provocative behaviour and wild designs represent an explosion of 'queer' creativity. Yet it's interesting, to say the least, the Tate ignores his casual racism. He called one of his favourite clubbing costumes 'Queer Pakis in Space'. How creative.
1./ 🧵Why was media coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling on sex so biased? My latest article tells the emblematic story of one channel's capture by the trans lobby. Channel 4's subversion is partly down to the social circle its staff move in. Guess who's this guy's best mate.👇
2./ Last week Krishnan Guru-Murthy gave two idiot trans activists the chance to malign the Court's ruling with all the critical challenge we might expect from some blowhard champion of the trans agenda like the SNP's John Nicolson. Funny you should mention that poltroon. 👉
3./ Guru-Murthy and Nicolson regularly describe each other as their closest friends. Nicolson says GM is "one of the people in the world who likes me most." A low bar. They met when Guru-Murthy was a 15 year old schoolboy during filming for a TV show Nicolson was presenting.
1./ Apologies. It’s welcome that
Mark Smith has said, “men like me need to say sorry”. Everyone makes mistakes. A democratic culture only works if we accept people’s views evolve. There are tho some lessons to be learned from Mark’s original stance. 👉 heraldscotland.com/politics/viewp…
2./ In his column in early 2020 after the launch of @AllianceLGB, Mark opined on our “horrible website”. He complained images of women had been deliberately chosen to look as feminine as possible to emphasise trans male exclusion. Uh? 👀 They really weren’t. Worse was to come. 👉
3./ Smith went on to compare @AllianceLGB’s concern over child safeguarding to Section 28. “Dangerous to children is a phrase that appears on the LGB Alliance website along with multiple uses of the word ‘threat’. We have been here before.” Indeed we have. Heard of PIE anyone?
1./ 🧵On a female hero. It’s typical of @HotchkissRhona to hand out well-deserved plaudits to women who helped prepare the ground for the Supreme Court triumph. But no one who went to early public meetings of @ForWomenScot can be in any doubt Rhona herself deserves thanks. 👉
2./ I first met this pocket rocket at a @ForWomenScot meeting in early 2020. In those days all gender critical events were by word of mouth or carefully vetted such was the level of fear. I’d come to talk about @AllianceLGB and was amazed to find a secret, feisty army of women.
3./The first speaker was @HotchkissRhona who talked, as an ex prison governor, about how trans identified men often acted out in sickening ways in women’s jails. Her jaw dropping speech was spiced with Rhona’s biting wit. She then introduced a young woman sitting beside me.
1./ How deep does homophobia run in the trans psychosis? There's a clue in the story of Sofia Taloni, one of the Arab world's most famous trans activists who's now detransitioning back to the bloke he always was. If Sofia looks a bit of a lunatic there's a reason for that. 👉
2./ Taloni was born in Morocco where homosexuality is illegal. Though as many a tourist can attest it's not exactly unknown dans la casbah. Shame and the threat of a jail sentence has led many gay Moroccans to embrace trans, which is not illegal. So here's Taloni not being gay.👇
3./ Taloni's internalised self-hate erupted in 2020 when he told his 700K Insta followers to download Grindr, create fake profiles and expose closet gay men. Taloni urged his followers to post the men's images online and then publicly berated them. attitude.co.uk/news/world/as-…
1./ 🧵Why is the debate about Trans so overdue? It's great to see the landmark book by @HJoyceGender discussed at a Festival at long last and by the legend that is @bindelj. There was though a tragic irony about the location that reminds us why this debate is urgently necessary
2./ In the early hours of the 25th July 2021 a slightly-built 30 year old Spanish engineer Jorge Martin Carreno was separated from his friends and sat down, tipsy, beside the architectural wonder that is the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford where today's debate was held.
3./ What Jorge did not know was a 23 year old trans identified male, who called himself Scarlet Blake, was at that very moment scouring the streets of Oxford looking for someone to kill. He was wearing a hooded jacket that hid his face. And then he spied...Jorge.