1./ What's the truth about Neil Gaiman and Scientology? Was his allegedly abusive behaviour influenced by his immersion in a pathological cult? Gaiman claims he was a member only as a child but in my latest article I argue this can't be true.
Click on the link in my bio to read more.
2./ Gaiman's parents were leading Scientologists when he was a boy. Most of his family still are. Here's his mother Shiela and sister Lizzy joining him in 2013 for the naming of a street after a semi-autobiographical novel. Both are nothing short of Scientology royalty.
3./ In the book a 7 year old's life is upended by a suicide. When Gaiman was 7 Scientology was plunged into crisis when a South African Scientology student committed suicide at the Gaimans' home. Just as Neil Gaiman now denies allegations of abuse his dad concocted a mad story.
4./ David Gaiman claimed the victim wasn't a Scientology student even though his immigration card said that's what he was. Mysteriously, this "non Scientology student" felt fit to leave suicide letters insisting Scientology had nothing to do with his death. The whole case stank.
5./ Gaiman's parents were among the earliest recruits to Scientology in the UK and it's been alleged they set up the infamous Guardian's Office which ruthlessly attacked Scientology's critics. The tactics used including wiretapping, burglary, intimidation and threats of violence.
6./ This means through Gaiman's childhood and adolescence Scientology was engaged in espionage and black ops across the world. The infiltration of US government departments involved 5000 agents and is considered one of the largest ever attempts at subversion in US history.
7./ When these covert operations were uncovered the Guardian's Office was ostensibly closed though in fact it was folded into the Office of Special Affairs under the control of the man who was to become Scientology's new leader the sinister David Miscavige. He has a Gaiman link.
8./ Miscavige is the same age as Neil Gaiman and also grew up in East Grinstead and as an intimate of the Gaiman family. The recollections of Gaiman's mother Shiela were considered so important Miscavige put them on his website. How long was Neil Gaiman a Scientologist then?
9./ Gaiman may have worked as a high-rank Scientology "auditor" until the 1980s. In 1985 he married his first wife whom he met when she was studying Scientology in East Grinstead. She is now a leading figure in Scientology in the States. The 80s were a big decade for Gaiman. 👉
10./ In 1983 Gaiman's father was expelled from "the Church" for “sexually perverted conduct contrary to the well being or good state of mind of a Scientologist.” In 1986 while working for porn mags Gaiman befriended another crazy cult: transgenderism. Meet bestie Mr Roz Kaveney👇
11./ Trans ideas and Scientology's overlap. "The Church" teaches that 'thetan' souls move from body to body. Biology is a shell just as it is in trans cultology. What's more as former high rank Scientologist Kate Bornstein makes clear in Scientology souls have no gender. Da nah!
12./ Gaiman's Scientology may have continued for another decade. His family run many companies with links to "the Church". Centrepoint Ltd is alleged to buy and sell property for the cult. Neil Gaiman, it turns out, was a company director until 1999. Why does all this matter?
13./ Gaiman denies sexual abuse of women. If the claims are true though his long involvement in a secretive, deceptive cult that bullied, threatened and humiliated anyone who dared to oppose it may have provided him with a template of abusive entitlement.
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1./ 🧵Was everyone who supported the "trans child" charity Mermaids a predatory scumbag, like Neil Gaiman? I suppose most were like Amanda Palmer. They knew what was happening and were more than happy to be accomplices.
2./ This surreal image is of Gaiman and Palmer as King and Queen of the annual Mermaid Parade in New York. In a creepy Sandman type twist the Parade has a special place in the trans mythology the couple supported so publicly, including financially. vulture.com/2018/06/neil-g…
3./ One of the key texts used to promote trans ideas to kids is 'Julian is a Mermaid'. In thousands of schools it's presented as an uplifting tale of a young boy who finds "his true self." Let me tell you why it's actually a profoundly disturbing book.👉
1./ 🧵Stephen Fry and Britain's Failure to Take Child Abuse Seriously. Our headlines are dominated by the scandal of institutions that refused to protect girls for fear of seeming "racist". My latest article suggests Stephen Fry's knighthood is from the same copybook.
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2./ In a society that took child abuse seriously Stephen Fry's long track record of minimising child sexual exploitation would have disbarred him from the nation's top honour. In Fry's first play 'Latin' an adult teacher sexually abuses a 13 year old boy and takes him to Morocco.
3./ The boy writes back to his schoolmates praising the country which he claims takes a relaxed attitude to sex between men and underage boys. They petition to visit. Fry's interest in adolescent boys continues in 'Hippopotamus' in which a 15 year old has sex with adults.
1./ The Elon problem. Now @Nigel_Farage has been dumped by @elonmusk and Jess Phillips traduced by him it's time people remembered he has a track record of baseless attacks on innocent people. Like the time he called a brave rescue diver... "pedo guy". theguardian.com/technology/201…
2./ British diver Vern Unsworth was leading the attempt to rescue schoolboys trapped in a Thai cave. That attempt -against all the odds- ended in spectacular success. Musk tho had publicly dismissed the team's chances. Worse still he insisted the team use his experimental tech.
3./ Unsworth rejected Musk's offer of a mini submarine which had never been used for rescue and which he knew would not work. After much online tit for tat he described the sub idea as a PR Stunt. For that offence Musk labelled him "pedo guy", a disgusting, unwarranted slur.
1./ A Puberty Blockers Triumph. The UK permanently bans blockers for under 18s. Many brave people fought for this but ONLY ONE lesbian and gay group did. This was the little film I directed for @alliancelgb about the scandal. It moved some to tears.👇
2./ LGB Alliance was relentlessly defamed by @owenjonesjourno, the creeps at Pink News and the rest of the immoral LGBTQ+ lobby who used government money to campaign FOR the effective sterilisation of kids. With small donations @AllianceLGB fought back with posters like this.
3./ It is worth remembering that only 2 years ago NOT ONE newspaper would take the ad and @TfL refused to put it on buses or the tube. @KateBMwriting was forced to hire vans to take the message round Westminster as she sought to alert politicians to the tragedy.
1./ My latest article dissects the career of a woman who may be one of the most dishonest people in public life: Ruth Hunt. She turned Stonewall into a wing of the toxic trans lobby despite saying she wouldn't. That was only the start of her disregard for ethics.
2./ How ethical was Hunt's behaviour at Stonewall? In the 2016 accounts there's an intriguing note referring to payments of £68,400 made to Caroline Ellis. She was and still is Ruth Hunt's partner. The payments were "conducted at arms length" the note assures us. If you say so.
3./ Ellis and Hunt are still in business together. Tho it's more obviously above board now. They run a consultancy together that teaches managers in NHS Trusts how to use pronouns. And presumably how to tie their shoelaces. If you have money to burn...these are your gals.
1./ Cows and Crazy Conspiracists.
It's good to be skeptical of scientific claims. Big Pharma's promotion of puberty blockers is shameful. BUT the people making claims about Bovaer which cuts methane from cattle don't care about evidence or people's jobs. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
2./ Farmers already feel under attack by the Starmer government. The Dairy Industry was already struggling with soaring costs. So for @TiceRichard now to support a boycott of @ArlaFoodsUK who employ 5000 jobs in the UK based on no serious evidence is an utter disgrace.
3./ Tice says Bovaer is bonkers. Yet the irony is he quotes Patrick Holden who is as bonkers as they come. Holden is up to his armpits in mystical manure from astrology to homeopathy. Does Reform now argue, like Holden, farming should all be organic? dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…