Much to critique about Starmer’s stance on trans rights but 2 points:
1. Human rights are not beans to be counted and ‘balanced.’ Either we ALL have human riggts. Or none of us do.

2. Changes for equality have ALWAYS been against “public will” (a euphemism for elite bs) How does he plan to assess this ‘public will’? By another Brexit like referendum? Or by the hateful shreiks of a moribund press? Or by the numbers who turn out at protests?

Or by principles, ethics, basic morality? Changes for equality have ALWAYS been guided by the last!

A decision delivered on the day marking the martyr of the independence movement (specifically Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru who were executed in prison in 1931). Almost as if nobody thought this one through….

https://twitter.com/thequint/status/1638863454395039744

Almost as if BJP want to build RG as the face of the opposition in the country.

More than slight tbh. This was a really odd one. Homophobia of various (older, female) characters was a running and not very funny gag. Yet it also centred a homosocial relationship the way Bolllywood often has. #ABollywoodStateofMind

https://twitter.com/hamzajahanzeb/status/1638084861918433281

I re-watched the film while working on my book & found the depiction of Kantaben’s homophobia disturbing and fascinating. It’s articulated via the older, female, Gujarati house help which adds a whole range of intersections of gender, class, ethnicity etc #ABollywoodStateofMind