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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules the term sex refers to 'biological women'
published at 10:02
10:02
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UK Supreme Court judge Lord Hodge announces that the Equality Act’s definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

He counsels not to see this as a triumph for one side over another and stresses the law still gives trans people protection against discrimination.

(some hope on the last point)

Another straw in the wind of the vibeshift

Only for people who never understood the vibe.

An entirely reasonable and understandable judgment and doesn’t take away from woke at all.

TOTAL VICTORY FOR TERFS

Now we have to bring down the RNLI

Our son puts his life on the line to save lives at sea in weather you wouldn't believe, and he does it entirely free and that is only because he is part of the RNLI which is highly respected and any normal person would see your comment as utterly distasteful

‪Glen O'Hara‬ ‪@gsoh31.bsky.social‬
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A thousand US student visa terminations. No-one's going to study there then.

https://bsky.app/profile/gsoh31.bsky.social/post/3lmuey6bflc2f



How big is Harvard's endowment fund? There are going to need it...

The humiliation of haughty, arrogant, uberWoke Harvard will be quite enjoyable, however

Only if you don't care whether the US remains a free and democratic society.

Leon apparently wants the same in the UK - unless he was just shitposting last night ?

I certainly wasn't shitposting, and I certainly don't want the whole Trump lunatic agenda in the UK, the tariffs are mad, the Putin-loving foreign policy is all over the place...

But the forceful extermination of Woke, DEI, cultural Marxism? The rigorous moves against fake asylum claims, against mass migration, against leftist lawfare, against activist judges, against those who are conspiring to destroy the West? - and I am afraid I cannot think of a better descrption - yes. I want all that

Except, of course, by doing it in the way he's doing it, he's going to end up entrenching DEI.

Oppositionialism.

Yes, his horrific economic and foreign policy howlers are fucking up the good stuff he’s doing with Woke

Also - Trump's way of achieving his goals is to publicly bully and berate people, which means that they get their backs up.

If Trump had really wanted to dismantle DEI he would simply have announced that for all future grant applications, universities would need to demonstrate that said grant application would not be tainted by such policies. It would be very hard to object to that, but academics questing after grant money would need to make sure their departments didn't have that. Indeed: ambitious academics would therefore head to States where such policies were less common.

And because it would be a small, incremental, change, it would be hard for anyone to get worked up over it.

It would have pushed the agenda, and almost certainly made a great many institutions change their policies.

Now, instead, he's generated a ton of opposition to his policies. And he's tried to force private institutions to bend to his will in the most unsubtle way possible.

Talking of Truss, I caught up with an old University chum for the first time in nearly 30 years on Sunday. He editor of the Oxford Student (OUSU funded rival of Cherwell) and told me of some of the lickspittle surrounding Truss when we were there (we were in the same year as her). I vaguely remembered some of the stories from the time but didn't associate them with her until he reminded me. For once in his existence it appears Leon might be right about something.

lol

It always ends up here

"So it turns out Leon was right about something"

Lab Leak, Covid, THING, China, THING, Nordstream, Biden's decline, on and on

You told us the other day the capital of Kazakhstan is still called Nur-Sultan! It reverted to Astana in 2022.

It's clear that you think you have a point here

https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/5177349/#Comment_5177349

I do indeed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana

Initially founded as Akmoly in 1830, the city was later renamed Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, and Akmola before adopting the name Astana in 1998, which means "capital city" in Kazakh.[15] In 2019, the city briefly adopted the name Nur-Sultan in honor of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, but it returned to the name Astana in 2022.

Leon called it Astana in the comment I just posted

Leon called it Nur-Sultan in this comment on Sunday 8.18pm:

https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/5176716/#Comment_5176716

On the other fucking hand, I am actually here in Astana nee Nur Sultan nee Astana, and I can report that tho it is has officially changed its name BACK to Astana, very many people still call it Nur Sultan; after Nur Sultan Nazarbayev, who founded it

Here is my hand FILLING the golden handshape of Nur Sultan Nazarbayev, which is in the golden globe at the top of the tower that looms over his surreal steppe land Singapore: Nur Sultan Astana

Tiny fingers bro. Never mind, eh.

Starting the reactor to give Mars an atmosphere?