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Jonny Best

2 months

Blacklisting in the arts, and my experience with @BFI . My new piece in @TheCriticMag .

Don’t shoot the piano man | Jonny Best | The Critic Magazine

It’s four years since J.K. Rowling published the essay in which she discussed her concerns about the number of girls undergoing gender transition.

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Jonny Best

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1 year

Rosie Duffield is probably the bravest MP in the Labour Party. I don't know how she keeps going, but I'm glad she does.

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4 months

If you get blacklisted as a freelancer in the arts, you sort of know - but don't *know*. After a while it becomes obvious. But still nobody will actually say it. Today, after nearly 3 years, I finally have confirmation of my blacklisting by a major national arts organisation.

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1 year

When a charity’s Chair can’t give an interview without the organisation rowing it back 24 hours later, and the latest CEO is being bundled out of the door after only 3 years, it’s a sign of organisational implosion. #Stonewall

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11 months

I don't tweet much about the gender madness any more, but just in case anyone is any doubt about where I am: nobody can identify out of their sex, no males should be women's sport, Stonewall should be disbanded, gender identity is bunk...and you can probably guess the rest.

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4 months

Of course, it's an organisation that continually drones about diversity and social justice. And it's led by a trans activist-sympathetic woke bloke. I thought it would be a relief to finally know. But first I think I have to wait for the anger to fade...

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Jonny Best

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3 months

I'm happy - and, frankly, relieved - to announce that the PhD is in the bag and I am now Dr Jonny. As my mother reminds me, I'm not a proper doctor and I can't cure anything - but I can bore you to death about silent film piano playing until the cows come home. 🧑‍🎓

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7 months

Call me cynical, but I think @wesstreeting is a skilful and ambitious politician who sees where this issue will be in another five years and knows that he has to get onto the right side of it, sharpish.

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7 months

Whether or not a swastika is antisemitic 'depends on context', say the Met Police. That's true. But this was not a production of Cabaret - it was the streets of London at an anti-Israel demo. How much more context do you need, @metpoliceuk ?

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7 months

Today is a good moment to acknowledge that almost 20 years ago @bindelj first wrote critically about extreme trans activism. She was the vanguard and she paid a very high price - but she stood fast and she's still here.

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1 year

Every day on social media.

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@JonnyWorst

1 year

Listening to gender/trans studies academics speaking on the telly makes you realise the good sense of #NoDebate - they've always known their arguments can't survive contact with people outside of that academic bubble.

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6 months

@helenlewis @AudreySuffolk Same here. When I was interviewed about Stonewall on R4's PM prog in 2018, Ruth would only speak as long as I wasn't in the studio, and I went first, and on condition that I was then not allowed a reply to her words.

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10 months

Pretending not to understand metaphor is a common tactic of those who argue in bad faith. @KemiBadenoch used 'epidemic' as a metaphor (quite aptly) and @KateOsborneMP pretends not to understand that, to score a cheap point.

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10 months

After stating that appropriate RSHE programs could be just like Section 28 all over again, @kateosbourne goes back in on @kemibadenoch who accurately points out Odbourne is using th meeting as a 'trial' rather than to discuss policy. #WESC

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1 year

Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand’s 2008 verbal abuse of Andrew Sachs was every bit as bad as Fox/Wootton, but I don’t remember any calls for the BBC to be shut down. 🤨

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@JonnyWorst

4 months

Hearing @pollytoynbee brush aside the @Hilary_Cass review on R4 Any Questions as some kind Tory distraction was shocking. If children's lives are being damaged, Polly, surely that's more important than party politics point scoring?

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4 months

@bindelj @HomoLittlest It's good to finally know. It happened after I signed the September 2020 letter from arts and culture peeps in support of JKR. It's fucking nuts, isn't it?!!

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1 year

I'm 53 and I still can't cope with this film. Certificate PG comes nowhere close to dealing with the horror...

Watership Down now rated PG after 45 years of terrifying children

Film once described as ‘one-way ticket to post-traumatic stress disorder’ originally classified U

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11 months

What kind of magic insight does @scottishprisons have that enables them to tell whether a male might be a danger to women in the future?

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@JonnyWorst

8 months

A few reasons why @SimonFanshawe is a great appointment for @EdinburghUni . He is a genuine trailblazer when it comes to equality and diversity. He was a founder of Stonewall in the 90s, doing years of hands-on work towards the legislative equality LGB people enjoy today.

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8 months

Simon Fanshawe OBE has been named the Rector of the University of Edinburgh following an uncontested election. He will take up office on 4 March 2024, replacing Debora Kayembe, who has served as University Rector since 2021.

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Jonny Best

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2 years

@runthinkwrite I'm tired of hearing one thing one week from Starmer, and then something slightly different, for a different audience, a few weeks later. I want to see him state a clear position and defend it over time. And that has yet to happen.

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1 year

Five years ago, we asked Ruth Hunt, then @Stonewalluk CEO, to acknowledge a conflict of rights. She refused: 'we do not and will not acknowledge this'. This week, Stonewall chair @iain_w_anderson conceded the point. Let's see where we are in another five years, eh, Iain?

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1 year

To have a dog involves accepting its relatively brief lifespan and welcoming the whole experience - the life, the death, and the letting go. I scattered Harry's ashes at the weekend. He's in the river and the field. ❤️

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@JonnyWorst

9 months

It's sickening to see and hear the racist poison on the streets of London today. The double standard is so obvious - it's fine to be racist in the UK, as long as it's the Jews you hate, and you code your hatred in terms of Zionism.

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1 year

I can’t imagine how stressful it must be to go to court and fight discrimination. I’ve never done it. Here’s to the women who HAVE done it, and whose bravery benefits everyone: @BluskyeAllison @MForstater @DeniseFahmy

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@JonnyWorst

8 months

Me in @Unherd today: the free speech crisis in the arts and how activists captured Arts Council England

How activists captured Arts Council England

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9 months

I'm always tempted to tweet about each absurd or bad faith utterance by Zoe Williams, Owen Jones, Billy Bragg, and all the rest of them...but I don't have that kind of time. 😘

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1 year

Stonewall has never been on the ropes like it is today. It’s tragic to see the organisation I used to love become such a malign force in society. The soon it shuts shop for good, the better.

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6 months

@FondOfBeetles These young 'uns need to watch some 1930s Katharine Hepburn films, for heaven's sake!

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25 days

In his treatment of @RosieDuffield1 , Keir Starmer has shown us what kind of man he is.

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@JonnyWorst

8 months

Judith Butler has frequently said stupid things, but this is downright evil.

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Judith Butler describing the October 7 massacre as armed resistance: “We can have different views about Hamas as a political party, we can have different views about armed resistance. But [...] the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance.[...] This was an uprising”

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8 months

This is the nub of it. Hamas is evil, and seeks the annihilation of Jews. Hamas does not do Lammy/Cameron-style gentlemanly politics. We wouldn't consent to live with Hamas next door, and nor should Israel.

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5 months

Rushdie is brave and thoughtful enough to say what politicians like Blinken and Cameron won't; today, a Palestinian state would be a Hamas-run, antisemitic terror state, and a client of Iran.

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Salman Rushdie, who has been chased to the ends of the earth by Islamists, sees things clearly. A Palestinian state would reflect Palestinian culture, and therefore be a menace to the world. People who think all you need is the right peace deal are crazy.

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2 months

Some are implying (or stating) that those who don't sign the @GCAntiFarRight statement are complicit. This whiff of coercion is partly why I won't sign. I know it's not intended to be a coercive gesture, but it is (inevitably) experienced this way by many.

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Jonny Best

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10 months

Two years ago, Pablo was scared of everything. This Christmas he walked into the village for the first time, and today visited the pet shop and a cafe. We're going to do something new each week now, to keep the learning ticking over. Good boy, Pablo! #dogs

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@JonnyWorst

1 year

@billybragg @LouiseDistras Oh no, Louise - you disappointed Billy! How dreadful for you. Thoughts and prayers.

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Jonny Best

@JonnyWorst

8 months

Are you calling for a ceasefire? Then explain how you'll make Hamas comply, given that it has broken every single ceasefire agreement with Israel, sometimes within hours. Explain - or save your pompous, worthless words.

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@JonnyWorst

1 month

The judge doesn't believe that Edwards presents a danger to children? Paying for photographs of child rape *is* creating danger for children. The argument that Edwards' payment for the photos was an unrelated 'gift' is sophistry and the judge is a fool for swallowing it.

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11 months

When Matilda sees you, you have to say hello and give her some fuss. It’s the law. ❤️

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1 year

"This thing we had made, from a script we approved, which went through an editorial process, and which we paid for and published, was somehow made accidentally."

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11 months

We lesbian and gay people have never been more safe in the UK. @RhonddaBryant 's 'I feel unsafe' is the wittering of a narcissistic man-child, and we deserve better from our gay MPs.

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Chris Bryant condescendingly attempts to shut down a debate following gender recognition order statement by saying he feels 'less safe'. Kemi Badenoch wasn't having any of it! Nicely done 👏👏👏

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5 months

Yes, but @wesstreeting appears to forget that he played an active role in demonising gender-critical women. So his personal change of heart is nice, but what matters now is what he actually DOES to repair the damage.

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It’s great - and unusual - to see sitting politicians reflect on what they got wrong in the recent past. Here it’s @wesstreeting on the silencing of women trying to speak up about the importance of single sex spaces. Good for him.

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7 months

There were years of work done, almost all by women, before Newsnight took up the story of the scandal of gender medicine. Bravo Newsnight & Hilary Cass, but let’s also acknowledge the women whose work was the foundation for today, and who were vilified for speaking up #CassReport

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4 months

New followers are always welcome, but let's see how many photos of the dogs you can tolerate before you unfollow me? I warn you - there will be LOTS. 😂

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@JonnyWorst

1 year

@sarahditum @Docstockk It's more evenhanded than the issue deserves. The anti-Stock voices recite slogans and ignore data & argument. I wonder if in a few years time docs like this will look absurd, as we leave behind this idea that this quasi-religious nonsense deserves any sort of patience.

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1 month

Loki is home. In 24 hours we'll know the nature of the tumour. Malignancy is strongly suspected, but there are a range of possibilities within that. We will deal with what comes along.

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2 months

The temporariness of a dog's life is a brute fact that every dog parent has to cope with. The joy of sharing life with dogs is bound up with the fleetingness of the experience - that's the deal. I know this, but even so, bracing for the loss is hard.

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1 year

The clowns at @PHMMcr should hand over all its suffragette items to an institution that understands what they represent.

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@JonnyWorst

9 months

Far be it from me to defend Sunak, but it was Starmer who exploited the murder of a child to get out of a tight spot at #PMQs - and, typically for Starmer, did it pompously.

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@JonnyWorst

1 year

I bet she'd have punched you, Peter.

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1 year

One of my heroes: #SylviaPankhurst Feminist, anti-fascist, suffragette, champion of working class people, especially working class women Bravo!

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2 months

It's a rough weekend here. Loki is in the animal hospital with severe anaemia and a suspected intestinal tumour or ulcer. The prognosis is poor. We hope for luck, but prepare for the worst.

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