Pastries and coffee are where we seem to have got to with the normalisation of anything anti-jewish
Notice what's missing.
The ironies just keep piling up.
The day after I reveal that a big majority of Tory members are in favour of the Conservative ban on social media for under 16s, I want to talk about social media for adults – at least those that pretend they are.
I’ve been criticised before – water off my back – for robustly confronting views expressed on ConservativeHome from those who choose to comment below our articles. Just a word of advice to our Reform visitors; being anti ‘bans’ is good solid libertarian stuff but the fact is you are in favour of bans on: under 16s having sex, buying tobacco, or alcohol and wearing headscarves – it is a sign you are in favour of bans – just ones that you like.
I don’t say these are bad ideas, just pointing to the problem. You may want to debate these issues but at least be consistent.
Anyway, I went ‘viral’ this week. Not like some do, but a Tweet/X post I made got a lot of attention. Supported by the many not ‘the few”.
I, like many, including the Guardian’s editor Kath Viner, were less than comfortable with a piece by Jonathan Liew a man with quite the reputation, who tried to explain that being vile to Gail’s bakery is actually ok.
Now, I’ll be honest, I was merely hoping to point out to people that our columnist Georgia Gilholy had argued the best response to attacks on a chain of bakeries is to go out of one’s way to buy and eat their products as a good way to say ‘NO’ to keffiyeh wearing millennials whose lives are seemingly defined by Gaza.
But such was the response to Jonathan Liew’s article – which I’m not going to link to because it can be found, but doesn’t deserve the oxygen of more publicity – that I’m glad instead of my last viral ‘tweet’ about a jasmine arbour I’d created – my counter did at least get nearly a thousand likes.
Why do I care?
Not for myself I promise. I’ve been a TV presenter so the idea I need exposure is a bit weak to say the least, but because I hate the idea that this thinly veiled argument that it is ok to harass people in the UK “because Israel, and Genocide” but couch it in a form of “but just support your independent cafés” – especially if the owner is Palestinian – is being normalised.
I loathed Greta Thunberg’s narcissists’ yachting holiday because it was never going to land, was all about them, and because I personally have done more to ensure actual aid gets to Palestinians than they have in their lifetimes. Not a point they can debate.
Here’s the problem.
Even some of the Guardian’s own people seem to think this was a crass article. The left are volubly defending it saying that Gail’s bakery chain are part of wider commercial interests that are investing in Israeli weapons and …here it comes ‘genocide’
The egregious Zara Sultana, she of the ‘Jeremy Corbyn beat you’ …
Notice what's missing.
The ironies just keep piling up.
The day after I reveal that a big majority of Tory members are in favour of the Conservative ban on social media for under 16s, I want to talk about social media for adults – at least those that pretend they are.
I’ve been criticised before – water off my back – for robustly confronting views expressed on ConservativeHome from those who choose to comment below our articles. Just a word of advice to our Reform visitors; being anti ‘bans’ is good solid libertarian stuff but the fact is you are in favour of bans on: under 16s having sex, buying tobacco, or alcohol and wearing headscarves – it is a sign you are in favour of bans – just ones that you like.
I don’t say these are bad ideas, just pointing to the problem. You may want to debate these issues but at least be consistent.
Anyway, I went ‘viral’ this week. Not like some do, but a Tweet/X post I made got a lot of attention. Supported by the many not ‘the few”.
I, like many, including the Guardian’s editor Kath Viner, were less than comfortable with a piece by Jonathan Liew a man with quite the reputation, who tried to explain that being vile to Gail’s bakery is actually ok.
Now, I’ll be honest, I was merely hoping to point out to people that our columnist Georgia Gilholy had argued the best response to attacks on a chain of bakeries is to go out of one’s way to buy and eat their products as a good way to say ‘NO’ to keffiyeh wearing millennials whose lives are seemingly defined by Gaza.
But such was the response to Jonathan Liew’s article – which I’m not going to link to because it can be found, but doesn’t deserve the oxygen of more publicity – that I’m glad instead of my last viral ‘tweet’ about a jasmine arbour I’d created – my counter did at least get nearly a thousand likes.
Why do I care?
Not for myself I promise. I’ve been a TV presenter so the idea I need exposure is a bit weak to say the least, but because I hate the idea that this thinly veiled argument that it is ok to harass people in the UK “because Israel, and Genocide” but couch it in a form of “but just support your independent cafés” – especially if the owner is Palestinian – is being normalised.
I loathed Greta Thunberg’s narcissists’ yachting holiday because it was never going to land, was all about them, and because I personally have done more to ensure actual aid gets to Palestinians than they have in their lifetimes. Not a point they can debate.
Here’s the problem.
Even some of the Guardian’s own people seem to think this was a crass article. The left are volubly defending it saying that Gail’s bakery chain are part of wider commercial interests that are investing in Israeli weapons and …here it comes ‘genocide’
The egregious Zara Sultana, she of the ‘Jeremy Corbyn beat you’ …
Pastries and coffee are where we seem to have got to with the normalisation of anything anti-jewish
Notice what's missing.
The ironies just keep piling up.
The day after I reveal that a big majority of Tory members are in favour of the Conservative ban on social media for under 16s, I want to talk about social media for adults – at least those that pretend they are.
I’ve been criticised before – water off my back – for robustly confronting views expressed on ConservativeHome from those who choose to comment below our articles. Just a word of advice to our Reform visitors; being anti ‘bans’ is good solid libertarian stuff but the fact is you are in favour of bans on: under 16s having sex, buying tobacco, or alcohol and wearing headscarves – it is a sign you are in favour of bans – just ones that you like.
I don’t say these are bad ideas, just pointing to the problem. You may want to debate these issues but at least be consistent.
Anyway, I went ‘viral’ this week. Not like some do, but a Tweet/X post I made got a lot of attention. Supported by the many not ‘the few”.
I, like many, including the Guardian’s editor Kath Viner, were less than comfortable with a piece by Jonathan Liew a man with quite the reputation, who tried to explain that being vile to Gail’s bakery is actually ok.
Now, I’ll be honest, I was merely hoping to point out to people that our columnist Georgia Gilholy had argued the best response to attacks on a chain of bakeries is to go out of one’s way to buy and eat their products as a good way to say ‘NO’ to keffiyeh wearing millennials whose lives are seemingly defined by Gaza.
But such was the response to Jonathan Liew’s article – which I’m not going to link to because it can be found, but doesn’t deserve the oxygen of more publicity – that I’m glad instead of my last viral ‘tweet’ about a jasmine arbour I’d created – my counter did at least get nearly a thousand likes.
Why do I care?
Not for myself I promise. I’ve been a TV presenter so the idea I need exposure is a bit weak to say the least, but because I hate the idea that this thinly veiled argument that it is ok to harass people in the UK “because Israel, and Genocide” but couch it in a form of “but just support your independent cafés” – especially if the owner is Palestinian – is being normalised.
I loathed Greta Thunberg’s narcissists’ yachting holiday because it was never going to land, was all about them, and because I personally have done more to ensure actual aid gets to Palestinians than they have in their lifetimes. Not a point they can debate.
Here’s the problem.
Even some of the Guardian’s own people seem to think this was a crass article. The left are volubly defending it saying that Gail’s bakery chain are part of wider commercial interests that are investing in Israeli weapons and …here it comes ‘genocide’
The egregious Zara Sultana, she of the ‘Jeremy Corbyn beat you’ …
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