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Val Dobson retweeted
Russell Brand’s Pubic Hair Removed From London Museum After Rape Conviction, Curator Says 'I Have No Desire to Hear His Name Again' variety.com/2026/global/news…
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Today is Remembrance Day, when we pause to remember the horrific sacrifices of war made on our behalf by the generations that came before. Donald the draft dodger has demanded that we do not use that name. As with so much else, he should be ignored.
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Tonight, I am the proudest Head in the country. After school today, a man collapsed at a train station. Adults stood by. Our students didn't. One rang 999 and, using first aid she'd learned in LIFE lessons, put him in the recovery position until paramedics took over. 🧵1/2
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Much of this tweet consists of blatant lies and/or distortions of truth.
Basically as expected from a racist bully with the intellect of a turnip.
I'll systematically go through the facts, if it helps anybody avoid donating to the GoFundMe he's apparently creating. /1
Val Dobson retweeted
I think you’re presenting a neurological mechanism as established fact when it hasn’t actually been demonstrated.
Firstly, sexual differentiation of the brain is considerably more complicated than simply developing along a male–female continuum. Much of our mechanistic understanding comes from rodents, where we distinguish four partially independent processes:
- masculinisation (development of male-typical characteristics)
- defeminisation (suppression of female-typical characteristics)
- feminisation (development of female-typical characteristics)
- demasculinisation (reduction of male-typical characteristics).
These aren’t necessarily reciprocal. Masculinisation doesn’t automatically imply a corresponding defeminisation, for example.
In rodents, testosterone is locally aromatised into estrogen within the brain, affecting the structural organisation of specific neural circuits (mainly the hypothalamus). For example, estrogen is known to increase dendritic spine density in the preoptic area (POA) via prostaglandin E2 signalling. We can also experimentally dissociate masculinisation from defeminisation, as
male rodents can develop male-typical mounting behaviour while retaining the capacity for lordosis (female-typical sexual receptivity). So, masculinising one characteristic doesn’t necessarily eliminate female-typical ones.
Attempting to extrapolate this directly to humans is difficult. Human sexual differentiation appears more dependent on androgen-receptor signalling rather than aromatisation observed in rodents. Natural experiments (such as CAIS, CAH, 5α-reductase deficiency and aromatase deficiency) provide evidence that androgen signalling influences aspects of neurological and psychological development, but none establish a discrete, hardwired male or female “neurological identity”.
There’s also an issue with your developmental timeline. Genital differentiation and brain development aren’t two independent processes occurring months apart. Neural development is already underway during genital differentiation, and androgen-sensitive developmental periods overlap considerably. Both tissues are influenced by circulating hormones, although their responses depend on aspects such as receptor expression and localisation. They can certainly develop differently, but that doesn’t mean the body develops as one sex before the brain independently develops according to another “blueprint”.
More importantly, wheres the evidence that the human brain develops according to some internal male or female “blueprint”, or that it continuously compares this supposed “blueprint” against the body’s anatomy, generating GD when they don’t match?
We know prenatal hormones influence aspects of sex-typical behaviour. But that’s different from demonstrating that GD results from a hardwired mismatch between the brain and body.
You’re taking findings about the hormonal organisation of particular neural circuits, largely from rodents, and extrapolating them into a comprehensive explanation for transgender identity. That’s a hypothesis, not an established neurological mechanism.
I also think it’s a lot harder to correlate the prenatal environment to GD than for sexual orientation, in terms of an actual mechanistic explanation.
And that exact neurological hardwiring is precisely why trans people experience gender dysphoria. When the prenatal nervous system is structurally mapped to a female blueprint in the womb, but the external anatomy formed months earlier is male, the brain is constantly receiving conflicting biological and neurological signals. Dysphoria isn't about trying to guess what a period or a specific puberty feels like, it is the profound psychological and physical distress caused by this fundamental, hardwired mismatch between the brain's internal map and the rest of the body.
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A joint three-year investigation by ITV News and the Guardian reveals allegations David Walliams preyed on teenage girls as young as 15
Walliams denies all allegations including criminal activity
Read and watch the full investigation here: itv.com/news/2026-11-10/davi…
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In its Survey, the British Library asks whether its spaces are 'designed for people of my background' among other assumptions disguised as questions.
They weren't of course. They are designed for people who need to work.
I wrote about my love for our national library.
🔗👇
Val Dobson retweeted
People have been making that claim for over a century but nobody has ever managed to find any evidence that Beethoven, or one of his parents were black.
Recent DNA evidence has debunked the claim completely.
More here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/0…
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In the early 2000’s I was working nights, West End Central.
Got a 3AM call of a man harassing women drunk on Regent St, outside Hamleys.
I walked down, full uniform.
This guy was wasted.
Swaying too and fro. I stood in the doorway of Hamleys and watched him.
He had no idea I was there.
His drunken ass would try and accost women walking past, most also the worse for wear from drink, but none as bad as him.
I can only describe what I witnessed as predatory. Entitled, if that makes sense. Expecting someone to recognise him, and go home with him.
I waited for him to go hands on which looked more and more likely, as he became slightly more aggressive with each refusal.
Then I too would go hands on.
Then as one woman passed, he slurred “hello” and reached out to her, but he saw me.
He knew.
As drunk as he was he still corrected his behaviour immediately.
He smiled weakly and stumbled to the edge of the kerb, holding out his arm.
A black cab stopped.
He fell as he tried to get in the back.
The cabbie saw me watching him, and the window came down.
“Are you taking him or me?” he asked.
“He’s your problem now.”
That was best, as he was certainly not a problem I wanted to leave the custody Sergeant with.
That man was David Walliams.
I dealt with lots of famous people in the three years I was at West End Central and many of them presented a level of egotism bordering on the narcissistic.
I’m not saying that fame create entitlement. But it will amplify traits and behaviours that were already present.
What I’m trying to say is when people only hear the word “yes” all the time, they stop recognising “no” as a legitimate answer.
#RussellBrand #london #england
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On the eve of Remembrance Day, the Woman of the Day is Kate ter Horst (1906-1992), the Angel of Arnhem, who provided refuge to over 250 wounded British paratroopers in her home for eight days non-stop during the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, finding them water while her home was under fire and comforting them as they lay dying.
Kate, her husband and five children lived in the rectory house next to the Old Church in Oosterbeek just outside Arnhem. She was overjoyed when she saw British paratroopers landing near her home on 17 September 1944.
“Crazy with joy, we walk through the garden and climb on the roof so we can see more and understand what is happening. We can hardly believe it. Will it really be true? Is this the long awaited end of our grief that now falls from the sky? Does this now mean freedom?”
German resistance was far greater than expected and the paratroopers were driven back to the Old Church. The casualty rate was high. A captain asked Kate if they could use the rectory house as a first aid post for the wounded soldiers. Her husband was out with the British in the forests, acting as a guide, and Kate had her children to care for, but she agreed. More than 250 soldiers were brought to her home.
“Everywhere, the injured - the dining room, the study and garden room, the transverse corridor, even under the stairs and in the toilet they are. There is no corner left. Oh, if only I could be a hostess. If only I could give them a hospitable bed and at least fresh water…At the same time, a hurricane of explosions burst out over us. Shake the walls. I hear crackling, the house across the street is ablaze. Phosphorus, flashes through my head. The injured lie back, without a complaint, helpless. Now leave them alone? But I have to go downstairs: five children are longing for me right now, trusting that I will be unharmed to protect them.”
When the water supply was disrupted, Kate used the boiler and the toilet cistern to give the men precious drops of water. Needs must. She kept an English Bible in the house and read Psalm 91 to the soldiers who were dying. Together, they said the Lord's Prayer. A temporary cemetery was set up in the garden, and 57 soldiers were buried during the fighting.
General Frank King later wrote: “I noticed that an entire room was reviving when she came in. A seriously wounded soldier summarised it before he died. After Kate ter Horst talked to him for a moment, he said, ‘She is fantastic. She’s just like my mum.’”
After the Battle of Arnhem, the Ter Horsts were evacuated along with the other residents of Oosterbeek, but they returned after the liberation. Their eldest son, Pieter, was the last victim of the Battle of Arnhem. He was killed in November 1947 when he stepped on an anti-tank mine on the floodplains behind their house.
In 1980, Kate and her husband were appointed Honorary Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for their valour and heroism.
Brave, brave woman.
Yikes....
I am going to describe some painful and personal things in relation to Russell Brand because I have been put in a position now where I feel that I have no choice other than to do so, given the misleading reports and speculation around the facts of a harassment injunction that was taken out to protect me and my family.
Firstly, and most importantly, I am and have always been strongly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims. I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified and ensured justice was done. I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse. I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident. I chose not to press charges at the time and not to go public with this, as I was worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children. I have neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014. Whilst my pain in relation to this, pales in comparison to what the women have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact.
Over several years, I assisted the journalists who finally exposed him; Ros Urwin, Louisa Compton and Dorothy Byrne. I also undertook to testify in court to his abusiveness, if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts were ever to be sued.
I have spent much of my professional career trying to support unfairly demonised and silenced women, such as Monica Lewinsky and defending free speech.
In 2014, a harassment injunction was taken out against a woman called Szilvia Berki which was made final in 2015.
I fully understand the good intentions of those now advocating on her behalf online and agree with their demand for this harassment injunction to be varied, as my lawyer made clear to Berki’s lawyer in December last year.
However, the commentary and media reporting this week has presented an untrue narrative, which has opened me up to vile hatred and abuse online.
For this reason, and to correct the record, I am providing the factual background to that injunction to explain why The High Court found the campaign of harassment by Berki against me to be, "oppressive and unacceptable” and made the order permanent.
The background to this is that Ms Berki came to my house for roughly 30 minutes in June 2014, after I booked her to give a massage to Brand. By the time she arrived he had decided he didn’t want a massage and asked her to leave. She was clearly offended. I was present the whole time he was with her, and I did not see anything untoward, despite the fact that he was later found guilty of sexually assaulting other women and he later physically assaulted me. If I saw any man abuse any woman under any circumstances, I would do my utmost to stop them, without hesitation.
Ms Berki later reported to the police that Brand had pushed her in the back whilst she was leaving the house and that she also said she was “attacked” by my dog, which she described in her police statement as my dog licking her face. The police rightly investigated Ms Berki’s complaint. I cooperated fully with the investigation, provided a truthful statement about what I saw and also provided CCTV footage, which showed my overly exuberant but totally unaggressive dog jumping up.
Following an investigation into Ms Berki’s allegations, police concluded that there was no case to answer and that no criminal offence had been committed.
According to the police, at no time did Ms Berki ever state to them that she had been assaulted, threatened or falsely imprisoned.
There was also a subsequent review of the investigation by the IPCC and Thames Valley Police Professional Standards which found that the original police investigation had been correct in its findings.
In the meantime, several untrue stories appeared in the tabloid papers. Ms Berki forwarded an email to me confirming a payment for one such story she had received from The Sun newspaper. Articles were also published in The Telegraph, The Mail and The Mirror at Ms Berki’s instigation which contained her account of the alleged incident.
Then having at first said in a story published by the Daily Mail that she had found me to be “really very nice, very, very nice,” she later embarked on a campaign of vicious antisemitic and threatening abuse online and in emails.
Below is just a sample of some of those tweets and messages sent over many months (which were submitted to the judge who granted the harassment injunction)-
(Jemima is a) “deeply rotted JEWISH Bitch”
“Did you know that if your life is in danger you can LAWFULLY kill your attacker as defence?! … by now I could have lawfully kill at least 5-6 people who were hurting me”
“Also happy birthday (Jemima). I hope you have more. In other words I hope you don’t die this year.”
EMAIL- “If you make me very upset…you can expect the worts from me – I think you know this – without that I need to remind you”
“What is going on in Britain is a dictatory of J evils. English Jewish Evil dictatory”
“Would like to see justice, and I do not think that I should do it myself but what can I do when every organisation is scared of Jevils! ;)”
“They say … Do not hate all Jews because you know a few Jewish evils. They are on top always decadent and evils”
“Fortunately there are many mansions outside of the UK where Jewish money aristocrats are still not welcomed
#Germany #Austria #Italy #Hungary”
"Judge on High Court: I ordered her to shut up Jew. Do I have a case or not? soon we will kill her then".
“A pity that I was in the UK. BB In Hungary if you would report the Police they would for sure find it without an investigation already that the Jews are guilty. Sad”
“Every organisation is scared of JEVILS”
“When my great grandparents see what Jews did to me they do something in heaven to solve this. I will not make my hand dirty with Jews.”
“J evils … Rob, lie, crime”
“I am so happy I am free from the English Jewish Evil dictator and outside of England the High Court cannot rule”
“Probably I wait a bit more and than go public. What is going on in Britain is a dictatory of J evils.”
She sent an enormous volume of similarly disturbing emails and tweets to or about me, to my family, to my workplace, to journalists from the national media to members of my family, to UNICEF UK where I had been a goodwill Ambassador for decades, and to organisations my ex-husband was associated with, and to MPs.
She began disseminating on social media wild and untrue allegations about me, ranging from kidnap to cyberhacking, to having someone bump into her and laugh at her in the tube station, having her followed by two men, bribing the police, paying off a judge, and other false and alarming conspiracy theories based on my Jewishness.
The number, tone and content of these messages was extremely frightening. It was distressing for my then teenage children and my family. I was concerned that Ms Berki was potentially a real danger to my family and me. I have had stalkers before and this behaviour felt similarly threatening.
Although I was at this point no longer in contact with Brand, I agreed to the suggestion by his lawyer of a harassment order. My sole reason was to stop Ms Berki targeting me and my family. The harassment injunction was upheld by the High Court and Court of Appeal on several occasions.
I engaged a lawyer of my own when I was made aware that Berki was applying to the court to vary the terms of the injunction. And I instructed my lawyer in December last year to approach Ms Berki’s barrister to say that I agreed to vary the injunction so that she could speak to the police again if she wanted to. I also instructed my lawyer to engage on her other requests.
I did this despite my real fears that the harassment would re-commence and that her threatening antisemitism, if again unleashed, might exacerbate the danger to my children and me that we continue to face because of our Jewish heritage and their father’s political career and incarceration in Pakistan.
Her barrister has not responded to my lawyer since May of this year despite trying to engage him. I was informed by her lawyer that any change to the injunction must also be agreed by Brand. I have no ability to compel Brand in this matter, as I have not seen or spoken to him in over a decade.
I hope this information will help clarify speculation about my involvement in the anti-harassment order.
I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally faced justice.
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Val Dobson retweeted
Today, @thenerve_news publishes a landmark years-long investigation into what may be the biggest online influence campaign ever.
There is credible evidence Israel interfered in UK elections using Kate Middleton to spread anti-Muslim hate.
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EXCLUSIVE
Ads warning of a ‘Muslim invasion of Europe’ reached British screens before the 2024 elections and the Southport riots, and kept coming for 2 more years.
Meta and Google took the money, and the trail leads back to Israel, writes disinformation expert @marcowenjones🧵
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The protesters of our women's March were the Revolutionary Communist Group & friends.
They couldn't handle the idea of women assembling, networking and walking through town city!
They screamed obscenities at us, blocked us & tried to intimidate us. But we stayed strong.
I'm seeing quite a lot of my followers falling for this lie.
If you're one of them, please unfollow me - I prefer interacting with people who do some research before they comment.
@thenerve_news
1/ No, @carolecadwalla & @thenerve_news are *not* claiming that Kate Middleton is a Mossad agent.
This lie is being spread by pro-Israel accounts aiming to rubbish a very well researched story by @marcowenjones that presents strong evidence that Israel was behind a campaign...
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Val Dobson retweeted
1/ No, @carolecadwalla & @thenerve_news are *not* claiming that Kate Middleton is a Mossad agent.
This lie is being spread by pro-Israel accounts aiming to rubbish a very well researched story by @marcowenjones that presents strong evidence that Israel was behind a campaign...