Private Eye article on Edward Lord and CofL consultation

I'd forgotten about lord.

So so dodgy. Partner to meg John thingy iirc. Also v dodgy...

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Gosh, and this lovely individual (or plurality) actually represents my ward. That is fortunate.

I love my subscription to Private Eye, it's an ongoing Xmas pressie from my son. They are great at persistently digging in to stories that get overlooked by the main stream.

The Post Office IT scandal and Deepcut Barracks for example. Two stories they have not allowed the establishment to bury.

Hopefully they'll do more GC stuff too. They are obviously aware.

An excellent idea about a subscription to PE for Christmas.

Thank you.

This is my favourite revealing moment from Meg John Barker:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6125081/Alright-duck-British-women-emotional-caring-say-therapists-unless-northern.html
It then adds: ‘In some northern working-class contexts femininity is associated with strength and aggression.’

This is a 2019 thread, @Crankyoldboiler, so Private Eye was actually ahead of the curve here. Francis Wheen is gender critical, I believe. I saw him at a meeting in London 2 or 3 years ago - WPUK, I think. He's one of the key people who write for the Eye. Don't know Ian Hislop's views. He probably has to be careful because of his job on HIGNFY.

Yes, that Edward Lord. And the same one who was discovered in a journalist”s sting to be willing to lobby for a human rights abusing client.

Is this the Edward Lord whose partner is/was the gender psychologist activist Meg John Barker?

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So registering to vote is free and is entry into a competition to win £100, and you could then vote out Edward Lord (they/them)?

I think a subscription to Private Eye will be the perfect Christmas gift to myself.

I recently saw an interview with Ian Hislop and he's hopeful for the future of print - and committed to paying journalists fairly. I think a subscription for this would be very good value.

Private Eye, late to wake up and come to the party, but welcome nevertheless. Really sinister the way the results to the consultation appear to have been manipulated so easily by excluding those who refused to answer the question about gender identity - talk about rigging the results.

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The bit about half the votes being thrown out because the voters refused to engage with the 'gender assigned at birth' nonsense is shocking. What a great way to exclude gender critical participants. True silencing of women!

I never have to recycle PE because friends are always happy to have my copies when I've finished with them. I used to leave them at the doctor's surgery but they have put a stop to having secondhand mags and books.

That would be because Owen is such a bro and it's nasty women trying to get in the way of men's right to wank at work, whereas Edward Lord is a Chap and therefore One Of Us so he can't possibly be doing anything out of line.

Linking the bit in the article about how Edward Lord has defended countries in which homosexuality is illegal with the LOJ thread, how come some types of homophobia (and I’m not sure homophobia is the right word to describe the imprisonment and execution of gay people) are more allowable than others? The pick and mix moral outrage of LOJ and his supporters is shocking.

only just read the article

Edward Lord involved with TEAS, oh dear

Of interest to readers, a now removed Graun piece, thankfully archived

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The late reggae artist Smiley Culture was also involved with TEAS, it's an interesting organisation

Maybe Private Eye will pick up the NSPCC story

I’m tempted by private eye, but really would want to read it as an app/online rather than having printed copies cluttering up my recycling.

Thanks. I just subscribed.

Private Eye is well worth the paltry annual subscription. I don't always agree with what they print, but they're absolutely spot on with this. Hilarious as well.

They published quite a few letters on the whole trans rights to-do a few months ago. There had been an article in Rotten Boroughs on the cancelled WPUK meeting at Leeds city hall, and stuff going on at Cambridge re the equality act - a couple of letters were published in response. One saying 'this was transphobic' and one saying 'well done for dipping your toe in the whole problem with trans activism - please continue because people are frightened to talk about it' [paraphrasing!] There followed more letters over the next couple of issues, mostly encouraging them to do more on it. I thought at the time maybe just maybe they were publishing the letters to show that there is reader demand because they were planning to more.

Its the perfect organ for investigating this. None of the journalists are named so no one can go after them. The readership are not woke, and the whole premise of the paper is poke at hypocrisy.

I got an email from private eye in the last few days that I when our subscription renews the price will have gone up and I did ponder whether to cancel. But worth keeping for stuff like this if nothing else.