The absolute brass neck of Ruth Hunt

Obviously Cass cites online peer influences

James Esse posted an image where the nspcc / childline were working with mermaids to facilitate online web chat spaces etc.

Mermaids described teens using WhatsApp to remain in touch after residential weekends.

NSPCC keep being recommended for support for children who've experienced harm via WhatsApp groups

Amidst may remarkable revelations, that managed to stand out.

If I didn't know better, I'd think Hunt is styling herself after Eileen Atkins' Saint Joan. I've included a clip of her 1960 performance as Joan of Arc here but the image I have in mind is from the theatre programme and vivid description that a relative had from seeing her in Saint Joan.

(1977) She acted in Sir George Bernard Shaw's play, "Saint Joan," in a Prospect Production at the Liverpool Playhouse in Liverpool, Merseyside, England with Charles Kay, Frederick Treves, Paul Jesson, John Bowe, Geoffrey Palmer OBE, Emrys James, Robert Eddison, and Ronald Lacey in the cast. John Dove was director.

Plus the endless assertions that feminists were being steered by Christian organisations is particularly irritating me now.

There may well be some feminists who are religious, but I don't recall any of them claiming to have had divine instrction!

People who claim to have had direct instructions from a deity often are not considered wholly reliable.

It's only just struck me as a particularly risky strain of the 'appeal to authority' fallacy - where the authority is mysterious, supernatural, and can't be questioned.

Please can someone explain the WhatsApp/NSPCC situation.

Apologies! I'm finding it hard to understand what's happened there.

Curiouser and curiouser

Could be entirely coincidental. No successor in place as yet ...

And we've been censored and warned on MN for saying the word cult when the leader of Stonewall was spouting about have had revelations from frekking Jesus!

I wonder if that is significant timing, Arabella. He picked up his knighthood when all this was quite well known and after the James Makings debacle, IIRC. Maybe we can hope the road is running out.

'Like Moses'

Sorry, did someone say delusions?

"Young people know their own mind and wouldn't be overdosing if they didn't genuinely feel like they needed to"
"No, children aren't influenced into self-harm by others and no-one would pretend to be vulnerable if they weren't to induce children to do things".

Just getting the usual arguments in before they arrive...

Damm right.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/about-us/news-opinion/2024/09-04-2024-sir-peter-wanless-leaving-CEO-role/

CEO just announced he's stepping down on Tuesday.

It's like something out of a horror film.

x.com/stilltish/status/1779177001930125349?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

Good god. Aimed at y6! There must be adult influences to put suggestions such like this. That is sickening.

That photo makes me want to weep.

Threader version: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1779159322666181054.html

BBC WhatsApp story. Released on the day WhatsApp reduced from 16 to 13 last week.

And it's the nspcc that's quoted.

Most schools in the wider NE area passed on the email the police sent out; I have a copy.

Again the nspcc is quoted as the place to turn to.

The nspcc are not fit for purpose.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0l4z8n1p9o

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Northumbria Police Message 25th March 2024

WhatsApp group encouraging self-harm in young people

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust has made us aware of a WhatsApp group called “everyone you know x” which is circulating in North Tyneside. It is aimed at Y6 students.

There are currently 500 members, and the group encourages members to self-harm.

Three young people are in hospital following overdose and they have disclosed that there is a social media trend whereby young people are being encouraged to take overdoses on a points scoring system eg, if admitted to hospital, if a liver specialist has been contacted etc.

As these young people are not from the North Tyneside area, and there is potential for this to affect other year groups, we are making all schools in the force area aware.

The NSPCC website has information about helping children who may have been affected by such content Content promoting self-harm, suicide and eating disorders | NSPC

I'd buy a ticket to watch it.

Malcolm Clark AT TwisterFilm
6./ Where did this messianic confidence that Hunt was doing the right thing come from? I hate to break it to my Christian friends, but Hunt is one of the few people in public life who claims to communicate directly with God. She told the story in the book she edited.

7./ In her essay, Hunt describes Jesus appearing to her in a nightclub. She felt Jesus "by my side, looking out, asking me to come back to him." Jesus said, "I have never left you". She wept. Elsewhere in her essay Hunt refers to the Prophet Moses as her inspiration.

8./ Moses makes an appearance three times and most explicitly in relation to her appointment, the year after her vision of Christ, as the CEO of Stonewall. "Like Moses, God helped me to find the words to say." Really? God told you to enable the sterilisation of kids? I think not.

This is disturbing.

Just a point about Mormonism and hearing things direct from God and how this eventually led to a number of issues with fundamentalism within the religion....

Malcolm Clark thread on the article

x.com/twisterfilm/status/1779159322666181054?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

This is extremely serious.

Simon Edge on Ruth Hunt and her legislator-for-life peerage

https://twitter.com/simonjedge/status/1779108315479392625