British Kasmiri Girl are you there????

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Hello if you make it over from the Times Online comments!

I love reading your comments.
And S Henderson.

Would be amazing to hang out here :)

Nice but niche.

Welcome, BKG!

This is a great board.

You'll fit right in

Thank you 😁👊

Hi BKG welcome to MN, I’m another TOL comments refugee ever since the names policy. I think TOL are trying to court younger readers so the mods are favouring commenters such as Steve Cambridge and Ian Hislop. Just to warn you there are also lots of bots and activists on MN particularly on the the feminism topics. I quite enjoy duelling with them because eventually they out themselves from pure frustration when they’re having to respond to several posters simultaneously arguing with them😂.

I actually still comment on TOL, until I get too irate at the old white blokes who inevitably turn up to tell you how they had it worse. I'm still fuming at one from 3 weeks ago. Have had a break for my sanity!

I got really p*d of with TOL because of the names policy which was really an attack on free speech. The basic level of journalism has been dumbed down a lot but now and again there is a really good article and I like reading the commentators

I'm not actually convinced that they check you're using your real name, given that when I originally signed up I used a real looking fake name as my user ID, and I've never bothered to change it. I'm not much of a commenter, but do occasionally, and they've never picked me up on it. I don't know how they enforce it if you try to change it though.

Welcome @BritishKashmiriGirl .

I'm usually around early morning so I run an imaginary cafe for other insomniacs if you ever want a chat at 4.00am.

Hello British Kashmiri Girl, I’ve been reading your comments in the Times for years under your BKG moniker and latterly under M Durrani. Lately I have not found much of your content, so I have been Googling to see where you might have moved your writing to.

Do you write professionally? I see you have a Medium and a Substack, but neither have recent content.

Are you the same M Durrani with the Facebook page on clothing? The one that said that you got a paediatric nursing degree in 2013, got married, moved to Saudi, moved back to the UK, etc. That Facebook is also defunct.

I see Babdoc in the comments quite often so I like to give a recommend. I subscribe to the Times but have an unusual name so wary of public comment.

I stopped using twitter after my adult DD berated me for my GC posts, so really Mumsnet is my only safe space!