Fair Cop dropping hints on Twitter

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About something big about to happen to a red organisation beginning with 'S' that they won't like.

V unfair to vaguetweet IMO - anyone else seen it?

@Floisme

I don't know whether I am most appalled at the enthusiasm for cancel culture purity, the lack of self awareness or the unbearably clunky prose.

I couldn't agree with you more about the clunkiness. It's everywhere and some of these people - I'm thinking Owen Jones yesterday - have the brass neck to identify as writers.

I think it's time for a law on hate crimes against language.

I wonder sometimes if clunkiness in language isn't a reflection of lazy or unexamined thinking. Good thinking tends to clarity and straightforwardness, in my experience.

So you can't say "I

@DialSquare

A bucket of Domestos! You could do the kitchen floor afterwards!

One of those bottles of Dometos with the special neck for putting around the toilet rim might work

twitter.com/alliancelgb/status/1288851433320845312?s=21 Oh dear

How have Stonewall managed to lose money? Isn’t their income insanely high?

IIRC, Stonewall moved into swanky new offices a while back and took on an enormous lease. Could they have got ahead of themselves, I wonder?

Did Ruth go under a cloud, then? Wasn’t there a lag to appoint a new director?

^So you can't say "I

I wonder sometimes if clunkiness in language isn't a reflection of lazy or unexamined thinking.
Yes and I also think it's a sign you don't understand what you're writing and so reached for the Copy & Paste function.

Article in The Spectator now: www.spectator.co.uk/article/network-rail-s-cowardly-decision-to-remove-a-jk-rowling-poster

[quote MorbidMuch]Article in The Spectator now: www.spectator.co.uk/article/network-rail-s-cowardly-decision-to-remove-a-jk-rowling-poster[/quote]
Good piece.

I'm going to repost the link in case the post gets deleted www.spectator.co.uk/article/network-rail-s-cowardly-decision-to-remove-a-jk-rowling-poster

(I'm an idiot and hit report instead of quote )

Good article - thanks for the link Morbid.

Oh my word, Stonewall have somehow managed to bankrupt themselves?!

What a terrible shame.

Overreach isn't free, I suppose.

I thought that Stonewall was regularly getting insane donations from woke celebrities etc?

Wow. That's not the fair cop hint though is it?

or have I missed that

You can read their financial statements on the Charity Commission website.
From 2018 to 2019, donations were up (although down from corporations). Grants were down as they had a whopping 1M from some trust in 2018.

Oh and Stonewall was registered as Stonewall Lobby Group until 2004. I didn't know that. It's amusing considering how offended the TRAs are when someone calls them lobbyists!

WhatKatyDidNot IIRC, Stonewall moved into swanky new offices a while back and took on an enormous lease. Could they have got ahead of themselves, I wonder?

Ideal time to stop their Govt money.

Oh my word, Stonewall have somehow managed to bankrupt themselves?!

Oh, how sad.

Stonewall accounts are here (click on the documents tab):
beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1101255&subId=0

Last year they had over £700,000 from government sources (DfE, FCO, Scottish government, Welsh government) plus a further £46,000 from NHS Scotland.

They also received fees of over £3m from organisations in their Stonewall Diversity Programme, and from schools and LEAs.

My theory was that Ruth was quietly moved 'sideways into the House of Lords.

In the past few months Stonewall have both a new Chair and a new CE. Hopefully they come with a new vision which allows for debate rather than Ruth's appalling #nodebate.

Expenditure exceeding income does not mean they are bankrupt.

If they keep spending more than their income then eventually they will bankrupt themselves. The accounts linked to above show they have reserves of £4m, so they could be in trouble in the next few years, but they could cut expenditure to avoid this.

Their report does say on reserves that they have a policy of holding reserves equal to 6 months of expenditure, but at September 2019 their reserves were only equal to less than 5 months expenditure. So they must be under pressure to cut expenditure unless they can get a generous grant from somewhere.

Could someone tell me of a women's organisation that gets that much money or the opportunity to earn that much from government. I can't think of any, but someone might know

highame Women's Aid does.

thanks @ThePurported I was getting worried

In their annual report, they discuss their risk management and list their three key risks:

Economic climate and change in political landscape leading to loss of income.
Increase in complexity of the regulatory environment.
Increase in anti-LGBT rhetoric in the media, politics and the wider public sphere.

hmmm...