Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪 @NotThatBigIan Twitter profile

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

5 years

If anybody is interested in why I find #Corbyn not only a risk to national security but also an odious fool, my father was driving that ambulance.

Brexit Tory #IStandWithJKRowling

@_BrexitTory

5 years

Jeremy Corbyn & Diane Abbott signed a parliamentary motion after the Enniskillen poppy day massacre, blaming the UK government for an IRA bomb that ripped through a crowd of innocent people attending a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, killing 11 & injuring 68

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1 year

Let me help out here as a former Executive Director of the EHRC. There is no intention to remove gender reassignment as a protected characteristic, nor should there be. Clarifying the EqA to redefine 'sex' as 'biological sex' restores women's rights to safety, decency, privacy.

Mermaids

@Mermaids_Gender

1 year

It’s extremely distressing to see the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC, seeking to strip trans people’s rights from the Equality Act 2010. By redefining sex, they support removing the rights and protections trans people have had for over a decade 🧵

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3 years

After Hancock some urgent questions for HMG: 1. How was footage procured? 2. Who passed it on to Sun and why? 3. What if any involvement by public servants? 4. Implications for national security?

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@NotThatBigIan

2 months

I've worked in women's prisons. I've locked up predatory male sex offenders. *Anyone* with operational experience of how these men target and exploit women will know that forcing them together in custody for the sake of male validation is morally insane. No equivocation works.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

2 months

The trans activist outrage that ensues on here whenever I share my belief that jailed women shouldn't be used as validation tools or emotional support props for trans-identified male sex offenders is as revealing as it's predictable. Such activists can't bring themselves to…

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@NotThatBigIan

10 months

Men with beards, incoherent with rage, want @RosieDuffield1 ejected from the Labour Party - and far worse - for saying men can't be mothers. In the cringing silence from leadership, surely there's someone who understands how this will go down on the doorstep. Where voters are.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

As a former prison Governor, I wholeheartedly support #Amendment214 Female prisoners many of whom are traumatised through abuse must be protected in law from anatomically male sex offenders being housed in the same accommodation. It seems insane that this is even being debated.

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@NotThatBigIan

6 months

Sit down.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

I probably don't have much in common politically with @suzanne_moore or @BluskyeAllison but by God they are two incredibly brave and principled women worthy of your support and I'll never stop saying so.

If Stonewall doesn’t represent a woman like Allison Bailey, then who is it for?

Because she didn’t swallow the charity’s ‘gender identity’ dogma, they wanted her gone – but she is everything they were meant to support

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

I have it on good authority that three of the people who took on the terrorist murderer Usman Khan on Friday were former prisoners at HMP Grendon, a unique therapeutic prison where I started as a prison officer. It makes you think. Or it should do.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

Very sad to hear about his sudden death next Wednesday.

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@NotThatBigIan

5 years

I'm very proud to have been associated with @RoryStewartUK campaign for leadership of the country. He's been eliminated from this race, sadly, but there's no doubt he transformed the contest and showed all voters the human face of modern Conservatism. He has a very bright future.

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3 years

This is Paul Maxwell. He went to my school. He was blown to bits by the IRA on a boat in 1979 by terrorists who watched him and other children get on. Mary Lou McDonald says this was 'inevitable.' That is the morality of the asylum.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

When Gerry Kelly talks about 'active service' he refers to IRA murders of fellow Irish men wearing the uniform of the Crown, largely executed off duty, in front of their children, on their farms, in cafes, shops, on the steps of their churches. Just in case of any confusion.

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1 year

You have to pick a side, really. The side of bastards who target an off-duty police officer helping young people, putting bullets into him on the ground as his terrified son looks on. Or the side that wants out of the hateful abyss they want to pull us back into. #Omagh #Decide

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@NotThatBigIan

6 months

This is surely disingenuous. Public Order legislation exists to cover behaviour like this. It doesn't need to specify, it simply creates a test of disorderly or insulting behaviour. Both of which are surely on display in this case.

Metropolitan Police

@metpoliceuk

6 months

@IncMonocle It’s deeply disrespectful to climb on a war memorial, but there’s no law making it illegal. In the absence of a law officers cannot automatically arrest, but they can intervene & make it clear the behaviour isn't acceptable. That’s what they are seen doing here in this video.

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

This image is not from a war zone, it's from a UK city centre. This is someone's daughter, partner, mother. Uniformed members of the public carry a special burden on our behalf, so violence against them must be met w/the severest sanctions. Or else she stays home. And we're lost.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

If you're packing a meat and two veg, you're not *entitled* to be: a. In women's prisons b. In women's hospital wards c. In women's DV shelters d. In women's toilets e. In women's sports teams f. In women's changing rooms Etc That's not 'transphobic'. It's decent. Thanks #Elon .

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1 year

As a former Chief Operating Officer at the EHRC, I spent more time dealing with relentless internal staff grievances by a politicised workforce and driving up performance than delivering fairness. This has a familiar ring to it. via

Plot to drive out equality chief who's standing up for women

EXCLUSIVE: The employees at the Equality and Human Rights Commission are said to have compiled a dossier, setting out more than 40 complaints aimed at Baroness Falkner.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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7 months

Why have London hotels, even the previously reliable Premier Inns, become so insanely expensive recently? Who is in 3* hotels for £240 a night? Did I miss some memo or events that have massively inflated the cost of a bed for the night? It's bonkers.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

A short thread on the difference between justice and vengeance. In the late 90s I was Head of Security at HMP Wandsworth. It had a large sex offender population housed in a separate vulnerable prisoners unit (VPU). A notorious child killer was en route from court. 1/

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

3 years ago today unarmed police officers were severely injured taking on Islamist terrorists near London Bridge. Armed officers neutralised the threat stopping even greater mass murder. Tonight their colleagues are being spat on, assaulted for a crime in the US. Makes you think.

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4 years

Spare a thought for prison officers and other front line jail staff reporting for duty this morning across the UK. They are exposing themselves to increased risk to continue to protect society during #covid19 . They deserve your thanks and support.

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2 years

I'm a former HO senior civil servant and was an executive director in a non departmental body. @KemiBadenoch description resonates. We need to get back to a situation where democratically elected ministers deciding is the rule, not an eccentric fluke.

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@NotThatBigIan

3 years

'Unbroken.' Unlike the three children of the innocent young mother, Yvonne Dunlop, he incinerated in a bomb attack. If you eulogise the sectarian killers of your neighbours, you have no place in modern politics.

Sinn Féin

@sinnfeinireland

3 years

40 years ago today, at 11am, Óglach Thomas McElwee from Bellaghy died after 62 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. He was a political prisoner; unbowed and unbroken. This is his story.

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2 years

What's behind smearing/targeting of @EHRC is very simple. Sectional interest groups w/extraordinary entitlement are furious its not acting as a client for their dogma. In other words it is acting as the independent statutory regulator its supposed to be. And they can't handle it.

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9 months

Thread: Even the possibility of Andrew Malkinson being docked compensation for 'bed and board' after 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is abhorrent. The principle is no less than an indefensible act of state mendacity. 1/

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@NotThatBigIan

3 years

'Tough on cervixes, tough on the causes of cervixes.'

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2 years

The idea, God help us, that forcing another NI Assembly election by stonewalling the electorate for 6 months which would then somehow reward Unionism is head in the glue bag level strategic thinking. Words fail me.

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4 years

I remember building Twelfth bonfires as a kid - the excitement & the adventure. I don't remember burning the flag of my neighbours or scrawling 'Kill All Taigs' on pallets as being part of the culture. Because it isn't culture, it's sectarian hate. Be bigger. Be better. Wise up.

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@NotThatBigIan

3 years

On November 8th 1987 the IRA were responsible for an bomb atrocity in my home town so grotesque it was even condemned by the Kremlin. Twelve of Enniskillen's sons & daughters were murdered laying wreaths at a Cenotaph. My father was a first responder. 'Bear in mind these dead.'

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4 years

@SteveDoherty1 I once put up a poster on D wing in HMP Durham encouraging prisoners who were illiterate to apply to my office for classes. I had the piss taken out of me for roughly 700 years.

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5 months

Those of us who have locked up male sex offenders know that they are adept at insinuating themselves into female spaces. They exploit professional naivete, cowardice and affirmatory processes. The state must not facilitate harm to women and girls.

Kemi Badenoch: more predators than trans people, which is why we must protect single-sex spaces

Equalities minister says men are exploiting loopholes in the law to gain access to women’s lavatories and changing rooms

www.telegraph.co.uk

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3 years

Why don't we know more about this horrific incident? Why is the reporting so ambiguous three days on? A women is burned alive on a UK street, three people arrested then bailed? What's going on exactly?

Family tribute to woman found on fire in street - BBC News

Sarah Hussein's family say she was "kind and hard-working" and they are "devastated" by her death.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

There is real momentum now on the pushback to what is, in essence, nothing to do with legitimate trans rights and everything to do with legitimised misogyny. Take your hat off to all the women who said 'enough.' Stop hiding and stand with them.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

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Last Friday, my family’s address was posted on Twitter by three activist actors who took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible. 1/8

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2 years

That's a hard ask, believe me, but one we should be thankful isn't ours and in turn we should recognise the officers hidden away behind the walls who have chosen to step up and do it for us. Making Arthur's merciless killers forgotten, pitiful ghosts is vengeance enough. Ends.

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2 years

Spot on.

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1 year

Here's a woman guarding her family from IRA terrorists on their farm near the NI border in the 1980s. Its a long way from corporate veneration of blokes in skirts but somehow more emblematic for #IWD2023 Here's to all women who've had enough and won't submit.

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

There are two ways of looking at this - a sensible precaution ahead of potential disorder this weekend or an admission that our police can't protect a monument of iconic national significance at the heart of the capital. Either way, this does not reflect well on us as a country.

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@NotThatBigIan

8 months

This is incredibly serious. I used to be head of Security at Wandsworth in the 90s. An escape from custody, as this appears to be would have to defeat multiple layers of physical/human security. We must know what has happened here.

Hunt for terror suspect ex-soldier Daniel Khalife after Wandsworth prison escape

A nationwide manhunt is under way for Daniel Abed Khalife, who was awaiting trial on terror charges.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

My friend and colleague James stood up for the rights of women in prisons not to be forced to share space with male bodied offenders when many academics looked the other way. He's now under attack for that. I hope women on here will return the solidarity.

Staffordshire Uni lecturer probed over 'transphobic' Twitter posts

EXCLUSIVE: Professor James Treadwell was informed by his employer Staffordshire University yesterday that official complaints have been made about comments he has made on Twitter.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@NotThatBigIan

1 year

I'm old enough to remember when the job of an editor was to intervene *before* a paper was dragged through the sewer. #JewsDontCount

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

I've said it before - in the fullness of time, the manipulation of kids with drugs to reassign gender identity by Tavistock clinic will be as big as the NHS tainted blood scandal. via @telegraphnews

Nurse launches legal test case with claim children cannot consent to transgender treatment

Children cannot consent to transgender treatment, a nurse bringing a landmark legal case has said, claiming that many are autistic, homosexual or just confused.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

He died very young. But voluntarily. A choice denied to Yvonne Dunlop who his firebombs incinerated at 26. We must never let these people lionise violent extremists without reminders of the horrors they wrought.

Francie Molloy MP

@FrancieMolloy

2 years

Thomas McElwee joined the Hunger Strike 41 years ago today. He was only 23. RIP

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@NotThatBigIan

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This is grotesque. The only way to stop stupid people getting any power is to expose their stupidity. NUFC and The Premier League defence will collapse like a rotten soufflé under examination. Watch this space

Newcastle United Fan Banned From Going to Games Until 2026 Over Gender-Critical Posts After Being...

A football fan has been given a three season ban for saying she doesn't think transwomen are women after being investigated by an intelligence unit embedded in the Premier League. Read the story of...

dailysceptic.org

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

Consider how close this woman, seen here lauding two people who think a campaign of murder of British citizens by IRA terrorists was 'justified' came to being Home Secretary. What a swerve.

Diane Abbott MP

@HackneyAbbott

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With two heroines of the democratic struggle in the North of Ireland

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

Extraordinary show of solidarity by colleagues of Officer Jason Rivera NYPD killed in the line of duty and laid to rest today after a funeral Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral. #BackTheBlue

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

We'd also be forgiven for wondering why the Independent gives voice to the Director of Communications for Prostasia - an advocacy group that wants to replace the label Paedophile with 'Minor attracted Person' and believes children can be 'sex workers.'

The Independent

@Independent

2 years

J K Rowling keeps tweeting and we keep wondering why | Noah Berlatsky

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

There may be some confusion here. Heavily armed terrorists 'lost their lives' having blown up a police station while attempting to murder the officers inside. In fact Tyrone & Fermanagh were subsequently released from the grip of killers more used to shooting defenceless victims.

Michelle Gildernew

@gildernewm

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#OnThisDay 1987, 8 men lost their lives in Loughgall in an SAS ‘shoot to kill’ ambush. Anthony Hughes was also killed, his brother Oliver badly injured. A massive blow to Tyrone & further afield. Thinking of their families, friends & comrades. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anamach.

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@NotThatBigIan

5 months

And not taking any shit from propagandists either. Superb performance. Why aren't more ministers made of this?

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@BellaWallerstei

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Straightforward, intelligent & honest. We need more politicians like Kemi Badenoch.

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@NotThatBigIan

1 year

Disappointing report from C4 News on EHRC problems. Attributed & vague accusations voiced by actors, Caroline Noakes clearly unaware that the EHRC job is sometimes to adjudicate between competing rights. Ludicrous unsupported allegations of a lack of 'safety' in the office. Poor.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

One final thing for tonight on Sir David Amess murder. Two police officers detain Harbi Ali armed only with batons and pava spray. They didn't wait for armed back up and ran towards a hellish scene not knowing the danger they could face. The best of us all on that horrible day.

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@NotThatBigIan

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The impunity here is chilling. The only way to prevent it is through enforcement. But nobody wants to acknowledge that the most successful knife crime initative in UK in Strathclyde was built on making life impossible for knife carriers FIRST, not 'public health' word salad. 1/

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

This is lazy gibberish. Northern Ireland has required voter ID for 25 years. The voter ID card (if you've no other valid ID) is free & easy to obtain. High NI voter turnout consistently breaks UK records. Personation threatens democracy more than ID schemes, used the world over.

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The Government’s plans on voter ID risk locking people out of democracy.

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@NotThatBigIan

8 months

Excellent. We run awful prisons that are awash with violence & despair. Despite acres of official bullshit about 'rehabilitation culture' in places you'd hesitate to keep cattle, the only thing we really know is there is a strong link between employment & desistance. Bravo McDs!

Daily Mail Online

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McDonald's customers served food by PRISONERS

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@NotThatBigIan

4 years

If 'patrolling' means anonymous overweight goons dressed in Poundland militaria with no mandate posing for five minutes on a deserted country lane to feed their own inadequacies.

Continuity IRA 'patrol' roads in rural Fermanagh

MASKED and armed men have been pictured 'patrolling' roads in rural Fermanagh and firing shots in a cemetery.

www.irishnews.com

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@NotThatBigIan

1 year

'No day shall erase you from the memory of time.' #Enniskillen 8.11.87 12 civilians murdered by the IRA. Unjustified. Unjustifiable. There was always an alternative.

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@NotThatBigIan

3 years

Arlene Foster here, breaking every ancient DUP taboo to attend a GAA match during her time as leader. You will see and say what you want, but a woman rising to this from her backstory deserves some respect.

The Act of Union

@TheActofUnion

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I'm looking forward to her successor doing the same ...

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@NotThatBigIan

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I see #GlinnerWasRight is trending. Good. The best way you can reward his courage is to buy this. I wandered through London listening to it, laughing and swearing by turn. It's the least you can do.

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@NotThatBigIan

3 years

On the anniversary of the murders of children by the IRA, this.

Gerry Adams

@GerryAdamsSF

3 years

Today we launched our Uniting Ireland Easter eggs. Sadly because of Covid restrictions there is a limited supply and they are only available in Belfast. So, if you want one contact your local Sinn Féin rep quickly.

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@NotThatBigIan

2 years

Bear in mind the little boy tortured to death by those meant to love and protect him today. But also be outraged that Arthur's short life and awful murder happened after the state was alerted and saw nothing. We have a fundamental, repeatedly lethal problem with risk management.

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This is mad. Northern Ireland regularly tops the polls for voter turn out in UK. It's had mandatory (free) photo ID requirement for years. Moreover, making it an official identity doc would actually enfranchise poorer people who don't drive etc.

The Independent

@Independent

4 years

Boris Johnson to 'stop tens of thousands voting' by making photo ID mandatory by law at polling stations, Queen's Speech reveals

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@NotThatBigIan

5 months

'No child is born in the wrong body.', 👏 The grown ups are finally back in the room.

Kemi Badenoch

@KemiBadenoch

5 months

Self-ID and social transition add up to a very dangerous ideology that can have terrible effects on young LGB children, who are being put on a medical pathway to irreversible physical changes. We are not going to run away from this issue. We will sort it.

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@NotThatBigIan

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Today, like every day, men and women you won't see will put on a uniform and walk into places you'd fear to be in to keep the peace, enforce the law, give hope and change lives. Prison Officers. They deserve your thanks and support. Today is #hiddenheroes day.

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I have one story that marks the measure of @brianmoore666 . We met at @timatkin wedding some yrs ago. I asked him if he would make a call to my brother in law Kenny, fmr captain of Enniskillen RFC seriously injured playing. He spent 45 mins outside chatting on mobile. A gentleman.

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@NotThatBigIan

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This is technically known as 'bollocks.' In Northern Ireland voter ID, which is provided free if needed, has been in place for nearly 20 years. NI has some of the highest electoral turnout in UK elections. It *protects* democratic process.

spiked

@spikedonline

3 years

Voter ID won’t just make it harder to vote. It will also undermine the very basis of democracy -- trust. By encouraging us to view other voters with suspicion, it will damage faith in the electoral process, says @paddyhannam

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This was a devout Christian stabbed to death in a church by a suspect whose investigation centres on terrorism with an Islamist extremism motive. I'm feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the conflation of civility in public/online life and the barbaric details of this case.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

1 year

I was proud to work at the #EHRC and its mission is sound. But the disgraceful actions & tactics of a politicised noisy minority of staff are making it ungovernable. Bad news for citizens suffering everyday discrimination. My bit this morning.

IAN ACHESON: I saw first hand how Whitehall staff looked for offence

IAN ACHESON: The Equality and Human Rights Commission is meant to be a beacon of justice, yet its chairman finds herself accused of discrimination,partisanship and harassment.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

5 years

He literally drives a car round in circles that does 4 mpg.

Sky News

@SkyNews

5 years

Lewis Hamilton says vegan diet 'only way to save our planet'

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

In case there's any confusion here, McElwain was a terrorist who was an active participant in the sectarian executions of usually defenceless people. He was killed when he encountered real soldiers sent to part of the UK to try to stop that routine slaughter. Revisionism sucks.

Matt Carthy TD

@mattcarthy

3 years

Seamus McElwain was assassinated 35 years ago today. He was in his own country; those who killed him were not. Seamus was an IRA Volunteer, he was a participant in conflict. But, he was also a son, a brother, a friend to many who is as sorely missed as all others who were killed.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

A reminder of what 'brave' actually looks like in journalism.

Laurie Penny

@PennyRed

3 years

Owen Jones has weathered over a decade of relentless abuse, sadistic bullying, attacks on his privacy and even physical violence from cowards who wouldn’t last a day doing the work he’s taken on in the world. That includes some of his colleagues in the press. He is so damn brave.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

This is very sinister indeed. As is the way the school authorities collapsed immediately in the face of intimidation. Doesn't anyone in charge of this appeasement remember Samuel Paty?

Nick Timothy

@NJ_Timothy

3 years

Purpose of Life, a registered charity, has posted a statement naming the teacher now in fear of his life after teaching children about freedom of speech, and in supposedly warning Muslims against violence, has legitimised it by equating violence with the actions of the teacher.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

6 years

Imagine if more employers showed this enlightened approach? Imagine if there was a Job Centre Plus inside every resettlement prison. Imagine people who have taken being given a real chance to put back. If you want safer communities and fewer future victims, this is what you do.

Timpson Foundation

@TimpFoundation

6 years

We have hired hundreds of former prisoners, some have done lots of serious crimes, but on the whole we believe that the people we find in prison are more loyal, more honest and work harder than the people we recruit off the street.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

11 months

Your media team has 'shat the bed' to use a PR technical term. Either you didn't know, didn't care or were too terrified to stop the youngsters putting what's left of your reputation in the shredder for virtue points. What a decline for a once mighty charity.

Oxfam International

@Oxfam

11 months

We have removed the post because of concerns raised with us. We will re-post shortly #ProtectThePride

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

People like me won't let people like Roy Greenslade get away with the Disneyfication of the indescribable suffering inflicted by sadists masquerading as 'soldiers' in a 'war.' Not now, not ever. My piece today.

What Roy Greenslade doesn't understand about the Troubles

Belleek is the most westerly point in the United Kingdom. It’s a small village, right on Northern Ireland’s frontier where Country Fermanagh reaches out towards the Atlantic. The final destination...

www.spectator.co.uk

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

2 years

For the avoidance of any confusion here, this is an MP for the UK parliament honouring 3 heavily armed IRA terrorists intercepted on their way to murder one of their Irish neighbours driving a delivery lorry and the softest of targets. *Executing the coal man for a new Ireland.*

Francie Molloy MP

@FrancieMolloy

2 years

Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin were killed 34 years ago today. RIP Speaking at the graveside of the Harte brothers, Gerry Adams said the Drumnakilly Martyrs were “good, decent, patriotic freedom fighters driven to fight for justice”.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

4 years

This is the absolute repudiation of violent extremism. A boy robbed of his father by IRA terrorists in my home county, overcomes a trauma that would fell others and goes on to be an outstanding life saving surgeon.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

2 years

This is utterly revolting. At least the video is high quality. How is it even possible for this level of antisemtic hatred to be directed at kids on a bus in the centre of London? Find them, charge them, bang them up.

The Jewish Chronicle

@JewishChron

2 years

Video has emerged of a group of men spitting at a bus full of Jewish teenagers in Oxford Street where the group were celebrating the first night of Chanukah.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

9 months

If he died for 'Irish Freedom' what did his victim, a 26 year old mother, Yvonne Dunlop, die for, except to save her son from his bomb that incinerated her? These people are no part of any conversation on reconciliation until they stop venerating killers.

Sinn Fein MLA slammed for ‘shameful’ tweet honouring hunger striker who killed Ballymena mother

Sinn Fein’s national chairperson has been criticised after sharing a social media tribute to a hunger striker who killed a young mother.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

1 year

I'm an Irishman, from Ulster Scots stock, who is proudly British, living happily in SW England this last 20 years. 'Where are you from?' is a conversational baseline.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

4 years

This morning: I hope this picture ages as well as the (widely available) Cheddar. An extra smile for the people in the supply chain in stores wouldn't go amiss either. #covid19UK

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

2 months

This is a classic of the revisionist genre. It omits the fact that Farrell was an IRA terrorist who was in the process of planting a large Semtex bomb packed with shrapnel at a location in Gibraltar that would have murdered dozens of civilians. Her death prevented a massacre.

Caitlín McCotter

@caitlin_mc1

2 months

Thoughts are of Mairéad Farrell who would have turned 67 today. "Your minds your strongest weapon, and that's how we always counteract whatever they do, because they can't control our minds, they can't get inside them, and that's their failure."

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

2 years

There's no question that this protest will reassure women who don't want men using their toilets. It's a game changer.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

4 years

As my old dad used to say, ' If at first you don't succeed, try, try, hereditary peerage.'

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

5 months

Me today on @spikedonline What would prison reformer Elizabeth Fry think, 200 years after she inspired the bill that first separated men from women in custody? That we've lost our minds.

spiked

@spikedonline

5 months

I’ve worked in prisons. Take it from me: housing male inmates in the women’s estate is an insane idea. It upends everything reformers campaigned for. The Scottish Prison Service should be ashamed of itself, writes Ian Acheson

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 months

Jo Cox and David Amess aren't here to tell you how this ends. People driven out of public service because of the fear of murder by violent extremists is a serious threat to any liberal democracy.

F&GGConservatives

@Finchleytories

3 months

Statement from Mike Freer MP

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

Like the other disappeared, he deserves a Christian burial too and his remaining family the chance to grieve properly. Unfortunately people who know what happened and where, who might still call themselves Christians with a straight face hold that decency to ransom.

John McAleese MM Society 🇬🇧

@AleeseMm

3 years

Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC was a British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company who was abducted 14th May 1977 from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) his body is still missing #CaptainRobertNairacGC

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

Viewers in GB may be confused here. This happened a few days (not decades) ago in part of the United Kingdom where intelligence on armed thugs planning to glorify a founder of one of the most sectarian terror gangs in the Troubles was placed on a towering 'too difficult' tray.

Brian Whelan

@brianwhelanhack

3 years

Why is an organisation on ceasefire rattling off weapons in the Bogside

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

You cannot contextualise teenagers cheering the IRA at a festival and bonfires mocking murdered police officers but then routinely attack loyalist bonfires with any moral force. Sectarianism is an equal opportunities employer.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

1 month

Oh look, a man explaining to a woman what a woman is. And getting his arse handed to him.

Sex Matters

@SexMattersOrg

1 month

"The law does not impact on other people's perception" Sex Matters' @HJoyceGender on @TalkTV with @JakeBerry on whether it's "hateful" to use sex-based pronouns ⬇️

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

2 years

A proportionate response doesn't mean treating both groups as equal as this piously self congratulatory statement implies. Only *one* side was offering violence and attempting to subvert women protesting their rights. Get over yourselves and enforce the law.

ASPolice Bristol

@ASPBristol

2 years

We've issued a statement after facilitating two protests in #Bristol city centre this afternoon ⬇️

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

2 years

Incomprehensible. Normalised hatred. They know now, even if they didn't before. it's offensive and hurtful to the thousands of their neighbours the IRA left bereaved, limbless, eyeless, psychologically destroyed. Which is why they sing it. Darkness falls.

Kellys Bar Santa Ponsa

@KellysBarSP

2 years

Dublin airport in full voice singing @wolfetones song that offended so many 😂😂

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

5 months

Unfortunately Israeli women murdered after being raped are unable to provide eye witness testimony to meet this suddenly high standard. #MeTooUnlessUrAJew

Briahna Joy Gray

@briebriejoy

5 months

“Believe all women” was always an absurd overreach: woman should be heard, claims should be investigated, but evidence is required. The same is true of the allegations out of Israel. But also, this isn’t a “believe women” scenario bc no female victims have offered testimony.

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

5 years

I'm going to sign off Twitter for Christmas. Please bear in mind on Christmas Day the thousands of men and women of HM Prison Service and other providers who will be on duty working to try to make a difficult day for prisoners more bearable. They deserve your thanks. Merry Xmas!

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

6 years

30 years on, no convictions for this act of sectarian desecration. No films made. No celebrity support. Just enduring sorrow. #Enniskillen

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

I'm very proud of your daughter. It appears that over 26,000 people on here agree with me.

Ally Gordon 🇬🇧🐶❤

@AllyGordon10

3 years

Being mocked for the amusement of others all because she wore her uniform at school today. 💔 Chin up my beautiful girl, I am & always will be proud of you! ❤ #ProudMam #AirCadet #DNWAirCadets #LestWeForget #Respect #NextGeneration

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

3 years

@sinnfeinireland @MaryLouMcDonald Where to start? No one is singing about Joanne Mathers, for example. A census worker, murdered in cold blood by the IRA terrorists your party continues to venerate as patriots. Here she is:

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

6 months

I have had occasion, for professional reasons, to view unspeakable acts of cruelty committed by violent extremists. I have never in 25 years of dealing with the worst of human behaviour encountered this level of utter sadistic depravity. #HamasTerrorists

Andrew Neil

@afneil

6 months

Journalists in tears as IDF shows them body cam footage of massacres by Hamas terrorists on Oct 7 with civilians and soldiers being shot, stabbed, tortured and burned merely because they were Jewish. Their corpses were bound, gagged and riddled with bullet holes and knife wounds.…

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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧🇮🇪

@NotThatBigIan

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This is exactly what we don't need: The Disneyfication of violent extremism.

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