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Downing Street handout photo of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson in the garden of 10 Downing Street after their wedding ONE common mistake made by people desperately trying to do their opponents down is assuming that everyone will share their disapproval. It’s an odd assumption, easily disproven by historical precedents and common sense, but lots of us cling to it. It’s not only ill-founded, but counter-productive. People who can’t stand Boris Johnson, or Nicola Sturgeon, or Sir Keir Starmer seem incapable of seeing why everyone else doesn’t also think them incompetent, venal and downright criminal. But by continually presenting such a hyperbolic version, they actively encourage their supporters to defend them, no matter what they are up to.
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University of Edinburgh lecturers have been told not to use the words ‘man’ or ‘woman’, as they might offend students who identify as transgender or non-binary.
New guidance stresses that university staff must not make comments such as “you’re either a man or a woman” or “I wanted to be a boy when I was a child”.
The document describes such remarks as “microaggressions”, claiming they “negate or nullify the thoughts, feelings or lived reality of trans and non-binary people”.
‘Indoctrination not education’
Lecturers were also instructed not to place “excess focus” on biology when engaging in discussions about gender, and were urged to wear rainbow lanyards around campus “as a visible sign that you are safe for trans and/or non-binary people”.
Once Boris Johnson’s closest adviser, Dominic Cummings is expected to deliver scorching testimony in Parliament on Wednesday about the government’s handling of the pandemic.