Sanity prevails
LET’S hope yesterday’s historic Supreme Court win for women hammers the final nail in woke’s coffin.
We wouldn’t bet on it, though.
Too many remain infected by it, even with Britain’s highest court ruling unequivocally against them.
Judges handed total victory to those like JK Rowling who campaigned heroically to establish that trans women are not women and that women cannot — shock, horror — have a penis.
Two facts well known to any child, but not millions of hyper-liberal fools. Among them Keir Starmer, almost all his MPs, the Lib-Dems, SNP and a few feeble Tories wanting Twitter likes.
Despite their spin yesterday this lot believed, and some still do, that trans rights trump everything . . . especially women’s rights to their own changing rooms, toilets, hospital wards, hostels, prisons and sports competitions.
All should be ashamed of themselves.
So should every firm, charity, university or school which fired or discriminated against staff over common sense views bosses deemed “transphobic” but which are now unshakably upheld by the law.
So should public bodies who torture their language to avoid saying “woman”.
The vast majority of trans people never wanted to be used as pawns by woke warriors — and remain legally protected from discrimination.
But women’s rights must now prevail, including in sport.
This crackpot era of allowing male-bodied chancers to compete against real women must end once and for all.
ET’s foam home
IT is the biggest story in history: We are not alone in the universe. Well, probably.
Even if only microbes exist in those alien oceans, how many other worlds support life, perhaps more advanced?
Actually engaging with the critters on K2-18b will be a close encounter of the deferred kind. It is 729,000,000,000,000 miles away. Astronauts will need 124 years to reach it even in some sci-fi spacecraft capable of light-speed.
Plus, our telescope is currently viewing K2-18b as it was in 1901.
Imagine schlepping all the way there only to find everyone’s long gone.
We are failing
LABOUR hasn’t just failed on the small boats, it has turbo-charged them.
Illegal migrants up 42 per cent on last year. A record 705 on Tuesday alone.
And still Minister Lilian Greenwood feebly insists the Government’s target is the “gangs preying on people trying to cross the Channel”. What piffle.
Those criminals, while vile, are not the cause. That is Britain’s lure for migrants.
A deal with the French, exchanging our illegals for legal migrants from the EU, could help render the Channel crossings pointless. So get on with it.
It’s far from ideal. But it’s something.