There is a long Twitter thread regarding the @ChinoValleyUSD School district which is fighting off the state of California who wants them to keep secret children who socially transition from their parents. Same thing happened to three NJ school districts. It’s incredible to see the schools doing the right thing and maddening to see them sued by their own states.
I am not sure how the US got there. I can totally understand what Moms for Liberty are fighting for. Article26 para 3 of the UN Convention on Human Rights states that parents should be allowed to teach their philosophical beliefs. It is part of the 1st amendment in the US Constitution about the US state not establishing any religion. What is a religion except a series of philosophical beliefs?
In the UK, there does seem to be a growing movement of young people rejecting it. It is no longer radical is it?
It’s also incredible that children are severely abused and even killed in their own homes, but why isn’t the ACLU swooping into their homes to save them? Seems to me it’s an organization whose missions have dried up over the years but here’s a new something to fight. As with everything else, the more over the top they go the more they are rejected by average citizens.
And a somewhat funny story. My 11-year old son came home and said in health class they were talking about the toys kids play with when small. The teacher asked why the boys will play with, say, the trucks and the girls with dolls after kindergarten. My son replied because those are the toys they prefer. Teacher basically said no, that they’re forced into playing with them by adults and peer pressure from other kids.
My son said to me, I don’t think she knows what she’s talking about 😂.
Back when I was the mother of young children, I was more doctrinaire about my feminism than I am today, so I bought trucks _and_ dolls for my three young sons.
My kids looked _once_ at the dolls with a kind of WTF expression on their cherubic faces. And then never looked at the dolls again.
Hello Northumberland! SO good to see Ya! Another great roundup, Michelle. You never cease to amaze.
I don't recall where I read this, or who said it, but I think this sums it up:
"What you don’t do is fall for trendy ideology or partisan political views, and use ‘reputation’ as a cover to promote contested causes because your CEO is desperate to signal how right-on she is to her chums at Chelsea dinner parties."
I was glad to see M. Braverman seeing the sinister nature of the DEI industry. And I liked the quote about the update guidance. Hopefully single-sex environments will come back into fashion. Who knows?
Hope all going well with You, Ma'am. And, thank You, as always.
The de-banking scandal is something else. There are about 10k people in the FB group called NatWest Closed my bank account. A number of them have put in SAR to find out why. The scandal has been growing for awhile...Of course you had the BBC accepting the Coutts off the record briefing at face value because many people loathe Farage. (was it Dame Allison who did the briefing -- no one knows).The BBC has now corrected the story which is highly unusual for them.
I continue to hope for sanity in trans gender guidance in schools. They may have to pass legislation to do it.
My writing goes okay -- I keep reading around the Murrow subject. I have also been reading This is London which is a 1941 compilation of Murrow's broadcasts about the big blitz etc. So interesting to read a primary source.
1. The Information Commissioner has stepped in and said that the bank may have broken the law through misuse of personal data. He has the power to fine NatWest up to 5% of worldwide turnover.
2. The pressure is still on the chairman and the entire board for their tone deaf statement.
3. The chairman of GB News who runs a hedge fund but is anti-woke has netted several million through shorting Nat West (mainly through a computer programs). But I would imagine there is a huge shortting of NatWest going on as people knew they were under pressure.
ESG has suddenly came massively under the spotlight in the UK and people are not liking what they are seeing (ie there are laws against certain types of behaviour if the authorities choose to enforce them).
Your best edition yet. Learned more about the JOS clowns. Happy the counters stepped in. Assuming they were true counters and not staged to let the JSO spew their nonsense. I loved the bit - in The Telegraph, I think - on the colloquy where a JSO said running for government wasn't a successful way and the counter said "Democracy has served well for centuries", or something like that. In a nutshell, that discussion was the verbal equivalent to the Twitter video with the picture of the US college swim competition medal stand. Whoever that guy is, he models the worst that the political class produces.
The Coutts business is truly amazing, appalling, alarming. The response from the head of it, Dame Allison Rose, is really pathetic. "Here, Nigel, you can have an account with a different bank, just not Coutts which must maintain its B Labs virtue." One hopes the government digs into this. She should resign. As should that clown (the Twitter link with that video is so revealing) who is the chair of the trustees. Really, he must go.
B Labs was a revelation to me. Is there a way to see all who've signed up for membership? I'd love to see it.
Sometimes I think reason and common sense is making a comeback. Then I realize there is so much out there it seems hard to believe one can play whack-a-mole with all of it and succeed. It is a long slog through the muck of biased nonsense. Fingers crossed.
Thanks, again. As commenter Patrizia wrote, this stuff doesn't make it to my side of the Atlantic save for articles such as yours and those few publications (Telegraph) that expose it. More, more, more.
I understand there are some large US corporations signed up to it. I believe there are a number of financial institutes as well.
The man in the video is Iain Anderson, the chairman of the trustees for Stonewall. Nancy Kelly, the CEO, suddenly announced she was leaving (no one knows why) and he decided to do interviews. Before this, it was 'no debate' No word on who will be the new CEO. And yes Anderson is v much of the shadowy political class.
I have no idea where this is all going. I just hope common sense returns soons.
One can only hope that Dame Allison Rose loses her job as well as the various people at Coutts who made the decision and then put the false story out about it being his finances. There are 10k people in that FB group and it will be interesting to see what they learn. If we are moving to a cashless society, people cannot be de-banked for political reasons.
Thanks once again, Michelle.
NONE of this news makes it into U.S. media. I am grateful for your weekly updates.
The Coutts scandal has now even made the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jul/20/farage-affair-is-a-monumental-pr-disaster-for-exclusive-bank-coutts
They were ignoring it until they couldn't do any longer.
And thank you, I do try for the interesting news.
This is a frightening article. How the ACLU got here is a good question:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/transgender-secrecy-policies-at-public-schools/
There is a long Twitter thread regarding the @ChinoValleyUSD School district which is fighting off the state of California who wants them to keep secret children who socially transition from their parents. Same thing happened to three NJ school districts. It’s incredible to see the schools doing the right thing and maddening to see them sued by their own states.
Gerald Posnor highlighted this yesterday.
I am not sure how the US got there. I can totally understand what Moms for Liberty are fighting for. Article26 para 3 of the UN Convention on Human Rights states that parents should be allowed to teach their philosophical beliefs. It is part of the 1st amendment in the US Constitution about the US state not establishing any religion. What is a religion except a series of philosophical beliefs?
In the UK, there does seem to be a growing movement of young people rejecting it. It is no longer radical is it?
It’s also incredible that children are severely abused and even killed in their own homes, but why isn’t the ACLU swooping into their homes to save them? Seems to me it’s an organization whose missions have dried up over the years but here’s a new something to fight. As with everything else, the more over the top they go the more they are rejected by average citizens.
And a somewhat funny story. My 11-year old son came home and said in health class they were talking about the toys kids play with when small. The teacher asked why the boys will play with, say, the trucks and the girls with dolls after kindergarten. My son replied because those are the toys they prefer. Teacher basically said no, that they’re forced into playing with them by adults and peer pressure from other kids.
My son said to me, I don’t think she knows what she’s talking about 😂.
I agree with your son!
The ACLU lost its way many years ago from what I understand.
Absolutely! 😀
Back when I was the mother of young children, I was more doctrinaire about my feminism than I am today, so I bought trucks _and_ dolls for my three young sons.
My kids looked _once_ at the dolls with a kind of WTF expression on their cherubic faces. And then never looked at the dolls again.
Nice catch, Alison.
Hello Northumberland! SO good to see Ya! Another great roundup, Michelle. You never cease to amaze.
I don't recall where I read this, or who said it, but I think this sums it up:
"What you don’t do is fall for trendy ideology or partisan political views, and use ‘reputation’ as a cover to promote contested causes because your CEO is desperate to signal how right-on she is to her chums at Chelsea dinner parties."
I was glad to see M. Braverman seeing the sinister nature of the DEI industry. And I liked the quote about the update guidance. Hopefully single-sex environments will come back into fashion. Who knows?
Hope all going well with You, Ma'am. And, thank You, as always.
Pleased you like the new greeting.
The de-banking scandal is something else. There are about 10k people in the FB group called NatWest Closed my bank account. A number of them have put in SAR to find out why. The scandal has been growing for awhile...Of course you had the BBC accepting the Coutts off the record briefing at face value because many people loathe Farage. (was it Dame Allison who did the briefing -- no one knows).The BBC has now corrected the story which is highly unusual for them.
I continue to hope for sanity in trans gender guidance in schools. They may have to pass legislation to do it.
My writing goes okay -- I keep reading around the Murrow subject. I have also been reading This is London which is a 1941 compilation of Murrow's broadcasts about the big blitz etc. So interesting to read a primary source.
TY. Glad to hear the writing is going well. And the reading too.
Michelle,
I am sure you are following the NatWest CEO’s resignation. The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on it. Amazing how utterly blind these “upper crusters” are to reality and their crushing of opposing views they favor. https://www.wsj.com/articles/natwest-ceo-steps-down-after-political-fallout-from-closed-account-a8d1908a?mod=djem10point
And the fall out is still continuing.
1. The Information Commissioner has stepped in and said that the bank may have broken the law through misuse of personal data. He has the power to fine NatWest up to 5% of worldwide turnover.
2. The pressure is still on the chairman and the entire board for their tone deaf statement.
3. The chairman of GB News who runs a hedge fund but is anti-woke has netted several million through shorting Nat West (mainly through a computer programs). But I would imagine there is a huge shortting of NatWest going on as people knew they were under pressure.
ESG has suddenly came massively under the spotlight in the UK and people are not liking what they are seeing (ie there are laws against certain types of behaviour if the authorities choose to enforce them).
SO this from NIgel Farage: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/26/my-war-on-woke-banks-is-just-getting-started/ or https://archive.is/7hMqG
As Farage is the man most responsible for Brexit, I would not underestimate him. It does appear that the banks did though.
This is the latest: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/26/natwest-may-have-broken-law-farage-coutts-scandal/ or https://archive.is/14tnd
And this is the
Michelle,
Your best edition yet. Learned more about the JOS clowns. Happy the counters stepped in. Assuming they were true counters and not staged to let the JSO spew their nonsense. I loved the bit - in The Telegraph, I think - on the colloquy where a JSO said running for government wasn't a successful way and the counter said "Democracy has served well for centuries", or something like that. In a nutshell, that discussion was the verbal equivalent to the Twitter video with the picture of the US college swim competition medal stand. Whoever that guy is, he models the worst that the political class produces.
The Coutts business is truly amazing, appalling, alarming. The response from the head of it, Dame Allison Rose, is really pathetic. "Here, Nigel, you can have an account with a different bank, just not Coutts which must maintain its B Labs virtue." One hopes the government digs into this. She should resign. As should that clown (the Twitter link with that video is so revealing) who is the chair of the trustees. Really, he must go.
B Labs was a revelation to me. Is there a way to see all who've signed up for membership? I'd love to see it.
Sometimes I think reason and common sense is making a comeback. Then I realize there is so much out there it seems hard to believe one can play whack-a-mole with all of it and succeed. It is a long slog through the muck of biased nonsense. Fingers crossed.
Thanks, again. As commenter Patrizia wrote, this stuff doesn't make it to my side of the Atlantic save for articles such as yours and those few publications (Telegraph) that expose it. More, more, more.
You can find the businesses who have signed up here: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/
I understand there are some large US corporations signed up to it. I believe there are a number of financial institutes as well.
The man in the video is Iain Anderson, the chairman of the trustees for Stonewall. Nancy Kelly, the CEO, suddenly announced she was leaving (no one knows why) and he decided to do interviews. Before this, it was 'no debate' No word on who will be the new CEO. And yes Anderson is v much of the shadowy political class.
I have no idea where this is all going. I just hope common sense returns soons.
The Coutts/Farage story is a major scandal. i hope heads roll.
And it has now made the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jul/20/farage-affair-is-a-monumental-pr-disaster-for-exclusive-bank-coutts
One can only hope that Dame Allison Rose loses her job as well as the various people at Coutts who made the decision and then put the false story out about it being his finances. There are 10k people in that FB group and it will be interesting to see what they learn. If we are moving to a cashless society, people cannot be de-banked for political reasons.