Louise

 It's Louise Mensch, former British Member of Parliament and current anti-Putin hardliner on Twitter. 

From last night, on Twitter, "Really looking forward to going on @PiersUncensored tonight with the wonderful @gilliantett and @VickyPJWard : where does Liz Truss go from here?"

BONUS, from earlier today: "Excited to talk Meghan and Harry’s latest escapades with @PiersMorgan and @KatTimpf on @PiersUncensored … minus the reading glasses. :)."

Louise Mensch Claims President Trump's About to Be Impeached

Following-up from yesterday, "Leftist Conspiracy Theories Flourishing in the Age of Trump."

I don't know. It's like spraying machine gun fire: you're likely to hit something after a while. Maybe Louise is about to get lucky and prove her detractors wrong.

Seen on Twitter (be sure to click through for the tweets):

Twitter Loses It When Louise Mensch Says ‘Marshal of the Supreme Court’ Told Trump About Impeachment https://t.co/jJp3gXUren pic.twitter.com/NNRFxTqvLf

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 20, 2017

This is just sad now. Eternal shame on the people with prominent platforms who have enabled this. https://t.co/ejxSElGnA7 pic.twitter.com/wcA5ngLCdg

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 20, 2017

Leftist Conspiracy Theories Flourishing in the Age of Trump

I don't usually post Vox articles, but this one's talking about Louise Mensch, who I used to consider a friend on Twitter. She invited me to write at Heat Street, where's she's the editor-in-chief. But she writes at Patribotics blog, publishing all her theories and "investigations" into Russian meddling. She's acquired the reputation as a nutjob. It's kind of sad.

In any case, at Vox, "Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia: Why liberal conspiracy theories are flourishing in the age of Trump."

Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia https://t.co/mZX2ZxzXDp

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) May 19, 2017

Louise Mensch Calls for Regime Change Russia

Following-up from previously, "Louise Mensch Slammed as a 'Nutcase' on Twitter."

I checked to see if this tweet was still up, it's so over the top.

And it is.

Seriously, just think of the consequences of an American military effort to depose Vladimir Putin. All of your Cold War nightmares would come true. It's just an astounding contemplation, and seems completely divorced from reality.

But again, I like Louise. She's so smart. This seems completely unlike her.

Putin should, in my view, be completely removed by the USA, by any means necessary. Regime change in Russia. Flex American muscle. https://t.co/YDlflTEeZX

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 5, 2017

Louise Mensch Slammed as a 'Nutcase' on Twitter

For such a nice and decent person, and super smart, I've been surprised by Louise's decent into Trump derangement. It's been going on for a long time now, of course, but the crazy never lets up, and in fact seems to be getting worse.

I like Louise, don't get me wrong. It's just weird what politics will do to someone.

This woman is not only insane, she is frighteningly dangerous. pic.twitter.com/fmtNnJjyWM

— Neil Bridewell (@neilbridewell) January 5, 2017

Freakin nut case in absolutely everything that I have seen her spew! She is dangerous and actually reminds me of Hillary! https://t.co/c0IWsYNK2T

— Luann (@skyzbabe1961) January 5, 2017

Well, come to think of it, Louise applied to the Hillary Clinton campaign for a political adviser role. Nothing came of it, but that sure tells you where her loyalties are. She serve as a Conservative member of Parliament in Britain, but she's a U.S. citizen now, married to music manager Peter Mensch.

The Beach Has Long Been a Powerful Symbol of French National Identity

Hey, I can dig it.

The beach has long been a symbol of American national identity too. And so far, I've yet to see any Muslim burkini babes hitting the breakers, heh.

But check out Foreign Policy. I'll take Ms. Bardot any day, lol.

.@LouiseMensch Brigitte Bardot vs. the Burkini https://t.co/OM0RtIcsIH #France #BurkiniBan #Jihad

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) August 23, 2016

PREVIOUSLY: "Extreme Veiling is Misogynist Hate Speech."

Germany Also Question Islamic Veiling: #Jihad

Following-up from yesterday, "Extreme Veiling is Misogynist Hate Speech."

I don't like Muslims.

Sorry, not sorry.

At NYT:

Germany, Like France, Questions Place of Islamic Veils in Its Society, via @nytimes https://t.co/vAKR048GdZ

— Qeaus (@Qansje) August 19, 2016

Extreme Veiling is Misogynist Hate Speech

From Louise Mensch, at Heat Street, "France is Right to Ban the Burkini."

Read it all at the link. It's a transcript of Ms. Louise's appearance on Fox News earlier this week with Stuart Varney. (I looked for the video, but couldn't find it.)

UPDATE: Scrolling Ms. Louise's Twitter feed, I see Media Matter's has the video, naturally.

Here, "Fox Guest: Burkinis Are 'Hate Speech' and Promote 'Honor Killings' - Louise Mensch: 'It's Basically Hate Speech in a Piece of Clothing'."

Yep, all true. All true, chaps.

Jo Cox: Best of Britain

From the lovely Louise Mensch, at Heat Street, "Jo Cox MP Was the Best of Britain. Politicising Her Death is the Worst":

Jo Cox MP Was the Best of Britain. Politicising Her Death is the Worst | Heat Street https://t.co/zqJkLCE7zB pic.twitter.com/MSZJBVQjpJ

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 17, 2016

Jo Cox’s killing has stunned the nation. A new MP, passionate about her job, her family and her children, is gunned down at a surgery where she is trying to help people.

Every one of us must have our hearts broken. The worst of it is imagining, or trying to imagine, the pain of her little ones, just three and five.

Jo was just 41. She was a woman in the prime of her life, a politician of great promise....

The Vote Leave campaign bears no responsibility – none – not the tiniest sliver – for any part of what happened to Jo Cox MP, and neither do its supporters. Anybody suggesting that at this grief-stricken moment should be treated with the most profound contempt.

Be sure to RTWT.

Who would have thought serving in parliament would be such a dangerous job?

Should Women Vote?

At Heat Street, "Should Women Vote? Vox Day vs. Louise Mensch: ‘Conservative Feminism’."

Vox Day doesn't think women should vote in a representative democracy. Read our feminism debate https://t.co/j0aUsK0HTO

— Heat Street (@heatstreet) May 14, 2016

Twitter Genius Trolls the Guardian

Via Louise Mensch, at Heat Street:

Twitter Genius Trolls the Guardian – and It’s Glorious https://t.co/uPTugsjI8M #heatstreet via @LouiseMensch

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 30, 2016

Louise Mensch Op-Ed in the New York Times

Louise is pretty cool.

At the Old Gray Lady, "Britain, Better Off Out of Europe":

Valentine’s Day is the traditional feast of love. But this February, Britons are more fixated on a political divorce.

“Brexit,” the shorthand term for a British exit from the European Union, is finally on the table. For many of my compatriots, the idea is not a negative one; indeed, an escape from the ever greater encroachment of the European superstate on our national sovereignty is a goal we have devoutly wished for since Prime Minister John Major signed the Maastricht Treaty back in 1992. Today, at last, we are positively giddy at the thought of freedom.

The Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, is delivering on his election promise of a referendum on membership in the union, with a vote due by the end of 2017. It will probably be held sooner, in June or September.

Mr. Cameron would prefer Britain to stay in the union. Polls indicate that he is likely to be disappointed. Earlier this month, he returned from Brussels with a package of proposals so weak that Britain’s newspapers united against it.

His so-called brake on welfare benefits for European immigrants, for example, would require the agreement of other countries, would not be applied for more than a year and would eventually be phased out. Mr. Cameron also failed in his attempt to prevent child benefits being sent abroad for workers in Britain with dependents elsewhere in Europe.

After these terms were announced, the pro-exit camp’s lead in polls soared to nine points. One recent survey of Conservative Party members found that more than 70 percent supported Brexit.

The European summit meeting next week could be Mr. Cameron’s last chance to improve his deal. But with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, touring Britain and helpfully telling us that he would reverse any British gains, Mr. Cameron’s prospects are not promising.

The mood of the country, though, is optimistic. An amicable divorce, many consider, is better than a bad marriage. Brexit campaigners are excited by the possibilities of an independent future in the world. We believe that this vision is better not just for Britain, but also for our European allies.

Brexit offers Britons more money, more control, free trade and planned immigration...

Keep reading.

The Timothy Hunt Witch Hunt

A great piece, from Jonathan Foreman, at Commentary:

In 1983, the British biochemist Timothy Hunt discovered cyclins, a family of proteins that help regulate the life of cells. Eighteen years later, in 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Between June 8 and June 10 of this year, the 72-year-old Hunt went from being a universally respected and even beloved figure at the top of the scientific establishment to an instant pariah, condemned everywhere for antiquated opinions about women’s role in science that he does not, in fact, hold.

In only 48 hours, he found himself compelled to resign his positions at University College London and at the august Royal Society (where Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke once fought petty battles) after being told that failure to do so would lead to his outright firing.

The Timothy Hunt affair represents more than the gratuitous eye-blink ruination of a great man’s reputation and career. It demonstrates the danger of the extraordinary, almost worshipful deference that academia, government institutions, and above all the mainstream media now accord to social media. It is yet more evidence of the way moral panic and (virtual) mob rule can be accelerated and intensified by the minimalism of Twitter, with its 140-character posts and its apparently inherent tendency to encourage snap judgments, prejudice, and cruelty.

Fortunately, the story did not end on June 10. In the weeks following the initial assault, some of Hunt’s most ardent persecutors have been exposed as liars or blinkered ideologues, abetted by cynical hacks and academic rivals on a quest to bring him down or use him as grist to a political mill. Hunt’s partial rehabilitation has largely come about thanks to the dogged investigations of Louise Mensch, the British novelist and former conservative member of parliament who lives in New York City and is herself a powerful presence on Twitter. Mensch was alarmed by what she calls ‘the ugly combination of bullying and sanctimony” in the reaction to remarks made by “an evidently sweet and kind” older man.

She did some checking on Twitter and soon found that the two main witnesses for the prosecution contradicted each other. Then she began a more thorough investigation of Hunt’s offending comments and the lack of due process involved in his punishment by various academic and media institutions. The results of her exhaustive research, published on her blog, Unfashionista.com, encouraged an existing groundswell of support for Hunt from scientists around the world but most important from Hunt’s own female colleagues and former students.

As a result, the false picture of Hunt as a misogynist opposed to the equal participation of women in science has mostly been dispelled. Hunt, who is married to a distinguished immunologist named Mary Collins, has ceased being the science academy’s equivalent of George Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein—the object of the Two Minutes Hate in 1984—on Twitter. Indeed, one of the Britain’s most respected female scientists, Dame Athene Donald, master of Churchill College, Cambridge, has publicly lamented the wrecking of Hunt’s reputation by “sloppy journalism fueled by self-righteous fervor.”

Nevertheless various senior figures continue to insist that whether or not Hunt’s remarks were jokes or correctly reported, he is deservedly a symbol of the sexism that allegedly pervades science. At the time of this writing, moreover, he has not been restored to the positions from which he was expelled or forced to resign...

More.

And at Louise Mensch's blog, "The Tim Hunt Reporting Was False. Royal Society, Please Give Him Due Process."

Orwell's two-minute hate is here. "Death! Traitor! Death! Traitor!"

That's the left for you.

The Labour Party is a Democratic Socialist Party

Indeed.

And Labour's the pro-jihad party of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel eliminationist ideology.

See Louise Mensch, "Corbyn: Hard For Syrians to Choose Between ISIS and USA."

For a democratic socialist party #Vote4Corbyn #JezWeCan pic.twitter.com/XzFvuylftI

— Tajinder (@JaM99percent) August 23, 2015

Labour Leader Candidate Jeremy Corbyn Invited Vile Anti-Semite Dyab Abou Jahjah to Parliament

Louise Mensch has another sensational journalist coup.

At her blog, Unfashionista, "‘Every dead British soldier is a victory’ – Jeremy Corbyn’s Parliamentary Guest."



And at the Sun UK, "CORBYN INVITED “FRIEND” TO PARLIAMENT WHO REJOICED IN DEATH OF UK SOLDIERS."

Corbyn was denying ever meeting Abou Jahjah late yesterday morning, but it looks like he couldn't deny the overwhelming evidence of his association.

At London's Daily Mail, "Corbyn finally admits he DID host Muslim firebrand who gloated at murder of British soldiers despite claiming he had never met him just hours earlier."

Tim Hunt Vindicated in University College London Sexism Dispute

I haven't blogged this story, although it's extremely fascinating. Louise Mensch has been on a crusade for the truth.

The background, from June, is at the BBC, "Sir Tim Hunt resigns from university role over girls comment."

And now from Louise Mensch and Natalia Demina, at the Time of London, "The tape that shows Sir Tim was wronged."

Louise Mensch Flies to Britain to Vote in #GE15

She's such a lovely political junkie.

Corby, her former constituency, returned to the Conservative fold yesterday as well, which brought tears to her eyes, apparently.

Postal ballot didn't arrive in time? No problem - flew in early to #VoteConservative #GE15 :) pic.twitter.com/QG8sV9yN3X

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) May 7, 2015

16 Bold Covers from #CharlieHebdo

At Business Insider, via Louise Mensch:

Let's get this story trending. Absolute respect to @BusinessInsider today. http://t.co/3lMUW9zr59

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 7, 2015

.@BusInsiderAU BALLS OF STEEL you just put the entire Western media to shame. Aussie guts and glory FTW

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 7, 2015

16 bold covers from the satirical Paris magazine that was attacked today: http://t.co/LdUUziuHm3 pic.twitter.com/uf73DikV6d

— Harrison Jacobs (@Harrisonxjacobs) January 7, 2015

.@Harrisonxjacobs you, sir, are the most important voice that liberty had today, anywhere in the world. Good for you http://t.co/3lMUW9zr59

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 7, 2015

Tilly Bagshawe

Louise Mensch's sister, who is also a novelist:

My awesome sister Tilly. I love that vintage dress it's my favourite of hers http://t.co/rdO73McYWF

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) September 7, 2014

Britain's Michael Fabricant Apologizes for Saying He'd Punch Leftist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Here's the Guardian, which has the screencap of the offensive tweet, "Tory MP Michael Fabricant apologises for tweet saying he might punch female journalist."

It turns out conservative commentator James Delingpole joined the debate with an "inflammatory" post (which I like), "THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH WANTING TO PUNCH YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN IN THE THROAT."

That got Louise Mensch's dander up and she defended Alibhai-Brown.

.@y_alibhai although #Delingpole is UKIP and not Tory, I am mortified by the abuse you are receiving from right-wing men #feminism
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 20, 2014

And here's the woman debating Rob Little on Channel 4, which is worth a look, heh.



In any case, I wouldn't make a comment about punching a woman (at least not so publicly), although I don't think you can ban emotional speech like that. Who knows, though. Feminists generate a lot of power with the "misogyny" meme. You have to push back and stand up for free-flowing speech.