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Sex matters
LABOUR may be confused over what a woman is, but thankfully Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch is not.
So a Tory pledge to protect women-only activities and spaces by enshrining biological sex in law is very welcome.
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Announced by Rishi Sunak and championed by ferociously anti-woke campaigner Ms Badenoch, it would stop biological men bringing discrimination claims against organisations that ban them from women’s changing rooms or toilets or from women’s sports.
But how did it come to this?
It ought to be common sense, not something requiring a strengthening of the Equality Act.
When the Act was first introduced, it should have been clear as day that sex meant biological sex — not any one of dozens of self-chosen genders.
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That clarification is even necessary is a measure of how deeply warped gender ideology has been embedded in public life by a woke metropolitan elite.
For the safety of women and girls, the Tory proposals would be a vital update.
It would also be badly needed protection for female athletes, who have fought too long and too hard to have their glory unjustly stolen.
Eternal heroes
THIS time eight decades ago, hundreds of thousands of brave but nervous soldiers were preparing themselves for the expected start of Operation Neptune, on which the fate of our nation rested.
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They knew the importance of what they were about to do, launching the fightback against Hitler’s forces, but they could not know if they would live to see the future they would be fighting for.
Today a shrinkingly small number of surviving veterans will start to make their way back to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, while others, too frail with age, will be getting ready to remember their fallen comrades from home.
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As a survey revealed that fewer than half of 18 to 34-year-olds could correctly identify the significance of D-Day, it is to be hoped the events will be suitably covered in schools this week at least.
We salute those who won us our freedoms. So should future generations.
RIP Rob
AT JUST 5’4”, Rob Burrow needed huge determination to succeed in Rugby League, but the courage with which he faced Motor Neurone Disease eclipsed even his illustrious career with Leeds Rhinos and England.
Together with his friend Kevin Sinfield, he raised millions and highlighted the cruel disease even as it was making him a prisoner in his own body.
Our thoughts go out to wife Lindsey and his children Macy, Maya and Jackson and all who loved him.
He was a giant of a man.
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