26-04-2025
'Labour are not our allies and should be banned from York Pride'
Why Labour should be banned from York Pride
ORGANISERS of York Pride should not allow York Labour to attend the next Pride march while their party leader sides with Reform and the Conservatives in saying trans women are not women.
We cannot let Labour to continue to pretend to be allies at Pride while their government contributes to the ever increasing hostile narrative that is impacting trans residents in York.
Members who don't support Keir Starmer's comments should still march, just not under the banner of a party hostile to the Pride movement.
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Trump 'Nazi poster' tells 'truth of the man'
I am delighted by the way in which Matthew Laverack has criticised me for my low opinion of Donald Trump (Letters, The Press, April 18).
I am reminded of the composer Stravinsky, whose masterpiece, The Rite of Spring, caused a riot during its first performance in 1913.
Afterwards Stravinsky said that no composer has arrived until he has caused a riot.
I have never caused a riot, but in rousing Mr Laverack's ire, I feel that I have come close.
He writes: "'David Martin is one of those unfortunate individuals suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome".
In fact, my understanding of Trump is not just based on what I read in the news. It is based on a book by Trump's niece, Mary Trump, Too Much, and Never Enough.
Mary Trump is a senior psychologist in a New York hospital, so she is well placed to survey the Trump family and the way it shaped her uncle.
She says that Trump's emotional development stopped at the age of four; and this is a clinical judgment, not uninformed abuse.
He has not sued his niece for libel, which suggests that he cannot prove that she is untruthful.
It frightens me that a man so compromised is the most powerful person in the world. For this reason, I feel that a poster depicting Trump as a Nazi officer tells an essential truth about the man.
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