Famed auction house Christie’s is pushing a non-fungible token (NFT) this week: the infamous 1987 work from artist Andres Serrano titled “Piss Christ,” a photo of a crucifix submerged in a glass tank allegedly filled with Serrano’s urine.
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Case in point: “Piss Christ,” a photograph of a crucifix submerged in what is widely speculated to be the artist’s urine. The iconic piece will now be available as an NFT for the very first time. <a href="https://t.co/Zd7xeAQwSS">pic.twitter.com/Zd7xeAQwSS</a>
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) partially funded “Piss Christ,” precipitating outrage. The photo received a $15,000 award from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, which was funded partly by the NEA. In 1989, New York GOP Senator Alfonse D’Amato called Piss Christ “a deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity” on the Senate floor and tore up an image of the photograph.
“What it symbolizes is the way Christ died: the blood came out of him but so did the piss and the s***,” Serrano told <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/03/andres-serrano-interview-donald-trump-piss-christ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a> in 2016. “Maybe if Piss Christ upsets you, it&#8217;s because it gives some sense of what the crucifixion actually was like &#8230; I was born and raised a Catholic and I&#8217;ve been a Christian all my life.”
“The dynamic video NFT replicates three historic vandalisms of the original 1987 photograph on a yearly cycle. [Skillfully] applying the time-based mechanisms of digital art, Serrano both archives and transforms the story of his infamous photograph, underscoring its enduring legacy in the history of art and the right to creative expression,” Christie’s <a href="https://www.christies.com/features/andres-serrano-transfigures-piss-christ-into-nft-12556-3.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts</a>.
The NFT was produced in collaboration with a/political, an organization whose <a href="https://about.apolitical.co/our-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-founder</a>, Lisa Witter, has <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/global-womensrights-top100-idINKCN1T000R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “It’s time to showcase the inspirational people who are pioneering change and shaping gender policy around the globe.”
In 2019, a/political released its Gender Equality Top 100 list which included people such as transgender rights activist Sarah McBride, who works at the LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, and Leana Wen, the then-head of Planned Parenthood.
In 2019, Christie’s was one of the first businesses to <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/christies-asks-excluded-trumps-tariffs-chinese-imports-claiming-cause-significant-loss-business-1695027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">file for exemption</a> against former President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese art and antiques. Those tariffs imposed a 15% duty on seven types of artwork and antiques from China.
“It also will severely impact the U.S. art market as a whole, drying up any ability to purchase Chinese artworks outside of the United States,” Christie’s declared. “Punishing the U.S. art market in this manner flies in the face of an important American value of support for the art world.”
In March 2021, Christie’s announced a global sustainability initiative. Prior to that, in 2019, Christie’s <a href="https://www.christies.com/home/about-us/corporate-social-responsibility/sustainability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sold</a> the personal guitar collection of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour for $21.5 million; all proceeds went to ClientEarth.

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English actress Helena Bonham Carter is speaking out against cancel culture, especially as it relates to her frequent co-star Johnny Depp and author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling">J.K. Rowling</a>.
Carter, 56, spoke with <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helena-bonham-carter-good-on-young-men-for-finding-middle-aged-beauty-sexy-5smkzmnm3">The Times</a> about her feelings on Depp and Rowling being vilified by both the public and the media. 
“I hate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cancel-culture">cancel culture</a>. It has become quite hysterical and there&#8217;s a kind of witch-hunt and a lack of understanding,&#8221; Carter said.
The actress said Depp was &#8220;completely vindicated&#8221; following his defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, which ended with a Virginia jury awarding him $10 million. Carter starred in seven movies with Depp, the godfather of Carter&#8217;s children she shared with her ex, filmmaker Tim Burton.
The interviewer asked if the trial was indicative of the &#8220;pendulum of #MeToo swinging back,&#8221; to which Carter replied that she thinks &#8220;(Heard) got on that pendulum. That’s the problem with these things – that people will jump on the bandwagon because it’s the trend and to be the poster girl for it.&#8221;
As for Rowling, Carter said the backlash is so extreme partly because the billionaire “Harry Potter” author is so famous. She thinks the ire &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be so great&#8221; if Rowling wasn&#8217;t &#8220;the most phenomenal success.&#8221;
&#8220;I think there’s a lot of envy unfortunately and the need to tear people down that motors a lot of this canceling,&#8221; the “Sweeney Todd” star said. &#8220;It’s horrendous, a load of bollocks. I think she has been hounded. It’s been taken to the extreme, the judgmentalism of people.&#8221;
&#8220;She’s allowed her opinion, particularly if she’s suffered abuse,” Carter continued. “Everybody carries their own history of trauma and forms their opinions from that trauma and you have to respect where people come from and their pain. You don’t all have to agree on everything — that would be insane and boring. She’s not meaning it aggressively, she’s just saying something out of her own experience.&#8221;
The actress’s statements are the opposite of what most actors from the “Harry Potter” franchise are saying. Many of them came out against Rowling, saying they stand with transgender people and simultaneously disavowed the franchise creator for saying she believes in the biological reality of women.
Most recently, actor Daniel Radcliffe said it was important to weigh in on the transgender argument and take sides against Rowling.
“The reason I was felt very, very much as though I needed to say something when I did was because, particularly since finishing ‘Potter,’ I’ve met so many queer and trans kids and young people who had a huge amount of identification with Potter on that,” the 33-year-old actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-radcliffe-choosing-sides-against-j-k-rowling-in-trans-argument-was-important">told</a> IndieWire.
“And so seeing them hurt on that day I was like, I wanted them to know that not everybody in the franchise felt that way,” Radcliffe said.
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A <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminal</a> case against street preacher John Dunn was tossed from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British</a> court system after two women in a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/homosexuality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">same-sex marriage</a> accused the Christian of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hate-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate speech</a>.
Dunn, a veteran of the British Army’s Special Forces and a throat cancer survivor, regularly preaches in the town square of Swindon, according to a <a href="https://christianconcern.com/ccpressreleases/win-for-arrested-preacher-after-crown-prosecution-claims-parts-of-bible-no-longer-appropriate-in-modern-society/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from Christian Legal Centre, which represented him throughout the legal proceedings. Dunn, who often discusses biblical doctrine related to sexuality as described in Genesis 1, told two women holding hands that he hoped they were “sisters.” After the women responded that they were in a same-sex marriage, Dunn said that “homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God,” which is a direct quote from 1 Corinthians 6.
The women subsequently reported the preacher to law enforcement. Prosecutors contended that Dunn was guilty of hate speech because he had “offended” and “upset” a member of the public. The case was dismissed after the two women who accused Dunn failed to appear in court, even though a police officer reportedly visited their home and encouraged them to attend the hearing scheduled for November 13.
“When I preach, I only ever say what is in the Bible. When they told me they were in a same-sex marriage, I was concerned for them,” Dunn said in a statement provided to Christian Legal Centre after the dismissal. “I had to communicate the consequences of their actions based on what the Bible says. I wanted to warn them, not out of condemnation, but out of love. I wanted to them to know that there is forgiveness through the love of Jesus.”
The women accused Dunn of shouting that they would “burn in hell,” even though Dunn lost his voice box during his battle with cancer.
Prosecutors had argued that certain biblical doctrines “are simply no longer appropriate in modern society and which would be deemed offensive if stated in public.” Martin Parsons, a Christian theologian who provided expert evidence in response to the prosecutors’ assertions, noted that the public reading of Scripture during the Reformation was among the first steps toward broader freedom of religion in Britain. The words of the Old and New Testaments still hold an important place in British public life, including the coronation and funeral of recently deceased Queen Elizabeth II.
“The Bible has had a unique status within British constitutional history,” Parsons observed. “The suggestion by the crown that there are parts of the Bible ‘which are simply no longer appropriate in modern society and which would be deemed offensive if stated in public,’ is one that if accepted would have significant constitutional implications.”
Dunn remarked that he intends to continue street preaching. He is regularly joined by Shaun O’Sullivan, a former drug dealer who was converted under his ministry.
Several countries in Europe have made international headlines for penalizing citizens publicly espousing historic Christian teachings on matters such as homosexuality and transgenderism. Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Finnish Parliament, faced multiple criminal charges earlier this year after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christian-politician-in-finland-grandmother-of-six-on-trial-after-posting-bible-tweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a screenshot of a Bible verse depicting pride as a sin.
Tobias Riemenschneider, a pastor in Frankfurt, Germany, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/christians-against-the-abuse-of-power-theologians-around-the-world-sign-statement-rejecting-government-lockdowns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> in the Frankfurt Declaration of Christian and Civil Liberties that Western nations’ descent into totalitarianism encroaches upon individual liberties, particularly with respect to worship and religion. “God has delegated authority to civil governments for the purpose of rewarding good and punishing evil, and to protect the God-given rights and freedoms granted to all people,” the statement reads.

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A popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom">British</a> radio presenter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/death">died</a> in the middle of doing the morning show.
Tim Gough, 55, experienced a medical emergency while on the air. He was doing the GenX Radio Suffolk radio show when he sustained a “suspected heart attack,” a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aL42MpJRu92v5R61EC-8-Di48oNhzL9f/view">press release</a> says.
Gough was pronounced dead at his home just before 8 a.m. local time, per the report.
&#8220;Tim was doing what he loved&#8221; when he died, the station shared of its colleague. &#8220;The entire GenX Radio family are shocked and devastated beyond words.&#8221;
&#8220;Tim was a hugely experienced and highly talented <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">broadcaster</a> with an army of fans for his daily show,&#8221; the statement from GenX Radio Suffolk continued. &#8220;He is a very sad loss to radio and the county of Suffolk.&#8221;
Gough began his radio career at Radio Orwell in 1986. He had been working at GenX Radio Suffolk for more than three decades. 
“Tim has been on the radio since the 80s and had come out of radio retirement to fully involve himself in our project from the beginning, to bring local commercial radio back to his beloved Suffolk and was hugely excited for our DAB launch at the end of the month,” James Hazell, Managing Director of GenX Radio Suffolk shared. 
&#8220;To know Tim personally, as I did very closely for over 30 years, was to know a warm, caring, fun guy who myself and my family loved dearly. We are heart broken by the news. I know his family are enormously comforted by the hundreds of loving messages that have been received and have asked for privacy at this devastating time.” 
The press release noted that Gough is survived by his mother, brother, sister, and son. 
The broadcaster’s death comes just weeks after 41-year-old recording artist Mikaben died on stage during a performance in France. He walked across the stage, suddenly collapsed, and died. His death was also suspected to be the result of sudden cardiac arrest, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-artist-collapses-on-stage-and-dies">reported</a>.
Around the same time, 17-year-old Daniel Moshi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/talented-high-school-singer-collapses-and-dies-on-stage-while-performing-at-all-state-event-report">died suddenly</a> after collapsing on stage at an all-state choir event. He was performing at the All-State Honors Show Choir for the Illinois American Choral Directors Association at Naperville North High School when he suddenly collapsed and was later pronounced dead. Moshi’s family said the teen had not been feeling well but were shocked at what happened.

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After conducting a systematic review of evidence, England&#8217;s National Health Service has proposed <a href="https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/gender-dysphoria-services/user_uploads/b1937-ii-specialist-service-for-children-and-young-people-with-gender-dysphoria-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new guidelines</a> for treating trans-identifying youth, abandoning their previous endorsement of the &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; model of care for a more cautious approach to treating gender dysphoria in minors. 
The NHS now recognizes that children and adolescents identifying as transgender may be experiencing a &#8220;transient phase&#8221; and warns that doctors should not encourage them to change their names and pronouns, as &#8220;social transition&#8221; is not a “neutral act” and could have “significant effects” in terms of “psychological functioning.”
The new guidelines “reflect evidence that in most cases gender incongruence does not persist into adolescence” for young children. The guidance states that instead of encouraging transition, physicians should take “a watchful approach,” directly contrasting the American Academy of Pediatrics&#8217; <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 policy</a>, equating &#8220;watchful waiting&#8221; with a &#8220;harmful&#8221; form of &#8220;conversion therapy.&#8221;
The NHS guidelines indicate that services will now be led by medical doctors rather than therapists, and will consider the impact of autism and other common co-occurring mental health issues. The new guidance also bans the use of puberty blockers in patients under 18, making exceptions only in certain cases for strict clinical trials.
The new guidelines are set to replace the controversial protocol administered by the now-shuttered Tavistock gender clinic that &#8220;affirm&#8221; a child’s self-reported transgender identity and prevent medical professionals from exploring possible underlying factors causing their dysphoria. 
The &#8220;case for change&#8221; marking their abrupt deviation from their previous approach is <a href="https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/specialised-commissioning/gender-dysphoria-services/user_uploads/b1937-ii-interim-service-specification-for-specialist-gender-dysphoria-services-for-children-and-young-people-22.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> by the &#8220;significant and sharp rise in [gender clinic] referrals&#8221; and “scarce and inconclusive evidence to support clinical decision-making.”
According to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-data-shows-skyrocketing-gender-clinic-referrals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most recent data</a> released by the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the U.K.’s Tavistock Centre, child and adolescent referrals have doubled compared to the previous year. GIDS now estimates 5,000+ children and adolescents sought gender-related services in 2021-2022, a 112% increase from 2020-2021.
The Society of Evidence Based Gender Medicine (<a href="https://segm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SEGM</a>), an international group of over 100 clinicians and researchers, released a <a href="https://www.segm.org/England-ends-gender-affirming-care">report</a> on Monday outlining the key highlights of the new NHS guidelines.
&#8220;The new NHS guidelines represent a repudiation of the past decade’s approach to management of gender dysphoric minors,&#8221; said SEGM. &#8220;The &#8216;gender-affirming&#8217; approach, endorsed by WPATH and characterized by the conceptualization of gender-dysphoric minors as &#8216;transgender children&#8217; has been replaced with a holistic view of identity development in children and adolescents.&#8221;
&#8220;With the new NHS guidance, England joins Finland and Sweden as the three European countries who have explicitly deviated from WPATH guidelines and devised treatment approaches that sharply curb gender transition of minors,&#8221; SEGM added. &#8220;Psychotherapy will be provided as the first and usually only line of treatment for gender dysphoric youth.&#8221;
The new guidelines make no mention of gender-related surgeries, but as SEGM notes, surgery has never been a covered benefit under England’s NHS for minors. And although the NHS has not made an explicit statement about cross-sex hormones, they have indicated that they will likely be restricted to clinical trials.

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British</a> lawmaker Rishi Sunak will succeed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/liz-truss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Truss</a> as the nation’s prime minister after his last rival dropped out of the Conservative Party contest early Monday morning.
Sunak, who formerly served as finance minister under <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/boris-johnson">Boris Johnson</a>, will be the country&#8217;s first nonwhite prime minister, as his parents are of Punjabi Indian descent. His succession as leader of the Conservative Party comes after years of political chaos within the faction, including the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-conservatives-cave-on-pro-growth-economic-agenda-prime-minister-might-be-ousted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failure</a> of an economic growth and tax cut plan from Truss that led to her resignation after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-lettuce-won-truss-steps-down-as-british-pm-ending-stormy-45-day-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a mere six weeks</a> in power.
“The United Kingdom is a great country but we face a profound economic crisis,” Sunak said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1584114970723512321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> yesterday. “I have the track record of delivery, a clear plan to fix the biggest problems we face and I will deliver on the promise of the 2019 manifesto. There will be integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level of the government I lead and I will work day in and day out to get the job done.”
Members of the Conservative Party had <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/10/24/rishi-sunak-uk-prime-minister">resolved</a> to choose the nation’s next leader by the end of the week in order to maximize political stability. Johnson abandoned his surprise bid to return to power after he failed to gain the support of at least 100 of the 357 Conservative ministers, a requirement for advancing to the next round of the contest. News of Sunak’s attainment of the premiership occurred after Penny Mordaunt, a fellow Conservative lawmaker, <a href="https://twitter.com/PennyMordaunt/status/1584529702466686977">announced</a> that her colleagues had made a decision to back Sunak “in good faith for the good of the country,” effectively leading her to drop out of the contest.
“These are unprecedented times. Despite the compressed timetable for the leadership contest it is clear that colleagues feel we need certainty today,” Mordaunt said. “This decision is an historic one and shows, once again, the diversity and talent of our party. Rishi has my full support.”
Sunak, who is 42 years old, will be the youngest British prime minister in more than two centuries. He had predicted the negative market effects of Truss’ economic plan earlier this year during the campaign to replace Johnson. Indeed, after investors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-british-prime-minister-sticks-by-pro-growth-tax-cut-plan-after-establishment-criticism">concerned</a> about the government’s ability to meet debt obligations jettisoned their assets, Truss announced last week that she would eliminate portions of her plan and dismiss finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng. The political chaos occurs immediately after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who approved Truss as the head of government days before her death.
More than 100 Conservatives had conspired to oust Truss, according to a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11321737/Plot-topple-Liz-Truss-MPs-call-Prime-Minister-quit-amid-rumours-WEEK.html">report</a> from The Daily Mail. “She has lost the confidence of the markets and she is hemorrhaging support. We need to cauterize the wound, and fast,” one unnamed minister told the outlet. “There is an overwhelming desire among colleagues for it to be over — people want it done this week.”
Despite nixing her tax cuts, Truss pushed for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/strengthening-our-energy-resilience-britain-ends-fracking-ban-will-become-net-exporter-by-2040">higher fossil fuel production</a> and set the goal of becoming a net exporter of energy by 2040 in a portion of her agenda that appears to remain intact. She also announced a new round of oil and gas leases for the North Sea and lifted her nation’s moratorium on shale gas production, including the technique of fracking, by which pressurized liquid is injected into underground rocks to extract fuels.

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A 15-year-old boy collapsed and died in the middle of a restaurant over the weekend in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom">United Kingdom</a> while out with his family and friends.
<a href="https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/15-year-old-boy-collapses-25334445">Liverpool Echo</a> reports that the boy was at the Browns Restaurant Saturday in the Liverpool ONE on Paradise Street when he suddenly collapsed.
Members of the staff and others tended to him while paramedics were en route.
Once on scene, paramedics rushed him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
&#8220;Emergency services were called to Browns Restaurant on Paradise Street at about 5.50pm following reports that a teenager, who was with family and friends had collapsed,&#8221; a Merseyside Police spokesperson said.
&#8220;A number of members of the public and staff at the restaurant had provided medical assistance prior to the emergency services attending,&#8221; police added. &#8220;The teenager was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital where sadly he died a short time later.&#8221;
Police said that the death &#8220;is not believed to be suspicious, and a file is being prepared for the Coroner.&#8221;
&#8220;Next of kin have been spoken to and specialist officers are supporting the family at this tragic time,&#8221; police added.
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A British hospital has canceled a woman&#8217;s life-saving surgery after she objected to having a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender">transgender</a> nurse.
London&#8217;s Princess Grace Hospital told the anonymous woman it had to &#8220;protect staff from unacceptable distress&#8221; and canceled her operation, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11316141/Hospital-bans-sex-assault-victim-op-female-care-request.html">according</a> to The Daily Mail.
The woman&#8217;s complex colorectal surgery had been scheduled for October 10.
The woman is a sexual assault victim and specifically requested all-female facilities. She was caught off guard when a person she believed to be a biological male who identifies as female in a blonde wig and make-up opened the door and made eye contact with her when she arrived for a pre-op assessment that involved intimate procedures.
The incident is currently being investigated by HCA, Princess Grace Hospital&#8217;s parent company.
This prompted the woman, a feminist retired lawyer, to make an urgent request for an all-female nursing staff.
&#8220;I began to wonder if it was just a coincidence that this member of staff with a &#8216;gender identity&#8217; had made their presence felt to me in such an inappropriate way during my first visit,&#8221; the woman told The Daily Mail.
&#8220;I began to suspect that I had been targeted because my patient records showed that I refused to use pronouns and wanted single sex facilities, although I have no evidence of this,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Then I began to panic that men would be attending to my intimate care at the hospital while I was immobilized for an entire week following major surgery,&#8221; the woman continued. &#8220;It was a slow, dawning realization. I felt sick. Alarm bells were ringing in my head. I cannot describe the fear that I felt. I cannot rationalize it.&#8221;
The woman wrote to HCA that evening to stress that she believed mixed-sex hospital facilities are dangerous to women.
&#8220;I do feel that the hospital should follow a protocol of offering ALL women patients single-sex nursing care,&#8221; she wrote.
&#8220;Please do not make life difficult for women when they are at their most vulnerable by forcing them into uncomfortable and embarrassing situations. I cannot believe that I am the first patient to have raised this with you,&#8221; she said.
In response, Princess Grace Hospital&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer Maxine Estop Green emailed her back and told her that her surgery was canceled.
The woman urged the hospital to keep her appointment, saying they must have misunderstood her perfectly legal requests.
The hospital said it could grant her a private room but would not cooperate with her request for female-only nurses after her surgery. The hospital also noted that the woman had voiced her opinions about gender identity pronouns and said it must protect staff from &#8220;discrimination and harassment.&#8221;
Afterward, the woman said she believed she was targeted by transgender activists within the hospital.
&#8220;I am still in a state of shock at this punitive and discriminatory reaction by the CEO of this hospital which specializes in women&#8217;s procedures,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Everything that has happened is so off the wall and irrational.&#8221;
The woman said the hospital&#8217;s action was about &#8220;appeasing men who claim a gender identity,&#8221; adding that she could not believe this was happening in the United Kingdom.
&#8220;They will punish anyone who tells the truth,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Women&#8217;s safety, dignity and privacy continues to be sacrificed on the altar of this quasi religion.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-prime-minister-liz-truss-unveils-package-to-cut-soaring-fuel-prices-offers-reforms-so-we-are-never-in-this-position-again/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Truss</a>, resigned Thursday as British prime minister, ending a stormy, 45-day tenure a fulfilling the predictions of critics who doubted the conservative politician’s leadership from the start.
Truss, who succeeded Boris Johnson on Sept. 6 after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest, acknowledged that she was not up to the challenges she faced. The U.K. is suffering runaway inflation and staring down a winter with soaring fuel prices.
&#8220;I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability,” Truss said in a statement read outside No. 10 Downing Street, where she informed King Charles of her decision. &#8220;Families and businesses were worried about how to pay their bills.&#8221;
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While she claimed to have made inroads on the energy crisis, she acknowledged she &#8220;cannot deliver the mandate&#8221; for which she was elected.
&#8220;I recognize, though, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative Party,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative Party.&#8221;
Truss’s brief time in office was dominated by economic chaos and an aborted tax cut proposal. Some Tory MPs had publicly called for her to step down, while others voiced their agreement privately. The Fleet Street tabloid The Daily Star kept tabs on a head of lettuce, asking readers which would “wilt” first, it or Truss.
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Liz Truss to resign as prime minister, Sky News understands <a href="https://t.co/qSULBHB0Xw">https://t.co/qSULBHB0Xw</a>
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A new election is expected next week to choose a leader of the ruling Conservative Party. There were early reports that Johnson could return to the role he held from July 2019 until last month. <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/10/20/liz-truss-news-resign-pm-conservative-party-general-election/">The Telegraph</a>, citing an unnamed Tory member of parliament said lawmakers were talking openly of a “spectacular return” for Johnson.
Truss will remain in office until her successor has been chosen. In addition to the possibility of a comeback by Johnson, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who replaced Kwasi Kwarteng, the author of the scrapped tax cuts, has been mentioned as a possible successor.
It was Kwarteng’s tax cuts, part of a “mini-budget” he announced last month, that led to Truss’s downfall. Kwarteng was fired Friday and replaced by Hunt, who reversed most of the budget proposal, drastically undermining Truss’s authority.
The resignation came just a day after Truss told MPs she was a &#8220;fighter, not a quitter.&#8221;
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President Joe Biden said Truss’s resignation will not affect the alliance between the two countries.
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“I thank Prime Minister Liz Truss for her partnership on a range of issues including holding Russia accountable for its war against Ukraine,” Biden said in a statement. “We will continue our close cooperation with the UK government as we work together to meet the global challenges our nations face.”
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Truss Steps Down As British PM, Ending Stormy, 44-Day Run

This is the only time in recorded history that a &#8220;braver man&#8221; can actually be a &#8220;woman.&#8221;
On Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Kingdom</a>&#8216;s Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed the Leicestershire police force after it sent out a tweet encouraging residents to report the egregious hate crime of being &#8220;deadnamed.&#8221; Deadnaming occurs when someone uses the former name of an individual who has changed his or her name after deciding to identify as a different gender.
&#8220;This week I have seen confusion amongst police forces about what constitutes a ‘hate crime.’ The police need to enforce actual laws &amp; fight actual crimes,&#8221; Braverman tweeted in response to a now-deleted tweet from Leicestershire police. &#8220;Freedom of speech must be protected and a proportionate approach must be taken.&#8221;
The original <a href="https://archive.ph/uhs8X#selection-651.0-673.2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet stated</a>, &#8220;You can report #HateCrime via Stamp It Out,&#8221; and featured the following graphic made from a stock photo:
<div id="attachment_452034" style="width: 374px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-452034" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-452034" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Tweet-300x169.jpeg" alt="Courtesy: Leicestershire Police " width="364" height="205" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/Tweet-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/10/Tweet.jpeg 680w" sizes="(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px" />Courtesy: Leicestershire Police</div>
Of course, many were wondering why the police would be involved in something like that all.
In her official capacity, Braverman oversees policing in the U.K. and is decidedly putting an end this nonsense. She also promised to get to the bottom of the tweet, as well as any other police resources being used in this regard.
&#8220;The public need to have confidence in their police forces,&#8221; she added. &#8220;This sort of thing undermines it. Senior police officers who allow this to happen can expect to have to explain to me why they’re spending vital resources on politically correct campaigns.&#8221;
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The public need to have confidence in their police forces.
This sort of thing undermines it. 
Senior police officers who allow this to happen can expect to have to explain to me why they’re spending vital resources on politically correct campaigns. 2/2<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/commonsensepolicing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#commonsensepolicing</a>
&mdash; Suella Braverman MP (@SuellaBraverman) <a href="https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1581618197585100800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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For its part, Leicestershire Police apologized for using a stock photo.
&#8220;To clarify in relation to the posts, the images used were stock images obtained by the team,&#8221; Temporary Chief Constable Rob Nixon <a href="https://www.leics.police.uk/news/leicestershire/news/2022/october/message-regarding-social-media-posts-issued/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release. &#8220;The source of those images had been considered to be reliable and the words on the posts were provided by an experienced police staff member who has significant knowledge of the different types of hate crime people can be and have been subjected to.&#8221;
However, Nixon asked that &#8220;people please remember the importance of the message which the posts related to – that hate crime is impactive and an offence and together we should be working to ‘Stamp it Out.’”
This is not the first time that Braverman has taken on the woke mob.
In September, shortly after being appointed Home Secretary, Braverman sent a letter to police chiefs in England and Wales, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-secretary-letter-to-police-leaders/open-letter-to-leaders-of-the-police-for-england-and-wales-accessible#:~:text=Culture%20and%20standards%20in%20the,with%20the%20respect%20they%20deserve." target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a>, &#8220;Culture and standards in the police have to change, particularly in London.&#8221;
She added that police officers &#8220;have had to spend too much time on symbolic gestures, rather than actually fighting crime.&#8221;
Other measures, such as diversity and inclusion efforts, &#8220;should not take precedence over common-sense policing&#8221; she <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/home-secretary-common-sense-policing-075648528.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Hats off to Braverman. Congrats on fighting back against wokeism.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/behind-every-woke-man-is-an-even-woker-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Behind Every Woke Man Is An Even Woker Woman</a>

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U.K.’s Top Cop Slams Woke Police Force For Fake ‘Hate Crime’ Tweet

U.K.'s Top Cop Slams Woke Police Force For Fake 'Hate Crime' Tweet

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Woke Culture

<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British</a> Prime Minister <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/liz-truss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Truss</a> may be ousted six weeks into her tenure after she and fellow ministers caved on most portions of an aggressive <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economic</a> reform package.
Truss, who replaced outgoing head of government and fellow Conservative Party member Boris Johnson last month, unveiled a tax cut and energy production plan in the first days of her premiership. After investors concerned about the government’s ability to meet debt obligations jettisoned their assets, Truss announced that she would eliminate portions of her plan and dismissed finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng.
&#8220;We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline,” she said in a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-liz-trusss-news-conference-after-finance-minister-sacked-2022-10-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “I have therefore decided to keep the increase in corporation tax that was planned by the previous government.”
Beyond canceling the higher corporate tax rate, Truss had planned to slash the basic income tax rate to 19% and launch discussions about special economic zones across the country.
Truss had formerly <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/29/uk-pm-liz-truss-defends-tax-cuts-vows-to-press-on.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled down</a> on her growth agenda during a number of local radio interviews that followed the market headwinds. “I understand that families are struggling with their fuel bills, and we had to take urgent action to get our economy growing, get Britain moving, and also deal with inflation,” she explained. “And of course, that means taking controversial and difficult decisions. But I’m prepared to do that as prime minister, because what’s important to me is that we get our economy moving.”
Amid the political turmoil, which comes immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, more than 100 ministers in her own party are preparing to oust Truss, according to a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11321737/Plot-topple-Liz-Truss-MPs-call-Prime-Minister-quit-amid-rumours-WEEK.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Daily Mail. “She has lost the confidence of the markets and she is hemorrhaging support. We need to cauterize the wound, and fast,” one unnamed minister told the outlet. “There is an overwhelming desire among colleagues for it to be over — people want it done this week.”
In a portion of her agenda that appears to remain intact, Truss also pushed for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/strengthening-our-energy-resilience-britain-ends-fracking-ban-will-become-net-exporter-by-2040" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher fossil fuel production</a> and set the goal of becoming a net exporter of energy by 2040. She also announced a new round of oil and gas leases for the North Sea and lifted her nation’s moratorium on shale gas production, including the technique of fracking, by which pressurized liquid is injected into underground rocks to extract fuels.
“We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines from authoritarian regimes and strengthening our energy resilience,” Truss said during a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-minister-liz-trusss-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly-21-september-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> to the United Nations General Assembly. “We will ensure we cannot be coerced or harmed by the reckless actions of rogue actors abroad. We will transition to a future based on renewable and nuclear energy while ensuring that the gas used during that transition is from reliable sources including our own North Sea production.”
The policy comes as much of the continent struggles with soaring energy prices amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Member states of the European Union are currently weighing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-union-questions-russian-oil-price-cap-considers-making-fossil-fuel-companies-pay-a-solidarity-contribution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">various measures</a> to help member states cope with a freeze in Russian energy exports and the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline system.
At the beginning of this year, Britain had a top personal income tax rate of 45%, which is lower than most European countries, yet higher than the 37% rate in the United States, according to a <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/top-personal-income-tax-rates-europe-2022/#:~:text=Denmark%20(55.9%20percent)%2C%20France,lowest%20personal%20income%20top%20rates." target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Tax Foundation. Truss had argued in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-british-prime-minister-to-make-the-economic-pie-much-bigger-instead-of-fighting-over-how-to-slice-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> that politicians should begin focusing “on growing the pie” rather than fighting over “how to slice up” the pie.

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The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British</a> power authority warned on Thursday of possible blackouts through the winter due to mounting geopolitical pressures in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Europe</a>.
As ministers in some European countries contend with energy prices that have increased <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-climate-bureaucrats-are-dooming-the-continent-to-a-very-dark-winter">more than tenfold</a>, the British National Grid’s Electricity System Operator revealed in a <a href="https://www.nationalgrideso.com/news/eso-takes-cautious-action-ahead-winter-ensure-security-electricity-supply#_ftn1">winter outlook</a> that officials are likewise grappling with potential natural gas shortages. Though the agency is “cautiously confident” that power will last through the winter, officials acknowledged that “shortfalls of gas in continental Europe could have a range of knock-on impacts in Britain.”
If current efforts to secure three contracts with coal generators to produce more energy are unsuccessful, the Electricity System Operator expects that high demand on cold days and low power generation during periods with low levels of wind may introduce “the potential to need to interrupt supply to some customers for limited periods of time in a managed and controlled manner.” Officials are therefore encouraging commercial entities to shift their production outside of peak demand hours, among other mitigation efforts.
While roughly 42% of energy in the United Kingdom comes from natural gas, 21% comes from nuclear and nearly 25% comes from renewable sources such as solar and wind, according to <a href="https://www.energy-uk.org.uk/our-work/generation/electricity-generation.html">data</a> from trade organization Energy UK. “Notwithstanding the mitigation measures noted above, it is highly likely that the wholesale price of energy” for both gas and electricity “will remain very high throughout the winter outlook period,” the Electricity System Operator added.
Several countries in Europe, including France and Spain, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/french-president-calls-for-10-cut-in-energy-use-will-ration-power-as-a-last-resort">requested</a> that their citizens slash energy consumption through means such as reducing reliance upon air conditioning and heating systems. British Minister of State for Climate Graham Stuart, however, told the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-government-not-asking-people-use-less-energy-minister-says-2022-10-07/">media</a> that his government is “not in the business of telling people how to live their lives,” remarking that a severe shortage of natural gas “would come at a very sharp point, so the fact that somebody had reduced their energy usage a week before or even a day before you get to a peak wouldn&#8217;t really make any difference to the security of supply.”
In another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-households-must-cut-power-usage-this-winter-energy-agency-says">report</a>, the International Energy Agency recommended that European nations cut their power consumption in order to maintain sufficient supplies through the winter. A failure to reduce demand would bring power inventory to 18% of working capacity by March 2023, while a 9% or 13% reduction in power usage would lead to inventories of 38% and 45%, respectively.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who replaced outgoing head of government Boris Johnson last month, has prioritized energy production in the first days of her tenure through measures such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-prime-minister-liz-truss-unveils-package-to-cut-soaring-fuel-prices-offers-reforms-so-we-are-never-in-this-position-again">reopening oil and gas leases</a> in the North Sea. The move came before the Nord Stream pipeline system, which ran natural gas from Russia to Germany, saw <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nord-stream-pipelines-see-unprecedented-damage-after-cia-warned-german-government-of-sabotage">unprecedented damage</a>, further threatening the energy supply of continental Europe.
“We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines from authoritarian regimes and strengthening our energy resilience,” Truss said during a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-minister-liz-trusss-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly-21-september-2022">speech</a> to the United Nations General Assembly. “We will ensure we cannot be coerced or harmed by the reckless actions of rogue actors abroad. We will transition to a future based on renewable and nuclear energy while ensuring that the gas used during that transition is from reliable sources including our own North Sea production.”

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