This canvas has sat proudly on the @AttitudeMag office wall for years. I took it down today. Talking about stuff nobody will talk about is “the way he’s always been, and the way he’ll always be”, David Beckham told us in 2002. Until the Qataris bought his silence 20 years later.
Darren Styles OBE
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Publisher. Owner of Attitude and Rolling Stone UK. GREAT Ambassador. FT say OUTstanding. Attitude Magazine Foundation founder.
Joined May 2011
- Whether @jk_rowling is breaking the law or not doesn’t change the fact she is a fundamentally shitty human being.
- I want a personal apology from @KemiBadenoch for the damage she has done to my community and the wicked harm inflicted on trans kids. Remember all the LGBTQ+ groups she said she’d met, but hadn’t? She is the worst Equalities Minister ever, she has been a blight.🔵 Kemi Badenoch has said she wants a personal apology from David Tennant after the actor told her to “shut up” and said he wished she “did not exist any more” because of her views on women’s rights. Read more here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…
- Truth is, David Tennant spoke for a nation. @KemiBadenoch should shut up not because she’s a woman, or black, or a Conservative (she’ll pretend it’s any of the above), but because she is a small-minded bigot playing to a base that hates and misrepresents trans people. Unworthy.Tomorrow, I launch my @renewal2030 campaign to be the next leader of our great Conservative Party. Join me at 11.00am, here on X!
00:00 - Hey @Waterstones - have you a comment on this for @AttitudeMag? Trans rights are human rights, not a sackable offence. And if you’re worry at the impact of a bigoted author on sales, wait until our millions of readers take you to task. Best fix this for @TillyLovesBooks quickly.
- Hi @Independent - we don’t give you access to our @AttitudeMag events so you can illustrate bollocks like this. We’ll not make that mistake again. In the meantime, please delete this image immediately.Hi @Independent would you mind editing or removing this Facebook post, it suggests I’m the person in question and frankly the comments are disgusting.
- Replying to @mrcarl_woodwardThere, live, is a bad plan, poorly executed. Absurd.
- So @Keir_Starmer wrote an op-ed for @AttitudeMag - but in light of events since it landed in our inbox I felt it couldn’t run without context or qualification. It’s not all bad, but he has to know that leaving our trans family behind is not an option.
- As the owner of @AttitudeMag I have platformed, supported and loved the trans community, unequivocally. If it’s cost us advertisers I’ve not noticed, nor cared. “I would rather be hated for who I truly am than loved for someone I am not. Love based on a lie is of no worth…”
- Hey @BBCNews - publisher of @AttitudeMag here. We are about to take apart your developing anti-trans mantra on all of our channels and I’m going to carry a serious complaint to the heart of Government and seek apology and change. To whom do I speak for comment and correction?
- Over the past year @AttitudeMag has been proud to work with @kit_connor and his #heartstopper colleagues. He is a lovely young man and a terrific role model. We never asked, he never told, everyone’s journey is their own. But the pressure he has felt elsewhere is unforgivable. ❤️
- In which a gay man who lived through the war takes on a woman who writes about wizards who is now having a stab at rewriting history. Her commitment to the erasure of a minority she “has no issue with” while deliberately misgendering a trans woman this past week appears absolute.Replying to @jk_rowlingWhen Hitler rose to power as German chancellor in 1933, he enacted policies to rid the country of Lebensunwertes Leben, or “lives unworthy of living.” His targets included Jews, Roma people, disabled people and communists—but also specifically homosexuals and transsexuals. While
- As one of “the usual suspects” you bet I’m angry. If anyone thinks @jk_rowling is a reliable witness on trans they haven’t been listening. Like her, I’m not medically qualified, but unlike her I talk to trans kids, parents of trans kids and medical professionals. She is wrong..@wesstreeting, the UK's new Health Secretary, has indicated that he plans to make the temporary ban on puberty blockers permanent. This has made the usual suspects very angry. Streeting, they say, will have 'blood on his hands.' He will 'kill trans kids.' 1/10
- Not only has @LouiseRedknapp proven to be the ally for the entire LGBTQ+ community we always knew, it’s flushed some TERF detritus out of my feed which will be useful in the coming weeks.












