I'm blessed enough to have him as a regular guest when in London. He is the nicest fellow you could hope to meet. Smokes extra thick camel cigarettes and has butter on everything. My kind of guy. Once he came for lunch the day after we were burgled. /1

Yesterday, I questioned the Chair of the EHRC about the new Code of Practice, and the harm it poses to trans people and others who do not conform to gender stereotypes. The Code suggests employees of a business or a service should enforce restrictions based on evidence such as “the individual’s physique or physical appearance, behaviour or concerns raised by other service users.” When asked to specify what these would be, the Chair couldn't answer and instead spoke about “common sense”. The truth is that people would be relying on gender stereotypes, which are harmful not only for trans people but for others as well.

Dozens of children put at risk after gender care failures at GP clinic, inquiry finds bbc.in/4apZy8e

Change medication.

Great piece by @HadleyFreeman in Britain’s @thetimes about the Great unmarked graves social panic of 2021-26. The story makes Canadians look like gullible idiots, but it’s a valuable international case study in mass hysteria & journalistic incompetence thetimes.com/article/e3548a3…

This is the moment @BBCkatyaadler says ‘this is not the time’ when a woman asks @JuliaGillard about @salltweets while @HarrietHarman repeatedly says ‘not at all’ in response to Gillard destroying women’s sex based rights This was a talk entitled Women In Politics For shame!

"Activists and politicians love to talk about accountability, but only in regard to other people. When it emerges that they’re the ones who screwed up, who denounced innocent journalists, exploited the pain of vulnerable people, muddied the facts of a real tragedy, used graves for a photoshoot with a teddy bear, suddenly the past — ie five years ago — is ancient history and we should all get over it." @HadleyFreeman

Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, has signed an open letter demanding that a database be created of 2,000 dual British-Israeli nationals called up for service since the terror attacks by Hamas on October 7 2023 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…

Ivanka Trump announces that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, are building a massive off-the-grid private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. The island spans 1,400 hectares and currently has no power. They will be working with some of the world's greatest living architects to bring this vision to life. "It's massive in scale."

Totally fascinating clip. The 👀 that @Jonathan_Hinder gives Derbyshire, as she actively works to get him to describe ‘trans rights’ as a ‘middle class hobby horse’ - which would be quite a gotcha - followed by her disconcerted silence when he just says ‘men’ instead. She knew exactly what he was thinking of, and he knew exactly what she was doing. But the work on renormalising natural language has paid off. A couple of years ago he would have had to say ‘trans’ in some form, or ‘gender’, to describe events. Now he can just say ‘men’ and the power of that language trickery drains away completely.