Video shoot for @thejesusbolt going swimmingly 💦

Sorry to hear women defending their rights scares you. Maybe go fuck yourself?

The day women & girls are truly protected… we’ll know.

We can’t outspend the ACLU. But we can out-share them. Women’s sports are worth it.

Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%

The Supreme Court spoke plainly. Sex in law means biological sex. Single-sex spaces exist to protect privacy, dignity, and safety. That ruling was unanimous, deliberate, and designed to end a decade of institutional confusion. It was not ambiguous. It did not invite reinterpretation. It settled the matter. And yet, months on, women are still waiting for the law to be applied. Not because Parliament has overturned it. Not because the judges were unclear. But because a Cabinet minister – Bridget Phillipson, the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities – has decided she does not like the outcome. The task of turning judgments into practice falls to the state. That is why the Equality and Human Rights Commission drafted guidance spelling out what the ruling requires of hospitals, councils, gyms, schools and businesses. It did exactly what it exists to do: interpret the law as declared by the court and urge ministers to act at speed. Instead, the guidance has been sat on, stalled, and quietly attacked from within government. While women wait, the minister responsible has gone further. In court filings, she has described the guidance as "trans-exclusive," as though enforcing sex-based law were an act of discrimination rather than compliance. She has offered bad-faith hypotheticals about infant boys and pregnant women in queues to muddy a judgment that was written precisely to prevent such games. She has demanded extra process where none is required. And she has aligned herself with a legal challenge brought by the Good Law Project, whose purpose is not to clarify the ruling, but to blunt it. The effect is not academic. Because the guidance is blocked, institutions do nothing. Hospitals continue to tell women to accept males in wards and changing rooms. Employers continue to discipline women who object. Public bodies continue to pretend the law is unsettled when it is not. The chaos the court sought to end is being prolonged by design. This is how rights are hollowed out in practice while being praised in principle. The contradiction at the heart of government is now stark. Keir Starmer told Parliament the ruling must be implemented "in full and at all levels." Yet his own minister is arguing, in court, for a "case-by-case" approach that would reintroduce the very incoherence the judges rejected. If a women's toilet must admit a male based on appearance or attitude, it ceases to be a women's space. There is no middle ground. There never was. The law does not bend because a minister finds it awkward. What we are watching is not caution. It is sabotage by procedure. No vote. No Bill. No open argument in Parliament. Just delay, reframing, and obstruction until the ruling is drained of force. That is not how a democracy treats its highest court. It is how an executive evades it. The irony is bitter. For years, women were told to be patient while clarity was sought. The court has now provided that clarity. And still they are told to wait – not for the law to be written, but for a minister to accept it. This is not about complexity. It is about will. A government that accepts a judgment only in words, while resisting it in action, is not governing under the rule of law. It is testing how long it can get away with ignoring it. And the price of that test is being paid by women who were promised protection and are instead given process. The court has done its job. The law is settled. What remains is a simple question of integrity. Will ministers carry out the law as it stands, or continue to stall until it means nothing at all? "While women wait, the minister responsible has gone further. In court filings, she has described the guidance as "trans-exclusive," as though enforcing sex-based law were an act of discrimination rather than compliance."

Gig with @thejesusbolt next Saturday x

Please support ⁦@TracyEdwardsMBE⁩ & I at the women’s sports union, we want to support, protect & grow female participation in sport for all our women & girls, at all levels. They are most definitely worthy of fair sporting opportunities

Fitness trainer Jillian Michaels says women who object to male bodies in female spaces are called out for being intolerant. But the right to safety and dignity in places like gyms, shelters, and prisons isn't bigotry, it's basic respect. Thoughts?

This is insane. Graham Linehan (@Glinner) landed at Heathrow airport to be greeted and arrested by 5 armed police officers. His 'crime'? Someone had reported some tweets he'd sent. The UK's speech laws are a disgrace in their own right, but the way they can be blatantly abused to attempt to settle personal scores should at least bother everyone. I just got arrested again grahamlinehan.substack.com/p…

Chicago performer’s Terrible Portrait drawings have become a hit. Logan Square farmers market attendees are flocking to a table in the boulevard to have their portrait drawn by Jacob Ryan Reno for $5 — and he’s “bewildered” as to why. "I have no plan to get better." blockclubchi.co/46y1smc

There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate. 1. You're a man and I'm a woman. 2. You've been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn't become well known until I was well over 30. 3. I've never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain. 4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief. For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That's why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who're reliant on state-funded services. That's why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That's why I have a problem with men 'identifying' into women's rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex. I don't stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don't have the money/influence I have now. You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That's why I don't want to see men identifying into women's prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary. Lastly, I'm a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you're doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn't have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.

The Jesus Bolt at yesterday’s launch of Hazel’s new poetry book ‘I Didn’t See Any Bloody Angels’. You can now get the book from Bandcamp along with free accompanying Jesus Bolt track ‘Nobby Stiles’ Special Cake’. thejesusbolt.bandcamp.com/me… Photo by Malcolm Harvey

The Jesus Bolt are playing a free gig at Knowle Constitutional Club Bristol tomorrow afternoon (1st June) to celebrate the release of my new poetry book ‘I Didn’t See Any Bloody Angels’. Doors 2pm. First of two Jesus Bolt sets 3pm.

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Here’s the video to my new single youtube.com/watch?v=50vB672C… and Bandcamp link rocksvirkerecords.bandcamp.c…

I had a great time opening for the fantastic @TheLoftUKband in Bristol and London this weekend. The Lovely Basement also played a blinder in Bristol, as did Oldfield Youth Club in London. Thanks to @BizarroPromo for making it all happen. 📸 @seanhannam

Novi video singl #LookingUpThroughConsciousness @GerardStarkie-a izlazi u petak, 28. marta. Do tada pogledajte live verziju sa nedavnog koncerta u Česteru. youtube.com/watch?v=tcvvgAs-…

Someone once told me that the worst times can be usefully creative. And I wanted to punch her. But she was right. This is a new video of an old song From My Dusting For Prints album x youtu.be/0YBdjPrjauY