Author, founder of Lumos and Beira's Place, surname rhymes with bowling, not growling.

Joined August 2009
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
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She couldn't have known. There were no signs. Nothing out of the ordinary happened right in front of her. What husband wouldn't shell out £4k for a pair of his wife's old shoes? Happens every day. dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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#Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿#worldcup2026
Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts" "They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling
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You are my MP. I asked to meet with you, but your minions suggested you had more important business. I think you are a terrible representative of women. And a coward.
I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that. We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.
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Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.
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Recently elected male MSP argues that he and any other men who fancy denying women safety, privacy and dignity should break the law.
Trans MSP calls for biological males to be able to use Holyrood women's toilets thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16…
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Please share widely!
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Appalling 🧵 I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.
This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match. Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong. Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️
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Well this is quite something 🤯 An actual MP telling me, a male homosexual, I’m “attacking” an oppressed group for not believing that men can be lesbians and women can be gay men Samantha, there is nothing ‘strange’ about simply acknowledging what homosexuality is and isn’t. In fact it is imperative we do so to protect our rights Para 204 of the Supreme Court ruling makes it very clear that the protected characteristic of sexual orientation is based on sex Para 206 makes it very clear that this PC, and thus homosexuality, is rendered meaningless when not recognised as being based on sex If you recognise that gays and lesbians and bisexuals are an oppressed group who still face adversity, how can we stand up for ourselves if simply acknowledging what homosexuality is gets us framed as “attackers”? How can we even begin to tackle the modern version of adversity that seeks to reframe homosexuality to include those of the opposite sex? That has seen lesbians having to go to court in the UK and Australia simply to maintain the legal recognition of homosexuality (or in the case of Australia find a way to claw it back)? That has seen a lesbian brought to tears at a tribunal when asked why males can’t be lesbians? How on earth can you take issue with me saying that men can’t be lesbians??? And how can you claim to be aware of the historic fight for gay rights while not having any awareness (or lacking the courage to acknowledge it) of how for at least the last decade these have been under threat from ‘gender’? Don’t pretend to know our struggle if you can’t even say what a homosexual is I mean… seriously!
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It’s always strange to see an oppressed group whose hard earn rights were fought for (and who often still face adversity) attacking another.
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Yes, period huts are back. Because girls just aren’t embarrassed and awkward enough about menstruation. But what happens when the trans-identified boy feels excluded from the period hut? What if he feels less of a girl? Perhaps it would be easier just to tell girls to stay home.
‘Unisex toilets outside the main toilet area for menstruating girls.’ In a British school in 2026. This is where ‘be kind’ policies have got us.
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1. Women’s spaces are for women. It’s irrelevant how the women look. 2. Men don’t belong in women’s spaces. It’s irrelevant how the men look. 3. Most trans-identified men would give at least one ball to look like Sharron Davies.
Sharron ‘if you have masculine features you’re not welcome into women’s spaces’ Davies. Well, this is awkward….
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Polite notice to schools still breaking the law by failing to provide single sex bathrooms: you will be sued and you will lose 👇
A Scottish primary school broke the law by failing to provide single-sex toilets: DE and FG v West Lothian Council.
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I've written the inaugural piece for my legal Substack on this week's attempt by MPs to block the @EHRC Code of Practice: EARLY WARNING | Are MPs plotting to overturn For Women Scotland and dismantle women’s and LGB people’s discrimination law rights? open.substack.com/pub/within…
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NEW: Poll shows that the vast majority of people prefer straightforward single-sex facilities in workplaces and public spaces. This varies little by age or voting pattern. Politicians who prevaricate over the Supreme Court judgment are out of step with the public. Sex Matters commissioned an independent, nationally representative poll. We asked: “For each of the following, do you prefer them to be single sex or mixed sex?”
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‘Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed’ All girls’ schools were specifically targeted. Rigby ‘threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of ‘transwomen’’. None of this features in the coverage across outlets, despite the evidence emerging in email evidence and in court, neither does it feature in the Merseyside Police report. ‘I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across’ ‘I'm going to shoot and stab all your girls’ It’s a crime of extreme misogyny in the cause of ‘fighting trans oppression’ but any mention of ‘trans’ has been erased by the police, PA and all news outlets. In addition the BBC report hides the fact that it was a crime against women and girls. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e2… southport.thelead.uk/p/hoax-…
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Like snowballs are safe in hell.
SNP is a safe place for whistleblowers, says Swinney amid Murrell case fallout trib.al/hTJRf2r
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He wanted a load of expensive tat. It really isn't that deep.
We now know how Peter Murrell embezzled from the SNP - but not why bbc.in/4voKeRi
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I’m not going to amplify Reform’s ad by sharing it, but the wilful misrepresentation of Kemi Badenoch - selectively quoting what she said about ‘white lives matter’ - is disgraceful and dangerous. It needs to be challenged, including by those of us who are not Conservatives.
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A copper-bottomed, ocean-going, lie.
“I was exonerated. If there had been a shred of evidence that I had been complicit in this, or had known about what he was doing, then I wouldn’t have been cleared.” Sturgeon must know that a decision not to charge can be made despite plenty of “shreds” of evidence.
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Man makes a quick exit after he's caught taking photos of little girls in changing rooms. The incident occurred at Castle Point shopping centre in Bournemouth. And trans activists say women don't need our own changing facilities because they're private rooms. x.com/Matthardy_BR/status/20…

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Nicola’s just decided she knows what a man and a woman are, after all.
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