It is utterly shameful that in a European nation in 2024 a Jewish woman cannot even leave her hotel room as her life may be in danger from a baying mob of vitriolic antisemites below, some even calling for her to be deported simply because she is Jewish. Such short memories.

Ok I had to actually hear it to believe it: to this poor woman, Crufts must look like the Nuremberg rally. I’d be fascinated to learn what else Britain never really had that I can see out my window. Castles? Post boxes? … Sheep?!

Reading through this thread - Jennifer Melle giving evidence in the Peggie case against the Royal College of Nursing - the thought I keep having is just how high-profile Melle’s case was. It beggars belief, when a nurse is on the front page of newspapers with an employment-related issue, that the union the nurse is a member of would behave in this way. There would seem to have been no sense of urgency on the part of the RCN and no clear follow-through, and Melle’s case was passed from one person at RCN to another. A high-profile case like this is when a union should be at its most engaged and proactive. A case like this is a golden opportunity for a union to profile the benefits of union membership and of union advocacy. The fact that the RCN seems to have done everything possible in Melle’s case to avoid engaging in proper advocacy on her behalf sure seems like a course of action with an ideological motivation to me.

Wow. “We have to sit down and listen to both sides” now, is it? After all those years of howling down women as bigots when they calmly and politely raised reasonable concerns about self-ID policies.

Sandie Peggie and the inspirational women like @DarlingtonUnion supporting her are fighting for the basic right to safe, single sex spaces. They have my total support and that of the @Conservatives.

Labour National Executive Committee member accidentally texts instructions to "clap as hard as you can" for Healey's mention of welfare policy to a group chat which includes political hacks

I have also just been informed it is artist, photographer and Sandie Peggie supporter Bryndís Blackadder's 35th birthday today so I persuaded her outside for a souvenir portrait.

I asked Claude to generate a Brief History of PIP

To many men, women’s genitalia ARE a public resource

I received an email from a woman asking if I would speak at her girls' school. She had pronouns in her signature. I said I would have if she hadn't had the pronouns. She asked me why. We ended up in an interesting dialogue which resulted in her saying she didn't realise what she was promoting. Entire school removed pronouns from email. I spoke at the school. We are now friends!

Civil servant thinks SAS troopers should be more like retail shop assistants. My article in today’s Daily Telegraph.

Translation: Solidarity with access all areas for male people. Including womens refuges, sports, wards, toilets, shortlists & ofc conferences. We do not respect women's rights or women workers rights. We cannot make that clear enough.

RT @BoozeAndFagz: spiked-online.com/2021/11/11… From 2021: 'Why would one be PROUD of one’s preference as to where one wants to stick one’s genit…

Kemi Badenoch posted in support of a Lib Dem woman who bravely stood up for women’s rights at the Lib Dem conference in a very hostile environment. Last time I looked it had over 8k likes .. which is more than your divisive post will get.

Kate Campbell thinks she knows better than the experts when it comes to explaining Scotland’s “success” in closing the PISA score attainment gap. She is, of course, very wrong. The gap has closed largely because pupils from wealthier families now do far worse than they used to.

Shuddering fuck.

I find the Minister’s response almost impossible to reconcile with the figures published today. Scotland has recorded 1,133 drug deaths, an increase of 11 per cent in a single year. Eight hundred and thirty of those who died were men. Male deaths increased by 19 per cent while female deaths fell by 5 per cent. The highest death rates remain among people aged 35 to 54, and in our poorest communities the drug-death rate is now fifteen times that of our wealthiest. These are catastrophic figures. Yet we are told again about the “progress” of the National Mission and offered substantially more of the same. At what point does failure actually count as failure? Another fund. Another advisory forum. Another executive group. Another pilot. Another promise to listen, learn and redouble efforts. Scotland has been "listening and learning " for years. People are still dying. One of the fundamental problems is that government continually confuses activity with outcomes. We hear how many naloxone kits have been distributed, how many rehabilitation placements have been funded, how many projects have received money and how many times the Glasgow drug consumption room has been used. Those are measures of activity. They are not measures of success. The Glasgow consumption room opened in January 2025. Glasgow City subsequently recorded 196 drug deaths, up from 185, an increase of around 6 per cent. It is not working as an answer to Glasgow's drug-death crisis. Government can tell us how busy the facility is and how many emergencies have been managed inside it. But Glasgow ended the year with more dead people, not fewer. Indeed, when the Scottish Government was asked for its analysis quantifying the consumption room’s impact on drug deaths, it confirmed that it held no completed internal analysis specifically quantifying that impact. So stop presenting activity as outcome. Now we are offered drug checking. I support gathering accurate intelligence about an increasingly dangerous drug supply. Nitazenes were implicated in 247 deaths last year and cocaine in 589. If checking a substance prevents somebody dying tonight, good. But checking somebody’s drugs is not treating their addiction. There is a peculiar naivety in believing that people in the grip of severe addiction will behave like rational consumers if only we give them sufficient information about the product in front of them. Addiction is characterised precisely by the progressive loss of control. Harm reduction and stabilisation have a proper place. Keeping someone alive tonight matters enormously. But keeping somebody alive must be the beginning of our ambition for that human being, not the end of it. Scotland has become trapped in the belief that addiction can be indefinitely managed if only we become sophisticated enough at managing its risks. And after years of catastrophic outcomes, remarkably little changes about who gets to decide what happens next. The same system remains standing. Many of the same institutions remain influential. The response to failure is another structure populated by government, local government, “key partners” and the same professional establishment. Where is the fundamental examination of why Scotland remains such an extreme international outlier? Where is the accountability? And where is the willingness to ask whether the institutions that designed, operated and defended this system should continue to dominate the conversation about reforming it? People in recovery have been saying for years what is required. People need rapid routes into detoxification, treatment and residential rehabilitation. They need recovery communities, housing, relationships, employment, responsibility, belonging and purpose. Above all, they need a system which believes they can get well rather than one organised around indefinitely managing their deterioration. And we urgently need to confront something else. What is happening to Scotland’s men? Eight hundred and thirty men died from drugs last year. That is 131 more dead men in a single year. These are sons, fathers, brothers, partners and friends, many dying in the middle of their lives. We need to examine drugs alongside alcohol, suicide, homelessness, deprivation, isolation, family breakdown and social disconnection. Something profound is happening to working-age men in Scotland, and we seem remarkably reluctant even to name it. The Minister says: “We must be better.” No. Government must do something different. After 1,133 deaths, another commitment to strengthen the existing approach is not change. It is doing substantially the same things again while hoping for a different result. The families burying their sons, fathers, brothers, daughters and mothers deserve more than that.

This legitimately reads like a parody of what people think too woke is like.

Hilarious replies like this from people who identify as lawyers insisting no law has been broken. Dividing toilets into cubicle-only blocks and blocks that include urinals gives double the number of toilets that men can use compared to women, and that IS sex discrimination. FAFO.

It is not the sign of a functioning political system that the tragic death of one mentally ill headteacher has managed to rip up the system by which we assess the performance of our schools. It has opened a Pandora’s box of blackmail: ‘Don’t mark down my school or I’ll kill myself’. Stop bending to this insanity. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…

"Wow, I really need to know Ed Sheeran's thoughts about the West Bank" said no normal human being ever