Kathleen Stock on the new chair of Stonewall.
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www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Bound to happen sooner or later.

Tell us the highlights. I don't want to give them the advertising revenue.

... I accept that information that I should have had, and information that the house should have had, should have been before the House.

But I did not mislead the House, and that’s why I’ve set out the account in full."

Doesn't appear to be taking responsibility for his own mistakes.

But today, when the Tory John Lamont asked Starmer if he accepted he had “inadvertently misled the House of Commons”, Starmer replied:

I did not mislead the House of Commons.

Sunak's wife and her father were not appointed to diplomatic positions without developed vetting. There is this thing called "whataboutery", you may have heard of it. There seems to be a lot of it about today. From the Guardian live blog:

Fatal flaw: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up The PM’s current and former colleagues say the Mandelson scandal has exposed the hollowness of his hands-off style.

"Starmer, they say, has no ability to manage a team; an aversion to conflict; no guiding mission for power; no energy to drive change; little interest in people; and no interest in political strategy."
So, he's a husk of a man, promoted to the top job because of his vacuity.

infestation. Both of them have repeatedly shown themselves to be incapable of the job. The main problem is that there is no obvious capable successor.

No. There are no other diplomatic posts comparable to the Washington embassy. The frenzied effort by his supporters to convince us that there's nothing to see here are similar to BoJo's ministers claiming that the PM could not be changed because Ukraine, COVID and Dylin the dog having a nasty flea

Trials and Tribulations Activists demand proof while burying the evidence

On the proposed puberty blocker trial in the UK
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www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Chopping The Onion | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine One of the difficulties of being on the non-mad side of the gender wars is that the other side’s arguments are so mad, it sounds as though you’re making them up. What trans activism has done — enabled...

thecritic.co.uk/chopping-the...
"One of the difficulties of being on the non-mad side of the gender wars is that the other side’s arguments are so mad, it sounds as though you’re making them up."

Literary freedom is in the gutter | Jenny Lindsay | The Critic Magazine In the Scottish literary world I dimly remember once existing, someone publishing a 25-year retrospective poetry collection, with top publisher Bloodaxe no less, would have been an unalloyed cause for...

Great piece in The Critic by Jenny Lindsay on the censoring of Afterlife by Gutter and what it says about the decay of our literary culture.

thecritic.co.uk/literary-fre...

Don't speak ill of the sheep.

"She added that some people had been surprised to be having a conversation about sex with an MP, but believes that “just means it was needed”. "
Now is that having a conversation "about sex with an MP", or
having a "conversation about sex" with an MP?

Of course we should, the question is 'would they want us to?'.

Oor Party

From the review:
"By 2020, Women's Place was publicly labelled a 'hate group' by multiple branches of government"
Really? You'll be able to give references and tell us which branches and even which government, then.

Publically

"The link you followed may be broken or the page may have been removed."

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Stroud brewery admitting that they cancelled a booking because of the perceived views of the interviewees.

Podcasting and partisanship - I listened to the 11KBW Employment Podcast in which Katherine Taunton and Dan Stillitz KC discussed four recent cases on single-sex spaces: Peggie v NHS Fife and Beth Upton, Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd, H...

I listened to the usually excellent @11kbw.bsky.social employment law blog on the recent ET cases on single-sex spaces. www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2026/03/25/p...

Blackadder - Boy without a winkle YouTube video by Octopus Panda

As always, Blackadder explains it.
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So there were 162 in 2016, around the time that the dramatic increase in referrals started. How many by the time the Tavistock was closed down?

"Carmichael herself questioned how the blocker might be working: ‘So I guess there is a question about why none, none stop once they’ve started on the blocker more or less,’ she mused to the audience of gender clinicians."

From Hannah Barnes's "Time to Think"
"In 2016, Polly Carmichael explained to the world’s leading figures in transgender healthcare that ‘only two’ out of the 162 children GIDS had now referred had stopped treatment.

I find it upsetting when the grown ups fight, so please don't.
I think you're wrong on the numbers though, Margaret.

It's the very accurate test for the SRY gene which makes foetuses develop on the male pathway; it's what makes a male a male, and that's quite significant.

Only where those genetic advantages are testicles. No hostility, only setting boundaries.