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The Times reports:

A female novelist has criticised the appointment of a trans woman to represent an endometriosis charity, comparing it to a white person claiming to speak for black people.

Incomplete. It’s more comparable to a white person representing a sickle cell anemia charity, only more so, because men can never have endometriosis.

Amanda Craig, who has published nine novels and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, spoke out after Steph Richards was named as the parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast.

Endometriosis is a chronic and painful gynaecological condition in which cells similar to those in the lining of the uterus grow in other parts of the body. It affects one in

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By Ophelia Benson, March 22, 2026

The Times reports:

A female novelist has criticised the appointment of a trans woman to represent an endometriosis charity, comparing it to a white person claiming to speak for black people.

Incomplete. It’s more comparable to a white person representing a sickle cell anemia charity, only more so, because men can never have endometriosis.

Amanda Craig, who has published nine novels and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, spoke out after Steph Richards was named as the parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast.

Endometriosis is a chronic and painful gynaecological condition in which cells similar to those in the lining of the uterus grow in other parts of the body. It affects one in

… Read the rest

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Get the guy to do it 

The Times reports:

A female novelist has criticised the appointment of a trans woman to represent an endometriosis charity, comparing it to a white person claiming to speak for black people.

Incomplete. It’s more comparable to a white person representing a sickle cell anemia charity, only more so, because men can never have endometriosis.

Amanda Craig, who has published nine novels and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, spoke out after Steph Richards was named as the parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast.

Endometriosis is a chronic and painful gynaecological condition in which cells similar to those in the lining of the uterus grow in other parts of the body. It affects one in

… Read the rest
Visit 

Solidarity.

JD Vance will visit Hungary in early April ahead of what could be right-wing ​Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s toughest election since taking power ‌in a 2010 landslide, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday.

Two sources familiar with the planning told Reuters on Wednesday that Vance was planning ​to visit Hungary in a show of support for ​Orban, who trails his centre-right challenger Peter Magyar ahead ⁠of an April 12 election based on most surveys.

Gotta line up with all those right-wing tough guys.

Orban, one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s closest allies ​in Europe, has ​long been ⁠at loggerheads with the EU over a range of issues, including Ukraine. Defying Brussels, he has ​maintained cordial ties with

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Spree 

The Daily Beast on Trump’s casual declaration of war on half the country:

President Donald Trump went on an unhinged early morning posting spree, declaring Democrats as enemies of the state and fantasizing about serving an illegal third term.

The 79-year-old president posted and reshared 13 times on Sunday morning on his social media platform, Truth Social, 13 times from his Mar-a-Lago base. He implied that his next target after Iran was the Democratic Party in one post.

“Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party!” he wrote.

He’s branded half the population enemies of the state.

The commander-in-chief also reshared a post from a MAGA fan account

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Slaves for eternity 

What’s wrong with this picture?

“I’ve never seen a more materialistic and carnal religion.”

There is that part, but there’s also the part that has “heaven” stocked with slaves.

Slaves. In heaven. Come on now. Heaven means heaven – a magical place that’s magically good in every possible way. There is no suffering in heaven, no pain, no sorrow, no … Read the rest

Celebrating 

Another angry misogynist man steps up.

Yeah right, we want men to stop … Read the rest

A splinter group 

Some people just won’t take no for an answer.

The Girl Guides have become embroiled in infighting over a ban on boys who identify as girls.

A splinter group has formed in an effort to force the organisation to reverse the trans ban, introduced last year following a Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex under equality law.

But it’s Girl Guides. Because it’s Girl Guides, it should be girls, not girls and some boys. Just girls. That’s ok. That’s allowed.

Calling itself Guiders Against Trans Exclusion (Gate), the group encourages Guide leaders to oppose the policy through activism, including writing to politicians and attending protests.

It encourages members to show opposition to the ban by wearing the

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No you’re not No you’re not 

But if politicians did create more opportunities for women and girls in sports, men who pretend to be women would just steal those too.

It’s like nailing an envelope with $10,000 in it to your front door so that nobody will break in. People who want to break in will just take the 10 k and then break down your front door.

Also the ACLU is lying about the working to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity bit. The ACLU is doing the opposite of that. The ACLU is working to insure that girls and women won’t have an equal opportunity to compete and thrive.… Read the rest

Ugly man Ugly man 

Now let’s think about all the innocent people Trump has hurt.

My goodness, that’s hard to do, isn’t it! It would be much easier and faster to think about the few people Trump hasn’t hurt.… Read the rest

Tributes pour in 

Suzanne Moore on Jenni Murray:

As the tributes pour in for this legendary broadcaster, let’s just say some are more fitting than others. I would love to see that expression that was hers alone as she peered over the top of her glasses at her interviewee. That look, both withering and bemused, could stop lesser mortals – however famous they were – in their tracks. That voice, deceptively soothing, was the voice of a woman who championed women’s rights for more than three decades. She spoke with the knowledge of someone who listened intently to the personal details of all kinds of women – and fought publicly for our political rights.

Make no mistake, Dame Jenni was Woman’s Hour

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They made a point of it 

More on Jenni Murray.

And gender rubbish is inherently inimical to women and our interests, yet here we are.

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Beeb v women 

The Beeb is on the hot seat.

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No you can’t 

Reuters:

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s restrictive Pentagon press access policy, which threatens journalists with being branded security risks ​if they seek information not authorized for public release.

The lawsuit by the New York Times in Washington, D.C., federal court alleged that policy changes ‌by the Defense Department last year gave it free rein to freeze out reporters and news outlets over coverage the department did not like, in violation of the Constitution’s protections for free speech and due process. The government disputed that characterization and said the policy is reasonable and necessary for national security.

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in his ruling that he recognized the importance of protecting troops and ​war

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Guest post: That’s where it blows up 

Originally a comment by Dave Ricks at Miscellany Room.

Yesterday (March 19, 2026), the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) reported on the military “exercise” called “Arctic Endurance” in Greenland that started in January 2026, and will continue at a lower level for the rest of the year. I used Google Translate to read these two articles:

The battle for Greenland

Denmark prepared for possible attack from the US: Flew bags of blood to Greenland and prepared to blow up runways

Key sources in Denmark and Europe are now telling for the first time what happened in the most critical days when Donald Trump threatened to take Greenland “the hard way”.

The battle for Greenland

ANALYSIS Behind the word ‘exercise’ in

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It’s yer attitude 

This guy.

https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/2034800107833405764

That’s the summary. The word for word is worse.

Reporter: Mr President, why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files, why not just do it now?

Trump: You know, it’s not the question that I mind, it’s yer attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter. It’s the way you ask these questions, you start off with a man who’s highly respected, asking him a harrible and insubordinate and and just a terrible question and you could even ask that same exact question nicely – yer all psyched uh somebody psychs you over at ABC they’re gunna [grimaces] psycha – [long pause while he rears back trying to shake loose a thought] – yer a terrible

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More than the sum of the parts 

The thing is…

The thing is, it’s bad enough to have a man on to tell women about misogyny on a program called Woman’s Hour – but it’s way over the top bad to have a man who claims to be a woman on to tell women about misogyny on a program called Woman’s Hour. It’s exponential.

Why is the BBC determined to share exponential insults to women?… Read the rest

Get off the sidewalk 

Well it’s about goddam time.

Lime scooters in Seattle will soon be equipped with artificial intelligence and cameras that, it’s hoped, will shame people into not riding on the sidewalk.

The technology has been tested in town in recent months leading up to the rollout, and it’s coming to Seattle before any other cities, said Parker Dawson, who runs regional government relations for Lime.

Lime Vision will be installed on half the scooter fleet, about 3,500 vehicles, by June 1 and all of the fleet by year’s end. New and retrofitted scooters with the technology will begin showing up in mid-April.

Without sharing many details, Dawson said the technology was developed by Lime specifically to deter sidewalk scooter riding,

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The infinite trolling loop 

Every time you think you can’t despise the BBC any more profoundly, they step up to say hold my beer.

“on the basis of her academic work” – but it’s not “her” academic work you evil shits. And no we don’t believe he was the only sociologist who has done academic work on the subject of the social theory of masculinity.

And he didn’t share “her academic expertise,” he shared his academic expertise, … Read the rest

Diplomacy 

Sir that was 85 years ago.

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Mental age 34 months and falling 

It’s worth watching all 7 plus minutes of his slobbery crazed babble. Notice the contrast with Vance, who is evil but not bereft of a brain.… Read the rest

100% porridge 

This is…alarming. He has the brain power of a wet sponge.

Note the terrified laughter when he says he wants to hug it. They’re trying to pretend he was joking instead of babbling like a two-year-old. … Read the rest