Good grief. What a mess of a system.

'He was kicked out of the police for gross misconduct, and since then he seems to have made a full-time hobby of reporting people who say men can't be women.'

Journalist Helen Joyce shares how she was harassed with legal threats by a trans activist for her gender critical views. pic.twitter.com/QoKBWLEDAQ

— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 14, 2025

Also, side note – how does Helen do that? Talk quickly to get all the information out without any stumbling or losing track or umming or you knowing or like-ing or sort of-ing?

Anyway – the system. Yer trans person goes to the cops and says “This woman said these harassy things to me” … Read the rest

Dang. The Scottish government really does hate women.

The Scottish Government has confirmed it will challenge For Women Scotland’s legal bid to remove guidance that allows male-born prisoners to be housed with women and permits transgender pupils to use single-sex facilities and sports in line with their gender identity.

Forcing women to share all their spaces with men, no matter how dangerous that is to the women. That’s some intense hatred.

While John Swinney welcomed the “clarity” provided by the ruling, the Scottish Government has said it is awaiting further guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) before issuing advice to public bodies. Some bodies, including the Scottish Parliament and Police Scotland, have already updated their policies

Anoosh Chakelian, Britain editor of the New Statesman (and a woman), talks to Nicola Sturgeon:

The UK government blocked her attempt to introduce gender self-identification to Scotland. She believes she “lost the dressing room” when struggling to name the gender of a rapist, identifying as a woman, who was initially sent to a female prison. But still she remains an increasingly rare mainstream political voice standing up for trans rights.

That’s the end of the paragraph, and the next one shifts the subject. We are left with no clue what is meant by “standing up for trans rights.”

Journalists really need to stop doing this. They really need to ask their subjects exactly what they mean by “trans rights.” … Read the rest

Oh come ON.

“She has a very different view to me on trans rights. She’s entitled to that. I wish she would argue her position without what appears to me sometimes indulging in a bit of gratuitous cruelty to trans people.”

https://t.co/zcKqq5gNiJ

— The New Statesman (@NewStatesman) September 14, 2025

JKR doesn’t “obsess about” Sturgeon, she resists powerful people who undermine women’s rights. None of this is about Sturgeon the person, it’s about women’s rights and how we can continue to have them when so many powerful people are hell-bent on taking rights away from women in order to give them to men.

As for “gratuitous cruelty” – have a word with people like “Sophie Molly” and “India” Willoughby and … Read the rest

Be careful what you say.

Dozens of social media posts and messages about the murder of Charlie Kirk, including some that celebrated his death, are being spotlighted by conservative activists, Republican elected officials and a doxxing website as part of an online campaign to punish the posters behind the messages.

Prominent far-right influencer Laura Loomer, a US senator, and a site called “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” have all drawn attention to people who have posted messages about Kirk’s Wednesday assassination.

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The Charlie’s Murderers site, whose domain was registered anonymously and which says it is not a doxxing site, claims it has “received nearly 30,000 submissions,” according to a message on the site’s front page on midday Saturday. Currently, there

Oh surely not, he seems such a nice chap.

Let’s bring back…um…anti-Semitism?

“The story we got about World War II is all wrong,” a guest told Tucker Carlson on his podcast two weeks ago. “I think that’s right,” replied Carlson. The guest, a Cornell chemistry professor named David Collum, then spelled out what he meant: “One can make the argument we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin.” Such sentiments might sound shocking to the uninitiated, but they are not to Carlson’s audience. In fact, the notion that the German dictator was unfairly maligned has become a running theme on Carlson’s show—and beyond.

“What is it about Hitler? Why is he the most evil?” the far-right podcaster Candace Owens asked in July 2024. “The first thing people

Selective sympathy and outrage.

Things President Donald Trump talked about publicly this week: Sylvester Stallone’s body, the $200 million ballroom he wants to build at the White House, receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, not receiving a Kennedy Center lifetime achievement award and taking over the police force in the nation’s capital.

Something Trump hasn’t talked about: a gunman, upset by coronavirus vaccines, who on Aug. 8 killed a police officer while firing hundreds of bullets at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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A few weeks ago, within 15 hours of a shooting in New York in which four people were killed, Trump called the incident “tragic” and commended a

More chat with Sturgeon:

“Nicola Sturgeon: Destroyer of women’s rights.”

That’s what JK Rowling wore on a t-shirt, which the author posted on social media in 2022, after Scotland attempted to pass a Gender Recognition Reform bill in an attempt to make legally transitioning an easier process.

Sturgeon says what Scotland attempted was not a “groundbreaking experiment” – with identical legislation already in place in the Republic of Ireland and many other countries.

But, Sturgeon admits, she was slow to recognise the intensity of the concerns about the legislation, because following other countries didn’t feel “controversial”. These “concerns”, from people such as Rowling, she adds were “unfounded” and could be easily answered.

“I didn’t properly engage,” she says.

Well … Read the rest

Uh………..

This is Susie Green she was removed from the charity Mermaids who were providing breast binders behind the backs of parents. Yesterday this T-shirt was on sale from her website Anne+ (Anne heath) set up to circumvent uk puberty blocker legislation after the Cass review. This will… pic.twitter.com/a1Tofi6JRD

— Sharron Davies MBE (@sharrond62) September 13, 2025

It’s the T shirt. It doesn’t show up very well. The tiny letters under the crossed-out names say “Dead Names – The 2025 list”

Geddit? Susie Green is calling for those five people to be killed.… Read the rest

Well at least we know he considered women subordinate and hence inferior.

And we want Taylor Swift on team America. We want you to leave the island of the wokeys. And we would welcome you with open arms. One of the reasons why so many people on the right have been just skeptical or at least a little bit negative on Taylor Swift is, up until this point, that’s not a great role model for young women, to wait all the way until you’re 35 and just put your career first.

Why? Why isn’t it? Do all women have to have children, whether they want to or not? Do all women have to have children long before they are 35? … Read the rest

NPR tells us:

Wednesday at Utah Valley University was supposed to be the start of what Kirk was calling, “The American Comeback Tour.” It was slated to take him to nearly a dozen colleges, from Utah to Virginia, Minnesota to Louisiana.

This is what Kirk did often – he went to colleges across the country, holding court, casting doubt on liberalism and challenging anyone within shouting distance of a microphone to take to it and argue with him.

His conservative friends and followers describe Kirk as a Christian, a father and the nicest person they knew — someone who engaged in the “free marketplace of ideas,” as Johnson put it on CNN.

Kirk was provocative and often clips of

Originally a comment by Mike Haubrich on Imbalance.

As someone who knows people on the same list of targets as the Hortmans and the Hoffmans, I do find this dispiriting, and the national government response of a half-mast flag at the Federal Buildings is a reminder of the lack of concern that the President had, choosing to golf rather than attend the funeral or even to visit when Melissa Hortman was lying in state, to be a reminder that the government is in the hands of people whose grief is dependent on the dead’s political persuasion. The RW conspiracy mongers who claimed that the murders were a result of Hortman voting for a budget deal that Republicans also voted … Read the rest

Golly. I just learned that (some? many?) UK universities have a “gender expression fund”.

UCL is one.

Many people experience feelings of stress and anxiety at the disconnect they feel between their gender identity and appearance. We have created the Gender Expression Fund to provide financial assistance for students to purchase items that will make them more comfortable with their gender presentation and, we hope, improve their wellbeing.

Grants can be used to purchase gender affirming products such as clothing, binders, packers and beauty products.

Grants can also be used towards travel to medical or therapy/counselling appointments, but we are not able to provide funding for treatment or other medical procedures.

We anticipate grants will usually be around £50,

Sure enough, they’re Reichstag Firing it already.

[Utah Governor] Cox’s impulse to appeal to what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” was on display this morning in a press conference, where, flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel and local leaders, he announced the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Kirk’s killing, on Wednesday.

“This is certainly about the tragic death, political assassination of Charlie Kirk. But it is also much bigger than an attack on an individual,” Cox said. “It is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the American experiment. It is an attack on our ideals. This cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who

Don’t mention the women.

It was predictable that August in Edinburgh would see a flare-up of the gender wars. Scottish politics has been pivotal in the UK-wide battle over gender self-identification, and the issue has come up at the Edinburgh festival before. Probably no one would have expected the National Library of Scotland to be the battlefield. But when a bestselling gender-critical anthology, The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, was excluded from a centenary exhibition, that is what happened.

Trying to make the women who wouldn’t wheesht wheesht is a fool’s errand. They told you they wouldn’t wheesht!!

Its editors, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Susan Dalgety, were already upset when they learned that their book had not been chosen

Jenny Murray points out an important distinction.

At last, evidence of a bout of common sense in relation to the policing of tweets. Sir Andy Cooke, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, said this week that non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped and that officers must separate ‘the offensive from the criminal’.

If follows Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley’s comments that he will talk to new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood about a proposed change in the law meaning police officers would not be required to record and investigate complaints about tweets unless it is clear the suspect intended real harm and violence.

She notes that this is obviously prompted by what the cops did to Glinner last … Read the rest

Oh honestly. The levels of spite and petty malice here.

In early August, I received this letter from UCD, awarding me the James Joyce Award, "the highest honour any student body in Ireland can bestow." Their reasons for giving me this prize were deeply moving and I felt honoured.

By an unhappy coincidence, the Polari Prize nonsense… pic.twitter.com/ZRe5eNTeb0

— John Boyne (@JohnBoyneBooks) September 12, 2025

By an unhappy coincidence, the Polari Prize nonsense blew up the following day and, from my very first reply, my messages over the next 6 weeks were completely ignored, as were messages from my agent.

This morning, under threat of legal action, they finally deigned to respond, simply informing me that they were withdrawing the

I’m seeing a lot of grief and anguish for Charlie Kirk on the left.

You know what I didn’t see? The same kind or amount of grief and anguish for Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, not on the right and not even on the left.

Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded in politically motivated shootings early Saturday, Gov. Tim Walz said. Authorities have also identified a suspect who is still at large.

Why the difference?… Read the rest

Now if only we could have done that.

Bolsonaro found guilty of plotting coup

Four out of the five Supreme Court justices tasked with judging the former leader found him guilty. One judge voted to acquit him.

The 70-year-old has been convicted of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

While the plot failed to enlist enough support from the military to go ahead, it did culminate in the storming of government buildings by Bolsonaro’s supporters on 8 January 2023, the justices found.

Sound familiar at all?

The charges carry heavy sentences and could add up to a prison term of more than