Hahahahaha Jolyon is complaining that the BBC is………….transphobic.

A rightwing campaign has forced resignations at the BBC over claims including “pro-trans” bias, but the people who bear the brunt of its coverage disagree. A YouGov poll of trans people commissioned by Good Law Project has shown that 70% think that BBC News generally takes a “hostile” stance when reporting on them.

And they’re right. When we offered the BBC an exclusive on this survey – showing how trans people in Britain live in fear and have suffered a catastrophic loss of faith in politicians, judges, the police and the media – it didn’t dare pick it up.

Hm. It didn’t dare pick it up, or it didn’t want to pick … Read the rest

Legal Feminist asks some probing questions. Three, to be precise.

1. Does the government really accept the Supreme Court’s judgment?
2. If so, why are its lawyers in court currently putting forward arguments which run contrary to what that judgment says and which were argued before and rejected by the Supreme Court.
3. Who is responsible for giving the instructions to the government’s lawyers?

On the first question, LF notes that the government has said it accepts the judgment, but it has acted as if the other thing. The not so much accepting thing.

The judgment itself was clear: it was accepted by all parties before the judgment that anyone without a Gender Recognition Certificate remained their birth sex. The judgment determined

Before you kill off all the sparrows, get information on what they eat and what will happen when there are no sparrows to eat whatever that turns out to be. It might for instance be insects. Think about that for a second.

Keystone species like bats and vultures have been found to play an important role in human wellbeing. A new study provides similar evidence of the role of sparrows. The study finds that the sparrows’ collapse helped to incite China’s Great Famine—the world’s most deadly famine, which led to tens of millions of people dying of starvation between 1959 and 1961.

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The Chinese government targeted the sparrow for eradication in 1958 because they believed the birds were

Ahem. I see that it is Trans Awareness Week.

Is there anyone not aware of them at this point?

I feel like it’s about as useful as a common cold awareness week.

We know. Trust me. We know. pic.twitter.com/8a6jH7JEgq

— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard) November 14, 2025

There’s nothing like a Corporate Memphis banner to get us all enthusiastic.

Anyway they’re not just making it up. If you Google Transgender Awareness Week you do indeed get ample confirmation that this is indeed that very week.

The Human Rights Campaign explains our duties:

Honor Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance

Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance is a time for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate, uplift and

She always does this. It’s not an accident.

Trans rights are under threat. How are we still debating equality?

— Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) (@HelenWebberley) November 14, 2025

What are trans rights???

What rights do trans people have that are specific to being trans?

She never says.

My bet is that that’s because she knows the answer would be absurd on its face.

Do men have a “right” to be called women?

No.

Can we move on now?… Read the rest

No.

The BBC has now adopted a policy of deliberately calling trans women ‘men’ – referring to women who have transitioned as who they no longer are. A person who doesn’t even legally exist anymore!
This is being done purely for the purpose of trying to shame and humiliate trans… pic.twitter.com/tvpuE8xtU5

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) November 14, 2025

The BBC has now adopted a policy of deliberately calling trans women ‘men’ – referring to women who have transitioned as who they no longer are. A person who doesn’t even legally exist anymore! This is being done purely for the purpose of trying to shame and humiliate trans people. Calling a woman a “biological male” or someone “who identifies as a

Ah yes of course he is. Trump is telling the DoJ to look for Epstein ties to………………..people he doesn’t like.

Trump said Friday he will ask Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to many other high-profile figures, including some of his perceived political opponents, again blasting Democrats following the release earlier this week of emails from the late Epstein that mention him.

Other high-profile figures – the ones whose names don’t begin with T and end with rump.

“Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice,

Now why would he do that? One can’t help but wonder.

Trump puts intense pressure on Republicans to block release of Epstein files

Why? What’s it to him? They’re not his files. We know he doesn’t give the tiniest shit about anyone but himself. Why in hell would he put intense pressure on his team to keep shtum about Epstein?

Unless…

Trump has cranked up his intense pressure campaign on congressional Republicans to oppose the full release of the justice department’s files related to Jeffrey Epstein, before a crucial and long-awaited House vote on the matter next week that scores of Republicans are slated to support.

It couldn’t possibly be that there’s damaging information about him in there could it?

The

Oh my god just look at him.

We've been in court all day at the hearing for our case against the EHRC's interim guidance.

We stand by what we said: the guidance is transphobic, harmful – and legally wrong. pic.twitter.com/J5oPTADP3Y

— Good Law Project (@GoodLawProject) November 13, 2025

He’s doing a weary soldier after battle act.

He is such a phony I don’t know how anyone can bear to be in the same room with him.… Read the rest

You don’t say.

BBC News boss admits: We haven’t got our trans coverage right

Which means, at the very least, that you also haven’t got your women coverage right.

A senior BBC News executive has admitted the broadcaster made mistakes in its coverage of transgender issues.

Richard Burgess, the corporation’s director of news content, told journalists in an all-staff call on Wednesday that they must cover the gender debate impartially and consider the views of both sides.

Or, you could just stop pretending it’s a real controversy at all.

The BBC doesn’t cover both sides of disputes around settled knowledge. It doesn’t interview children on the vexed question of whether or not the Tooth Fairy is real. It … Read the rest

One of those genuine dropped jaw moments. From Commentary:

“The Damascus Affair” may sound like a John le Carré novel to today’s university students, but it was in fact a 19th-century blood libel with international implications and diplomatic intervention by the president of the United States.

Fortunately, some university students are being taught about the affair today. Unfortunately, they are being taught that it was true—that Jews killed a Syrian monk and sprinkled his blood onto their Passover matzah.

Welcome to University College London.

Samar Maqusi is a fanatical anti-Zionist academic who has been rewarded for her fanaticism with a research fellowship at University College. Earlier this week, according to a recording posted by StandWithUs, Maqusi gave a lecture on

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Furor, I tells ya.

It highlights the big problem with gender ideology, and it’s a problem that I think even the best-intentioned psycholgists and psychiatrists didn’t quite understand as their profession became increasingly warm to the idea of sex changes for their patients. The problem is that it’s not about these people’s personal private ideas or their personal bodies, and it mostly never was. It has always been about getting everyone else to play along. People don’t go off and change their names and get surgeries so they can content themselves in solitude with their newfound “womanhoods” and “manhoods”. They do it so they can move through the rest of the world as … Read the rest

World still racing toward the edge of the cliff:

The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found.

It’s not so much the absence of strong enough pledges that’s the problem as it is the absence of doing anything.

Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.

Surprise surprise. We look around us; we see nothing changing. That could be … Read the rest

The Good Law Project on its latest project in lawfare:

Good Law Project has filed an application for judicial review against the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the equalities minister Bridget Phillipson.

We’ve teamed up with trans and intersex people to challenge the interim guidance rushed out by the EHRC in the wake of the transphobic judgment handed down by the Supreme Court in April.

But…it’s not “transphobic”. You can’t call it phobic to know the correct definition of a word, especially of a word as central to human life as “woman”. I wonder if it’s ever crossed Jolyon Maugham’s mind that without women he wouldn’t exist and neither would anyone else. Women matter, and it’s not … Read the rest

Poor India. He never thought he would see the day when we went back to that kind of language. What kind? The kind that calls men “men”. Shocking, isn’t it.

Pure evil.

Memorial panels honoring Black American soldiers at a military cemetery in the Netherlands are gone. Removed on orders from the Trump administration.

Today is Veterans Day.

That’s all it took. A complaint from the Heritage Foundation, the same organization that wrote Project 2025. The American Battle Monuments Commission removed them earlier this summer. Quietly. Dutch officials only learned about it last weekend.

Let me tell you what was on them.

August 5, 1943. Camp Phillips, Kansas. The 960th Quartermaster Service Company activated. Two hundred sixty Black soldiers. All under the command of white officers, as Army policy dictated in WWII. They trained on bivouacs, security, and night patrols. Then they shipped out.

Late 1944, they arrived at

I still think they’re straining at a gnat but swallowing a camel here.

Nandy criticises BBC’s ‘inconsistent’ reporting standards

Mr Shah is set to write to the culture, media and sport committee on Monday to express regret for the way the Trump speech, made on the day of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot, was spliced together. The Telegraph has previously disclosed that both Mr Davie and Mr Shah were warned of the doctored footage in May but appear to have kept quiet.

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The decision to issue an apology has raised questions about why it has taken them six months to admit viewers were misled.

But they weren’t really misled. The two things Trump said were widely separated as … Read the rest

BBC reports: Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit

And Trump is notoriously scrupulous about heeding his obligations.

Trump has said he has an “obligation” to sue the BBC over the way a section of his speech was edited in a Panorama documentary.

Speaking to Fox News, he said his 6 January 2021 speech had been “butchered” and the way it was presented had “defrauded” viewers.

Nope. I’ve just read big chunks of it, and there is no fraud or defraud, on account of how the speech is absolutely packed with raging and boasting and blathering.

Appearing on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle, the president was asked if he would go ahead with the lawsuit, responding

I got curious about the edit of Trump’s Let’s Insurrection speech, so I asked ctrl f to show me the two pieces. They are indeed very far apart. The speech as a whole however is not, how shall I put this – not a passionate plea to be calm and reasonable.

Part one, closer to the beginning:

And Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a, a sad day for our country because you’re sworn to uphold our Constitution.

Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re

A Mighty Girl writes:

This Veterans Day, we’re paying special tribute to Admiral Lisa Franchetti and Admiral Linda Fagan, the two highest serving women in the military until they were both fired from their historic commands by the Trump administration with no explanation or justification. Former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan, a four-star admiral, 40-year veteran, and the first woman to lead a military branch, was fired by Trump on Inauguration Day as one of his first acts in office. In February, Pete Hegseth — arguably the least qualified Defense Secretary in modern history — then fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti — a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead the Navy. These abrupt firings represented just the beginning of