Warning: this post contains discussion of matters which some readers may find distressing. That’s partly the point, but please don’t read further if you think it may upset you. How do you feel about FGM? The practice, more widespread than … Continue reading Cutting
Court cases often make the news, it’s true. They excite polarised opinions, it’s true. But they tend to be criminal cases at the very least. It isn’t often that the outcome of an application for an interim injunction in a … Continue reading Kesha
After my earlier post about the no-platforming of gay and civil rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, I had the advantage of seeing him interviewed on Newsnight (from 32:00) opposite trans-activist Paris Lees, and this experience both settled some of my questions … Continue reading Tatchell – Post script
There are moments when you get that ‘then felt I like some watcher of the skies’ moment; you suddenly realise that there’s a whole world that you have never seen, and that you probably don’t understand. Sometimes it isn’t in … Continue reading TERF wars
NB: Warning! Plural pronoun used as genderless here. Deal with it. There are probably a few thinking people still left who haven’t heard of the notion of non-binary gender, and they can be forgiven if they had perhaps come across … Continue reading Gender
Muslims aren’t like us. They won’t integrate. They will always be separate from us. They see the world differently from us. Deal with it. This is the advice of the former head of the Equality and Human Rights commission, Trevor … Continue reading Integration
Hunt, Taylor and Gayle. No, not a firm of solicitors, though presumably if they were, they would specialise in defending men against claims of sex discrimination in the work place. Here’s who they were and what they did, in case … Continue reading Equality
I’m in a play. I’ve done this before. It’s fun. There are other people in it with me. It works like this: I pretend to be someone else. It isn’t a real person I’m pretending to be, but a person … Continue reading Make believe
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