It’s never easy to hear bad news, and that’s true whether it’s bad news in a literal sense – some new atrocity or catastrophe on the ten o’clock bulletin, or something more local: some sinister diagnosis, or some shocking trauma suffered by friend or … Continue reading La-la-la
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
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
