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For budding lawyers. CAA V Reginald Hunter.

(This country has gone bananas. Ed)


https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/The-Campaign-Against-Antisemitism-v-Reginald-Hunter.pdf

I wonder if the courts will also start taking a dim view of trans activists using them to enact petty vendettas against people who don’t share their worldview too ?

"petty vendettas against people who don’t share their worldview"

https://x.com/Docstockk/status/2003371693264261310#m

I look forward to your impartial article on the issue....I’m sure your completely impartial piece will reflect that and not your pro trans sentiment.

That's a fair point. Impartiality can be aspired to but it is difficult to remove the self from the article, whatever the article subject and whoever the self.

However I have sought (and am continuing) to do achieve some kind of objectivity by adopting NPOV, providing references, removing the jokes, and seeking comment from discussants, two from the pro-trans side, two from the gender-critical side. For the discussants I sought GC discussant testimony to the point where I nagged DavidL more than once to provide it and - following his opt-out - I will seek another (probably @fitalass) to fill the gap. If that does not reassure you you can ask DavidL, who has read it.

I don't know if there will be pre-readers on this one. It's been months now and I have time limits: James Baldwin IIRC could write beautiful prose overnight ready for publication but I am thumb-fisted and write slowly. But if there are you will be invited and can raise concerns like every other pre-reader. When it is published you can point out any errors/biases you see and discuss them in the comments.

I watched Die Hard for the first time ever a couple of years ago, and it’s obviously a Christmas movie. Not sure what the controversy is tbh.

Looks like they’re getting a white Christmas at our place in France, which is annoying as I’m not there this year. And it’s the perfect Hollywood version: dry but chilly today with no snow cover, a few flakes in the air, then heavy snow from about 11pm and people will wake up to a wintry scene with a few cm lying.

I don’t know how often that’s happened in lowland England in the last few decades: that precise timing and choreography. Even in a cold climate it would be statistically unusual.

And with that, time I think to check out for the break.

Macaulay Culkin says ‘DIE HARD’ is not a Christmas movie.

“It's based around Christmas, but if it were also St. Patrick's Day, it would still work. But you couldn't do Home Alone on Memorial Day”

(Source: https://youtu.be/3JLmNRBi5GU?si=R5tBZSdao6kAVFW3)

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2001666970228580548

Christmas in mentioned 18 times in the Die Hard script, more than "die" (5) and "hard" (11).

That may well be true, but doesn't address his argument in the slightest, whether people accept that argument or not.

Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc