The trans/gender thing does seem to have permeated corporate culture, in quite surprising ways. For instance: earlier today I was travelling on an LNER train to Edinburgh. There was a poster in the c… (View Post)

The point of JK's tweet was to render the hate crime law unusable. It was a deliberate provocation - "do me if you dare". Effectively it is helping to protect free speech in Natland. I imag… (View Post)

I think J K Rowling feels that, as a woman uniquely protected by her celebrity, wealth, and way with words, that she is in a pretty good position to take on the "progressive" establishment … (View Post)

He may, but in the meantime someone else will have become party leader. If he/she fails to make progress it is quite easy to imagine Boris coming back into contention after a triumphant result in a b… (View Post)

That would be David Aaronovitch. He's certainly not a Communist now. Writes interesting stuff. Eminently sane. Look out for his substack contributions. Particularly good on Israel/Gaza. (View Post)