Surely Mridul Wadhwa has to go now? Report into ERCC out.

Wasn’t there a RCS reference group that maybe be the source of the people writing emails? Ie. A group of past users?

It seems most likely it's employees, or at least one employee.

As for Emma.Roddick, this is who Sturgeon chose to pass the baton to when she stepped down.

lechiffre55 · Yesterday 11:46

I want to ask another question. The "spontaneous" emails from former users of ERCC to The Sunday Mail defending Brindley. My question is how do those service users even know who Brindley is?

Well, quite. It's extremely suspicious that so many have emailed in support of her, within half an hour of publication. It's likely to be either pals, as suggested, or else she's asked service users. As already pointed out, service users will be most unlikely to have interacted with her, or to know who she is.

If she has contacted service users, she's on a sticky legal wicket. If connections of friendship with the correspondents can be shown, then surely whoever employs her ought to sack her for dishonesty?

Wow, have they not learnt anything in the last couple of years?

Dear God roddick really doesn't have a clue

I am quite enjoying the article liine about JKR 'attacked' Brindley. As if she galloped out and walloped her with a broomstick as opposed to posted a tweet pointing out phenomenally questionable events.

Was it Ellen MacKenzie who, like McCavity, was never there but the invisible hand behind much of the CGD | Forstater foment?

Yes I think so.

Does anyone know how this is impacting the services in Brighton and Sarahs case?

That's a cracking article. Getting round all the pronoun nonsense purely by quoting women who use him pronouns.

It's not Brindley's first rodeo

https://tfn.scot/news/leading-scots-charity-ordered-to-pay-51000-to-employee-it-unfairly-dismissed

Refusing to acknowledge she's done anything wrong seems to be a pattern.

Was it Ellen MacKenzie who, like McCavity, was never there but the invisible hand behind much of the CGD | Forstater foment?

Why are these people never front and centre but using others as their human shield? Why do the shields go along with it?

It's not unlike the sex based difference between who was and was not the primary focus of the women's rape crisis service.

In my more depressed moments I think we are going to see women returned to official, legal, justified subordination in the western world, as lesser citizens than men, with accepted lesser rights and lost equality.

And it will happen in part through a lot of women who won't bother to notice or act or take the risk of not being nice until it's too late, but also in large part through women actively enabling men to do it.

Whether it's 'do it to Julia', or a bid for pats and cookies, or mad internalised misogyny, or vengefulness on other women, or an enjoyment of power over and harm to other women, who knows.

Great article, thanks Icake.
MW as the scapegoat/sacrificial ram.
We have an eclipse tomorrow, traditionally the time for changes and rolling heads. A timely resignation will do.

I agree with you @Anastomosisrex and perhaps women like Brindley should take some time to reflect on this.

Brindley should absolutely be facing this for what happened on her watch, enabled by her.

However I cannot help noticing yet again the sex based differences in who gets to slide away and take no responsibility or consequences, and who is being made to answer to the press.

It's rather like the sex based difference between who had to stand and carry the can on the stand in court and who got to stay at home behind the human shield.

Ooof that article doesn't hold back.

On Sunday Brindley was attacked by Rowling after being accused of canvassing sexual assault survivors for testimonials in a bid to save her job.
Brindley had told the Sunday Mail she had no knowledge of calls for her to quit and has been backed by some survivors.
But Rowling wrote on X: “Asking rape survivors to get you out of massive self-inflicted PR problem is unfortunately right on brand for the head of Rape Crisis Scotland.

I don't categorise that as an 'attack by Rowling', but an accurate and plausible set of suppositions about the chronology of the events. But I suppose that I would…

Thats a great article. Its really weird seeing actual feminists being quoted in The Times! Strange days.

Barbara is singing again.

There's an article in the Times about Brindley

https://archive.ph/TaG7i bypass paywall

www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/rape-charity-chief-faces-growing-calls-to-resign-t6wh8q8tw

Cowan's paper cleverly slippyslides, starting from a case about a transman being unduly harshly punished for untruthfully claiming to be a man and thus having sex with a heterosexual woman compared with punishments for men who have sex with women by fraud. Allison Bailley has framed this as the result of homophobia in the legal profession against lesbian sex. But Cowan slippyslides from actual cases about women and lesbian sex to draw conclusions about "trans people" of both sexes without mentioning transwomen and the resulting non-consensual heterosexual sex by fraud.

Cowan's paper does not address the question of what happens if a transwoman claims to be a woman to have sex with women. If transmen are getting unduly harsh sentences then that Cowan reason that therefore "trans people" - both sexes - are already being treated unduly harshly as a result of transphobia and homophobia. Even if the result is a man having sex with a woman who doesn't consent to have sex with a man, otherwise known as heterosexual rape.

Cherchez les hommes.

Aunt Lydia is real, and she is legion.

That character even managed to parasitise the woman who created her.

It’s incredible to see how seductive being cruel to women can be for righteous women.