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Radio 1 DJ and noted jurist Greg James has given his verdict

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UninformedOfficer · 29/09/2025 19:30

I bought Greg James’ new book, hoping for some entertaining fluff along similar lines to his likeable breakfast show persona. In a chapter on ‘not growing up’ he is talking about accepting new ideas and then - of course - weighs in on the FWS Supreme Court decision.

“It’s a backwards step and another reminder that we all have to try and understand the world as it changes”.

I honestly can’t believe he thought it was worth wasting the paper to print this. Is it too much to ask that people who don’t have the slightest bit of understanding about something could just shut up about it?

Radio 1 DJ and noted jurist Greg James has given his verdict
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UninformedOfficer · 29/09/2025 21:06

Exactly.

And the very same people will say "If something really matters, you should stand up for it no matter what."

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Toseland · 29/09/2025 21:02

"...they decide it's the hill they're willing to die on."
This is what gets me, yes it is the hill, you've noticed it seems remarkable but have no curiosity to look further at that person's motivations and just decide they must be a bigot!
So many women, including myself, have had friends for 20/30/40 years who then decide that you are now a horrible bigot, never to be spoken to again. It blows my mind!

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UninformedOfficer · 29/09/2025 19:54

Llamasarellovely · 29/09/2025 19:32

If only he'd said this before the SC prepared their judgment, I'm sure they would have taken note.

😂

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UninformedOfficer · 29/09/2025 19:52

Coatsoff42 · 29/09/2025 19:38

I guess Greg James doesn’t ‘know himself’ to be a person with any experience of the issues involved.
He sounds like he was writing down what drunk people were saying in the pub, and not in a good way.

Yes, reading the book is rather like listening to that boring bloke at the pub. "People like listening to me, so here goes ..."

I'm disappointed that he couldn't stick with what he actually knows about, as the stuff about radio and his career is quite interesting.

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deadpan · 29/09/2025 19:49

The backward step is that we have to keep explaining to people, who can't be arsed looking into something before they pronounce their opinion, that nothing has actually changed.

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UninformedOfficer · 29/09/2025 19:47

Also, later: "People with amazing careers who in some cases have changed popular culture and garnered hundreds of millions of fans around the world with the things they've created get called out once for something they've done or said and instead of apologising or asking themselves some probing questions, they decide it's the hill they're willing to die on."

I couldn't possibly imagine who he might be thinking of here 🙄

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UninformedOfficer · 29/09/2025 19:39

It's just so jarring. He does actually talk about his own privilege, and even mentions the difference in male and female strength in relation to sports.

But he just doesn't join up the dots. And he's happy to imply that the SC judges are all a bit old and out of date, without making the slightest effort to find out what the judgment was all about.

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Coatsoff42 · 29/09/2025 19:38

I guess Greg James doesn’t ‘know himself’ to be a person with any experience of the issues involved.
He sounds like he was writing down what drunk people were saying in the pub, and not in a good way.

Llamasarellovely · 29/09/2025 19:32

If only he'd said this before the SC prepared their judgment, I'm sure they would have taken note.

TheCurious0range · 29/09/2025 19:31

You can almost smell the white, wealthy, male privilege

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