Jolyon Maugham’s Glorious Failures

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Enjoy.

www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/25/the-glorious-failures-of-jolyon-maugham/

As an aside, I use the expression “unadulterated child’s piss” far more than I would have ever thought because of that.

Yes, they embroil themselves in the finer detail to the extent that they regularly miss the overall picture. They’re so used to rationalising via technicalities and caveats that context, common sense, and direction is routinely lost on them. I’ve seen this in the flesh time and time again.

I can't remember the name of the movie but I can remember "stupid is as stupid does."

Forrest Gump.

Thank you. I knew I wasn't making it up.

Can anyone verify if this is accurate? He really needs reporting to the Bar Council - I will put in a report and would be grateful for anyone else who is good with this kind of thing to do the same, if it is an authentic tweet. I’ve only seen the screenshot.

How he gets away with this lack of professionalism and bullying behaviour is beyond me, it’s high time he was investigated.

Oh wow. So Jolyon's next crusade is... To start using the ladies' loos. Wow. I guess if he puts his wife's kimono on, we might never guess.

Perhaps we could utilise Jolly’s Culturally Appropriated Dressing Gown to cover up any Wandering Wang Waving Sex Pests while we all wait for the cops to arrive?

Sorry to ask again but does anyone have X and can check its authenticity please? I want to make the report today if possible! But I can’t see as I don’t have X.

He's no longer registered as a barrister with the Bar Council

Oh good grief, really? Off to look up why..

It's just such an obviously bad idea.

Those masked male SJWs who used to just harass feminist meetings now have JM's permission to harass any women in the toilets in Croydon M&S.

Cue front pages headline in the Daily Mail, and condemnation from cabinet ministers.

I'm starting to wonder whether he really cares about trans people.

Does that mean he is no longer a KC, or does he keep that as an honorary designation?

Of course he doesn’t. This is all misogyny; as his actions confirm. He is seething with rage toward women and their ‘disobedience’, so naturally his suggestion is to punish and intimidate women rather than do anything to validate the trans ‘argument’

I would suggest that legal professionals are, let's say, not immune to fallacious reasoning or category errors.

Lawyers are also trained to make the best arguments on behalf of their client. They have to think they are properly arguable but they are used to picking a side, with a desired outcome in mind, and doing their absolute best to get there within the bounds of the law. It's different training to, say, the ideal scientific training which is to stand neutral, observe the facts as they present themselves and reach the best conclusions based on that evidence, no matter where it takes you.

Added to that, professionals (infusing but not limited to lawyers!) - who are likely to be very used to being thought of by others and themselves as really quite clever - may well find it harder to make serious allowance for the possibly that they have made fundamental mistakes in their reasoning over they have committed to a path. Hence the arrogance, as you say!

I just can't imagine how he thinks this is going to play out.

Woman in loos: "Er, excuse me, this is the ladies'"
Jolyon: "Aha! My point exactly. I am Jolyon Maugham, defender of trans rights. I will only leave if you say a trans woman can come in!"
Woman: "What do you mean? Is there someone outside who needs the loo?"
Jolyon: "No, but what if there was?"
Woman: "Can you just leave?"
Jolyon: "Not until you say trans women are women!"

Security guard: "What's going on here?"
Jolyon: "Aha! Allow me to introduce myself. Jolyon Maugham, defender of trans rights".

Jolyon on Twitter: "Happy Boxing Day peeps! This morning I've already been thrown out of three women's toilets. The revolution beckons!"

So a profession where confirmation bias is rewarded?

I'm guessing the deleted messages on this thread are about his motivation for the unhinged torching of his reputation?
If so then this'll probably get deleted too but here goes.
Maugham has three daughters and two of them currently identify as trans boys. He has bought puberty blockers and testosterone for at least one of them.
So yes, he may also be a raging misogynist but the realisation that he's fucked up massively as a parent is the main reason for his latest meltdown.
He actually looks unwell in his recent photo in his bluesky profile.

Does he really? How do you know this? I always suspected there was a more personal angle going on. I agree he looks more and more unhinged and unwell as the months go on.

It seems that you can continue to use KC as long as it's made clear that you are no longer practising

I keep seeing this claim about two of his children but can only see evidence for one (the eldest). That said, no 2 has probably seen all the attention being trans gets from daddy and doesn’t want to miss out.

His eldest is part of an activist group called Trans kids deserve better, they post SM of themselves at protests including climbing up government buildings last summer. They also give press interviews using pseudonyms but it's obvious to anyone who knows them irl who they are

Those children are the child equivalent of those MRA groups who scale buildings dressed as Superman or whatever.

And why are women not better off in the country where a flasher (whether claiming to be a trans woman or claiming to be trans man), can be asked to leave because he is a man?

Yes that's probably fair comment. I mean, they do have professional obligations not to mislead the court etc. which are extremely serious but, yes, it's an adversarial system and their job is to find and promote the best arguments/ course of action for their client, not to adjudicate the dispute in an even-handed way themselves (unless they become judges!)