Jolyon Maugham’s Glorious Failures

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Enjoy.

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

He reminds me of Femi, someone who enjoyed the limelight of having a popular reputation as an authoritative voice in a certain field but who now thinks this makes him right about everything.
Im also less surprised now that a grown man was, apparently randomly, wearing his wife’s dressing gown than I was a few years ago. In all the times that the men in my house have had to suddenly pull something on to leave the house urgently it has never once been a item of mine

It seems his dismal legal record is now being noticed by those formerly disposed to funding his legal challenges. Which would just as effectively have been expressed through contemporary dance

Thank you, Simon Evans, for livening up my morning with the mental image of the kimono-clad bat-wielder doing his best Kate Bush dancing.

I got a fit of the giggles I still have not quite recovered from.

”Heathcliffe! It’s me, it’s Joly…”

I find it interesting that such a rabid anti establishment figure is happy to use the title ‘King’s Counsel’, even when it is no longer professionally needed.

'Yes, but look here, my dear chap, if I could just draw your attention to para 6, subsection 3a - thanks most awfully—'

So he’s one of Helen Joyce’s Japanese soldiers. It all comes together. I always thought it was him with the lady feelz, although I suppose that’s still possible.

Yep.
Once you’ve been an active part of transing your child, how can you ever pull back and say “I thought I was helping but I’ve actually damaged you irreparably”?

“I loved you and worried about you so much I helped you be sterilised, ampute perfectly healthy parts of your body and lose sexual function…” Not going to happen. So the shouting and outrage continues.

I also think that the important London people with the important London jobs have gradually distanced themselves as he became more unhinged/hilarious on twitter. Nobody of consequence is taking his calls now hence the constant shouting at Wes Streeting on SM.

Activist lawyers have their uses, but yes, very prone to confirmation bias, very prone to bask in their reputation for cleverness, and with a disturbing tendency to tell people what they want to hear.

Maybe I just don't have that element in my character, but I would think that, if there's a big case coming up and the group that you're advocating for is in a legally weak position, you have to be blunt with them.

So I've seen a few lawyers harrumphing about the SC ruling and I just want to say: Maaate. I know it's important to you to be a trans ally, but you must have known there was a reasonable chance ScotGov would lose this case. And you're familiar enough with transactivists to know there was a 100% chance of them throwing a massive tantrum if they didn't get 100% of what they wanted. You should have prepared your audience, but you didn't.

So 3 girls and 2 of them identifying as boys? With the trans population being so allegedly tiny, what are the odds? I would be v interested for a psychologist to unpick why 2 of his daughters thought their lives would be better if they were male.

Joined the dots, thanks to the TKM link. https://revsoc21.uk/2024/11/18/trans-youth-fight-back-an-interview-with-trans-kids-deserve-better/.

Sounds like Jolyon needs to talk to some post op trans men. Real ones, not fictional ones.

Not unusual, I'd say.

A girl in my granddaughter's primary school came back to school after the covid lockdown, declaring she was now a boy ( age 10); she has an older sister who also was identifying as trans at a secondary school.

I know that it is not that unusal for a couple of children from the same family to be gay. I know of at least three families where this is the case.........and i suspect the two girls mentioned above are either nascently gay, or else on the autistic spectrum. Autism also runs in families.

Felix Moore is the trans child of Guardian journalist Rowan Moore, isn't she?

Maugham biography;

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/60075/jolyon-maugham-lawyer-activist-public-enemy

Indeed.

What a joy that was to read. If I could write like Simon Evans I would die happy.

Oh, is she? Figures.

Also autistic:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/18/being-trans-transgender-rights-issues-rowan-moore-felix-moore

Good news!

The GLP's new doomed legal fundraiser against the Supreme Court has raised £242,104.47 from over 6,000 people with no prospect of any success. They are going to completely waste the money on a no hope challenge and bank the rest. By utterly failing they will strengthen the case law in favour of sexual equality.

Remember GLP's track record on trans cases is a 0% success rate with over 500,000 spent before this latest effort.

Agent Joylon we salute for your support for women, despite your misogynistic exterior your incompetence has been key in undermining the trans position . That money could be used in so many worse ways like hiring good lawyers.

This is pure class. I love “cross-dressing vulpicide”. Thank you for brightening my day @CrocsNotDocs
And he’s only won 8 out of 44 cases? 🤭

This reads like a parody with all the wacky names and (he/they/ze/zir) info. They’ll definitely be embarrassed by this in a few years’ time when they’ve perhaps grown up.

According to a Maugham interview in The Guardian, Maugham sued for sex discrimination when he got sent home from a secretarial temp job in a legal firm for being a man.

So he does actually know that sex is real.

If only he’d claimed that he was a trans man back then …

www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jan/06/features.jobsmoney4

Hadn't picked up on that!

Had picked up on how many times rudeness and arrogance are mentioned or hinted at. Even from people who are supposedly allies.