I'm not sure Jo Maugham is quite well

[ArabellaScott]

https://goodlawproject.org/we-have-been-given-a-huge-responsibility/

He's taking all your hundreds of thousands of pounds, but he can't tell you what he's doing with it cause seckrit.

And he knows all the best seckrit people who are humungosly good lawyers.

And he's got a skeleton key to the morals of the universe! By the power of Transkull!

😂

He’s a grifter.

JFC.

So what or who will keep us all accountable in the next life exactly? Is there an accountant waiting for JKR?

Not vague or suspicious at all. He knows some people who are working for mates rates and has employed a senior un-named journalist to write stuff. Really stands up to scrutiny.

Ha - I just had a bulletin that he’s recruiting for a new lawyer to run the trans cases - I guess the salary has to come from somewhere..

That was hard to read (and not just because it's nonsensical nonsense) - he needs a proofreader/editor.

Yikes.

He's either lost the plot entirely, or he's wised up enough not to publicise cases he's inevitably going to lose.

I wondered who he was quoting in the daft line about the Skellington Key, so I googled.

It's himself. He's quoting himself.

https://x.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1785570227180175734

Has he made some pact where he has to say that line every year on the 1st of May?

Oh? That's a bit odd. Some kind of ritual?

I've watched his new campaign video and I have to admit it looks fucking scary.

OK I'll admit it's 9 pm, and I've had a good few joints, but that was just gibberish in that article wasn't it? It's not just because I'm stoned is it?

“We have employed a leading journalist to talk of the pain caused by the Supreme Court’s clumsy social engineering.”

So? 😂🤷‍♀️

It’s not as if we haven’t already had countless versions of this already. We know. All very sad they can’t invade women’s spaces now.

Doesn’t matter how sad they are, it’s still not legal any more,

Not sure this is good use of your secret money, Foxman.

😂😂😂

I wish him luck ‘fighting the power’ aka reality

"[T]hose who don’t cohere to patriarchal archetypes"! Wow, that's a new way of putting it. I never knew patriarchal archetypal incoherence was a big problem for people needing to use a public loo. It does sound like a digestive complaint.

"A skeleton key to a new moral universe"... I mean, this sounds like something a sci-fi baddie would say, as they to coolly commit some atrocity in the name of eugenics, maybe blow up a planet. Hilarious that he quotes himself in quote marks.

I don't know what to make of his vision of JK Rowling at the pearly gates being "held accountable" for her misdeeds on earth. Not sure which moral universe that takes place in.

He writes like a Year 7 with a big secret plan to oust Year 8 from the playground. 😂

The last weeks have been quite the education - how the bloody hell did this ideology get so far given the drivelling intellect being shared far and wide since the SC?

Talking about the government wanting to ‘eradicate trans people from public life’.

Well a) It’s the law, not the government. And more importantly b) Nobody wants to eradicate anything. If a trans person wants to be in public life, great. I will treat them exactly the same as anyone else, unless they suggest that they have somehow changed sex in which case I will say that it’s not possible. Because it’s not. That’s it.

It's a very odd phrase.

Why a skeleton key? Why not just a key?

A skeleton key is used to gain access to forbidden places. I suppose he's suggesting he's got seckret access to transworld as a 'cis' man? But why? Why sneak about, Jo? Breaking and entering?

I suppose its in the vein of battering wildlife to death.

'A new moral universe.'

What the fuck does that mean?! What morals has he upended? What morals are different to the everyday morals of this universe?

It does sound a bit sinister, mate. And not just a bit unhinged.

I wrote, in ‘Bringing Down Goliath’ (Penguin, 2024), about how advocacy for trans people has opened my eyes to how the world is for people without my privilege. The work has given me “a skeleton key to a whole new moral universe”.

Is it just me, or is Jolyon constructing a trans version of the Magical Negro trope?

If he thinks he's being original, I hate to tell him that Laurie Penny got there first.

To give our cases the best chance of succeeding – in a world in which parts of the judiciary are conspicuously hostile to us and the trans community – they must happen away from the limelight.

Away from the limelight - does that mean paying vast amounts of money to lobbyists to "chat" to our MPs in the dark corridors of Parliament? Like last time?

It’s certainly become clearer as to why they were so keen on “no debate” now…

'so-called justice secretary' 😂

with great pomposity comes great responsibility...

why the need to specify the date and publisher of his book, to distinguish it from other books with the same self-aggrandising title?

apart from what it says about freedom of the press, what a waste of money to "employ a leading journalist to talk of the pain" of the decision, given how many of them have been wanking on about it for free over the last 2 weeks

utterly bonkers

It’s all starting to go a bit L. Ron Hubbard, isn’t it?

This thread is making me laugh

I was thinking Dan Brown 😁