The Nick Wallis wrote up of Graham Linehan’s retrial deserves its own thread as it’s so interesting. Also quite barking mad.

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https://genderblog.net/glinner-rides-again/

I knew a lot of this but the machinations exposed clearly are fascinating.

(it’s probably been linked 20 pages deep in another thread but…)

Thanks for this, hadn’t followed it yesterday

I really really really hope that a dramatisation is one day made; Mrs Justice Tipples needs to be immortalised for the name alone.

I came here to post this. I was particularly interested to read this passage from the Bad Character Application. I wasn't aware that Brooks had infiltrated an LWS group:

'The infiltration evidence, said Vine, comes from members of Let Women Speak, a monthly event held by the women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen. Regular attendee Jo Atkins met Brooks at an LWS event in 2022, where he told her he was an 18-year-old detransitioner. Two LWS volunteers, Natasha Brown and Parand Mojabi, added Brooks to an LWS WhatsApp group, where he expressed great distress at the consequences of his “transition” and reported on “detransitioning” as it happened. Brooks was only rumbled when Brown, having attended the second day of Linehan’s trial at Westminster Mags, saw who Brooks was and realised what she’d done. Letting Brooks into the Whatsapp group had given him access to all the women’s mobile numbers and the private info they’d shared.'

Regular attendee Jo Atkins met Brooks at an LWS event in 2022, where he told her he was an 18-year-old detransitioner.

What age is he really? On oath yesterday he claimed to be seventeen in December 2024 when the encounter with Glinner occurred.

14 or 15 at the time and hanging around with Wallace and Watson.
I have serious questions about why these grown men were involved with a boy so young

Yes, he was either lying in 2022, or he's lying now, or he was lying on both occasions.

Thanks SSSIS I hadn’t known about the infiltration either. More sunlight

I did wonder whether that was the whole point of the BCA - to get this info into the public sphere in a high profile case.

Today will be interesting...

Quite, this aspect gets overlooked. Watson is nearly 60, Fred late 40s/50s. Not sure what Tarquins background is, or where his parents are but alarm bells should have been ringing when he was pulled into the orbit of those two weirdos.

If that is the case (a risky strategy, Judges take a dim view of any attempt to use the proceedings to play to a broader audience than the court itself), it's hard to say it's working.

The mainstream press has focused on Graham's actions rather than any content in the rejected BCA

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15779551/Father-Ted-Graham-Linehan-transgender-activist-phone.html

The longer I stay in this mad fight against gender bollocks - the more I am convinced that there are two, parallel media sources (this is not ground breaking I know that) - but that mainstream media - really has lost all connection with the common person and is in a genuine death spiral into obsolescence which it seems scheduled to meet before 2030.

I find out about the things that matter from X, YouTube, here!! the blogs-that-grew-into things like Unheard, the Critic, etc etc

I have no faith in any legacy media any more. Literally zero. I won't watch them, pay for them or listen to them any more.

"I have no faith in any legacy media any more. Literally zero. I won't watch them, pay for them or listen to them any more."

Same here. With a few honourable exceptions, I'm astonished anyone takes them seriously except to chart mis/disinformation.

And I noticed that his female name is verified by his passport and driving license, both of which can be changed willy-nilly. Although probably not his age.

So we have to assume he was 17 in 2024, and the lie was in 2022. Saying he was 18 was going to gain him an advantage.

I had thought the same - the information was eye-opening.

I don’t think it was quite as risky a strategy as Zebra makes out, as it appeared the judge gave it some consideration without totally throwing it out (from my reading but IANAL)

Tarquin seems to have amnesia.

I find Tarquin to be deeply sinister.

Who is he? Where are his parents? What is the relationship with FW and the other bonkers geezer? And I'm sure he's older than he claims. Youth has given him protection so far but it can't continue.

Reading this morning's cross exam, I'm dying to know who he was arguing loudly with outside the courtroom.

His whole smirking, self righteous, lying cry bully behaviour is about as obnoxious as it gets. I know his MO is to be as annoying as possible in order to solicit a response that can be filmed and used against you but christ you have to have the patience of a saint not to want to chin the cunt.

He’s involved with Fat Tone as well, don’t forget. Wallace, Watson and Hayden, all middle-aged men, closely involved with a teenage boy. How unsavoury.

Is there anywhere I can follow this? I’m not on X so can’t do it that way.

Completely agree.

Time and time again we've had events happen that should have blown this whole thing wide open.

The WPATH files
FWS
Sandie Peggy
Detransitioners like Richie Heron, Chloe Cole
Cass
Lyndsay Watson
Men in women's prisons

And yet... Where are the documentaries? Where is the serious reporting?

The BBC didn't even mention the WPATH files!

It's utterly insane.

OMG it's off the scale. How people can't see this for what it is is beyond me.

Nitter? Sorry I'm on X so don't know! 😬

Try here

Nick Wallis (@nickwallis): "SB that's out of context - I said I was building up to something - I said she lied about my assault SV put your assault aside - you are saying that MM deserved her assault because she was videoing someone" | nitter

Agree.

Random sidebar, but it's staggering how little real news makes it onto the BBC news site. Or Sky. If you want to find out what's actually going on today, or any actual journalism, you need the Times or Telegraph subscription.

Thanks, but I just get a blank page whenever I click on a Nitter link. Aargh!