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

[SingleSexSpacesInSchools]

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…)

murasaki

if you're able to, you can copy and paste the Twitter link, and simply remove the x.com, and replace it with nitter.net. And either open it from there, or copy it into your browser

Thanks, Utopia let me know, so I'm on it in future!

I had another think...

Sea crocs and Upton and big dunny spiders
Tarquin and Tickle and mixed sex girl guiders
Drop bears, delusion and far Alice Springs
These aren't a few of my favourite things.

That’s my Friday evening ear worm sorted

Sad but increasingly true. With the weird twist that I used to despise and boycott the right wing press (Mail, Telegraph, Times), but I now find them more honest and more sane than the Guardian and the BBC, which I used to love.

Agree. I feel uncomfortable about it, and loathe a lot of their other stuff, but they've been good on this.

A problem shared is a problem someone else has 😆

It's the failure of the BBC that has hit me hardest. I know they have always been slightly left of centre, but I really believed that they tried hard to adjust for their biases. I never imagined that they would sell out women so easily, and not just by ignoring the sex realsit pov but also by actively promoting stories and reporting that painted sex realist women as anti-trans bigots.

Speaking of the BBC. Uses the ridiculous descriptor 'trans woman', but at least studiously avoids pronouns, except in direct quotes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx2vk4zx3xo

So pleased to hear this, I did hear it on Times Radio News earlier, not sure if BBC News are reporting.

I wonder if any of those involved in this idiotic prosecution- Police, CPS, magistrate, are required to do any “retraining”. I expect not!

"My partner is trying to convince me to move to Australia" is really making me chuckle. Who could blame them?!

I’m mortified that Australia has such wide ranging gender woo acceptance. However the upside is the second wave of criminals - like Tarquin and Upton who are comfortable lying in court may find their way there. So that’s small comfort. (Sorry GC Aussies!)

Sal Grovner is fighting the good fight there.

Would a criminal record pertaining to sex with a minor or a golf club related incident stop a middle aged man moving to Aus i wonder?

Can't quite believe he was convicted for the first time round.

In short:

• The cross-dressing man never mentioned his phone in his initial report

• He never provided any evidence of the state of the phone before or soon after the incident

• He only took his iPhone to an Apple repair shop nearly a month later

Clearly the police and judiciary have been captured that this even went to court in the first place.

Well I am a long term viewer of Border Control on silly TV, and I'd hazard a 'yes'.

He'd probably claim asylum though. And get it.....

I do think the CPS have a lot to answer for. This should never have got to court. There was no contemporaneous evidence of the damage. Mind you the original conviction should never have happened either.

Hopefully, this will make the CPS pause for thought. They can’t simply ignore the evidential burden because someone will make a fuss.

https://genderblog.net/linehan-is-acquitted-smiles-all-round/

another blog from Nick - worth a donation

Partner will be staying in the UK, obviously.

Is it move to Australia or move with them to Australia?

Apparently the shouting this morning was FT arguing with the security guard, who had just thrown him out. He was allowed back in just before lunch.

Kemi Badenoch

https://x.com/i/status/2050254762872918144

Ha ha ha ha ha ….

If you drop it screen-down on cobbles or another convex surface, you'll smash the screen because the raised "lip" on the case cannot protect the screen from a convex surface. Guess how I know this...