Really looking forward to putting on my first show in nearly 10 years next week. Whole set of new songs. (Artwork by my wife, Martha, and poster by Hugh Rodgers.)

I am doing a new musical comedy show in Belfast, this day fortnight.

In July 2024, JK Rowling said called the Cass Review, "the single most authoritative and comprehensive review of the affirmative model ever conducted." Today, she retweeted a tweet saying that Cass should be "derided" for her "ridiculous comments" on the puberty blocker trial. Do you see?

One the one hand, we should be nicer to people. On the other, Keir Starmer's government has banned me from public toilets.

In the last two years, three of JK Rowling's most prominent allies have done podcasts / interviews with men who have been convicted or cautioned for beating their wives/partners, and she has not found the time to condemn platforming those men, so this tweet, with 91K likes, is arrant horseshit.

Roisin Murphy couldn't be clearer: if you support trans rights, she doesn't want you at her shows.

What year is it?

Martina says she is Left Wing, but doesn't understand the principles of bodily autonomy. How has she lived this long without grasping that, for some people, a bilateral is not a choice, while for others, it is a choice to be celebrated?

The "What has JK Rowling ever said or done that's transphobic?" ignorant centrists have gone very quiet of late, haven't they? This isn't a "change", by the way, she was always like this, she has always hated LGBT+ people this much. She's a conservative, middle-class woman who became a billionaire.

Absolutely breaks my heart. Fuck everyone and everything. 17,000 news articles just to hurt a few innocent children.

Jen Ives raising really important questions here, not least: does Russell T. Davies actually know what "gender critical" means? Does he understand that it's an organised movement, bankrolled by billionaires, not just some middle-aged folk grumbling about kids these days with their pronouns, etc?

Oh, very well played, Ashbourne.

This is one of the most annoyingly stupid opinions that keeps cropping up. When it comes to art promoting bigotry, it doesn't matter if the targets of the bigotry, or those who disagree, consume it or not, the point is that OTHER PEOPLE consume it, and are sent away more hateful than before. 1/

JK Rowling referred to Posie Parker as a "genius" years ago, in her capacity as an an anti-trans leader in her movement. Posie appeared at a Tommy Robinson march on the weekend calling for Islam to be banned in the UK. You'd think a mainstream journalist might seek a quote from Rowling on it, right?

Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting both went to Graham Linehan's defence after he was arrested for urging violence against trans people in public, so if you vote for Labour UK you are telling trans people that their safety and lives are the price they must pay for your vote.

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

There’s a chance that Wes Streeting comes out of the current mess as Prime Minister. The same Wes Streeting who caused and tried to cover up this absolute scandal. This rating is generous now but people are rightly scared it’s going to get worse. bsky.app/profile/thea...

We used to be first. That’s why people’s vibe is still “this was a good place to be yourself”. Then we had 10 years of attacks on human rights, total institutional failure and a roll back of rights… …including the claim we never had human rights protection in the first place.

fair play to Martin, using RIP dot ie the way the lord intended #speirgorm

My council has flipped from Tory to Lib Dem. The Greens gained seats and are now the third place party in the council. Ahead of Reform. My town was in the news last summer because anti-migrant thugs were being cunts outside a hotel. There are fuck-arse polyester flags EVERYWHERE. They lost today.

Important reminder: Roisin Murphy does not have 'any formal education or qualifications even in biology, let alone in gender, sex or law... she is not an expert at all. She has no recognised expertise in any of the areas in which she expresses an opinion.'

"Artists with opinions shouldn't have to pay for your pain. We didn't create it." Someone should sit Roisin down and explain that when you have a massive platform afforded to you due to your art and you use it tweet that trans people are not fit to be teachers, you are causing trans people pain. 1/

When I see the Met Gala, in this economy, I can't help but think, "The Hamptons are not a defensible position."

Rowling called for trans women in public to be photographed and doxxed online. She supported Linehan when he was arrested for tweeting that trans women in women's toilets should be assaulted. Three of her prominent allies have done interviews with domestic abusers in the last few years. Anyway...

Staking my claim to have the sweatiest, shiniest head in Ireland.

JK Rowling has, on multiple occasions, said she believes in trans people's right to be employed, and yet, yesterday, she retweeted an interview by Roisin Murphy, who believes that trans people should not have the same rights as everyone else to be employed as teachers. She lying.

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

Roisin Murphy did a whole speech about being cancelled and then in the tweets says she hasn't really been cancelled and that most of her fans still support her. So what exactly does she want? The general public is not responsible for caretaking her soul or worldview. That's her personal business.

The dreadful OFS has had its terrible decision regarding "gender critical" reactionary Kathleen Stock quashed by the High Court. Will have more thoughts once I have read the judgment.

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

muting this thread. have a good day. never forgive the Harper's signatories until they repent

Within 24 hours of objecting to people lecturing her about what she does and doesn't do, she tweets this ironic tweet about assisted dying. If you're shocked that she's against assisted dying, don't be, she's a conservative woman, an ideology which sets her opinion above your bodily autonomy.

She has literally spent the last 8 years lecturing everyone on how they should think, speak and act regarding trans people. She celebrated a court win against trans rights by posting a pic of herself huffing a cigar on the deck of her superyacht, and yet she talks about other people's entitlement???

Michael Nugent, the chairperson of @atheistireland.bsky.social, is on public record defending his friend Graham Linehan, and his online activism. As an Irish atheist, and the father of an intellectually disabled adult, all I can say is that Michael does not speak for me.

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

JK Rowling, like all bigots, believes the majority should decide the rights of the minority. Essentially, she will apportion trans rights as she sees fit. For example, she will use "she" for a trans woman if she is "gentle" and "funny." And she believes she deserves praise for her "tolerance."

Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.

Of course, a year ago, JK Rowling wrote a long tweet upbraiding someone else for using "she/her" for a trans woman, saying it doesn't matter how polite the "request" it's still compelled speech, but yesterday she was upbraiding her allies who were saying she shouldn't use she/her for a trans woman.

JK Rowling admitting that she won't be transphobic to you as a trans woman if you are "gentle" and "funny" and you have "female-coded energy." What on earth is "female-coded energy"? Doesn't this strongly suggest that Rowling is a conservative woman who expects women to be a certain way?

Martina has now deleted this tweet, but there are still at least two other tweets referring to Dr. Upton as a predator that remain.

Here is their contact details. • Mix and match. • Better today and rough around the edges than later. • Personal more important than consistency. www.stonewall.org.uk/contact-us

Write to Stonewall. • Tell them you supported them in the past. • Tell them why you won’t be supporting transphobia. Cut direct debts. Don’t by the merch. Tell your direct contacts.

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

I should also say, that even before this appointment, Stonewall have presided over the biggest rollback of gay rights in the UK in all our lifetimes. The Green Party have shown that Stonewall's "throw trans people under the bus to save gay rights" strategy was always a crock of shit.

Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.

Middle-aged, middle-class creatives who bang on about the importance of free speech don't actually want free speech. They want the right to say what they like about minorities without any consequences. They would fully support imprisonment of those who protest their appearances at universities etc.

Yes, the transphobic UK media whitewash these people for public consumption.

Does everyone remember Alex Bramham? The guy who was kicked out of a pride march cos he showed up in an LGB alliance t-shirt? Transphobes in the press made a big deal about it at the time, about how it showed how intolerant the left is etc... He's now a branch leader of the fascist NRP