My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial: "Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could." www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...

BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.

Happy 60th birthday, Björk!

The vindictive pursuit and vilification of Cadwalladr whilst she dug away revealing all sorts of dodgy dealings around Brexit kind of tells us a lot more than we realise. Powerful forces pull strings to silence truth and truth-seekers. The Russia report is just one more dirty little secret miasma.

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) might be the most endlessly quotable movie ever made. Every scene drops a line that’s lived for decades. 😎💙😎

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Terrible terrible news, this judge has really screwed over Americans www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judge-rule...

Debunking podcaster Michael Hobbes insists that Yuval Noah Harari, a professor in the Department of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, consulted no research in preparation for writing Sapiens: a Brief History of Mankind—a book with 21 pages of footnotes.

Incentives should be linked to skills our country needs and finding employment doing it. Those skills are not necessarily ‘high earning’. I’m fed up with a persons value being linked to how much they earn, it’s demonstrable bollocks.

Okay this is kinda funny

My own university closed its philosophy department decades OK (thanks to Thatcher). Hence, I work in a politics department. UK philosophy departments are now largely absent from universities with any substantial working class student body.

I agree with the call to policy makers. However, this trend also supports the theory that psychiatry has massively overreached in recent decades, by pathologising the subjective experience of poverty. Being unhappy with failure to meet your basic needs, for want of funds, is not a disorder.

Many of these women will become poorly off and unwell pensioners. Commentators tend to lump all older people together as privileged and also a drain on health resources. But there are huge differences between health and wealth between the sexes with women coming off worst.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Morning.

🧠🗯️ Why do people fall for BS? A new meta-analysis finds that belief in motivational quotes, conspiracy theories, and intuition is linked to higher bullshit receptivity – while stronger reasoning skills help guard against it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/acp.... #SciComm #Psychology 🧪

On #WorldPhilosophyDay2025, read our most popular blog posts in the last year: Jonathan Wilson invites us to rethink about bullshit receptivity imperfectcognitions....#WorldPhilosophyDay2025,#philsky

Going down. A view through one of the inner gatehouses at Dunnottar Castle, Aberdeenshire, visited earlier this year. For #Thursgate, which I believe is a thing.

This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is

Of course Councillors will not agree with the views of some of their constituents but they surely should listen to what they have to say. Talking about not feeling safe in these circumstances totally undermines the meaning of the words. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This painting has been accepted into the Sears Invitational Art Show at the Sears Art Museum in St. George, Utah! More info here! www.searsart.com/invitational

Mack nailed it #NoDebate

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c... This is a great piece!

Pine martens may help red squirrels. www.welshwildlife.org/blog/alice-c...

We should ask ourselves, 'What would Phil say?'

Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor was told by her record label to look more feminine, which she not only ignored but rebelled against. She later wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus warning of the misogynistic manipulation of women by the music industry #Womensart

Shell Guide, 1955: “Between the mild days, November frosts strip the coloured leaves of the shrubs and climbers of the hedgerow so that all the fruits of early winter show more vigourously against a paler sky” Artists: Edith & Rowland Hilder Writer: Geoffrey Grigson

"The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft." ~ Gustave Flaubert

Really enjoyed the latest "Start The Week" - featured @naomialderman.bsky.social & Cory Doctorow both making very interesting points. Looking forward to Naomi's new book www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Thanks for this link! Quoting with original link to paywalled article in hope it shows headline/preview www.independent.ie/sport/tommy-...

Let's not forget that Amnesty has been arguing at the supreme court that it should be illegal for gay only associations to exist in the UK.

Nothing says misinformation quite like claiming that men are women if they say so. We could easily have avoided this whole mess by accepting that sex is still an axis of oppression and finding ways to protect trans people that don't trample on women's hard-won rights. But here we are, still.

Love when the Admin shows its hypocrisy like this. "Only we can use this mechanism intentionally designed to launder funds, no one else!"

Is every famous man a creep? In the latest Epstein emails there’s an anecdote about Larry Page and Sergei Brin saying they picked “Google” as the name because men would focus on a word with two O’s in it 🤢

The thing about imposter syndrome is that the people who should be afflicted by it most severely are inevitably immune.

Australia's national broadcaster reports on its own coverage of gender ideology. Starts around 10.22 Jillian Spencer: "It's not just bias though, is it? The ABC has been a propaganda machine for gender ideology. They have contributed to harming thousands of children." youtu.be/HX3-I5mzrvw?...

I spent a few years reading bad books by worse people to save you the pain. Having read the first page of the Nuzzi excerpt Under medical advice I cannot get drunk enough to make reading that worth it and I suggest you don't try either unless you really thought Twilight was intensely good prose.

I wish Barthes were alive so he could add a chapter to MYTHOLOGIES on these things. Most people who own trucks have no genuine need for them; it's as though this thing was designed to make that precise point. It's not a truck but more like a commentary on that lack of need.

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”

I asked @maryltrump.bsky.social about how this all might end--what it would look like. Here's part of what she said: "He will burn it all down."

My 17 yr old says this classic Tr*mp dance is known by Gen Z as "Donnie's double dick suck."

"How did the left-wing trans movement squander a society’s worth of open-minded goodwill? Perhaps the biggest blunder was their refusal to compromise, especially over the most contentious policy areas, such as trans women in female-only spaces or youth gender medicine." wow

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

This is sensible and humane. A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism www.persuasion.community/p/a-manifest...

Really grateful this incredibly thoughtful, in-depth review. "There Is No Place for Us reads like horror... Goldstone argues that people are not slipping into homelessness but are being actively pushed." lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-e...