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The full scale of the exploitative market in children in care is laid bare in a new report from Ofsted, published today. Four out every 10 children in care now earn a profit for investors. www.gov.uk/government/s...

We're not going to be having anything like a Happy Christmas for the foreseeable, so to cheer myself up temporarily we had a #WorstChristmaspresent competition. Top2 to follow 1/3

"Give them a gift they'll actually use" says the company we buy our eco laundry sheets/dishwasher tablets from. I can just imagine my Mum's delighted face....not. #marketing

Linehan: “The judge commented that the complainant, a well-known trans activist, was not truthful. There are a group of dangerous men who are determined to bully women and girls, and to misuse the courts and police in furtherance of a misogynistic agenda.” 🎁 www.thetimes.com/article/b1ea...

Who thought a Labour govt would do this? Not I.

I use books to distract me these days so that usually means fiction. I'd never been a big crime fan but I'm really enjoying Jane Harper's books, set in the Australian outback. Love a sense of place. But blimey it's an unforgiving landscape.

Who remembers when the @libdems.org.uk were funded by Puberty blocker manufacturers and thought women had penises?

My pre-budget take for the LSE Politics blog is up: Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose. Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases. Not a great budget backdrop. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

So tell me why we think it's OK to let 18 year olds decide to cut their penises off after a 2 hour consultation ?

The wildlife trusts are puzzled by me cancelling my membership because I don't share their vice president's belief that humans can change sex. 🙄

My favourite "Google generation" blooper to date. Close second was last night's University Challenge when a photo of Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate was mistaken for Robert de Niro in Taxi Driver.

Shame I didn't get a photo for #foxoftheday

Over on X where I still have an account many people post screenshots of @bsky.app threads, which on here I don't see due to being on blocklists. The absolute poison being posted is something to behold. It's delusional to think it's in any way morally superior.

t.co/LKZDMgdA4o gotta love SEEN in Journalism and Mr Menno

Two years isn't long enough to monitor effects of this. This trial is a travesty - there is already a cohort of kids given these drugs on the past which hasn't been followed up.

Well today I learned that @dramirkhangp.bsky.social is a peddler of gender woo. And that led to finding out that the Wildlife trust he is vice chair of does the same. So, some direct debits cancelled this evening.

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It's hard not to see Britain as completely f**ked these days.

thetimes.com/radio/show/202… The debate between Helen Joyce & Helen Webberley. The latter is an idol of the so called "Dr" who sent my child off with a recommendation for a double mastectomy after 2 1 hour zoom consultations.

It isn’t kind or 'inclusive' to pretend people can change sex so that they face a lifetime of health problems. Autistic,same sex attracted and looked after children are disproportionately represented in medicalised cohorts. open.substack.com/pub/biologyinm…

It's Christmas but with Hieronymus Bosch

Amnesty argued at the Supreme Court, in the For Women Scotland case, that all protections for homosexuality under the Equality Act be rendered meaningless and gay only associations be made unlawful.

archive.ph/ia4Rs Sharron Davies: ‘I’ve never been anti-trans in my life. I’m just pro-female’

The idea that we would grant people asylum, and then rescind it after potentially decades, seems to me both unworkable and inhumane.

NHS Cataract surgery update. I now have 2 operated eyes, 1 toric ,1 not. They wouldn't do 2 toric because one eye was not astigmatic enough. Second non toric surgery not great & still blurry1/2 .

If they don't call this the Quorn Laws then the country truly is gone.

I worked in tax. Supreme Court rulings in tax or any matter of law, as Jolyon Maugham once said but seems to have forgotten, are binding. l'd have been thrown out of my professional body if I'd told a client to ignore one. So this is the UK Govt advocating breaking UK law. Unprecedented I think.

Despite Keir Starmer's assurances last week, *this* week Bridget Phillipson has instructed lawyers to argue in Court that some men should be allowed in women's single sex spaces on a case by case basis, in direct contravention of the Supreme Court ruling. archive.ph/y4yW7 Labour can't be trusted

In a court of law this week Good Law Project ( which must now be an ironic name) argued that if you let a male cleaner into a ladies loo to clean it, that loo becomes "gender neutral" 😂

Lots of BBC bros on X denying there's an issue with bias & gender. Unfortunately TERFs always keep the receipts. Here's a lovely R4 Today programme producer in 2019

More news you won't see covered on the BBC open.substack.com/pub/genspect...

While we're talking "bias by omission" you won't see any detail on the BBC Prescott report on here apart from lefty bros apologists saying it's a right wing conspiracy.

In BBC staff inboxes this week: How to be a trans ally" . Regardless of your views on trans ideology, it is NO part of a journalist's job to be an "ally" for one view.

A bloody decade it took to get this. We still have numerous sport bodies in this country who allow men into female competitions in their sport and an IOC ban only covers the Olympics.

Yep. And we all have the right to regard the Green Party as a bunch of toddlers.

open.substack.com/pub/seeninjo... New piece from SEEN in Journalism.

Guessing this won't make it onto @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4886a69... Confirms the obvious. Our National broadcaster is a propaganda machine every bit as efficient as Pravda.

After being enthusiastic about it before the last election @uklabour.bsky.social Lords had a *3 line whip* against installing #swift boxes on homes last night. They've decided to go with property developers against nature.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/bbc-... Congratulations to the BBC who have now provided the odious orange idiot with a legitimate example of "fake news".

Trying to make everyone believe 2) is true, or a fact, is however, oppressive

archive.ph/raGY6 New evidence backs theory that trans is a social contagion

Given up cleaning🐈‍⬛marks. Now painting furniture to match the cat

Just mesmerising. Guy Johnston/Britten Sinfonia John Taverner @ Hagia Sophia London