Very happy to contribute my thoughts to this one! @barristersecret.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/last-minute-...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Fantastic @Beth McCarthy gig in Sheffield on Friday

When your partner is a microbiologist. Pseudomonas Pumpkinosa #Halloween

Happy to have cancelled my @disneyplusuk.bsky.social account

Well The Cut Throat Trial turned out to be an excellent read… Will you do a live legal take on it when they make the film @barristersecret.bsky.social?

Due to the ongoing emergency in the USA Trump has suspended the 1st, 14th and 22nd Amendments, the Posse Comitatus Act, and Godwin’s Law.

Betteridge's Law strikes again: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Flying the flag at Cropredy this year

Tom Lehrer youtu.be/dl3mRjydcPw?...

TACO and a Coke anyone?

Lovely weekend in Cambridge (yes was too out of practice to stand on the platform)

Guns don't kill people, rappers do (as @goldielookinchain.bsky.social would have it) ... @flavorflav.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Obscure help wanted: why is today Wednesday? Not why is it called Wednesday, but why did someone choose an anchor day of the week such that today is Wednesday and not some other day?

Pulp last night were amazing (although Jarvis had some problems with his monitor mix)

The excitement is building! #Pulp

Niche UK travel thing... I just noticed that on London Underground announcements they have stopped saying 61.0.16 and now say 6.101.6 Odd

Giving the new Pulp album a first listen. It's magnificent. Highlights so far: Grown Ups, Got to Have Love, Tina, The Hymn of the North, Sunset (am I the only one who hears echos of The Wall for that one?) I can't wait to see them again!

This is all rather exciting! #Pulp #More

Technically I didn't read it on summer vacation, but delighted that recommending @amalelmohtar.com's The River Has Roots was my first @newsweek.com contribution! www.newsweek.com/2025/06/13/n...

Twice. Because the first time we queued all the way around the Odeon but they sold out…

Pixies! Newcastle City Hall

We're thrilled to announce that our Vice-President @carolinehowe.bsky.social and Former President @ymalhi.bsky.social have been named in the @endsreport.com Power List 2025 The list names the 100 UK environmental professionals who have made the greatest impact in the past 2 years #ENDSPowerList2025

It won't even be women who aren't "female enough". It will be all women.

As anticipated, the Supreme Court's idiotic ruling is going to have a huge negative effect on cis women (this doesn't excuse the Labour Party from its cowardly refusal to legislate to correct the ruling) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This Swedish song is fantastic! Oh, it’s from 1974 #eurovision

Very Electric Six vibes here from the Swedish Finnish sauna kings! #eurovision

“This is so so dull, bring back the Swiss woman who was dull but less dull than this…” #eurovision

@nwhyte.bsky.social are Poland up for a Hugo for anything? #eurovision

And why do we suddenly have subtitles? #eurovision. I’m not sure that ersatz ziggy stardust needs them #italy

I’m going to go against the stream and say that Finland was a bit meh #eurovision

Ok this #eurovision fae carol is really quite good #latvia

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm really looking forwards to the Premier League 16th place play-off...

I still maintain that there is only one correct answer to this: Star Wars IV

New York anti-Trump protest

Hi NatWest, I love your call back facility... Except doing a call back and then having to put me on hold seems to defeat the point.

Although it seems a bit on the nose for Amazon to be pushing #Conclave right now, it is a cracking film...

Then and now. Fairport Convention in 1967 and at Ashley Hutchings birthday celebration tonight…

Here at @bmusicltd.bsky.social Birmingham Town Hall to see the Ashley Hutchings birthday concert!

My political awakening: the closure of Consett, the miners’ strike, and Clause 27 (later Section 28)

Section 28 didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% thought homosexuality was wrong. From a society that feared the sight of a man in drag would corrupt. From a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of gay lives. 🧵 1/16

Email to my MP I am very aware of the hostile environment of the 80s, and fear that this decision take us back to those years, with attacks on the LGBTQ community being normalised. However, my main concern is that the group most likely to be negatively affected by this decision will be cis women.

Is it time for the Church of #Harvard? It would prevent the IRS from removing tax-free status...

T-90s, I presume www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy Trans day of visibility - we will be raising the flag at this year’s Cropredy Festival (unofficially and somewhere near the top of the hill! Come along!)

Or as an alternative headline: #nufc fan pauses to pick up litter on way to watch cup final

An eclipse AND a trophy going through the streets of Newcastle! #nufc #eclipse

Partial eclipse from Leicestershire (pinhole camera!)