A letter from a group of psychiatrists in Today's Times, asking why there was never any follow up of the 9000 children given puberty blockers at the Tavistock clinic.

‘I notice none of you fuckers are listening now’

...the diaries, published six years later. 'Do you know you're IN them?' a friend screeched down the phone to me. And there I was - part of his reminiscence of a jolly evening that was no more than routine for him, but forever unforgettable for me: 5/5

If any other president had said this despicable thing, it would result in immediate retractions and clarifications, days of media speculation about his mental state, lots of international criticism, and the resignations on principle of some staffers in the White House and broader administration.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

This.

I dislike this sort of didacticism. Anyway, a list of great short novels that doesn’t include JL Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’ (only 20,000 words long!) lacks any authority.

Trump rambling totally incoherently before a silent room full of powerful people who know this man is totally unhinged and yet not one is willing to walk out or even better take his arm and lead him off the stage.

This man is very seriously ill. bsky.app/profile/atru...

'Feeding the Birds, Archway, London' by Trevor Haddrell societyofwoodengravers.co.uk/shop/trevor-haddrell

This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇

Just finished this beautiful, quiet, devastating novel (Booker long-listed) about family and adoption, set in Trinidad and London. It was recommended to me by my sister @marykenvyn.bsky.social, and I wasn't sure what to expect, but I walked through 40 years with the narrator, and it's unforgettable.

KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Excellent as usual by @glosswitch.bsky.social 'We should not want a world that sees female discomfort as natural, simply the way women accommodate male desires. The role of an HR manager should not be to decide how much women exist to take.' thecritic.co.uk/does-womens-...

"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"

With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

Darlington nurses win Tribunal case against employer for admitting a male member of staff to the female changing room. The employer also failed to protect the claimants from harassment.

The Tribunal’s judgment concludes: “We were unclear what was meant by the submission that the policy was ‘lawful’ and deeper consideration of the argument led us to conclude that the policy of permitting biological males who identify as women to use a female changing room was not ‘lawful’.”

Victory for the Darlington nurses in their tribunal case. From the judgement:

This is what American Patriots look like. All across the Twin-Cities, Minnesotans are rising to the occasion. All fucking night long. ZERO sleep for ICE Nazis. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🙌💪👏✊️👇

Oh dear. Denial is widespread on BS. Transwomen are clearly male. Otherwise they'd just be women. Being male is a necessary condition. So much antagonism to women's rights. Because human rights to equality as based on sex are an established & explicit part of international human rights treaties.

Outrageous bare-faced lies - it’s extraordinary what the right wing press can get away with. Thank you @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for such a thorough debunking

With ZERO fucks left to give, Tim Miller eviscerates the pedophile führer, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, and the ICE Nazis: "I will not be fucking gaslit by these people. I will not tone down the rhetoric... Jonathan Ross murdered her [Renee Good]." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇

A decade ago, my photographer niece, Alys tomlinson, took an award-winning picture of a Belarusian nun. They stayed in touch and over several years, Alys co-directed a barely-funded, yet rich and extraordinary documentary about Vera -and today it’s been BAFTA longlisted!.

Venezuela: How it unfolded From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.

‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955) Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder

I’d like this moron to explain why blokes who choose to be trans don’t got the whole mile and demand a salary cut to be even more convincing women. Nobody has ever answered this.

Well, I imagine the children of Southampton were in therapy for a good few years after attending this particular panto…

Irony & hyperbole overload. Translation 1. Men (however they identify) can't use women's toilets & changing rooms 2. Gender identitarians can't hold academia to ransom, hijacking women's studies, dictating the curriculum & gatekeeping academic publishing. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...

Impossible to pass this road without having a *moment*…

My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories. Spread the joy of reading with a donation: donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...

Brilliant - and so well deserved.

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Get to know the amazing, brave Mary Bruce, ABC journalist, directly confronting both a sexual abuser and murderer to their faces. #PiggyPOTUS 47 is vile, evil, disgusting. You can judge him by the company he keeps. 🐷💩🤬🤮 We need more journalists like Mary. We need fewer pigs masquerading as humans.

“Quiet, piggy.” What an asshole…

I hope that the 115th anniversary of Black Friday is a suitable day to say how much I am enjoying reading my third book by @lissakevans.bsky.social.

Smashed windows and graffiti at the FiLiA conference. FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.

Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women: “We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder. genderblog.net/cambridge-st...

As is traditional on October 31st, I present my greatest ever Halloween costume triumph: Watson as Cardinal Woofsley.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

I knew that Granny’s Flag - a picture book with a lovely rhyming text by Rachel Rooney and witty & detailed illustrations by Ros Asquith - would be a delight, but I didn’t expect that it would also bring tears to my eyes! ❤️❤️

Apologies for publishing self praise, but when I saw this piece by India Knight in today's @thetimes.com , I thought I might burst with happiness.

Johann Frederick of Saxony, aka the Magnanimous, painted in 1509 at age 6 in totally fab outfit (especially the hat!) by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Whose day is today.

Totally thrilled to be on the Gold Crown shortlist 😁😁😁

Smashed windows and graffiti at the Brighton Conference Centre, where women have come from all over the world to talk about male violence and women's human rights. This is trans activism, and it's misogyny in action.

Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

This book is actually available for a mere 99p on Kindle - but only for another 12 hours!!