Imagine there is a trend of increased diagnoses of cancer, or dementia, or asthma, or arthritis or whatever and when the government announce an expert review into it a whole bunch of people start shouting about how bad and cynical an idea this is. Well that's happening for mental health.

When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.

I bought a £150 thing from France. I'm truly delighted to pay £40 tax on import: that's for schools and hospitals. The £11 handling fee for DHL, on the other hand, is purely to cover the expensive slow additional bureaucratic admin needlessly created for us all by Brexit voters. Merry Xmas!

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...

My thoughts on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial. www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...

Oh god. The BBC's Civilisations is written for imbiciles, isn't it? Or maybe Americans.

At the gig. I’ve just worked out Radiohead’s Creep is closer to The Beatles Love Me Do than it is to now. I have crumbled to dust.

1. Don't ever let a chiropractor near your neck. 2. I'd also recommend not letting them anywhere near the entirety of your body. 3. Or your wallet.

So many well-educated people I know are unaware of this about chiropractors and I’m always too embarrassed / polite / English to mention it. Like when I bite my tongue when people talk about “alternative” medicine for serious, terminal illness

@ldfreedman.bsky.social demolishes the rumors of a peace plan. This makes more sense than anything else I've seen on the plan. Nonetheless, Witkoff's ignorance shines through. He probably got rolled again. 1/

The BBC write as if assessing if someone is male or female "by appearance" is a bad thing. But that is how we do tell if someone is male or female every day. Humans are very good at it. It does not depend on clothes and social stereotypes - but body/face shape/size... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THREAD. I love old Habitat catalogues & managed to get hold of all the 70s ones before they got v pricey & collectable. Flicking through them, I wondered: "What are the true stories of the lives of the people in these photos?" So I decided to write those stories. You'll find them in the alt text.

Occult school closes for good. Bristol Steiner School, like all Waldorf schools, is a threat to the physical, mental and educational needs of children and it is a good thing it has now folded. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Was there no relative who could have taken power of attorney? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Show us the last four albums you listened to

This woman is so absolutely terrible. Blaming the medical staff for her daughter's completely unnecessary death when it's totally on her. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community.

You can be an explicitly racist, far right agitator and that's acceptable for the Royal Society. Wonder how many Fellows are happy in such company. Most I would imagine. Another western institution full of weak, cowardly people.

Fuck off with this woke shit www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

From the archives: www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/03... Top Ten Tips For Creating Your Own New Alternative Medicine

Thanks to the BBC today for telling us that Cillian Murphy is not a psychopathic gangster but is in fact just an actor.

How has a brand new party set up by Corbyn and Sultana managed to sorry I've answered my own question there

Word "Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker."

Aren't village message boards brilliant? the-villager.ghost.io/the-village-...

I'm guessing AirPods 3 are slightly better than sticking a live fish in your ear canal.

Farage said today he would said women refugees back to the Taliban.

Yes, yes, yes. This is coming. It caught voters in the US by surprise. The same will happen in the UK. Once we dismantle institutions base decisions on evidence and reason, we lock in a culture of authority, ideology and oppression. History shows this lasts generations, or until society collapses.

Reform is going to attract every conspiracy theorist nut-job, crank and quack, racist, pub bore and crook.

Greens. Cranks from top to bottom now. The reformers have lost to a guy who thinks he can make breasts get bigger through the power of his mind. If you lose to that you have to conclude you were in the wrong party.

While the Trump administration is destroying Evidence Based Medicine from the top down, the "left" are keen to destroy it from the bottom up. jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-disast...

Can you give a case study of any human who has changed sex?

This is a thoughtful and thorough analysis of Fuentes' "Sex is a Spectrum" book - showing the tricks he uses to convince you. blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...

Palestine Action is above all incredibly tedious and indulgent. The time and money of everybody protesting would demonstrably be much better spent on donations to non proscribed charities and aid organisations dedicated to helping Gazans. Victims of war crimes an adornment for their public display.

Mr Hypnotits says what now?

Morning view from bedroom.

Good piece on the ongoing scandal of private equity run special schools... (and children's homes...)

He is an anti-science conspiracist fool. The Guardian view on RFK Jr’s vaccine cuts: an assault on science from a politician unfit for his office | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has that horse no situational awareness?

Once again, England snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Good grief. Ian Dunt is showing spectacular ignorance of the roles of Parliament, the Supreme Court and the nature of the recent ruling on the Quality Act. Yet, he writes so confidently. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-trans-...

There's barking... and then there's co-authoring a paper with your own 'alternative identity'.

One hallmark of pseudoscience is when its claims are completely divorced from the broader scientific literature.

Bluesky is not a bubble, but a containment dome for furious progressives who like to sue rabbit charities. www.thetimes.com/article/8ca5...

Time for bed. Tonight's closing music video comes from Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - with "Cool Hand". Enjoy. youtu.be/r5fIYQ0GDPA?...

You have had this question now fully addressed. You are ideologically refusing to accept an answer because it is important for you for some reason to think males and females do not exist. You are a crank.

Oooof. There is no coming back from this.

Gaby Hinsliff and the Guardian call for Parliament to dismantle women's rights and protections.