Ps just FYI I’m quoting studies from universities of Oxford and Newcastle, the Hunter Medical Research Institute in Australia as well as Dr Joshua Wolrich who I really recommend you follow because his content is awesome - www.instagram.com/drjoshuawolr...

I’ve been asked to create a bespoke body image workshop for a college in response to the large number of teenage girls there privately obtaining GLP1s to attain an extremely thin body ‘ideal’. It is terrifying that they’re still being presented as a ‘wonder drug’ when latest research shows …

I’ve bolloxed my left shoulder somehow. Not entirely sure when it happened but think I can trace it back to some extremely light head banging I did at a gig last weekend. Anyway, I’m on the ibuprofen for the foreseeable. Being in your 40s is AWESOME 😫.

A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

I tried to quote the AI overview of a Google search in my book (clearly signposted as such, to prove a point about Google AI overviews) and my editor said I wasn’t allowed. So…..

Terrific article.

I wrote a Substack in response to the tabloid press’ yearly exam stress ridiculing ritual (and explained why it’s a tedious, unevidenced load of balls) - tashthinks.substack.com/p/oh-good-th...

Can we all collectively agree not to do April Fools tomorrow? My reasons for asking are a) the world is beyond parody atm and b) I’m really tired. Thanks.

The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby. They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people. In your name.

The Other Bennet Sister is the best thing I’ve seen on telly for ages. Five stars. No notes. Watch it if you haven’t (and don’t be put off by the first ep - it’s not another unnecessary Pride and Prejudice remake by stealth).

Sometimes a picture really does speak a thousand words….

Well played @privateeyenews.bsky.social 😂😂😂

100k turned up to Tommy Ten Names’ hate march last year. 500k showed up to today’s protest against fascism and the far right. Love wins.

Well done and thank you to @natashadevon.bsky.social @lbcrawford.bsky.social for inviting Dr Helen Webberley onto your programme to challenge the inaccurate, transphobic bigotry which led to the International Olympics Committee seeking to force competitors to have chromosome tests.

Weird lighting in this selfie, sorry.

As the news that half a million of you absolute legends were out on the streets protesting the far right in London today, we’ll be bringing you an update, plus discussing Trump’s ego, therapy for minorities and the week where the little ppl fought back against tech giants. Tune in from 6pm.

Also - I really don’t think we should carry on paying Truss her PM legacy pension benefit thingermie if she’s gonna travel around slagging us off.

Really interesting (slash terrifying) investigation by @lewisgoodall.com for The News Agents on what MAGA think is happening in Britain - open.spotify.com/episode/3JSY...

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

s anyone else watching the Walsh Sisters? I know there’s no obligation for everything in life to match my imagination but as a massive fan of the novels of Marian Keyes I’m finding it difficult to reconcile how different Mammy Walsh is in the series from the version of her that exists in my head.

So Imane Khalif is stronger than most elite female athletes in her field but not as strong as the least strong equivalent man. She’s an anomale that shows how nuanced this whole thing is and how problematic it is policing gender.

One striking feature of Rowling's tweets, on top of her hatred for any woman she decides isn't a woman, is the enduring delusion that she is the real progressive

Imane Khalif is a cis woman. So *perhaps* our metric for what constitutes fairness in sport categorisation shouldn’t actually be gender? Or should only female athletes under 5 ft 7/120lbs who look like a Disney princess, give birth frequently and smell like a freshly mown daisy be able to compete?

Da fuq????!!!

Banning trans women from sports (or bathrooms, or anywhere) disproportionately harms cis women because it creates a narrower definition of womanhood.

@natashadevon.bsky.social I liked how you answered the Trans Women Olympics ban question. It was sensitive handled (as I'd expect), especially in relation to how CIS Women Of Colour are likely to be be unfairly penalised by this ruling, plus those people who don't fit XX and XY chromosome criteria.

Well that was a firey one - defence, welfare spending, social media addiction, trans women in sports and crypto funding political parties (as well as me realising I agree with Tobias Elwood on a surprising amount of stuff).

Remember the people who were against Joe Biden because they said how terrible it would be to have an unpredictable old man in very obvious cognitive decline in the White House? Hope their choices have worked out for them….

Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People’s lives are all just a game to the rich people at the top. Absolute scum.

Sheeesh. Who I shouting ‘stop sucking up’ to Ed Davey during #PMQs and shouldn’t they be in primary school right about now?

Is it not news-worthy… That an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler was allegedly held in detention for 10 hours Tortured by Israeli soldiers using burning cigarettes and nails All to force a confession from his father? Look at him Because our press will rather you didn’t.

What a time to be alive…

As an aside, back when I was modelling a designer (who you will have heard of) told me ‘clothes simply look better on skinny people, darling’ (in a ‘duh!’ type tone) to which I responded that if he was incapable of making clothes which looked good on a range of bodies, he must be a sh*t designer…

Wrote a Substack about why we should absolutely be concerned about the re-emergence of an exclusively super-thin beauty standard for women and how observing this is not ‘skinny-shaming’ - tashthinks.substack.com/p/not-this-a...

Ffs.

Your occasional reminder that X is a disinformation machine run by a very dangerous idiot whose GROK increasingly spreads batshit conspiracy theories... And no sane person or anyone concerned with truth and decency should be on it.

‘It’s actually not quite correct to say Trump is like Hitler. He’s more like Henry VIII’ Okay dude, whatever. Can we all just agree big fascistic dangerous badness in need of urgent stopping and work out the most technically accurate way to describe him at a later, hopefully safer, date???

My Mum was listening tonight and observed that my intro to the first hour may have been the most Essex I’ve ever done, including as it did the phrases ‘you crack on, mate’, ‘d’ya know what I mean?’ and ‘jog on, David’. I haven’t even visited my county of origin that recently so no idea why 😂

Week in, week out @natashadevon.bsky.social show on LBC is consistently excellent. Thoughtful, engaging, asks great questions, and always makes for interesting radio. Really wish she was on for more than three hours a week - come on @lbc.co.uk!

Join me from 6pm on LBC (Sat 21st March): - should the Commons be allowed to vote on US using our airbases for Iran ‘defence’ ? - Should Badenoch differentiate her party from Reform by sacking Nick Timothy? - What do you wish other people knew about menopause?

Spectator columnist Brendan O’Neill has just claimed made a number of extraordinary claims on the radio…. - Muslims praying in public are ‘ostentatious’. - All prayer should only happen in private. - Muslim public events ‘easily’ turn into ‘celebration of the murder of Jews’.

Apologies in advance for the language but I don’t know how else to say it. HOLY FUCK THIS SHIT IS RACIST.

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This is an important piece of work, worthy of study, about GB News and its appalling lack of compliance with Ofcom's broadcasting code. Findings submitted to Lisa Nandy, and to the relevant select committees in both the House of Commons and House of Lords. www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-gb-news-...

Nazis, Nick Timothy & their portrayal of public praying as an ‘intolerable provocation’ or ‘act of domination’… open.spotify.com/episode/2WJ2...

Can someone please explain to Lord Walney what free speech actually means (and how it doesn’t preclude professional consequences if you’re engaging in what could reasonably be defined as hate speech and you’re the flipping Shadow Justice Secretary)? Ta.

What do Trump and Farage mean when they talk about "Judeo-Christian" values? youtu.be/gSO99OEHfO0

Far right ‘Christian’ identifying people were persecuting Jewish people not that long ago in Europe’s history. They’ve outwardly pivoted to Muslims now, but as Harry Shukman’s brilliant book illustrates, are just as antisemitic behind closed doors as they ever were. ‘Judeo-Christian’ my arse.

Just leaving these here….