This was pretty good. The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Which both Truss and Rayner are flung onto rather than fall on

One for Sarah Cholwill :)

'Avoid identity politics, enjoy living'

My final 'hack' in the Quickfire Questions part of James Doran's The Expat Pod recently

youtube.com/watch?v=djqiTy…

Says the bad faith actor that turns everything into a culture war

Karen Read leaving court with her legal team today 🎀

Good. Now do the same for the Hate Speech law

#ResignHumzaYousaf

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

'Our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction'

Academic activists have been talking about 'subjective knowing' for some time now. This is in fact a subterfuge of the agreed terms of society, and has in part led us to the culture war mire we're in now

There are a lot of 'radical' - i.e. radical centrism - prefixes about these days, and of course binary old X is a perfect place for it. Radicalism leads to sudden change in a time of great discontent, as in the French and Russian revolutions and the Civil Rights movement

Using…

I lost a great friend and colleague last night.

'Under 35s tend to see social media news as very serious – as long as it’s about human rights – or else not serious at all. Over 35s tend to see it as baffling and very serious, but also not serious at all if the topic appears light to them'

New piece in Atheism UK

Literary imagination? Effects of PTSD? Or good old-fashioned wormhole future-seeing? Salman Rushdie, forever spooky

Sharron Davies was one of the first high-profile sporting names to put her head above the parapet about trans-identifying males in female sports.
She joined us at breakfast on TNT Radio to talk about speaking out and more.

Sharron Davies MBE Charlotte, The Baroness 💫

Full conversation:…

'Avoid identity politics, enjoy living'

My final 'hack' in the Quickfire Questions part of James Doran's The Expat Pod recently

youtube.com/watch?v=djqiTy…

'No leader will be elected – or able to stay in office – if they challenge the orthodoxy'

Dan Wootton on the rise, fall, and rise again of Liz Truss

Dan Wootton Liz Truss

open.substack.com/pub/danwootton…

'How absurd, I thought, that I should die in such a supremely pointless way by a river in Ipswich, lodged halfway into the ground, with nothing else to do but wait patiently to drown'

Andrew Doyle lives on

open.substack.com/pub/andrewdoyl…

I want to see a proper fist-fight between Nick Fletcher and Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Home Office staff under criminal investigation - at 15mins

The hagiography of Victoria Atkins - at 35m 50

Dawn French (finally) calls out cancel culture - at 46m

On last night' Headliners

simon evans Leo Kearse - on YouTube & Saturday Night Showdown Nick Dixon Dawn French 💙🔴🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

youtube.com/watch?v=VVTz-5…

'Many schools are continuing to use a ‘gender toolkit’, introduced by Brighton and Hove Council in 2021, that many lawyers now believe to be in breach of equality legislation'

Mind-boggling list of 'issues' here, from Joanna Williams

Joanna Williams

spiked-online.com/2024/04/16/aft…

The biggest coup of the activists-in-power has been convincing the mainstream that all 'progress' is equal. From AI to trans to Big Pharma, societal self-preservation is asserting that this is no longer the case

Mary Harrington in @UnHerd unherd.com/2024/04/why-th…

Radio 2: Not at home to Mr Cock-Up

#ladiesnight

Nothing Matters is brilliant, but my highpoint of The Last Dinner Party's debut album is Portrait Of A Dead Girl, below

Genuine shivers, every time

open.spotify.com/album/1ycq58KR…

The Last Dinner Party

youtube.com/watch?v=Q2RG1h…