And here is the graphic with a QR code and link for the 15th May 'In Conversation: Jo Phoenix, Akua Reindorf and Annie Powell'

*Booking is essential and tickets are limited*

Toxic debates techniques

1. Whataboutery

2. Straw-manning

3. False compromise or false middle ground.

If one person says 'up is down' and the other disagrees then 'up is in the middle' is still false however nice and kind we would all like to be.

Oh no! It's becoming a habit... Bad me. Bad bad bad me. Must so having such terrible manners re QTs

What to say? How about this?

Have you lost your marbles Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS,?

Are you *really* equating people who believe you cannot change sex with people who believed in Satanic abuse in the 80s.

I would stay off the crack if I were you.

I see the standard of Novara media reporting is going up

The parody continues..

Oops seems I'm not done with QTing myself....

Any academic who cannot enter into a position of asking 'what if I am wrong' is not actually an academic. They are an ideologue acting out their political prejudices.

QTing myself coz apparently QTing others is bad manners.

Fact: the Elizabeth Line is the best development for London since the advent of the underground.

Go on - I dare you to argue against me.

This.

Great paper. Would encourage a read of it.

How do we find out who signed 'that' letter? Has anyone noticed that the letter on google docs is different from the letter on the network's website?

Asking for a friend.

Worth a (re)listen in light of what’s emerging this week about Stonewall - brilliant investigative work from Stephen Nolan and David Thompson bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

Reproduced here.

Whilst I cannot be certain, the witnesses to which the panel refers are most likely the activist academics who could not explain, in even the most basic terms, gender theory, why gender critical viewpoints were harmful or why it was a problem that there was any…

Doing a bit of a social media detox (plus have some serious writing to get on with - of both the academic and the commentary type).

Will be lurking occasionally and popping up every now and then for the next few weeks.