I found this interview with Ruth Hunt, former head of Stonewall, very hard to read—because I personally know so many people who have sacrificed so much to contradict the stances she once held, and now disowns.

thetimes.co.uk/article/fe117e…

Plenty of folk on this website kneejerk the response “transphobic bigot” to this kind of article. But who is the bigot? The one who wants evidence before putting children through a life-changing medical process, or the one who doesn’t?

The Tavistock trans scandal is as shameful a failure of institutional, media and civic oversight as the Post Office injustice.

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Matthew d'Ancona is right. The Tavistock scandal is similar to the Post Office one. The difference is that media, politicians and regulators were not all deliberately subverted by a lobby group PostOfficewall, that bullied staff to make them comply with the Post Office agenda.

Some male pundits seem to think when Hilary Cass cited toxicity of debate she really meant women not being gentle enough in pointing out how ill-informed they are, rather than death threats and ruined careers for whistleblowers & feminist campaigners. What luxury ignorant bliss!

The Tavistock trans scandal is as shameful a failure of institutional, media and civic oversight as the Post Office injustice.

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The Cass Review and the bigger picture: how women and troubled children were betrayed by trans ideology

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Like everyone else who has spoken up and paid a price, I'm wondering what the colleagues who tried to destroy my reputation to protect their own are thinking today. I'm sure no one will ever say 'we were wrong' or 'I'm sorry' to any of us.

Cause for celebration: this year marks the tenth anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England & Wales! 🎉 Proud of the role Humanists UK played in achieving this change for many decades & as a founding member of the Coalition for Equal Marriage humanists.uk/2024/04/05/10-…

Hate speech laws don’t work. Now Labour must learn from an SNP fiasco

By Matthew d'Ancona
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My Financial Times piece on getting our diplomats the sense of purpose, resources, machinery, skills they need to lead UK’s international engagement in a world in flux.

With Moazzam Malik, and drawing on Hertford College, Oxford UCL Policy Lab discussions with experts.

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Spot on from ⁦John Harris⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'The Strongman Fantasy' - such a brilliant essay by Timothy Snyder . Free to read, so I'm giving you just the opening. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/t…

Latest episode of ‘The Two Matts’ - the truth about Robert F Kennedy Jr’s presidential campaign and other reflections on the first quarter of a rollercoaster year.

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The year so far……and some reasons to be cheerful, too.

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This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
#supportthearts theguardian.com/education/2024…

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Andrew O'Hagan's masterly state-of-the nation novel 'Caledonian Road' is better than Tom Wolfe's 'Bonfire of the Vanities'.

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Faber Books
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New: Liam Byrne MP, chair of Business and Trade Committee , is considering sanctioning Paula Vennells for potential contempt of parliament, if she misled MPs.

Options include summoning Vennells to the Commons for a 'rebuke' by MPs - a punishment not deployed since the Suez crisis in 1957

Why I love the deep state

By Matthew d'Ancona
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