This is horrifying.

Your occasional reminder that JK Rowling has literally given away around £200 million to charities for vulnerable women and disadvantaged children, whilst Frankie Boyle is a tedious, insufferable, misogynistic pillock who has never done anything for anybody.

When Peter survives jumping off the roof flapping his arms, I'll believe human beings can change sex.

Iranian activist Sharifeh Mohammadi has been sentenced to death by the Islamic regime for supporting women’s and workers’ rights. She is going to be hanged for ‘rebellion and corruption against Islam and the state.’

open.substack.com/pub/teaforpter… I've written about why I hated the musical I saw (some of) on Saturday.

Speak up. I can’t hear you over the din of four theme parks.

I've #justsponsored Fiona McDonald (my daughter who has alopecia), who's fundraising for Alopecia UK on JustGiving. Donate now justgiving.com/page/fiona-mcd…

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association up to £50,000. Time is running out following Imperial War Museums’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery. Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

Good to see Private Eye covering the shitshow unfolding in Edinburgh (and in book publishing more generally). Thanks to Amanda Craig for posting.

If Murrell has an asset of £60k in the form of a debt owed by the SNP, how exactly does he meet the eligibility criteria for legal aid?

my husband spent four days with 9 of his oldest friends. i asked him if there was any news about their marriages, kids, families, jobs, etc. he said no. i asked what they talked about. he said they mostly tried to name every state capital and then every african country

Nicola Sturgeon's last defeat: my latest Substack (sans paywall): tomharris2.substack.com/p/nicola-sturg…

I see.

I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.' Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness

Extraordinary interview with the Equality Network Director. EN is government funded. The claim that the Peggie tribunal “fits the hateful, dominant narrative” is particularly jaw dropping. heraldscotland.com/news/25413097.…

Britain isn't experiencing social turmoil because of 'far-right' beliefs; it is doing so because of *luxury* beliefs - the type held by the unrepresentative elites who govern our political and cultural institutions. If you don't understand that, you don't understand anything.

In the last fortnight, women who campaigned against self ID have been smeared, with varying degrees of identifiability, by an ex-FM, the head of the National Library of Scotland, the director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the head of the Equality Network./

Out in Edinburgh last night. A beautiful city that is now fraying at the seams. Rubbish everywhere. Filthy buildings. Weeds along the pavements. Blocked road drains. Graffiti on the walls. Shame on Edinburgh City Council for letting a glorious city turn out like this.

The Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Award is the Gender Recognition Certificate of comedy. Everyone knows you're not funny, but you've got a bit of paper that says you are.

Tim Spector tends to fly beneath the radar when we list the most insufferable people in the world, but he deserves to be right up there.