Stunning work

✍️ 'Even riskier than doing a Fringe show about your experience of being stalked for several years is making a Netflix series about it'

Shona Craven discusses Netflix's new show Baby Reindeer in her latest column for The National

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The audience reaction to #BabyReindeer on Netflix was entirely predicatable - so should this high-wire act have stayed in the theatre?
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Do MPs understand that their constituents expect them to engage their own brains before opening their mouths? A terrible and very revealing 'apology'. This is not an area where critical thinking should be outsourced.

Every time they ask my name in Starbucks I think about Cark.

It's not about 'be polite and persuade them' now, because they know. The evidence is there. It's not that they can't hear over the shouting, it's that they don't care (or not enough to backtrack).

When I tried asking experts and advocates in Scotland about puberty blockers and the Cass Review, I found few would speak. This is what happened.

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On tonight’s episode of Hollyoaks where they’re transing a 12 year old girl, the mother gets lectured by the trans-identified male character: “You’re gonna get all TERFy on me now are ya?”

This mother has been completely villainised by almost every character in the show.

Update on the 4 lads in jeans just dropped

Absolutely sobbing with laughter right now

Nicky Clark BBC Radio 4 Today I would quite like to know how the “toxicity” of people debating for caution and evidence has prevented the obtaining of evidence.

When I first wrote about detransitioners in 2020, one reader said 'this is as insulting and ignorant an article as I have ever regretfully read' and that I was spreading “absolutely unproven rumours”. Will the Cass review change her mind? I doubt it. thenational.scot/politics/24255…

Just sharing this again and going off twitter for a while. I'm genuinely upset at the 'both sides' 'toxic all round' lines spouted by people who did absolutely nothing while women were being subjected to this. thecritic.co.uk/trust-and-the-…

The NHS has got a big problem with whistleblowing culture. Disappointing to hear Chris Whitty hiding behind “both sides” toxicity re puberty blockers on R4 this morning, rather than highlighting the costs inflicted by activists on whistleblowers like Sonia Appleby who spoke out.

Prominent figures from the campaign for “trans rights” are now performing shameless reverse ferrets to pretend they always supported the kind of holistic, evidence-based services Hilary Cass wants to see provided to young people.
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On #scotnight

🔷 Can tensions be cooled following Iran's attack on Israel? Amy Mackinnon & David Pratt

🔷 We speak to Roz Foyer as trade unionists gather for the STUC annual conference

🔷 Shona Craven & John McLellan discuss some of the other headlines

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karenwhybro I find it so frustrating that when it’s clear that women were the targets, the narrative immediately shifts to mental health, instead of seeing misogynistic extremism as a terrorist ideology

'He wanted a girlfriend and he's got no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain,' he added, when asked about why his son may have targeted women.

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Bill Moon Billy Bragg Billy Bragg, lefty songwriter, actually claiming to know more about analysing medical data than a leading paediatrician who undertook a serious 4 year study - surely not?! Why on Earth didn't the Govt just appoint a real expert to mansplain the #CassReport in the first place?!