Delighted that my team Holyrood magazine has been shortlisted in three different categories of the Scottish Press Awards. Margaret Taylor in the Nicola Barry award, Ruaraidh Gilmour for young journalist of the year and myself for columnist of the year. Big achievement.

So many hearty congratulations …. Still hate you for having supper with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner…!!!!! Green!!

How dare a heterosexual man dictate to lesbians, gay men & bisexuals how we may organise. How dare he?????

Two conferences, two attempts at shutting them down (one successful), two different responses. The attempt to close down the NatCon conference in Brussels is indefensible and should be opposed by anyone supportive of basic liberties. 1/

Rosie Kay I admire Simon Fanshawe . Power of Difference is a very useful book

Hurrah to be working with the incredible Rosie Kay Pierre d'Alancaisez Audrey Ludwig JJ Charlesworth Sonya Douglas Kenneth Cukier tiffany jenkins and Simon Fanshawe to launch @Freedom_in_arts. The Arts can be tolerant again ! We’re here to bring it on!

I am delighted. Love Rosie Kay work

Rosie Kay 👏👏👏

Rosie Kay OMG! 🫶 my now passed away gay dad would be so, so pleased with this appointment. As am I. So much love ❤️ for Simon Fanshawe ❤️❤️❤️🫶🫶🫶👍🏻

Thanks Ion. So glad you liked it

This is what I wrote (The Daily Mail oddly was one of the few places where then one could write a dissenting piece) which tells what happened when a bunch of Stonewall founders tried to engage with their strategy.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

This is a fantastic interview with the formidable Harriet Wistrich by suzanne moore about her new book and her legal career fighting male violence against women and girls

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

1/ When gay children abandoned to gender needed Stonewall to stand up for them, Ruth Hunt wasn't even absent from her post, it was worse than that. She conspired against them, joined and led enemy forces and today she sets out her defence. But this prosecution is overwhelming.

Joe Bryce I think it is right to say they are both homophobic - i.e., they are both inconsistent with respecting the rights of same-sex attracted people. However, that does not mean the message is wholly the same. They are just the same in that one regard.

To expand, if we go back to…

Simon Fanshawe Kudos to you for your civility, fairness and bravery

This restates with needed urgency the central role of a university. I wish the Academic Freedom role covered Scotland

What she said! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

What remarkable insight he brought to our understanding of ours ways of thinking that influenced behaviour RIP