A mini late spring clean has revealed a bottle of port I don't remember buying. Maybe it was a present? I blame the menopause, normally it wouldn't last long, hence I don't tend to have a bottle in the house. Uh oh.

Our KC Aidan O’Neill said that Maugham,Victoria McCloud, & Stephen Whittle were proposing arguments with no realistic chance of success. "Don’t give people false hope..It won’t [be fixed], because you’re not going to get there.” thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

Has anyone shown Scott Wortley the new Liam Neeson Police Squad trailer? I don't want to give him a heart attack.

"We deal in truth."

Thursday #WardieBayWatch

I wrote about the radicalisation of Stephen Fry unherd.com/newsroom/its-s…

💥The Supreme Court's reasoning that S.9(3)GRA applies to other legislation wherever applying S.(1) would result in "clear incompatibility or because its provisions are rendered incoherent or unworkable " applies to the law on police searching. Here is the sealed order where

Issue 2 out now! With an exclusive from the fearless Julie Burchill. Plus Bertha Dalziel (high value man), Marlyn Glen and the The Attagirls. And feedback on Issue 1, with Kirsteen Sullivan MP. Join us again on The Frontline, where women's voices have power.

By Michael Deacon in @telegraph ‘Take, for example, Ms Rowling’s belief that women don’t have testicles. Or her belief that men can’t give birth. Is either of these wildly at variance with established medical science?’

It took all morning, but Fife has been stolen. The foghorn is constant.

Just to pull this apart really precisely, and illustrate why the responses to the story are so weak and inadequate, there are two parts to this tale in which the state repeatedly failed to disclose to a woman’s defence lawyer the entire criminal record of a convicted murderer. /

Sally Hines Open Your Eyes TooTiredLeftFeminist (➡️ shularises.bsky.social) Sally, the reason you tagged Shula and me in this post is that you actually know that we have already addressed the substance of this and related issues many many times. The schism/boundary drawing between left wing feminist women who are critical of gender identity politics

Saturday #WardieBayWatch #FirthofForth #Fife

Today’s The Times and The Sunday Times column: the British left has lost its mind over abortion, and women will pay the price thetimes.com/article/62f8a8…

700 years ago, a love affair ended in murder. Thanks to the new Medieval Murder Maps project, we can trace how – and why – it happened. This case is not what it seems. Fred Lewsey has the story eastangliabylines.co.uk/history/lifeas…

‘You’ll receive a free pen just for enquiring with no obligation to die.’

Sunday bird spotting, the lazy way.

Sex is anatomical. 'Womanhood' and 'femaleness' are not metaphysical or mystical states. I am a woman by virtue of my anatomy. Clearly, if I woke up tomorrow with a male body, I'd have had atypical experiences for a male, because I'd have experienced what it is to exist in the