Editor of Trans Britain. #Author of Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is one year old.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books. Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.
That lovely heart skip when you realise someone you knew from the other place has been quietly lurking on this place and just revealed themself with a ‘like’.
Today is St George’s Day. Don’t be fooled by the very British name though. If Gammons met St George today they’d immediately say he was a forriner. That story about slaying a dragon is well-suspect. Dragons don’t exist. The rest of his backstory is confused and he’s either a Greek or an Italian depending on your point of view. Spent time in Syria and Palestine which makes him even more suspect. I suspect if he turned up today with those credentials he’d be straight off to Rwanda.
No, M&S haven’t ’just launched’ an LGBT sandwich - it came out in 2019
I swear a part of society is having some kind of mental breakdown, unable to cope with a bit of inclusiveness and change. These are the same people who lust romantically for the days when we were in a world war and everyone was supposedly endowed with a stiff upper lip. They wouldn’t have coped.
The terrible irony of the British mistake in banning puberty blockers for those kids who would have been assessed to benefit is that the country is setting up a controlled trial (randomised if you think country of birth is a random accident). The rest of the world can give blockers to their kids and watch them grow up healthy and happy whilst studying the blighted British cohort for the next 50 years, forever affected by the policy inflicted on them. I saw this first hand in 2010 when Dutch..
An ordinary British woman is in jail for holding a placard informing British jurors that they don’t have to convict climate protestors if it goes against their morality. Meanwhile a former US president is repeatedly making statements on social media which can be interpreted as intimidating jurors, witnesses and court officers in his criminal trial whilst it is in progress. Go figure.
Happy first birthday to Olga, my second EV, shown here being unveiled by the salesman at the dealer’s 12 months ago today. In that time I’ve covered 4,600 miles exploring the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Lancashire, Cheshire, London, Kent and places in-between. Olga has consumed a net 1 megawatt hour of energy, 934kWh from public chargers at a cost of £554. In the six months since late October I’ve exclusively charged from home, covering 380 miles of local driving for £33
My mission for the coming year is to use Octopus Agile tariff to minimise the cost of charging at home by (a) charging overnight (00:00 to 06:00) on the car’s timer (Agile is most reliably low cost overnight) and (b) charging during the day during periods of negative pricing (which will mitigate the cost further). There will still be premium priced rapid charging on long road trips but setting off with 250+ miles range in the battery will mitigate some of that. Also visiting Scotland is cheap.
Talk among Tories of leaving the ECHR is reaching fever pitch (again), so its as well to be reminded about what the consequences of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would & wouldn't be.
Whatever the practical issues, as Joelle Grogan (King's College) concludes, not only would it encourage further withdrawals, leaving the ECHR would be one more element in the destruction of the UK's (already floundering) global reputation, with further consequences.
@ChrisMayLA6 I attended a Conservative autumn conference back in 1996 and leaflets were everywhere even back then (before the HRA) arguing to leave the court. Anything with ‘Europe’ in the name sends them into a froth.
Today I learned something I’d never previously known about the relationship between the UK and Republic of Ireland. The Common Travel Area arrangements pre date either country’s membership of the EU and have renewed significance post Brexit. In a nutshell, if you’re a Brit there’s nothing to stop you going and living in Ireland — apart from the cost of living!
Common Travel Area: rights of UK and Irish citizens - GOV.UK
What a terrible crime for a senior clinician: protecting patient confidentiality against a fishing expedition.
When there’s a senior expert clinician declining to cooperate with an enquiry that deliberately discounts the majority of research you have to look carefully at what’s going on.
Trump goes on trial today in New York for electoral fraud in 2016. Don’t let the papers tell you it’s about paying ‘hush money’ to a porn star. It’s about the purpose of buying Daniels’ silence, which was to keep relevant information from the electorate as they decided whether to vote for him.
The electricity here in NW England (pop 7.5 million) is currently zero carbon. None of yer ‘net zero’ nonsense. Absolute zero. That’s through 53.3% wind, 43.1% nuclear, 1.7% solar and 1.6% hydro. Other regions vary according to the mix in their wires but everywhere north of the midlands is currently super low. Zero carbon is not about whether it’s possible but how long it takes to build more so we hit zero more of or most of the time. Check out your local supply https://www.carbonintensity.org.uk
Five sixths of the way through the day and I haven’t used 2 kilowatt hours yet. I could run this house for an entire month off the car — or maybe just a couple of Duracells.
Transgender female athletes are at a physical disadvantage compared to cisgender women in several key metrics, research funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has found...
Britain’s only trans judge resigned from the bench because the level of anti-trans malevolence in the country meant that sooner or later someone would try and bring her down and she cared too much for the institution as well as her own well-being. The good news is that she has landed on her feet outside of the courts, dealing with dispute resolution.
Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Making "Recruiting" For Trans Youth Care A Felony
This really is a time when people have to decide where they stand as terrible things happen under their noses. You’re going to be living with that knowledge and “well it didn’t affect me” won’t cut it.
