Louisa Jones

‘Taxi Tehran’ (#JafarPanahi, 2015) “They make your nearest friends into your worst enemies.” #FreeNasrinSotoudeh

Maya Forstater CEO of sex-based rights charity @SexMatters, said: “Training by Scottish Trans, as well as other engagement with transactivists, raises questions about the influence of gender ideology on the Scottish judiciary.” Sandie Peggie judge attended a session in 2019 🤔. Does this explain GC cases lost at first instance forced to go to appeal? How much £££ is this costing? What about impartiality? We suggest sending @SexMatters in to train them telegraph.co.uk/gift/fa4854626…

Sign outside a wine shop on Oxford.

A Polish dance group, Fair Play Crew, drew global attention by recreating on stage the stiff and synchronized movements of 1980s fighting video games, such as the classic International Karate. I've seen this so many times, still cracks me up 😂

"Craig, who suffered from acute endometriosis in her forties, said the appointment of Richards was “absolutely ridiculous”. She added: “It’s as ridiculous as someone purporting to speak for black people when they’re white." @AmandaPCraig 🎯 for @SanMan1978 thetimes.com/article/fc4f93…

Today from 4.30 pm MPs will debate puberty blockers at Westminster Hall. Watch on this link. youtube.com/live/HHa3B2PiX… The transcript will be published here. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-0… This debate is a result of the public petition created by @JamesEsses to ‘Cancel the clinical trial into puberty blockers and safeguard vulnerable children’ which more than 146,000 people signed. The petition is here. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7518… The debate will be opened by MP Jamie Stone, an admitted trans activist, as Chair of the Petitions committee. A government minister will attend and respond. Here’s the gov.uk page committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/…

I've always found this incredible useful. An easy guide to exactly how much sh*t your local water company is in. Southern Water customer, 27% of your bill it doing nothing but paying interest on their stinking pile of debt. Thames Water, 28%, Anglian Water, 24% and on, and on, and on.......... weownit.org.uk/get-involved/p…

How much more are women expected to put up with? Because appointing a man who identifies as a woman to represent people suffering from endometriosis is not inclusion, it is disrespect. At best, it is tone-deaf. In reality, it's outright misogyny dressed up as progress. A man representing women with endometriosis. Think about that for a moment. Women fought for decades to get this disease recognised, treated, researched and taken seriously. Now they are told to step aside and let a man represent them. Call it inclusion if you like. Many women will call it something else. If women can’t even speak for women’s health anymore, what exactly are women allowed to speak for? Endometriosis is not an abstract identity. It is a painful, often debilitating medical condition that affects women because they have female reproductive systems. One in ten women in the UK suffer from it. Many spend years being ignored by doctors, misdiagnosed, or told the pain is “normal”. Women have fought for decades just to have this condition taken seriously. And now, after all that, they are told a man will represent them. You could not design a more insulting situation if you tried. Novelist Amanda Craig, who has personally suffered from acute endometriosis, said the appointment was “absolutely ridiculous” and compared it to a white person claiming to speak for black people. It is a harsh comparison, but you can understand the point she is making: representation should come from lived experience, not political fashion. This is the problem with identity politics when it loses all connection to material reality. Women are told to be quiet, be kind, be inclusive, and accept that even their own medical conditions are no longer theirs to speak about. So again, the question stands: How much more are women expected to put up with? Because when women cannot even speak about women’s health without being told to step aside for a man, that is not equality. That is erasure. And dressing erasure up as progress does not make it progress. It just makes it harder to challenge. #WomenMatter

@RooneyRachel @MissLauraMarcus This is very good indeed.

Dedicated to #WomansHour 's tribute to #JenniMurray

I've written for today's Times on how both right and left have got it wrong on Islam. The right conflates Islam with Islamism to turn British Muslims into a lightening rod. The left is in denial that there are any issues at all with our multicultural society. (🔗 up next)

@suzanne_moore @JournalistJill You’re an absolute mensch XX

When the death and rape threats were coming thick and heavy a few years ago and I had children in school/college I always said they could change their names so no association with me. They didn't but that is how its been. People really have no idea of what it has been like.

Fun fact: Paul Desmond, who wrote “Take Five”, signed away the rights to Dave Brubeck for $25,000. He later joked it was “the dumbest financial decision since Decca turned down the Beatles.”

Grace Jones moved between music, fashion, and art like it was all the same language and she spoke it fluently.

Great news. Congratulations to the women of Portugal!

Three golds in 30 minutes for Great Britain! 🥇🥇🥇 Great Britain have won three gold medals, something which has never been done in the same day of a World Indoor Championships... let alone in 30 minutes!

‘La Noche de las Librerías’ - NIGHT OF THE BOOKSTORES’ - takes place in Buenos Aries. Over 200,000 people come out onto the streets to enjoy this incredible literary festival where resulting book sales approach nearly $400million.

Some of you may recall my party to celebrate trouncing Prick News, in 2021, at the pub next to platform 9 3/4!! Jenni Murray came, & held court with a large glass of wine (regularly replenished), telling all about the fuckery at the BBC. T'was a great evening, & a lovely memory:

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable? Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms? That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres? That men don’t belong in women’s sport? That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders? That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues? That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context? That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex? That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights? That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society? That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit? That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t? That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology? That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century? Let me have your thoughts.

Zoe Williams profile of Jenni Murray for the Guardian is extraordinay. Let's just not talk about the last decade, eh? That nasty business when she stood up for women's rights and was cancelled for it. theguardian.com/media/2026/mar…