Mr M

The Black Death arrived in England in 1348. Within two years, somewhere between a third and a half of the population was dead. The peasants who survived noticed something within a generation. There was nobody left to work the fields. The labour shortage was so severe that landlords, for the first time in English history, had to bid for workers. The peasants, suddenly possessed of leverage, demanded payment partly in meat. Beef, mutton, and bacon began appearing in the manorial accounts of agricultural labourers' wages. Skeletal records from English burials in the late 1300s and 1400s, set against pre-plague remains, show measurable increases in average adult height. Bone density improves. Dental health improves. Iron-deficiency markers decline. The peasants got taller. The peasants got stronger. The peasants started causing political problems on a scale they had previously been too undernourished to attempt. In 1351 Parliament passed the Statute of Labourers, attempting to cap wages back at pre-plague levels. The peasants noticed. In 1381, well-fed, the same peasants marched on London in the largest popular uprising in medieval English history. The nobility, in the centuries that followed, expanded the Forest Laws. Killing a deer in a royal forest was a capital offence. The Game Laws of the 1600s and 1700s extended the principle. Meat available to the peasant shrank back toward what it had been before the plague. By 1850, the average British army recruit from the industrial slums was so short and so undernourished that the height minimum for enlistment had to be lowered repeatedly to keep the regiments staffed. The single greatest improvement in working-class height and health in English history was caused by a plague that made meat affordable for two generations. The single greatest decline was caused, in significant part, by a political decision to make it expensive again. You can see the whole sequence in the skeletons. The skeletons are in the museums. Go and look.

With the invaluable assistance of @MLewisLawyer of @PatronLaw & Beth Grossman of @DoughtyStreet, I’ve reached settlement with @guardian in relation to an article written about me by @peterwalker99, published on 6 June 2025, which was incorrect as admitted in this statement ⬇️

@LordWalney @DAaronovitch The answer is third, gender neutral spaces. Always was, always has been. This is in the EHRC Code of Practice. The issue is that isn’t enough for activists as - in relation to toilets, anyway- this is more about identity validation than safety. There really isn’t an issue here.

@BriannaWu @LordWalney @DAaronovitch Your abuse is very male-pattern. It’s a good illustration of why most British women aren’t on board with men identifying into female-only spaces.

Imagine a country where rapists are set free but you can be jailed for a social media post. That country is the UK in 2026.

Always makes me giggle this one

A narrator writes: The SNP won 58 out of 129 Holyrood seats. Which, unless you’re a product of Scotland’s increasingly underperforming school system, is obviously not more ‘than everyone else put together’. It was six fewer seats than the SNP won in 2021. And the SNP’s vote share was roughly 10 percentage points below its share in 2021. So by no acceptable definition did the SNP ‘win by a landslide’.

Exactly like that. FREE THE WORLD.

If you lie about your sex....there's nothing you won't lie about. And you'll most likely lie about everything. thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

@stellacreasy It's the law, Stella. The "work on the concept of proportionality" has already been done, at very great length and by many dedicated public servants and highly specialised lawyers. If you don't understand it that's OK, but uninformed fearmongering will not help trans people.

Perhaps worth pointing out that men’s toilets are not, generally, like the lifers’ wing in Barlinnie.

Yep 🤣🤣

C’est tellement ça 🤣

All Muslim-majority countries and the UK. Piers Morgan will tell you it’s nothing.

Same. He was doing so well until he veered off on his frankly bizarre Israel controls the USA and mass immigration is the fault of wars we created in the Middle East.

The BBC calls male murderers ‘women’. It interviews drag queens about how inflation affects the price of their stockings. It presents perverted ‘chestfeeding’ men as heroes. The Beeb may be beyond salvation, says Jo Bartosch buff.ly/My7eKRA

The Troon argument is settled, we won. The public have been made aware of the insanity and that they can speak about it. LWS has encouraged women to speak for themselves. Over the years I’ve made decisions that have kept taking us back to the original aim, reaching isolated women and liberating them from silence. Whilst men in dresses are still in our classrooms, councils, NGOs, police etc and simpering women are hell bent on opening women’s rights to these fetishists, we still have work to do. However, there are other enormous issues facing British women, migration and Islam being just two. We know we are ahead of the curve, but we’ll continue to say the unsayable whilst some of you catch up. We don’t mind being disliked or called names, it’s one of the ways we know we are on the track.

Going to start yelling “Free Cyprus” at every Turkish person I see because I’m a normal person and that’s what normal people do