Peter Ramsay

Here at the launch event of the Sex and Gender Law Association - going to be a fascinating evening

Activist judges in the Court of Justice of the EU have ruled that "lived gender identity" (an inner feeling manifested as stereotypes of behaviour, dress and social role) can be reflected in official documents, relegating biological sex to secondary status. If lived gender identity were to come into conflict with sex in a discrimination case, the EU court would likely elevate lived gender identity over sex, not just because the judges are progressive activists from the cosmopolitan elite, but because sex reassignment has also historically been considered as a type of sex discrimination. The very law that gave us rights is being used to take away our rights. To sum up: both equality law that was intended to end discrimination against women (and to allow for women-only spaces for our safety) AND protections for transgender-identifying people (which are based on old fashioned gender stereotypes, preferences for which are interpreted by autistic people and paraphilics as being indicative of some essential inner being) are both being used to make sex-based laws unworkable. The president of the Court is a Belgian man called Koen Lenaerts, an old elite lawyer who has never had a real job outside of his rarified bubble. He has 6 daughters, though. I wonder how they feel about it.

This is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge (taxpayer funded) White yet raceless? Understanding whiteness and the white spatial imaginary in rural England "Kofi Broadhurst is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Cambridge. She is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through their Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership (CAM-DTP). Her research focusses upon whiteness, identity and nationhood in rural England, engaging with ideas of (de)coloniality, Critical Race Theory, imperial memory/nostalgia, the racialisation of space, nationalism, marginality, and belonging."

My long-read on how the Muslim Brotherhood works as an ideology as much as anything, a politics that exploits the post-Christian custom that religion is independent from politics. And so we find charity funding Muslim supremacist politics.

It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." NONE of his scary predictions have come true. Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers. Here's why we are not doomed:

Starmer, Burnham, Farage, Polanski…These men have one thing in common. They all want nationalisation. That will mean companies run by politicians but paid for with YOUR money. There’s only one party that stands against their failed ideas and that’s the Conservatives.

What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was? We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality: The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth. That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.

It was John Prescott who described Andy Burnham best. He said Andy had “the human touch”. He is genuinely relaxed and at his happiest when he is the company of ordinary people. Politics needs the human touch back more than ever.

Labour has a fundamental choice: whether to become more firmly entrenched as the party of the well-off in a few liberal cities, or reorient itself to working class people and places. Overturning the Brexit vote would be a historic mistake and tear the country in two.

Labour has a fundamental choice: whether to become more firmly entrenched as the party of the well-off in a few liberal cities, or reorient itself to working class people and places. Overturning the Brexit vote would be a historic mistake and tear the country in two.

Andy Burnham: “I don’t blame anyone who left our party. I don’t blame anyone who voted for other parties”. “We need to renationalise water, energy and housing.”