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@TracyEdwardsMBE @wsusportsunion @sharrond62 @ADFIntl Brava!! 👏👏

Today, @wsusportsunion @sharrond62 and @ADFIntl threatened ten UK sport bodies with legal action if they continue to allow men to compete in women’s sport. These bodies must act now to ensure fairness and safety in women’s sport is protected.

I am loving @RosieDuffield1 finally being free to say what she really thinks. Our politics are miles apart but her advocacy for women and girls is world class. As is her courage. If only every MP had her spine.

@FaringForwards @michaelmurph_y @Madz_Grant Magnificent. @SVPhillimore Enjoy!

Also this corker on, of all places, Amazon: Jacques Hughes 1.0 out of 5 stars Confuses the rule of law with the rule of lawyers - and one lawyer in particular Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2023 Ian McEwan says that comedy - a sense of the absurd - is the heart of good writing. So perhaps this abysmal book results from the author's total lack of humour. That’s a pity, for it makes him miss a tremendously good joke, namely himself. It may be that this is a necessary defence mechanism: if the author had any sense of the ridiculous he might implode on encountering a mirror. Equally, the bad writing may be hereditary: at one point he quotes a letter from his mother – ‘all this is are words on a page’. But here the son eclipses the forbear. The now celebrated first sentence - "The life I have is hard, but I got to choose it, and the road that brought me here I did not" - is just the hors d'oeuvre to a banquet of execrable prose, as if a beta version of Google Translate were unleashed on the works of a dyslexic Confucian. Truly, Maugham is the anti-Orwell. Indeed, in one of those little ironies, the writing is so bad that the book will probably win an Orwell Prize. All this is of course sour grapes and playing the man from one of Maugham’s political opponents. Except that it isn't. Twitter recently lit up as a reader live-tweeted gobbets of Maugham’s unwittingly hilarious prose. The tweeter was a Lib Dem historian, a passionate Remainer, an apostate from Maugham's own tribe. But fatally for our hero, he also had perception and a lively sense of humour and felt the need to share a comic masterpiece of our time. So this book isn't being panned because of its author's politics. It's being panned because it is dreadful. One might call it a product of a new ‘Zombie’ school of writing, for the prose contrives to be both lifeless and deathless at the same time. But let's come to the politics. Maugham's project is to use the law as a political instrument. But this is hopeless because it's not what the law is for. And in any contest between judges and elected politicians, the politicians will always win in the end. "How many divisions does the Master of the Rolls have?" is the question that Stalin might have asked Maugham before having him shot. And indeed Maugham himself perceives this, for his book becomes a litany of complaints about the timidity of judges – not for the first time, unworthy father figures let our hero down. But if judges are so easily suborned by a mighty executive, then doesn't this suggest that the Good Law Project was misconceived from the outset? And that its well-meaning subscribers are just being gulled? Of course, the GLP is not misconceived if you see it as an exercise in vanity. And Maugham is as monstrously vain as the title of his book suggests, although so far as we can all see Goliath is still partying hard and unscathed (are those earrings David's little stones?) Maugham is the self-aggrandiser's self-aggrandiser, the hero, ‘ever the gladiator’, Gandalf on the bridge at Khazad-dum (and believe it or not, this is imagery used in the book by Maugham of himself). So in the end, the book is pitiful - and in both sense of that word. For, while one finishes contemptuous of both prose and project, one also feels a sense of real pity for Maugham himself. How puzzling, how bewildering, this brittle, pompous character must find the world, and how ultimately disappointing. He looks in the mirror and sees a paladin: St George sweating amongst the carcasses of dragons. The rest of us see poor Mr Pooter lost in an out-sized gown and wig. 87 people found this helpful

Three years on, when this pops into my head it still makes me laugh, spontaneously, like an imbecile.

I love it when @jk_rowling goes full @jk_rowling

Bringing Down Goliath by Jolyon Maugham review — the pompous bloviating of a Twitter KC archive.ph/2025.09.04-213…

That's because I wasn't interested in being used to boost the viewing figures of a pair of exceptionally arrogant men whose understanding of this issue drips with classism and misogyny, @campbellclaret. If you're genuinely interested in a debate I'm at a loss to understand why you're uninterested in interviewing @ForWomenScot, who secured the Supreme Court victory and are therefore THE leading voices on this issue. But perhaps your charming daughter has adequately represented the entire Campbell family's view, by describing them as 'ugly' women, with whom she wouldn't 'want to be in a room'?

@yuanyi_z Thank God you've arrived. I now have an excuse to post my favourite book review of all time. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

@intel_lady Me too. Very on brand for 2026 (please make it stop). I need a G&T the size of David Lammy

Not sure if Hell has actually frozen over but today I have found myself agreeing with Diane Abbott and Zara Sultana.

@TheRealBrandWiz @cavakaggyreborn Every hotel on the planet should do this!

@TheRealBrandWiz @cavakaggyreborn Hotel room light switches! Why do I have to do a tour round the whole room to turn all the lights off? The reading lights, the spot lights, the random hall light. I want ONE master switch by the bed that turns off ALL the lights.

@Steve__Paxton My final point. Nothing the government (local or central) spends is their money. It’s our money (tax). So every pay increase you push (regardless of merit) comes from your salary. At what point will you accept that you’d like to keep a bit more of the money you work for?

@Steve__Paxton And then you will have your council tax increased to pay for it. You're complaining about a 4.99% annual increase in council tax? Just wait until ALL outsourced services increase their costs because of the 10:1 ratio. Your council tax bill will more than quadruple overnight

Can these people not understand a single fucking thing? The policy *does not* limit how much a CEO can be paid. It limits how little the lowest earners can be paid, in relation to the CEO.

@ninapaley @angijones Keep the dress! You look fab!

Excavating old clothes to get rid of, found Sexy Dress from about 25 years ago, San Francisco days. It still fits, but I am now an almost-58-year-old postmenopausal woman. Does cleavage go with turkey neck?

@HaringeyGreens I’m a Haringey resident. Your DMs are closed. Please can you send me details of your hustings? Happy to DM my address and set up a meeting so your candidates can tell me your plans for Haringey. Not Gaza. Looking forward to hearing from you

A vote for the Green Party in Haringey this May 7th is a vote for humanity, a vote against genocide ✊🏽💚🇵🇸 #VotePalestine

“It is remarkable and disturbing that ministers see nothing wrong in frustrating the will of Britain’s highest court.” Could not agree more with this Times editorial (and there was a time when an Observer editorial would have wholeheartedly agreed.) thetimes.com/comment/the-ti…

We were made aware of concerns regarding an upcoming private booking within the last 24 hours. After fast-tracking our usual processes and careful consideration, we have decided that the event will proceed on Free Speech Nation this Sunday 7pm @GBNEWS.