Helen Joyce comes up with really good allegories and mental models at the rate of about one a week. But the one that I keep coming back to is one she told me the first time I met her, when I was still scrambling to keep my job at CGD…

You “wrote to me” on December 19th by publishing a blog post about me, without alerting me, accusing me of spreading a lie. I submitted a reply your blog post but you have declined to publish it. Therefore I am publishing it here. In your blog post you accuse me…

10/12/22: UPDATED — with additional comments from James Murray and Bryn Harris, added to the comments of Akua Reindorf, Audrey Ludwig, Professor Jo Phoenix and Sarah Vine KC. ______________________________________________________________ There is a new report out published by Essex University Human Rights Centre. It is a Not-The-Reindorf-Report setting out why Universities…

“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” Dear Elon Musk, Congratulations on acquiring Twitter. …

Why my Twitter account has been suspended Twitter has locked me out of my account unless I delete a tweet which was part of a thread about child safeguarding, the pressures against speaking up, and how the Pedophile Information Exchange infiltrated and silenced civil society in the 1970s. The thread was about Mermaids, but not just about…

The most important thing I have ever done was to lose my job: because it led to a legal victory which protects everyone’s human rights, and which protects democracy. When I won the appeal establishing that my belief was protected under the Equality Act, and articles 9 and 10 of…

On July 8th there was a panel hosted by Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry), hosted on Twitter Spaces. It featured law graduate Jess O’Thompson (@disabledJess), Twitter “solicitor” Mia (@truesolicitor), Old Square Chambers Barrister Robin Moira White (@Robin_Moira) and a brief appearance by Good Law Project legal assistant, Jocelyn Price. …

In my recent Employment Tribunal case the term part-time crossdresser applied to Phillip “Pips” Bunce was judged to be “dismissive and uncomplimentary” (though not a justification for me to lose my job). It arose in this exchange about whether a conference panel involving Bunce and two other men should be…