1./ Who knew the BBC now needs defending from a regulator that admits to working hand in glove with a controversial lobby group which famously enforces its own narrow, biased agenda on some of the big issues of the day. Yes @stonewalluk
2./ Stonewall is wrong on single sex spaces, its advice on Self ID has been rejected by the UK govt, its policy on puberty blockers was rejected by the High Court. Sporting bodies reject its attitude to women’s sports. It conspires against the rights of gay people.
3./ And yet secretly it is working with @Ofcom day to day to help them decide who gets to debate these issues and many more. This is a disgrace. Forget defund the BBC. It’s Ofcom that needs wholesale reform. 👇👇
4./ A regulator that takes advice from an organisation that consistently misinterprets the law (such as the Equality Act) isn’t fit to regulate itself never mind broadcasters.

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16 Dec
1./ Who regulates our broadcasters, @Ofcom or @stonewalluk? It's an obvious question after the car-crash yesterday at the @CommonsDCMS hearing when Ofcom's head said she agreed with this tendentious nonsense from @MrJohnNicolson 👇
2./ Pink News who are to free speech what Bennie Hill was to subtle humour celebrated, arguing @Ofcom had set out rules preventing anyone being interviewed whom Pink News decides is an "anti-trans activist"; ie anyone who's not a wide-eyed enthusiast for the latest trans demand. Image
3./ What is "extremely inappropriate" is a regulator deciding who should speak on issues such as women's sport, puberty blockers or single sex spaces and being guided by the opinion of a lobby group called @stonewalluk who take positions counter to the public on all these issues.
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1./ On Jolyon Maugham and his underhand tactics. Here's Jolyon complaining that an expert cited by the prosecution in the Tavistock trial is a.... veterinary scientist who did work on sheep. To self-styled genius Jolyon this appears to be an outrage. It isn't. And here's why. Image
2./ How would YOU test puberty blockers? Now that they're in widespread use Jolyon's side argue it would be unethical to run a trial where a control group of gender dysphoric kids are NOT given PBs. So why not run an animal trial? That's exactly what Professor Neil Evans did.
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2./ This one demands the 'UK Media' should never interview anyone from LGB Alliance unless there's a warning (and maybe a skull and crossbones flag in the corner). At least we've given them a break from remedial classes in those skills they never mastered, like tying shoelaces.👇
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1./ On #HumanRights day we should remember Patrick Zaky #PatrickZaky the Egyptian rights campaigner who was arrested and tortured when he went back for a holiday to Egypt from Italy in Feb 2020. He's still in prison. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/egyptian…
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3./ Today -appropriately- the Italian authorities charged 4 members of Egypt's national security agency with Guilio's murder. Guilio was researching labour unions. An estimated 2,723 people have been 'forcibly disappeared' in Egypt since 2015. theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
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1./ Puberty blockers. Yesterday's High Court judgement says "children must fully understand their impact". But can kids really do that when they're being exposed to an onslaught of online promotion which presents Blockers as an almost magical "cure"? theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
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3./ Everytime I call out some idiocy of his I restrain myself, and try to remember his lovely mum who was a treasure. And my own mum's advice: judge people by their partners. By that measure he cannot be all bad. But John really has made a plonker of himself this time
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