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9 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This paragraph from the Sustainable Growth Commission's report on Scotland's future after independence is incredible. Have they learned nothing from Northern Ireland? Frictionless borders with both the UK and EU are not possible. #cakeism ImageImage
If independent Scotland became a member of the EU or the EEA, there would be a hard border between Scotland and the UK.
If independent Scotland pursued a less restrictive immigration policy than the UK, as is also proposed in the report, there would be border controls between Scotland and the UK. Image
I'm not sure Northumberland would take too kindly to a hard border along the Tyne to keep the Scottish border open.

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11 Jan
This makes grim reading.
Apart from the obvious failures of prison healthcare, what struck me was the woman's insistence that she couldn't be pregnant as she didn't have sex with men. This paragraph suggests she was raped. Image
I'm reminded of Reynhard Sinaga's rape spree. By using date rape drugs, he raped over 200 men without their knowledge. The men typically woke up in unfamiliar surroundings with no recollection of what had happened.
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4 Jan
Dear gender critical people, I understand you are concerned about the safety of women and girls, but please stop misusing the term "safeguarding".

"Safeguarding" does not mean protection of women and girls. It means protection of children and vulnerable adults OF BOTH SEXES.
The Govt provides detailed policy guidance on safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults. Please read it. Training is also available.
Children: gov.uk/topic/schools-…
Vulnerable adults: gov.uk/government/pub…
Safeguarding policies ONLY apply to children and vulnerable adults. They do not apply to adult women unless they are classed as vulnerable adults.
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1 Jan
So I have now read Kathleen Stock's book "Material Girls". It is thoughtful, but deeply flawed.
The best part of the book is the philosophical analysis in the first two chapters. After that it sadly degenerates into polemic.
It is also unfortunately littered with ad hominem attacks against certain academics with whom Stock disagrees, and there are instances of outright hypocrisy - for example she castigates trans activists for misrepresenting statistics, then misrepresents statistics herself.
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31 Dec 21
Perhaps we should stop reporting "highest FEMALE winner", as if it is somehow remarkable that women manage to win anything.
Jeopardy is a general knowledge quiz show which women are every bit as capable of winning as men. The implication that it is somehow surprising that women can win it is misogynist. And so is the claim that a trans woman winning it is unfair to cis women.
Women's brains are not weaker than men's. Nor are they less capable of learning and recalling general knowledge. There is therefore no need to prevent trans women from competing as women.
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31 Dec 21
Mulling over this post on technological obsolescence. The well is a good example, obviously, but so are the brickfields that once surrounded where I live.
Old maps show how, in the second half of the 19th century, the brickfields expanded from their original location close to the banks of the Medway to cover much of the area where I now live.
Census records show that male employment in the Kent brickfields rose from 3,335 in 1891 to 5,119 in 1901, an increase of 54% in just 10 years. Working on brickworks was often a family affair, including children, so total employment was higher.
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29 Dec 21
Preventing trans women from entering women-only spaces cannot possibly protect women from domestic violence.

This may seem obvious, but in an interview today a prominent "gender critic" cited domestic violence as a reason to exclude trans women from women-only spaces.
I am now adding "domestic violence" to the list of spurious excuses for violating the protected rights of trans women. Along with "paedophilia", "heteronormativity" and "biology".
In the same interview the gender critic insisted that she would not use trans women's preferred pronouns, because to her they are "men". But pronouns are a linguistic convention which has nothing whatsoever to do with biological sex.
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