"Shakespeare made theatre too ‘white, male and cisgender’, tax-payer funded study finds"

The project has received £800,000 from the UKRI (funded by the taxpayer)

My piece for @Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/2… In response to Shakespeare's "disproportionate representation", researchers are mounting a production of John Lyly's Galatea.

They say the play offers “an unparalleled affirmative and intersectional demographic, exploring feminist, queer, transgender and migrant lives”.

My piece for @Telegraph

The National Maritime Museum is including Nelson in a “Queer History Night”, that will examine his legacy “through a queer lens” and consider the “men who loved him”. The talk is in February to mark LBGTQ+ History Month.

Curators at the museum will also address “cross-dressing Arctic explorers” and "the allure of polar explorers" such as James Clark Ross and Francis Crozier.

My piece for @Telegraph on the agency offering women sex toys, Apple watches and theme park tickets as benefits - if they become surrogate mothers:

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/0… My Surrogacy Journey offers "Over 50 member benefits" to "members" (surrogate mothers).

The Wankerati:

President: George Monbiot
VP: Emily Maitlis
Treasurer: Ed Balls
CFO: George Osborne
Head of Diversity: Emma Thompson
Non-executive business director: Rory Stewart
Social media manager: Gary Lineker
Intern: Lewis Goodall
Chair: Ian Hislop Membership requirements:

- Interested in community gardening
- Have bought one or more of The Secret Barrister’s books
- You’ve used one of the following terms - fascist, extreme right, unprincipled - to describe someone you disagree with at least once this year

The problem with Tony Blair’s 50% vision for university graduates.

1) At no point did anyone show the graduates what skills are in demand.
2) Thus, vast swathes of the British population went off to study skills that aren’t in demand. 3) Blair’s idea was simply that people should be able to follow their dreams. If someone wants to study drama, they should. Maybe they’ll be one of the few who makes it!
4) But for every person who does “make it”, we have hundreds of thousands who don’t, and are worse off.

The way I see it, some major issues in UK are:
1) Immigration is too high for infrastructure, forcing up house prices and straining other services.
2) Devolution. Yes, Government is too "London centric" & this seemed the answer. But the cure has been MUCH worse than the disease. 3) The London Mayor. An utter disaster. A quasi tyrannical anti-democrat. Remove mayors & third-rate bureaucrats everywhere, cause it ain't working.
4) Anti-car measures, which need to go. LTNs and ULEZ are destroying people's livelihoods. Even worse, they are anti-democratic.

If you scrapped private schools it wouldn't make as much difference as the Left thinks. That's because educational performance has high genetic component, meaning it can only be socially engineered so much. Private schools facilitate genetic potential better than state, that's it If you think I'm wrong, read Robert Plomin's book on DNA, Blueprint. It has long passages on this concept. The text actually argues private schools may be a waste of money

Okay, now I'm back from the anti-Trump protest and have access to a computer, here are my thoughts: I hated it. If Trump's bad, then so are his haters. Not that the protest was really about Trump. It was mostly just a Corbyn love-fest, all about hating Israel and loving socialism I know Trump's an idiot and has made a lot of people feel worried, but the hysteria about him is just as bad. The hysteria strikes me as more dangerous. It was as if 1/4 of the nation had bunked off school. Like the students I remember from May Day protests when I was 12