I found Lewis Goodall's Substack piece very interesting on the internal politics of the BBC, but I can't agree with this bit. Gender-critical voices *were* marginalised and suppressed for most of the 2010s. A personal story (1/n) In 2018, I did a Woman’s Hour discussion about the toxicity of the debate, and the representative from Stonewall (a charity dependent on public money, including from the BBC) refused to be in the same room with me as a result of their “no debate” policy.

Writing about a country that isn’t your own makes you prone to dumb errors.

But being British was an advantage when writing about the role of trans issues in the US election. 🧵 I had already lived through the British mood-change from regular voters having no idea what was happening — and progressives therefore accomplishing a short march through the institutions and thinking they’d won—to regular people finding out and … not liking it.

It feels an age ago now, but in 2015 I wrote for @NiemanLab about journalists handling stolen/leaked documents, in the wake of the iCloud hack and the Sony leak (1/) One thing that bothers me about the “Twitter Files” is that Matt Taibbi published them fast — he apologised to his Substack subscribers that he was caught up in something with “conditions”. And Musk seemed very sure of the schedule. So I presume timing was the bargain.

A few years ago, something strange happened in Tourette's clinics. The typical patient used to be a young boy aged 5-7, with simple tics such as blinking.
But now doctors were seeing something new: teenage girls with acute, explosive tic attacks. (1/7) theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… In Germany, some of the most common vocalisations - such as "fliegende haie" (flying sharks) or "du bist hasslich" (you are ugly) - were the same phrases as a popular Tourette's influencer on YouTube, with his own channel and merchandise page. (2/7)