Enough! John Swinney should nail NHS Fife for threatening to dismiss the Kirkcaldy nurse, Sandie Peggie, for the sinister thought-crime of “misgendering”. She called De Beth Upon what he is: a man, even as he identifies as a woman. Human biology is not a disciplinary matter.🧵 NHS Fife has doubled-down on its reckless victimisation of Peggie by introducing this threat in the midst of an employment tribunal over her earlier suspension for “bullying and harassing” a six foot tall male-bodied transwoman. The only harassment here is by NHS Fife…

Seen The Brutalist? Wonder what an actual brutalist city might’ve
looked like? Chandigarh, 250 km north of Delhi, is the only city on the planet planned and built entirely on the Swiss-
French architect,Le Corbusier’s, austere “beton brut” philosophy of living. 🧵@IanMacready @timabrahams ) No heritage pastiche here. Built in the 1950’s on a baking hot Punjab plain it must have looked to the dirt poor Indian peasants as if they’d been visited by an alien species. It still feels like that today. It is both striking and other-worldly. Not for the faint-hearted.

One reason the Scottish government has been sounding a little confused recently is that there has been a marked shift in policy on coronavirus - broadly from managing it to eradicating it. Thread 1/5 2/5 This is how the National Clinical Director, Jason Leitch, presented the strategy in March 18th.

JoHn McDonnell is now suggesting Labour could put the terms of a “credible” Labour-proposed Brexit Deal to a referendum before negotiating with Brussels. Can anyone make sense of this? Still leaves Labour proposing a form of Fantasy Brexit. Why put a notional deal to a referendum if it hasn’t been cleared by Brussels first? It is certain to change in subsequent negotiations with the 27.

This is a wilful misunderstanding. The women questioning Self-ID are not right wing homophobes. They are feminists, understandably concerned about sex based rights. They will not be silenced by cat calls of “TERF” and “cis”. This debate needs to be open

https://twitter.com/mhairihunter/status/1139527184131997696

I speak as a commentator who was sued over my support for abolition of S28, in 2000, when the Sunday Herald was about the only paper calling for abolition. I was 100% for same sex marriage. But this unscientific dogma of “transwomen ARE women”, is very different.