THE FABIANI WHITEWASH
If you want to know how utterly bereft of truth the whole political process now is in Scotland you need look no further than the Fabiani Whitewash – aka the “Report of the Committee on the Scottish...
View ArticleTHE FABIANI WHITEWASH AND THE COURT ORDER
I’ve been asked if I can make still clearer why it’s a big deal that the Fabiani Report has shown such utter contempt for the truth, as detailed in my last post. The court order The following is part...
View ArticleIN DEFENCE OF REALITY
As part of their coalition with the Green Party, the Scottish Government have pledged to introduce gender self-identification within the first year of the present Parliament. For the reasons I have...
View ArticleWHAT DO YOU BELIEVE ABOUT TRANSWOMEN? TAKE THE TESTS
The Scottish Government believes that transwomen are women and that this statement is so self-evidently true that it is not even up for debate. I believe that transwomen are not women, and that this...
View ArticleFOR WOMEN SCOTLAND: WHAT THEIR VICTORY MEANS
Let me start by offering my hearty congratulations and heartfelt thanks to Marion, Trina, Susan and all at For Women Scotland for their sensational victory in the Court of Session this week. They have...
View ArticleTHE FAIR PLAY FOR WOMEN DECISION: BATTLE LOST, WAR WON
The decision of the Inner House of the Court of Session – Scotland’s highest civil court – in the judicial review brought by Fair Play For Women constitutes a disappointing defeat in the battle for a...
View ArticleMARK HIRST V CHIEF CONSTABLE AND LORD ADVOCATE
I’m very pleased to be able to update you all at last on developments in Mark’s action for malicious prosecution. Since my post of 26 July last year when I shared my firm’s letter before action to the...
View ArticleWITH THANKS TO THE FRONTLINE FEMINISTS
Over the next week or so, I’ll be putting up three articles arising out of a workshop run by the group Frontline Feminists to which I was honoured to be invited recently. I’m very grateful to all of...
View ArticleWHY SINGLE SEX FEMALE SERVICES ARE NOT FOR BIOLOGICAL MALES
This would have been the first of the three articles promised in my last post. However, I’ve revised the original article to incorporate the important speech given this week by the English Attorney...
View ArticleFOR WOMEN SCOTLAND (AGAIN)
In my last blog post in August of last year I made these observations (and feel free to skip or skim the paragraphs which follow in bold if you don’t need them repeated): Paragraph 28 of Schedule 3...
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