PJB

Social Mobility & Culture matter. Birmingham is the 2nd (& best) city. Sex Matters. As Huxley wrote, facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 JK Rowling has offered to fund a legal fight against a secure unit that housed a 13-year-old girl alongside older male teenagers

https://t.co/RAZ2gEL26M

[LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec]

"Just as a medical consensus is finally emerging that it has been deeply harmful to treat gender-questioning children as though they have a fixed ‘gender identity’ that necessitates unquestioning affirmation & irreversible medicalisation, a conversion therapy bill has come along that threatens to criminalise parents, teachers & schools, & other adults who are seeking to act in a child’s best interest".
A must read by @soniasodha for @UKLabour MPs.
https://t.co/Dkl8KsKewM

[spiked @spikedonline]

Andy Burnham’s chief of staff is why drag queens are never off the BBC. James Purnell made it his mission to expunge the Beeb of ‘heteronormativity’. He let Stonewall write its diversity agenda. He should be nowhere near No10, says Malcolm Clark
https://t.co/YswteIQlMZ

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

🚨Jennifer Melle has been completely vindicated as the NMC has now dropped all charges against her.

This is the right outcome, but how did it get to this point?

Why did it take 18 months for the NMC to realise she did NOTHING wrong?

Why did the NHS pursue an ideologically motivated witch-hunt against a hardworking nurse?

How many other nurses will suffer a similar fate for stating biological reality?

Why did it take a cross-party group of MPs, led by Kemi and myself, to challenge the NHS and NMC to save Jennifer’s livelihood?

Will anyone be held accountable for their failure?

We will not stop fighting for them and the countless other nurses being hounded for defending their rights.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Girl Guides is done. Finished. No one should ever trust their daughter with Girl Guides ever again. Because even if they do admit their horrendous mistakes - which is unlikely - what we know for sure is that the safeguarding principles are nonexistent and they’ll go with ideology over girls. It’s finished. It’s time for a completely new organization.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'Who does it hurt if we make every space mixed-sex?'
This is who it hurts: the most vulnerable, those without power and influence, the invisible people politicians don't bother to consider when chasing likes and photo ops. If this girl or an adult acting on her behalf wants to take legal action, contact https://t.co/EQnwivL9hW

[UEFA @UEFA]

UEFA statement on the Balogun case: ⬇️
https://t.co/9LQDx8waKe

[PJB @TamertonPJB]

Being around and in nature is proven to reduce stress and improve health generally. All housing plans should take note. #Housing
Nature should be at the heart of all new housing plans

https://t.co/hAwK8aNw2m

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Possibly, as Minister for Health, James Murray could compel the adult gender clinics to hand over the data they refused to give to Cass. We might then find out just how much benefit these interventions confer long term, without needing to perform experiments on children too young to give meaningful consent.

Read the testimony of the ever-expanding numbers of detransitioners. Grasp that these young people, many of them extremely vulnerable - autistic, care-experienced, abuse survivors, same-sex attracted in unsupportive families - have been irreparably harmed, left with their fertility destroyed, unending medical complications and profound psychological damage.

This is a medical scandal of epic proportions and people of power and influence are still too frightened of trans activists and trans lobby groups to do the right thing and put an end to the insanity. Kids are being sacrificed to ideology and cowardice.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🤯 Listen to this extraordinary exchange between Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping.

Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?”

Murray: “No, I don’t.”

Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?”

Murray: “Yes.”

Camilla: “Why?”

Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women.

Camilla hits back: “You must have known that before. You are very well educated. How on earth can you have previously thought that a woman can have a penis?”

He had no real answer. Because there isn’t one.

This is not some backbench MP. This is the Secretary of State for Health, the man responsible for the entire NHS, puberty blocker policy, women’s health services, and child safeguarding.

He spent years either believing or pretending to believe that biological sex is fluid and that women can have penises. Only now, when the Cass Review, court rulings, and public opinion have made that position politically toxic, has he magically “changed his mind”.

Think about the damage done while he held that view. The eroded women’s rights. The confused children fast-tracked toward hormones and surgery. The female prisoners and athletes forced to share spaces with biological males. All enabled or ignored by senior Labour figures like him.

This level of ideological delusion at the very top of government is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous. Basic biology should never have been up for debate, let alone something a Health Secretary had to “evolve” on.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@sharrond62 They’ll never forgive us for being right, because they’d have to admit they embraced an idiotic, unevidenced delusion that caused widespread harm to women and children.

[PJB @TamertonPJB]

This is disgraceful
‘Fear is someone will call 999 for coastguard and no one comes’

https://t.co/BvPM0ph9BD

[PJB @TamertonPJB]

Let’s hope the odd cabinet minister reads this…
Britain’s youth jobs crisis is now existential. The Dutch know how to fix it https://t.co/24uS7uAAPR

[PJB @TamertonPJB]

Very sad that México fans have so little confidence in their team winning fairly that they have to cheat #EnglandMexico
Watch: Mexico fans try to wake up England players with music and fireworks https://t.co/hN2p7ptbC9

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

FAO all who support the UK puberty blockers trial:

'They ruined my life. They shaped and folded my body according to what they thought would look the best... You can't treat kids like that. We're not your art project.'

-- detransitioner Jonni Skinner

https://t.co/DlTYUfzi5H

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

After years of being banned from entering a stadium in my own country, for no crime other than being a woman, this is how I walked in.

This was the World Cup FIFA 2026 between England and Panama but for me, it was beyond that.

You have to be a woman from Iran or Afghanistan to truly understand this emotion.

For whom this simple act, walking into a stadium, moving with joy, showing my hair, sitting next to men, was not just forbidden. I was beaten for it. Imprisoned for it. Humiliated for it. Exiled for it. And even in exile, I became a target for multiple assassination plots.

And now people lecture me: "Don't politicize football."

I have a question: which part of my body hasn't already been politicized by the Islamic Republic? My hair? My voice? My seat in a stadium?

They turned our entire existence into a political battlefield. Every inch of a woman was a crime scene under their law.

And now I'm supposed to just sit back, eat a hot dog, and enjoy the game?

I did enjoy the game. England won. But walking through those gates, that was the real victory.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It’s quite amazing that the state will give women this much police protection against trans activists so we can safely hold a rally advocating for women only spaces… but not actually allow us to have women only spaces even for safety.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“I have applied to the High Court after the Full Federal Court dismissed the Giggle v Tickle appeal. I am seeking a clear declaration that single-sex spaces for women are lawful and that “woman” remains a biological category in Australian law.”

Me on last nights @SkyNewsAust 👇

[PJB @TamertonPJB]

What whistleblower could feel confident that they would be protected in the current climate? Speaking truth to power is an invaluable skill in a Minister. Shameful

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Minister stripped of puberty blocker brief after expressing safety concerns

https://t.co/742wOskGOe

[PJB @TamertonPJB]

Brilliant. “It was a time when higher education was seen as something broadly enriching rather than narrowly vocational, and…gave you the time and opportunities to explore other talents”. Our universities are in crisis — this ruined theatre is the proof

https://t.co/SEmHP0iuM3