Today, I am launching Phoenix Publications Ltd - an independent press for gender critical and other writers who refuse to be cancelled, censored or quietly dropped by a publishing industry that has lost its nerve.
Setting this company up is not something I had in mind 35 years ago when I became an academic. The last few years has taught me that there is a demand for intellectually independent, critical and engaging books, memoirs, testimonials, short form books and other non-fiction. It has also taught me that the audience for gender critical work is huge and hungry.
So, welcome to my publishing house.
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Friends, please look after and check in on your elderly relatives, friends and neighbours.
An elderly neighbour recently had a couple of blokes knock on her door and offer to clear her drive and patio. Ok no problem. Looked like a professional van full name, phone number etc. She said yes. Whilst they were there they offered to clean her roof both with a power washer. She wouldn’t know but you can’t clean a roof with a power washer 1. Tile dust goes everywhere you weaken the roof and 2. To do it properly you need scaffolding not 1 man in trainers clambering round the roof with a power washer etc. They didn’t even do the steep hidden bits she couldn’t see. The mess afterwards was atrocious. Not just on her property but both neighbours. She paid them over the odds and they said they’d come back to clean up. Vanished. Phone number was fake as was email address and company. I’ve got feelers out to try and track them (I suspect I know where they are from) but I also suspect they are not the type of people to go up against. She as an over 75 year old has been properly ripped off and stung leaving a massive mess behind. These people have no scruples.
So please look after you elderly folks. Give them your time, help them make the right decisions. #scammers #bekind.
Safe routes for refugees are not wrong in principle; they’re a mark of civilisation when done well. Canada’s system, and even the best‑run parts of Homes for Ukraine, show how sponsorship can work with serious planning and investment.
But Britain in 2026 is not a well‑run state. Courts are backlogged, prisons are overflowing, victims’ commissioners say early‑release schemes put safety behind capacity, and councils warn they can’t absorb current pressures, let alone new ones.
Dropping a global sponsorship scheme into that context, with vague caps and big ambitions, is generosity on the cheap: citizen volunteers asked to carry the load while the central state keeps ducking the hard work of building functional systems.
A serious country would fix the asylum and justice core first, then expand sponsorship with stable rules and clear limits. Britain is doing it backwards – adding another route to a broken machine and calling it compassion.
If we’re honest, Mahmood’s sponsorship plan is less about refugees and more about optics: a way to look kinder while the structure underneath carries on failing the people already here.
If you're getting bored by my parkrun posts, then I suggest you just scroll on by. It looks like they'll carry on for a while.
Just to continue the boring repetition: it doesn't matter if you don't think it's a sport/race. The current category results are simply unfair to women.
@kesleeman@Dawn_French Always good to see people reconsider their views. It always astonishes me that people find it so hard to think about others in the first place