Philip Swallow

Hazlitt, corduroy jackets, leather elbow patches, wrong side of the history man, changing places, waiting for the barbarian while the British Museum falls down

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

@ramendik @BiologyStupid @flounder2200 @nickwallis @TheTab @Docstockk unfavourable interim results. If that is a careful service, I'd hate to see a careless one.

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

@ramendik @BiologyStupid @flounder2200 @nickwallis @TheTab @Docstockk A "proper careful service". That would be one that lost an ET for sidelining its safeguarding lead & ran a study which the HRA found to recruit before ethics approval, provided inadequate risk information, failed to produce the interim/final report it promised & suppressed

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

There were some at my institutions who protested when I invited @HPluckrose and Alan Sokal to speak, demanding the event be cancelled. They didn’t get their way, and one of them took weeks off work because he was apparently so traumatised that it was going ahead.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@treesey @cityoflondon Right. So with "common sense", staff can distinguish between men who identify as women on the one hand & men who don't identify as women or men who are only pretending to identify as women on the other, but not between men and women.

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

@NadaWolfie @ali_allon 1,2& 4 are irrelevant to the claim that the paper makes & with regard to 3) the whole point of their credible intervals is to inform the reader about where conclusions can or cannot be drawn. This is basic stuff.

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

What are you going to do if they don't stop? Make their boobs bigger?

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

You can agree or disagree with the Sup Ct judgment (but the law must be followed).
But to say you agree with the judgment, and then to attack the guidance is simply unprincipled.
That’s not upholding the rule of law. It’s trying to secure your preferred outcome *despite* the law.

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

@LibDems @EdwardJDavey Which values would they be? Caring about truth? Balancing rights? Freedom of speech? I think we should be told about these "longstanding British values" of which you speak.

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

Dora Moutot @doramoutot has written about her shocking case, prosecuted and found guilty for acknowledging that males pose a threat of sexual violence.

"What is particularly dismaying about all this is that France has long imagined itself as intellectually distinct from the Anglosphere — where these debates have been raging for a long time. The Republican tradition is, at least in theory, universalist. French citizens are treated as individuals, not as members of identity groups, and public debate can be abrasive, even confrontational, without automatically becoming a legal matter. This is now beginning to shift. What is being imported is not so much Anglo-American law, but Anglo-American ways of interpreting speech, in which disagreement is reframed as endangerment and criticism as a form of violence"

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

@GoodLawProject You literally tried to get a gay lesbian charity shut down because they have a different view to you on gender politics….

[Stewart Wood @StewartWood]

Blair’s essay is a substantial intervention on what's wrong with Britain & with Labour, with a detailed alternative agenda. Dismissing it is silly. But engaging with it reveals that it's both forward-looking & stuck in the past, with an agenda that is radical but not 'centrist'🧵

[Sidsy @GrumpyOW]

We don't abolish age restrictions because some teenagers look 20 and some adults look 16. We don't abolish speed restrictions on roads because some people ignore them. Rules don't have to be enforced with 100% accuracy to be meaningful and MOST PEOPLE OBEY THE LAW.

And where does the "5x as many cis women would be thrown out" figure come from? It's pure speculation. In reality, some 'butch' looking females have always been misidentified/misgendered. All it takes is for them to open their mouths and speak with their unmistakable female voice and any confusion is quickly cleared up.
Find us some actual evidence (rather than a maths exercise) that masculine looking women are being routinely removed from female services and we might take you seriously.

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

Fascinating. The obvious qualification to this claim is that unless you measure the downstream variables without error, what you are picking up is actually the effect of the parents & parental home.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Grandmas turn children into winners especially when they're well-off, finds report https://t.co/uGXi5fvKgv

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@Frances_Coppola You (on the left) are lecturing me (on the right) about women who don't conform to patriarchal norms of femininity?
LOL

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

A short video explaining what the EHRC Code of Practice on public services does (and doesn't) do. It's not law; it's guidance to help duty-bearers understand their existing legal obligations.

https://t.co/nshcmUFHrg

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

Over on that other place male academics are bewailing manels & giving advice on how to avoid them. But judging from their posts on EHRC they would be happy to have a panel with two males + two males who say they are a women. Hypocrisy on stilts.

[Jonathan Jones 🦆 @nmrqip]

@ucu Have you considered that Universities and Trade Unions should obey the actual law? Radical I know, but it might just work

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

Brilliant piece. Unanswerable. It would be great if Dunt or Lynskey had the cojones to try. Of course they won't, they'll just be middle-aged lads under the bluesky iron-dome. Come on boys, bring your best arguments to the public forum rather than just preach to your homies.

[UnHerd @unherd]

JK Rowling mansplained, by Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum)

What happened to JK Rowling? If only there were some kind of primary source that could tell us why she became interested in the clash between trans activism and women’s rights — say, a first-person essay.

But alas, the archive is silent. It must be, because why else would two male podcasters have taken it upon themselves to solve this supposed mystery?

This week, the ‘Origin Story’ podcast, hosted by indistinguishable journalists Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey, bravely shouldered the burden of analysing Rowling over the course of two episodes.

Do they succeed? Not remotely. But they do offer a fascinating insight into what happens when a certain kind of progressive man becomes radicalised by Bluesky.

Read more below ⬇️

https://t.co/FQG6I59mww

[Philip Swallow @PhilipSwallow2]

That's impact!

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

The gender pay gap reporting guidance for employers was updated yesterday, to make clear that reporting must be based on sex.

https://t.co/ySvd8e2rPT

"Recording employees’ sex
In the Equality Act 2010, the terms “male”, “female”, “men” and “women” refer to a person’s biological sex. The regulations covering gender pay gap reporting are made under the Equality Act 2010. This means that gender pay gap reporting must be based on employees’ biological sex."

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

The gender pay gap reporting guidance for employers was updated yesterday, to make clear that reporting must be based on sex.

https://t.co/ySvd8e2rPT

"Recording employees’ sex
In the Equality Act 2010, the terms “male”, “female”, “men” and “women” refer to a person’s biological sex. The regulations covering gender pay gap reporting are made under the Equality Act 2010. This means that gender pay gap reporting must be based on employees’ biological sex."