Simon M

Triathlete, entrepreneur, PT, lawyer, ex-MSFT PR, geek dad, gamer, Jew, Zionist

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@VerminusM I mean, Trump also had his son-in-law and a property developer friend conduct high-level negotiations with Iran. Having an actual politician and member of the Govt should be an improvement, right?

[marcus evans @marcuse99903226]

@rcpch_president helped put clinical governance back at the centre of clinical practice through her report. I am afraid the puberty blocker trial is a huge mistake. It risks taking us straight back to the problems that led to the closure of GIDS.
I was repeatedly told to trust the research team. Yet the original study protocol proposed following children for only two years. That reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem.
This is not like treating an infection and seeing whether the symptoms improve. Gender distress is a developmental issue that unfolds as a child moves through the physiological, psychological and social changes involved in growing up. If you intervene in that process, you inevitably affect the way the story unfolds. The consequences of such interventions are unlikely to be fully understood within a two-year follow-up period. Some of the most important questions only emerge later, as the individual reaches adulthood and reflects on relationships, fertility, family life, identity, and the opportunities that were opened or foreclosed along the way.
@SueEvansProtect and I have received countless letters from parents worried that their neurodiverse child has become caught up in a belief that transition will solve underlying difficulties. Many describe what @Hilary_Cass called diagnostic overshadowing, where every problem becomes understood through the lens of gender identity while other important factors are neglected.
The result is often a painful split between vulnerable children, worried parents and professionals committed to an affirmation approach. Families can find themselves pulled apart at precisely the moment they most need help to think together. Other families may support transition without fully understanding the potential harms, trade-offs and losses involved.
@WesselyS why are we not waiting for the long-term outcomes of the children already treated at GIDS before exposing another generation to the same intervention?
Psychiatry has a history of making well-intentioned interventions that later proved to be mistaken and, in some cases, damaging. That history should make us cautious. If puberty blockers alter the course of development, why are we proceeding with a new trial before we know what happened to the children who received them previously?
@KemiBadenoch @BritPsyCouncil @UKCP_Updates @rcpsych @theRCN

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@alt_w_v_g "female of the species"

Unless you have married someone who isn't human?

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@DXW_KC

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

“Social media should be about exchanging ideas” declares (one of) Sir Keir Starmer’s last loyalist(s).

With Labour MPs increasingly discussing how to replace the Prime Minister, the Attorney General explains why he now prefers the sort of free speech where nobody answers back…

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@murdo_fraser @scottishprisons Or until they are forced to

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@LucyHunterB I suspect, much like the Corporation of London with Highgate Ponds - they would prefer to be seen to doing everything in their power to resist the "unfair" law and be forced to do it rather than capitulate voluntarily

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@yuanyi_z Well, unless you are a country that passes laws making it a crime to refer to your country in any other way (or depict it on maps, etc)

It makes running international business a pain in the arse sometimes

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@ATadDisturbed @juan_dla_mancha @yuanyi_z I think we are all on the same side of the argument here.

Prison abolitionists tend to be utopian socialists/communists who believe that all crime is a product of society, so if you fix society there would be no crime.

Obviously they are wrong.

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@robertemeryx Surprised she didn't claim to have a Blue Peter badge. That usually puts the plebs right in their place.

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@stevemagness It was called soccer for decades in the UK and nobody cared. It was only in the 1990s it became a bone of contention.

Lots of places have sports called 'football' that aren't soccer, including the UK! (Rugby is actually Rugby Football)

[David Wolfson @DXW_KC]

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
(Ascribed to Churchill)

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@Daniel_Sugarman The vast majority of Jews have been very boring, had boring jobs and paid their boring taxes

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@havivrettiggur Imagine saying that nukes are a 1940s tech and a waste of money?

Iran doesn't need to "win" a war. It just needs to inflict massive devastation on Israel.

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@MarcGoldberg111 The most the ASA could do is refer to Trading Standards. But given it was a one off event, it's hard to imagine what the outcome would be

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Another evening of Trump’s crazy remarks:

1. After months of explaining why Iran must not have missiles, he now explains that as long as other countries have them, Iran should have them too.

2. He thinks that al-Shaara should deal with Hezbollah because, unlike Israel, he doesn’t topple buildings but handles things in a targeted manner.

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“I have totally defeated you and also transferred $300 billion dollars into your bank account”

[Simon M @SpiderJ]

@soniasodha It's an admission that men will break the law unless they are stopped