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Scottish. Retired GP. Grumpy.

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jimbo3008.bsky.social @jimbo3008.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@moderation.bsky.app Please see the post below. There is nothing within @gudulemartens.bsky.app post that comes close to meriting a ban.
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Cupid Stunt @mary-hinge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please share, someone could be very upset by this and probably thinking it been binned. news.stv.tv/north/appeal...
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Appeal to find owner of lost urn left on train from London to Aberdeen
Officers say the small red urn is wrapped in purple and white artificial flowers and held by a small brown teddy bear.
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sandie Peggie is appealing the parts of her tribunal claim which were rejected in the much changed judgement. The appeal will not be heard until next year. Michael Foran discusses the grounds of appeal. substack.com/@michaelfora... Grounds of appeal here drive.google.com/file/d/1t_PL...
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Peggie v NHS Fife Grounds of Appeal
A recording from Michael Foran's live video
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𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The execution regime has executed at least 342 prisoners since March 21 (the beginning of Iranian calendar year 1405) to date. Among those executed were 10 women, 2 individuals who were children at the time of their sentencing, and 37 political prisoners…. wncri.org/2026/08/11/n...
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Iran: 133 Weeks of No to Execution Tuesdays campaign in 59 Prisons
In the 133rd week of the No to Execution Tuesdays campaign, political prisoners in 59 prisons across Iran staged a
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
An interview with sacked detective constable Rachel Fletcher by Jo Bartosch (in a publication I had not previously heard of). www.terftimes.com/p/the-thin-b...
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The thin blue lie | TERF Times
After more than two decades in policing, detective Rachel Fletcher was sacked for gross misconduct over remarks about men. She tells Jo Bartosch why she refuses to recant.
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Not everyone likes Stuart Campbell of Wings over Scotland. wingsoverscotland.com/the-plague/
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The Plague
Ever-alert Wings readers will be aware that for the past three and a half years or so I’ve been the target of a campaign by disgraced former policeman Lynsay Watson, who over that period has …
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 04/08/2026
‘Given that the police service is now recognised as one of the most institutionally misogynistic institutions in the land, it is ironic that a woman with previous exemplary service has been sacked for making off-the-cuff remarks about women’s rights.’ | Julie Bindel
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Does the force fear feminists?
(Credit: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty)
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Rachel Fletcher @rachelsfletcher.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
thecritic.co.uk/the-cold-bill/
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The cold bill | Josephine Bartosch | The Critic Magazine
The dismissal of DC Rachel Fletcher has given a boost to misogynists of all stripes — the old school men’s rights activists and their deranged offspring, the trans activists. On Friday…
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Has anyone been following the disciplinary tribunal against DC Rachel Fletcher? It's quite a story. substack.com/@tribunaltwe...
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Police Misconduct Hearing: DC Fletcher
DC Rachel Fletcher is due to appear before a gross misconduct hearing in relation to allegations concerning comments she is alleged to have made whilst on duty between 2023 and 2024.
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Elaine Miller at the CAN-SG & SEGM joint conference. open.substack.com/pub/venusenv...
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Conference: Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine
Sweary questions apply
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you haven't been following the Tempest vs. DEFRA employment tribunal in Leeds via Tribunal Tweets, you're missing out. @nickwallis.bsky.social has a brief summary on genderblog.net/a-tempest-in...
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A Tempest in Leeds
“Encountering colleagues wearing SEEN lanyards in the workplace makes me feel unsafe.” Samantha Tempest This is Samantha Tempest. Tempest works for the civil service, and today at Leeds…
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Another court victory for For Women Scotland: genderblog.net/men-in-scott...
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Men in Scottish Women’s Prisons Unlawful
“We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this.” Victory. Again. The Scottish government’s policy of putting men in women’s prisons has today been r…
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Insightful commentary from Sara Morrison on recent events in Belfast. substack.com/@sarawildtim...
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The Hurl
Maitiu Mág Tighearnán is a West Belfast dad who was in the right place on Monday night with the right object in his hand.
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Inaugural meeting of the Sex and Gender Law Association reported by Nick Wallis. genderblog.net/sex-and-gend...
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Sex and Gender Law Association is Go
Karon Monaghan KC with (l-r background Peter Ramsey (LSE host/chair), Dr Julius Grower (event chair) and Simon Cheetham KC Fair play to Simon Cheetham KC. He opened his talk by thanking the chair D…
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
She promptly escaped to the Los Angeles underground where she survives as a soldier of fortune…
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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Single-sex toilets must exclude people not of that sex, says EHRC FTFY, @theguardian.com.
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What’s in Project Brisbane? Why is the Post Office so desperate to keep it secret? What might it unlock? www.postofficescandal.uk/post/project...
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Project Brisbane – a report the Post Office is desperate to keep secret
In January 2022 the researcher Eleanor Shaikh was poring over some written evidence submitted by the Business Department (then known as BEIS) to the Business Select Committee in March 2020. In an a…
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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How I cured my 'mental illness'
The most wonderful thing that ever happened to me
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Kathleen Stock on the new chair of Stonewall. archive.is/202604210840... www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"Starmer, they say, has no ability to manage a team; an aversion to conflict; no guiding mission for power; no energy to drive change; little interest in people; and no interest in political strategy." So, he's a husk of a man, promoted to the top job because of his vacuity.
politico.eu
Fatal flaw: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up
The PM’s current and former colleagues say the Mandelson scandal has exposed the hollowness of his hands-off style.
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
On the proposed puberty blocker trial in the UK open.substack.com/pub/voidifre...
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Trials and Tribulations
Activists demand proof while burying the evidence
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
thecritic.co.uk/chopping-the... "One of the difficulties of being on the non-mad side of the gender wars is that the other side’s arguments are so mad, it sounds as though you’re making them up."
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Chopping The Onion | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine
One of the difficulties of being on the non-mad side of the gender wars is that the other side’s arguments are so mad, it sounds as though you’re making them up. What trans activism has done — enabled...
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Great piece in The Critic by Jenny Lindsay on the censoring of Afterlife by Gutter and what it says about the decay of our literary culture. thecritic.co.uk/literary-fre...
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Literary freedom is in the gutter | Jenny Lindsay | The Critic Magazine
In the Scottish literary world I dimly remember once existing, someone publishing a 25-year retrospective poetry collection, with top publisher Bloodaxe no less, would have been an unalloyed cause for...
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I listened to the usually excellent @11kbw.bsky.social employment law blog on the recent ET cases on single-sex spaces. www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2026/03/25/p...
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Podcasting and partisanship -
I listened to the 11KBW Employment Podcast in which Katherine Taunton and Dan Stillitz KC discussed four recent cases on single-sex spaces: Peggie v NHS Fife and Beth Upton, Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd, H...
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Ben Ryan writes in Compact. www.compactmag.com/article/how-...
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Latest piece from Sarah Stuart, on attending a lecture by Sharon Cowan, (partner of Sandie Brindley, former head of Rape Crisis Scotland). the-lies-they-tell.org/2026/03/28/l...
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Lecture on Gender, Sex and the Law, a UCL Law Event
Shaz was there at the beginning of it all, i.e. the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA). There had been a Telegraph article titled: Gender is no substitute for sex. (In fact, the article is no such t…
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
More tossery from the publicly subsidised Scottish Arts sector.https://open.substack.com/pub/pollyclark/p/anatomy-of-a-vanishing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=clgoj
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
What happens when you complain to the Met Police about being doxxed. genderblog.net/the-guardrai...
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“The Guardrails Are Collapsing”
“If I if I get struck off as a psychologist and I’ve got to go and stack shelves in Tesco, then at least I know I did the right thing. I can’t do this anymore.” One of the t…
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02...
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
NEWS: Mt. Sinai, the sprawling hospital system, has joined NYU Langone in shuttering its pediatric gender clinic in the face of threats from the Trump administration of cutting off its Medicaid funding. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...
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NYC parents say Mount Sinai has cut off services for trans kids ahead of federal rule
Mount Sinai would be the second major NYC health system to end services for trans youth amid threats from the Trump administration.
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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Sterilising Children? Not A Good Idea. Who Knew?
The puberty blocker trial called Pathways has been halted in the UK.
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For Women Scotland @forwomen.scot · 16/02/2026
We have written about the cognitive dissonance of certain MSPs, Epstein, grooming gangs, the Nordic Model survivors, and AshRegan's #unbuyable bill. forwomen.scot/16/02/2026/t...
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The Epstein shaped elephant in the room - For Women Scotland
When does the grooming, trafficking, and sexual exploitation of young women and girls become an issue for society? When is a woman making a liberated, empowered choice and when does she become a victi...
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Nick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A thoughtful piece about an appalling crime. After Tumbler Ridge open.substack.com/pub/sarahmit...
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After Tumbler Ridge
Last week, a teenage boy in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, shot 35 people, killing eight: his mother, stepbrother, and a teacher and five students at a local school.
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Sarah Mittermaier on the recent statement from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. open.substack.com/pub/sarahmit...
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Some thoughts about the first major US medical association to defect from gender-affirming care
Sorry, my pithy title generator broke this weekend
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Third and final day of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. genderblog.net?noptin_ns=em...
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FWS day 3: Sex is Semantics
For Women Scotland (l-r): Marion Calder, Susan Smith, Trina Budge The arguments advanced by the Scottish government in court today boiled down to a simple proposition: if banning men from women&#82…
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Day one of For Women Scotland Vs the Scottish Ministers. genderblog.net/for-women-sc...
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For Women Scotland back in court
Susan Smith, Marion Calder and Trina Budge posing for photographers and camera crews outside the Court of Session today Ten months after the Supreme Court confirmed trans-identifying men are not wo…
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
'They weren’t trying to protect her. They were trying to neutralise her. And in their eyes, she saw not the future of feminism, but the chilling face of its capture.' Must read for academics in women's studies now neutralised & captured as gender studies. frontlinewomen.substack.com/p/issue-18-t...
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ISSUE 18: The Frontline
A 21st century feminist publication where women's voices have power
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
substack.com/@michaelfora... More from Michael Foran…
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Human Rights in Peggie v NHS Fife
An Employment Tribunal has concluded that Sandie Peggie was unlawfully harassed by her employer, NHS Fife, when it failed to revoke permission granted to a male colleague to use the female changing ro...
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
open.substack.com/pub/helenjoy...
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Maria Kelly: another disgraceful ET ruling
Sandie Peggie dominated the headlines but the Kelly judgment is just as bad
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones
The evidence that shifted the government’s position on providing the treatment to children is revealed here.
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Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We really need to start to face up to the implications of autogynephilia for the admission of men who say they are women to women-only spaces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6M...
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What Is Autogynephilia? | Helen Joyce
YouTube video by John Anderson Media
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Sanity and the Peggie tribunal ruling. pollyclark.substack.com/p/aboard-the...
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Aboard the Good Ship Sanity
Shared reality and the Judge Kemp ruling
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Michael Foran on some of the legal flaws in the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling. open.substack.com/pub/knowingi...
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Peggie v NHS Fife: The Judgment
A recording from Michael Foran's live video
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Helen Joyce on (some of) what's wrong with the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling. open.substack.com/pub/helenjoy...
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The Peggie judgment: an unholy mess
Just how can an employment tribunal produce something so muddled and wrongheaded?
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
More on the Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling. wingsoverscotland.com/the-valley-o...
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The Valley Of The Dolls
The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely an…
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alan_b @alan-be.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmr... Malcolm Clark on BBC self satisfaction.
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The BBC's Defenders Will Be the Death of it.
The refusal of BBC defenders to take its bias seriously will end up destroying an institution they think they're defending. It's a toxic attitude my old colleague Alan Yentob perfected.
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batakali.bsky.social @batakali.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My blog post on the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial: "Ten million pounds and two hundred childhoods, spent not to discover whether puberty blockers “work”, but to postpone the moment when the NHS finally has to admit they never did and never could." www.quackometer.net/blog/2025/11...
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