So Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News got herself a scoop last night.
And to be honest, readers, we were a bit confused. “Gender critical views” are not only lawful things to hold and express, they’re one of a small subset of opinions that are explicitly protected as such in law. And why would a man very occasionally airing some lawful and protected views on social media be a news story? You might as well run “BREAKING: Premiership footballer discovered to enjoy cheese-and-ham toasties”.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator.
Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it.
Something very odd happened when the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal delivered its judgment – and it wasn’t just the made-up quotes and mangled law.
Call it institutional bias, ideological capture, or just the law doing its job, but what Employment Judge Sandy Kemp’s tribunal delivered was the most one-sided outcome since Butch and Sundance decided to come out shooting.
Because, y’know, you can call us old-fashioned purists or sticklers or whatever if you like, but government ministers probably shouldn’t openly lie in prepared statements to the High Court in order to pervert the course of justice.
As recently as this weekend, the Scottish Government claimed that it has “made clear it accepts the Supreme Court ruling [in For Women Scotland] and is taking forward the detailed work necessary”.
But as with so much the Scottish Government says, it’s a barefaced lie.
We thought we should keep track of all the issues with the Peggie tribunal judgment, now that Sandie Peggie has officially announced her intention to appeal it.
Geri on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““President Trump is nominating high-caliber and extremely qualified candidates to serve in his administration,” Cheung maintained.” *Takes a look at…” Mar 6, 21:00
diabloandco on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “ooh ! Just the chap one would choose for an extremely important and delicate job eh? Bloody hell! Thanks Turabdin!” Mar 6, 18:47
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “And I read it. Looks like nae ither cant did!” Mar 6, 17:06
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““washing, managing toilet needs” I wonder how many claimants post regularly on here.” Mar 6, 17:00
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Every time you post one of these I get a mental image of you being humiliated and knocked back at…” Mar 6, 16:58
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Deal with it, Cynicus, they’re not going to be herded, two by two, into the gas chambers a second time.…” Mar 6, 16:48
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Does President Trump believe he’s a thousand year old, space traveling Pict, Northy? Naw? Then he’s not as utterly insane…” Mar 6, 16:36
agentx on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““ADP can be worth up to £10,000 a year tax-free and is designed to support people who need help with…” Mar 6, 15:58
TURABDIN on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “apologies….defective link. https://archive.is/CoRTW” Mar 6, 15:54
TURABDIN on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “FOR INFORMATION: https://web.archive.org/web/20241202043621/https://” Mar 6, 15:24
Young Lochinvar on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Sally Donald to repay £20k benefits. Not so cocky now eh?” Mar 6, 14:51
Mark Beggan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Do you find it difficult to sleep at night? Waking in cold sweats? Do you find yourself typing frantically, tripping…” Mar 6, 14:22
Confused on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “people get overheated about “zinism!” (is bad mkay) like it was something; but this is a bit like obsessing over…” Mar 6, 13:54
Confused on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “I spy for China. At least I tried to. Told them loads – – faslane is full of nukes -…” Mar 6, 13:48
Cynicus on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““Trump is the greatest president since George Washington.”-Mark Beggan ============ Washington, it is said, couldn’t tell a lie. The same…” Mar 6, 13:31
Mark Beggan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “God Bless the President of the United States of America. Trump is the greatest president since George Washington. God Bless…” Mar 6, 12:44
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “The ‘INSIDE TRUMP’S HEAD’ commentaries with Joanna Coles and Michael Wolff are worth dropping in on: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa4wH_7fDjI” Mar 6, 12:15
Cynicus on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Let us be clear about who is responsible for the conflagration in the Middle East: the pantomime horse USRAEL, certainly.…” Mar 6, 11:58
Alf Baird on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Yes Northcode, ‘unity’ is imperative if an oppressed people are to succeed in the critical final phase of decolonization. Alba…” Mar 6, 11:55
sam on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “More bad than mad. Trump is said to have had mob connections in his early business days – Gambino and…” Mar 6, 11:38
TURABDIN on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “DONALD TRUMP is physically & mentally «unwell» it is the nurses tending him we ought to be concerned with. They…” Mar 6, 10:52
Northcode on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “I made a rhyme from Scots words: Ach, aw the dyte and daupit wha wander thru a place. Wir ne’er…” Mar 6, 10:46
Alf Baird on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““So there is no such thing as Scots Law” Institutions in a colony serve only the Imperial Crown. Simply because…” Mar 6, 10:35
Northcode on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “If, as Chris Taylor tells us, Hell is the impossibility of reason… then we are all living in Hell right…” Mar 6, 10:00
Willie on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “You are right Northcote that the enemy is within us. It is in every one of us to a greater…” Mar 6, 09:25
Mark Beggan on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “According to AI the inbreeding in some muslim communities is as high as 60% which results in a severe weakening…” Mar 6, 08:22
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “An interesting discussion on the codification of two-tier treatment under law by Starmer’s government: https://unherd.com/newsroom/labours-islamophobia-definition-deserves-to-die/ It seems that if you…” Mar 6, 07:54
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: “Nae probs, Northy, ah’m foand o purposes an a’. Dolphins an muckle whales tae.” Mar 6, 07:20
Hatey McHateface on Scotland’s Most Frightened: ““Scots remain subject only to English governance and English laws” So there is no such thing as Scots Law, Alf?…” Mar 6, 07:16
