Two Men Unalike
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”.
So we thought it merited a closer look.
Newman didn’t reveal any of the offending tweets (such is the way nowadays, as covered in Wings passim – we’re told things are “offensive” or “controversial”, but not actually shown them to judge for ourselves). But Natasha Loder, the Health Editor of The Economist, was so obviously excited at the development that she let the cat out of the big black binbag of “serious questions”.
Wings readers might be scratching their heads trying to detect anything improper there. Professor George said women’s rights were worth defending and expressed the view that men shouldn’t punch women in the head in boxing matches – opinions which until recently would have been reliably shared by all human beings outside of the Taliban. He also endorsed a tweet from JK Rowling (which you can read in full here) in support of Sandie Peggie, who an employment tribunal found had been harassed by her employer in the service of a trans doctor.
Contrary to Newman’s claim, none of the tweets – or at a minimum, none that have been published – involved “mocking trans supporters”.
It was particularly curious given that Prof George had NOT even been employed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority at the time he posted any of them – as Newman semi-accurately noted, he only took the role last month after being appointed in November 2025.
One might have imagined that the MHRA would have been delighted to have such an upstanding figure on board. Its recent track record hasn’t been the best.
But it seems that Professor George took his responsibilities a little too seriously for some people’s liking, and a media hatchet job was swiftly commissioned.
It’s hard to understand why, however, if Prof George holding normal, reasonable, lawful opinions about medicine and science disqualifies him from performing key aspects of his job as the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, the same principle doesn’t apply elsewhere in the NHS.
The Health Research Authority is heavily involved in the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial that Professor George was just removed from oversight of.
And this is its current Interim Director.
Jonathan Fennelly-Barnwell was Deputy Director of Approvals at the Health Research Authority when the highly controversial puberty blockers trial was approved, and as such is the person who ought to have been most concerned with making sure it was safe and ethical.
It was in that role that he appeared in a Teams meeting last year with this as his background.
(He’s been blacked out here in case any details help reveal the identity of the colleague who sent the pic to us.)
So why didn’t he? Well, here he is liking a Facebook post last December about being a “trans ally” by Hazell Dean, the Patron of Pride In Surrey, whose founder Stephen Ireland was imprisoned for 24 years last June for the rape of a 12-year-old boy and other child sex offences.
Fennelly-Bramwell is a dedicated “queer” activist. In 2015 he contributed to a video project reported by the Towards Queer website that sought to “reclaim Shakespeare as a queer figure”. You can see the video here.
In 2023, in his official NHS capacity, he celebrated the Stonewall riots, having previously enrolled the Authority in the Stonewall Diversity Champions Scheme and “delivered a suite of activities to support trans inclusivity” and issue “guidance on the use of personal pronouns”.
None of these activities are in any way unlawful or improper. But it seems reasonable to posit that given his views on “anti-trans arseholes”, his stance as a declared “trans ally” and his membership of the “LGBTQ+ staff led interest group”, Mr Fennelly-Barnwell has at least as much of an impartiality issue as Prof. Jacob George.
So why didn’t he recuse himself from the decision to go ahead with the PATHWAYS trial, and failing that why hasn’t the CEO done so?
Oh, right. Perhaps that’s why the HRA has removed itself from Twitter.
The NHS is one of the most trans-captured organisations in the entire UK, as the Sandie Peggie case, the Darlington nurses case and the Jennifer Melle case (among many others) have all demonstrated starkly in recent months. But there have been few clearer illustrations of the double standard widely employed with regard to gender ideology than this.
A man with an unblemished records making a few comments (before he was even in a relevant post) that are both factually and medically correct, and in line with the views of the vast majority of people in the UK including those who work in the NHS, is smeared as some sort of dangerous bigot, while someone actively involved in approving the puberty blockers trials who refers to “anti-trans arseholes” and who wants to “queer” everything in sight remains at the heart of proceedings.
(Top of the list of things he wants to “queer” is spelling, it seems.)
But we’re sure Cathy Newman and Natasha Loder are on the case.
“Queer Spelling” … Really loving that one !
It’s come to the point where the National Health Service needs renaming, as it seems to be crammed to the gunnels with reprobates who try their hardest to harm children and penalise nurses
As is now emerging the National Stealth Service acting for and on behalf of the trans community.
Health care is secondary for so much of MHS management who as we see have effectively unlimited resources to pursue woke agendas.
Quite how people can suck this policy up as people on waiting lists are denied health care. But hey hoe that’s the way it is or very much seems so.
Like most attacks by the wokists, Newman’s attack is merely trying to “other” people who don’t share their (weird) obsessions.
It’s an exercise in power–that has nothing to do with what Prof. George actually said or wrote.
Sadly, Newman will probably receive an award for this attack.
If it didn’t happen so often, it would be unbelievable. What a dreadful mess our society is. And there are so many other countries also taken over by evil and stupidity. We need normal decent people back in charge AND a better democratic system so that the majority of people can affect such behaviour.
That which you would destroy, you first drive mad
Indeed.
Anarcho-tyranny doing its thing.
TWO MEN VERY ALIKE….
here’s to WW3 buddy!
My thoughts too.
This prompted me to go and watch Cathy Newman interviewing Jordan Peterson. It was remarkable, watching her tie herself up in knots as she desperately tried to deliberately misunderstand every perfectly simple statement he made. He wasn’t even pressing a claim to be correct. He just kept it polite and asserted his right to have his own opinions. That and the fact no one has a right to be protected from being offended. Great stuff.
I thoroughly agree. It was wonderful watching Peterson, who very politely, showed just how biased Newman is. Definitely recommended viewing!
We’re through the looking glass here people, what was “normal” is now subject to attack by social anarchists and trans-zealots.
We need more public figures behaving like the boy in the Emperor’s New Clothes, pointing a finger and crying aloud “this is bullshit”.
Hear, hear.
The fantastic world according to Lewis Caroll is preferable to the sinister world according to D Trump.
Where’s the rabbit hole. where’s the looking glass? Let me escape!
The NHS are obviously getting bribed.
Around 10-15 years ago, all the NHS seemed to talk about wss “acid reflux”.
I was asked about “acid reflux” in several GP appoinments,and even prior to an operation (must have been acid reflux thst broke my fingers in the first place, eh…).
“Now, think: Are you REALLY SURE that your depression/breathlessness/broken ribs weren’t caused by acid reflux?”
ACID REFLUX MY ARSE. THE NHS WERE GETTING BRIBED TO PUSH ACID REFLUX DRUGS ON ANYONE,FOR ANY REASON. THEY WEREN’T DOING IT FOR THE GOOD OF MY HEALTH,Y’KNOW!
Further proof that it’s all noncense! [spelling intentional].
In my head, that’s pretty much how I visualise the word: Nonce sense.
These trans people are dangerous lunatics. For the tiny number of them they are, they have caused a HELLUVA lot of trouble. Principally because they spout new yank-minted shite that middle-aged UK people don’t want to be accused of being on the wrong side of, because they don’t understand it. Because it’s all made-up swill anyway, that keeps nuts in a job.
As for white liberal women, utterly divorced from the real world, putting energies they might once have put into child raising into saving the world’s minorities: if they were being raped they’d apologise to the rapist about not enjoying it more, and crow to their psycho Mumsnet pals about the ethnicity of the person doing it if they weren’t white. Vicious SATIRE, but accurate. They’re helping destroy Western civilisation from within through their dangerous, white-male-hating, sociopathic naivety. Utter clowns.