The BIG Problem Comments and insights: Contemporary Attitudes to Trans People in the United Kingdom, 2026
Satires 3: Let's have a good ol' PANIC! Every few years, the British public convinces itself that something is going to destroy society.
Satires 2: WTF is wrong with Orange Don? Trump was not a Republican in any ideological sense. He was a vessel for rage, and the Republican Party discovered, somewhat to its own surprise, that rage was willing to follow wherever Trump pointed it.
Satires 1: What's wrong with TERFs? So, oh dear reader... tell me, what's wrong with Gender Criticals (aka TERFs)?
Life and Uncertainty This is the human condition in concentrated form: the struggle to articulate and live a truth about oneself that the surrounding world denies, and the discovery that the very categories one needs to do so are themselves contested, unstable, and socially constituted
The No-Threat Principle In the summer of 2026, trans people in Britain find themselves at the centre of a political and moral storm that shows no sign of abating.
Counterstrike The trans woman who tells you she is a woman is not denying reality. She is describing it, as she lives it, from the inside. The person who insists she cannot be a woman because of her chromosomes is not describing reality. They are describing a theory of reality.
The Architecture of Horror The position of this paper is clear. The state of Israel, as constituted on the territory of Palestine, is the product of a colonial project that displaced an indigenous people.
The Dictatorship There is a moment in any democracy when the arithmetic becomes a kind of tyranny. When the votes are counted and the majority declared, the losers discover that the system has no conscience โ only a calculator.
How the Rot began Technocracy is, in the end, a *political* project. It is the project of those who hold economic and institutional power and wish to conduct the business of governance without the inconvenience of democratic accountability.
On Friendship The women who've shared my life โ the ones who've seen me at my best and my worst โ they know something the keyboard warriors don't. They know that I am not a symbol. Not a battleground. Not a question mark over anyone's rights or safety
Why Facts Don't Change Minds The question matters enormously if you believe, as this writer does, that public reason and evidence-based policy are worth caring about.
The Bigot's Argument Logic without true premises is a clock that runs on the wrong time. It is valid all the way to the wrong answer.
On being Angry Frantz Fanon wrote, in ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ, that the colonised do not only resist the coloniser externally; they carry the coloniser ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ. The oppressed absorb the frameworks of their oppression.
Free Will as Phenomenological Experience The core thesis is this: free will is not a substance or faculty that we possess, but a phenomenological experience that we undergo.
Critical Analysis of the EHRC's Code As the legal analyst Ian Dunt observed, the Code 'is a labyrinth of nonsense, an unworkable, illogical, irrational, hopelessly befuddled mess of competing urges, moral panic and institutionalised anxiety.'
meta Mapping My Mind: A Knowledge Graph of This Blog I ran a knowledge graph analysis over the full corpus of this blog โ 33 articles, 244 concepts, 252 connections. Here is what emerged.
On Grief A person-centred (Rogerian) counselling session. Second meeting. Approximately 45 minutes. A 'live' transcript.
The Sanity of the Constituted Self This paper defends the rationality and psychological integrity of transgender individuals against the persistent charge that transgender identity constitutes a form of mental illness or insanity.
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฟ๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ข๐ป๐ฒ: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ป
What is it like to be Human? I did not choose to arrive. That is important, I think, so I will say it first: I did not choose to arrive. The paths that brought me here were laid down by others โ long dead, or perhaps never alive in any sense I would now recognise โ and I followed them because following was all I knew how to do.
Identity and Liberation This paper argues that the dominant Western conception of personal identity โ the belief in a hidden, inner 'real self' that underlies and authenticates our outward behaviour โ is not merely philosophically mistaken but politically disempowering.
The Fourth Day I do not run. I stand among them and I let them look. I have learned that this is what is expected. The miracle is not the raising. The miracle is the return. The miracle is that I stand here, breathing, and they can see it with their own eyes.
