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The trans right vs. gender critical debate is so intensely toxic on both sides that expressing any view that is not extreme will instantly attract attacks. I cannot even touch

I once got into trouble for calling someone a MILF. Not from the person herself -- she was flattered -- but from other readers. There were nearly 100 complaints. I

I'm going to be more explicit because I dislike hinting. I think @ConceptualJames is completely wrong in encouraging people to vote for Trump. I also think that he is sincere

I'm glad someone asked. Yes. Gender critical people are not motivated by feelings about trans issues specifically. It's about women's perennial need (as they perceive it) to protect ourselves from

I woke to a follower writing to tell me that, if the British had never colonised the world, slavery would never have ended because the Brits are the only ones

Having a bout of insomnia, which I fought for a while but have now resigned myself to allowing to capture me. Finishing my reading of @charlesmurray's "Human Diversity." Once again,

One of the best things we can do to protect brown & black people from discrimination & root out racism is to have absolutely no truck with illiberalism. People should

I'm defending James a lot recently—not something I often do. But I can't stand this sloppy deliberate misreading. He didn't ask people to purchase the book: he offered to send

People always ask me: "how can you be against identity politics when you are so fond of your Parsi roots?" I am completely in favour of people celebrating their ethnic

From my DMs. I'm not woke. I'm not PC. But I don't believe there are significant, striking differences in intelligence & personality traits correlated with skin colour. No, I don't

I'm still living like a person in lockdown. I'm staying in our house & garden & going for walks in the huge green space nearby. I get all my food

Just watching a horrible thing happening on here in real time. A young black guy & a woman got into some kind of a traffic altercation. It wasn't recorded so