Roz Kaveney

I don't.

Who is 'they' in that question please?

You really need to rephrase that so you don't seem to impute collective responsibility or imply that solidarity is conditional on reciprocity.

An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights.

He will be missed

Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.

The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all.

Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.

In a war with Nazis, Stalinists, anarchists and Church and King Tories fight alongside each other as they did in the French Resistance and settle other things once the Nazis are done for.

More joy in heaven over a sinner who repents...

At this point I'll cut some slack for all sorts of people with terrible records depending on where they stand now and deal with their past offences later.

As JFK said, forgive your enemies but keep a.list of their names.

Get a RADAR key now.

He will have to abolish GRCs to make that practical and that means pulling out of the ECHR and that means losing the Good Friday Agreement and any concessions from the EU.

I'm not saying he won't do o all that, by the way

Farage opposes it vocally because his base dislikes it but will use it in a Draconian fashion if in power.

My poem about Gallus' mistress.

...while being pretty effectively brutal to artists who stepped out of line. We remember what happened to Ovid. We have no knowledge of the works of Gallus who was condemned to utter oblivion for some sort of political challenge.

This is an excellent thread on how the brilliance of Vergil is closely tied to his ambivalence about power and success. It can be argued that the effectiveness of Octavian/Augustus was that he tolerated that level of ambivalence towards his autocratic rule from great artists.

ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea Many people I admire believe firmly in ID cards, or have grown to accept them. This is why they're wrong.

Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism.

substack.com/@iandunt/not...

But it worked for me. When I first read it, I didn't know it was her and liked it for what it was.

I am aware of my singular good fortune in that not only am I av76 year old trans woman, but that a significant chunk of the trans peer group I knew in my 20s are still here as well.

To be accurate, I said that Deadly Hallows did a decent job of drawing together plot threads, CUCKOO'S CALLING was a decent Allingham pastiche and CURSED CHILD was an adequate vehicle for performances and practical stage effects.

The thief condemned to death gets a year's reprieve by offering to reach the Sultan's horse to sing. Asked by a sceptical friend, he explains
'the sultan might die, I might die or maybe the horse will sing.'

Lovely piece and it plugs THE GREAT GOOD TIME..

At Pride I was talking to a nearby trans woman who was a bit down and I explained to her the usefulness of completely unjustified optimism by telling the story of the thief and the Sultan's horse...

Reject Trans Doom-Posting This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair.

ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Has no one ever asked you why you are so obsessed with these issues? Looking at your time line you talk about little else. Have no women asked you by what authority you have appointed yourself as their defender against trans women (and presumably trans men though you never mention them)?

I am not someone of whom people are afraid.

It was a constant neurotic worry that I gradually realised did not reflect reality. Other women constantly asked me into their lives and shared those lives with me. Over the years I have periodically had bad quarrels. But even women with whom I quarreled badly never accused me like you just did.

Also that we were more and more in their spaces and faces.

You've slightly garbled things. My hip trendy GO referred me to the small GUC unit at the Maudsley who put me on HRT. My GP knew how impossible it would be for me to get help from CCX.

Worse, both male transphobes and GCs salivate over the sexual victimisation of trans people.

It's what they think is the natural order of things that we be beaten and killed, but also raped

The attack on affirming care for trans adolescents is that they don't want us passing so well that there's no frisson about having sex with us.

That plus the fear of not knowing for sure one way or the other.

One of the reasons why the Right oppress trans people while also consuming vast amounts of porn about us is that they want to keep us poor, marginalised and available for low paid sex work. They hate the idea of our having other options.

Endless talk about such laws and intermittent attempts at enforcement by vigilantes in public spaces and on the Parliamentary estate.

I wouldn't know.