Delighted to have published Into the Woods: A Fairy-Tale Companion for Reflection on Everyday Life and Into the Woods at Work through Spinning Circle Press. amzn.eu/d/04iGMhuY

Chuffed to bits to be shortlisted for two British Journalism Awards: Health & Life Sciences Journalism with @vsmacdonald & @robbieboyd_ , and Campaign of the Year for my sustained coverage of England's poor maternity care for @NewStatesman. Thanks to the judges & @pressgazette

Thank you 👍🏻👏🏻 - like so many I will be buying my poppies this month to remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free & living in a democracy.

Winter Stories: Imagination, Shadow and Symbol in Maurice Sendak’s Worlds Begins Monday November 2nd from 7:00pm to 8:30pm This winter series explores 6 stories and the psychology behind them in Maurice Sendak’s imaginative world. Online event. eventbrite.com/e/12193522784…

This Friday evening - all welcome.

Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes. Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search. greekdrama.johnhboyer.com

RT @ApostateAri: I stood up on the chair right before this, and you can see it in MATTHEW‘s film. I was taking pictures of the women mindin…

Redvers: “It’s as if everyone stopped doing their job, that they picked a side in all of this..people were frightened about being called transphobic. It was a perfect storm” No wonder Redvers accuses NHS England of ‘cowardice’ in this medical scandal. Hillsboro law should apply.

Calling a threat of rape against a mother holding her baby “collateral damage” is a grotesque failure of moral imagination. When a cause becomes proof of one’s own goodness, another person’s terror can become expendable. Moral sadism in the service of virtue.

“What starts as a therapeutically appropriate attempt to be tactful or flexible then leads to a persistent [relationship dynamic]; namely the *wounded patient* and the idealized *therapist as rescuer.* This will often be unconsciously gratifying to each, but it encourages the unrealistic hope that the therapist can compensate for the patient’s unhappy past, rather than helping by looking at the internal conflicts and external difficulties engendered by it.” —M. Carsky & F. Yeomans, “Overwhelming Patients and Overwhelmed Therapists”

Disturbing example of someone in the NHS raising safeguarding concerns, & having the spotlight turned on them. There is a tendency amongst UK GPs to prescribe unlicensed meds to satisfy patients’ demands (sometimes encouraged by media). This is one example, there are many more.

(🧵) It's long been baffling to me why there has been ANY suggestion at all that NHS England or NHS Sussex only knew of concerns about the prescribing of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones by Dr Sam Hall in 2024. It's demonstrably false. As presented at the employment tribunal Redvers Vs NHS Sussex today, former Sussex CEO Adam Doyle was personally told about a "disabled, vulnerable child" who was 16 year old, receiving hormones without the parents' knowledge in 2023. This is the same child that I call "Charlotte" in my book, Time to Think. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first time the WellBN GP practice/Dr Hall's prescribing practices were reported publicly.

🚨Hilary Cass has called for an independent inquiry into how Brighton GPs were allowed to prescribe cross-sex hormones to children as young as 12.“There urgently needs to be an investigation of why every system that should have protected children, young people, and indeed young adults has failed,” she told me. The employment tribunal between Dr Sarah Redvers and NHS Sussex has highlighted how regulators and the NHS collectively failed to stop prescribing of puberty blockers and hormones against national guidelines - for years - and how instead the person raising concerns was accused of transphobia and herself investigated. Dr Redvers sat down with me for her only newspaper interview about her treatment in a scandal which, Cass now says, “dwarfs” that of the Tavistock’s GIDS. Me for the Sunday Times… thetimes.com/article/cfde7b4…

Timely reminder of the extremely dodgy statistics used to justify the Conversion Practices bill. From @johnarmstrong5

This article, on talking to people with different views on transgender issues, really is outstanding. If you read one (other) thing this week make it this. pittparents.com/p/how-to-tal… And consider following @pittparents.

#newsnight unemployment destroys lives, it destroys communities. I'm not sure our politicians today are aware of what is coming down the line. Unemployment, homelessness, very deep poverty. I dont see the Trade Unions or the politicians understanding this. The Trade Unions who are virtue signalling for everything but the working class wont be forgiven.

Delighted to say the poetry course is Sold Out, and there's more creative work with the wonderful @IrishWritersCtr in the pipeline. Watch this space! 🦋

The brain is most important for arousal. If you significantly reduce or damage the nerves in your genitals in an attempt to make them imitate the opposite sex version, good luck thinking yourself to orgasm.

The clitoris has 6 times the sensitivity of a penis. Chopping up a penis does not, in fact, increase the nerve endings or improve orgasm. It very obviously causes pain & makes orgasm much more difficult, even impossible. Why is @JulieRei spreading this cruel & sadistic lie?