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A group of protesters march down a city street holding trans pride flags and placards. At the centre, a person holds a large sign reading: “THE THREAT OF TRANS PEOPLE IS A STATISTICAL ANOMALY! FACT: EHRC WANTS TO HUMILIATE TRANS PEOPLE. SUPREME COURT RULING DID NOT HEAR FROM ONE TRANS PERSON.” The crowd includes people of various ages and genders, with police officers visible to the left and Union Jack flags hanging in the background. The mood is serious but determined.

Correctional Politics and the Cruelty of Clarity

Trans people are not confused. They are not misled. They have not been lied to. They are responding, with dignity and resistance, to a sustained campaign of dehumanisation, spearheaded by a cross-section of legal hardliners, culture warriors, so called feminists, and opportunists.

Trump like figure being beamed up to a UFO (flying saucer50s style)

Nothing Is Out There

On Gabriel McKee’s The Saucerian: UFOs, Men in Black, and the Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker

The Long Road to MAGA

I picked up A Colossal Wreck because the 1990s and early 2000s feel more relevant by the day. There’s a

Black Earth, Still Water

This book is about the fens. I live on the edge of the fens, a flat place. When the wind blows it stops for no one. But the fens are not about wind. They are about earth and water. Black earth.

graphic for the image

The Emperor’s Nurse

Whipple’s Uncharted is less a chronicle of Trump’s comeback than an unflinching autopsy of a decaying liberal order that mistook gerontocracy for stability and denial for strategy

The Man Who Didn’t Want to Know

Harry Mulisch’s The Assault is not about what happened in 1945, but about the slow, bitter process by which a man and a society, learns what it meant.