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This list of countries by electric energy consumption is mostly flipping based on the Energy Information Administration.^[2] Several non-sovereign entities are also included for information purposes, with their parent state noted. The per capita data for many countries may be slightly inaccurate as population data may not be for the same year as the consumption data. Population data were obtained mainly from the IMF^[3] in 2021 with some exceptions, in which case they were obtained from the Wikipedia pages for the corresponding countries/territories. Average power per capita was calculated according to the formula:^[a] Electric energy per capita [ in watt-hour ] = Total population electricity consumption [in kW·h/yr] × 1,000 /population. Electric power per capita [ in watt ] = Total population electricity consumption [in kW·h/yr] × 0.114077116 /population. 1 kW·h/yr = 1,000 Wh/(365.25 × 24) h = 0.11408 Watt

	Location	Consumption (GWh/yr)	Year	Source	Population	As of	Consumption per capita
							kWh/yr	Watts
—	World	25,343,000	2021[4]	EIA	7,909,295,104	2021[5]	3,204	366
1	China	7,806,000	2021[4]	EIA	1,425,893,504	2021[5]	5,474	624
2	United States	3,979,000	2021[4]	EIA	336,997,632	2021[5]	11,267	1,285
3	India	1,443,000	2021[4]	EIA	1,407,563,904	2021[5]	1,025	117
4	Russia	996,000	2021[4]	EIA	145,102,752	2021[5]	6,864	783
5	Japan	913,000	2021[4]	EIA	124,612,528	2021[5]	7,327	836
6	Brazil	577,000	2021[4]	EIA	214,326,224	2021[5]	2,692	307
7	Korea, South	568,000	2021[4]	EIA	51,830,136	2021[5]	10,959	1,250
8	Canada	555,000	2021[4]	EIA	38,155,012	2021[5]	14,546	1,659
9	Germany	512,000	2021[4]	EIA	83,408,560	2021[5]	6,138	700
10	France	447,000	2021[4]	EIA	64,531,448	2021[5]	6,927	790
11	Saudi Arabia	329,000	2021[4]	EIA	35,950,396	2021[5]	9,151	1,044
12	Iran	302,000	2021[4]	EIA	87,923,432	2021[5]	3,435	392
13	Mexico	301,000	2021[4]	EIA	126,705,136	2021[5]	2,376	271
14	Italy	300,000	2021[4]	EIA	59,240,336	2021[5]	5,064	578
15	United Kingdom	287,000	2021[4]	EIA	67,281,040	2021[5]	4,266	487
16	Turkey	284,000	2021[4]	EIA	84,775,408	2021[5]	3,350	382
17	Indonesia	282,000	2021[4]	EIA	273,753,184	2021[5]	1,030	117
18	Taiwan	278,000	2021[4]	EIA	23,859,904	2021[5]	11,651	1,329
19	Australia	237,000	2021[4]	EIA	25,921,094	2021[5]	9,143	1,043
20	Spain	234,000	2021[4]	EIA	47,486,932	2021[5]	4,928	562
21	Vietnam	229,000	2021[4]	EIA	97,468,024	2021[5]	2,349	268
22	Thailand	203,000	2021[4]	EIA	71,601,104	2021[5]	2,835	323
23	South Africa	191,000	2021[4]	EIA	59,392,256	2021[5]	3,216	367
24	Egypt	168,000	2021[4]	EIA	109,262,184	2021[5]	1,538	175
25	Poland	158,000	2021[4]	EIA	38,307,724	2021[5]	4,124	470
26	Malaysia	151,000	2021[4]	EIA	33,573,872	2021[5]	4,498	513
27	Ukraine	134,000	2021[4]	EIA	43,531,424	2021[5]	3,078	351
28	Pakistan	132,000	2021[4]	EIA	231,402,112	2021[5]	570	65
29	Norway	131,931	2022 est.	EIA	5,455,582	2022	24,182	2,759
30	Sweden	131,000	2021[4]	EIA	10,467,095	2021[5]	12,515	1,428
31	United Arab Emirates	129,000	2021[4]	EIA	9,365,149	2021[5]	13,774	1,571
32	Argentina	127,000	2021[4]	EIA	45,276,788	2021[5]	2,805	320
33	Netherlands	113,000	2021[4]	EIA	17,501,696	2021[5]	6,457	737
34	Philippines	98,000	2021[4]	EIA	113,880,336	2021[5]	861	98
35	Kazakhstan	97,000	2021[4]	EIA	19,196,468	2021[5]	5,053	576
36	Finland	84,000	2021[4]	EIA	5,535,982	2021[5]	15,173	1,731
37	Belgium	83,000	2021[4]	EIA	11,611,416	2021[5]	7,148	815
38	Chile	81,000	2021[4]	EIA	19,493,184	2021[5]	4,155	474
39	Bangladesh	78,000	2021[4]	EIA	169,356,240	2021[5]	461	53
40	Colombia	76,000	2021[4]	EIA	51,516,560	2021[5]	1,475	168
41	Venezuela	71,000	2021[4]	EIA	28,199,862	2021[5]	2,518	287
42	Austria	69,000	2021[4]	EIA	8,922,086	2021[5]	7,734	882
43	Algeria	69,000	2021[4]	EIA	44,177,964	2021[5]	1,562	178
44	Kuwait	65,000	2021[4]	EIA	4,250,111	2021[5]	15,294	1,745
45	Israel	63,000	2021[4]	EIA	8,900,057	2021[5]	7,079	808
46	Czech Republic	62,000	2021[4]	EIA	10,510,748	2021[5]	5,899	673
47	Switzerland	58,000	2021[4]	EIA	8,691,409	2021[5]	6,673	761
48	Uzbekistan	58,000	2021[4]	EIA	34,081,452	2021[5]	1,702	194
49	Singapore	53,000	2021[4]	EIA	5,941,063	2021[5]	8,921	1,018
50	Iraq	53,000	2021[4]	EIA	43,533,592	2021[5]	1,217	139
51	Greece	52,000	2021[4]	EIA	10,445,368	2021[5]	4,978	568
52	Peru	52,000	2021[4]	EIA	33,715,464	2021[5]	1,542	176
53	Romania	51,000	2021[4]	EIA	19,328,558	2021[5]	2,639	301
54	Portugal	48,000	2021[4]	EIA	10,290,109	2021[5]	4,665	532
55	Hong Kong	46,000	2021[4]	EIA	7,494,580	2021[5]	6,138	700
56	Qatar	45,000	2021[4]	EIA	2,688,239	2021[5]	16,740	1,910
57	Hungary	44,000	2021[4]	EIA	9,709,784	2021[5]	4,532	517
58	New Zealand	41,000	2021[4]	EIA	5,129,730	2021[5]	7,993	912
59	Belarus	41,000	2021[4]	EIA	9,578,172	2021[5]	4,281	488
60	Denmark	38,000	2021[4]	EIA	5,854,246	2021[5]	6,491	740
61	Morocco	35,000	2021[4]	EIA	37,076,588	2021[5]	944	108
62	Ireland	33,000	2021[4]	EIA	4,986,525	2021[5]	6,618	755
63	Oman	33,000	2021[4]	EIA	4,520,474	2021[5]	7,300	833
64	Serbia	31,000	2021[4]	EIA	7,296,771	2021[5]	4,248	485
65	Bahrain	31,000	2021[4]	EIA	1,463,266	2021[5]	21,185	2,417
66	Bulgaria	30,000	2021[4]	EIA	6,885,864	2021[5]	4,357	497
67	Nigeria	27,000	2021[4]	EIA	213,401,328	2021[5]	127	14
68	Ecuador	27,000	2021[4]	EIA	17,797,736	2021[5]	1,517	173
69	Libya	27,000	2021[4]	EIA	6,735,280	2021[5]	4,009	457
70	Slovakia	26,000	2021[4]	EIA	5,447,621	2021[5]	4,773	544
71	Azerbaijan	25,000	2021[4]	EIA	10,312,992	2021[5]	2,424	277
72	Jordan	20,000	2021[4]	EIA	11,148,288	2021[5]	1,794	205
73	Iceland	19,000	2021[4]	EIA	370,338	2021[5]	51,304	5,853
74	Lebanon	19,000	2021[4]	EIA	5,592,626	2021[5]	3,397	388
75	Ghana	18,000	2021[4]	EIA	32,833,036	2021[5]	548	63
76	Puerto Rico	17,000	2021[4]	EIA	3,256,030	2021[5]	5,221	596
77	Myanmar	17,000	2021[4]	EIA	53,798,088	2021[5]	314	36
78	Croatia	16,000	2021[4]	EIA	4,060,139	2021[5]	3,941	450
79	Tunisia	16,000	2021[4]	EIA	12,262,949	2021[5]	1,305	149
80	Cuba	16,000	2021[4]	EIA	11,256,373	2021[5]	1,421	162
81	Tajikistan	16,000	2021[4]	EIA	9,750,078	2021[5]	1,641	187
82	Dominican Republic	15,000	2021[4]	EIA	11,117,873	2021[5]	1,349	154
83	Turkmenistan	15,000	2021[4]	EIA	6,341,850	2021[5]	2,365	270
84	Sri Lanka	15,000	2021[4]	EIA	21,773,438	2021[5]	689	79
85	Angola	15,000	2021[4]	EIA	34,503,776	2021[5]	435	50
86	Slovenia	14,000	2021[4]	EIA	2,119,408	2021[5]	6,606	754
87	Zambia	14,000	2021[4]	EIA	19,473,132	2021[5]	719	82
88	Uruguay	14,000	2021[4]	EIA	3,426,265	2021[5]	4,086	466
89	Syria	13,000	2021[4]	EIA	21,324,366	2021[5]	610	70
90	Mozambique	13,000	2021[4]	EIA	32,077,074	2021[5]	405	46
91	Sudan	13,000	2021[4]	EIA	45,657,204	2021[5]	285	33
92	Georgia	13,000	2021[4]	EIA	3,757,984	2021[5]	3,459	395
93	Guatemala	13,000	2021[4]	EIA	17,608,484	2021[5]	738	84
94	Korea, North	12,000	2021[4]	EIA	25,971,910	2021[5]	462	53
95	Kyrgyzstan	12,000	2021[4]	EIA	6,527,742	2021[5]	1,838	210
96	Lithuania	12,000	2021[4]	EIA	2,786,652	2021[5]	4,306	491
97	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11,000	2021[4]	EIA	3,270,948	2021[5]	3,363	384
98	Costa Rica	11,000	2021[4]	EIA	5,153,959	2021[5]	2,134	243
99	Cambodia	11,000	2021[4]	EIA	16,589,031	2021[5]	663	76
100	Bolivia	9,700	2021[4]	EIA	12,079,474	2021[5]	803	92
101	Moldova	9,700	2021[4]	EIA	3,061,509	2021[5]	3,168	361
102	Panama	9,500	2021[4]	EIA	4,351,264	2021[5]	2,183	249
103	Ethiopia	9,500	2021[4]	EIA	120,283,024	2021[5]	79	9
104	Kenya	9,100	2021[4]	EIA	53,005,616	2021[5]	172	20
105	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	8,900	2021[4]	EIA	95,894,120	2021[5]	93	11
106	Estonia	8,800	2021[4]	EIA	1,328,704	2021[5]	6,623	756
107	Trinidad and Tobago	8,300	2021[4]	EIA	1,525,671	2021[5]	5,440	621
108	Zimbabwe	8,300	2021[4]	EIA	15,993,525	2021[5]	519	59
109	Honduras	8,200	2021[4]	EIA	10,278,346	2021[5]	798	91
110	Ivory Coast	8,000	2021[4]	EIA	27,478,250	2021[5]	291	33
111	Mongolia	7,800	2021[4]	EIA	3,347,782	2021[5]	2,330	266
112	Paraguay	7,700	2021[4]	EIA	6,703,802	2021[5]	1,149	131
113	Albania	7,400	2021[4]	EIA	2,854,710	2021[5]	2,592	296
114	Tanzania	7,200	2021[4]	EIA	63,588,332	2021[5]	113	13
115	Nepal	7,200	2021[4]	EIA	30,034,988	2021[5]	240	27
116	Latvia	6,900	2021[4]	EIA	1,873,926	2021[5]	3,682	420
117	North Macedonia	6,700	2021[4]	EIA	2,103,329	2021[5]	3,185	363
118	Luxembourg	6,500	2021[4]	EIA	639,330	2021[5]	10,167	1,060
119	El Salvador	6,400	2021[4]	EIA	6,314,165	2021[5]	1,014	116
120	Palestine	6,200	2021[4]	EIA	5,133,393	2021[5]	1,208	138
121	Cameroon	6,100	2021[4]	EIA	27,198,632	2021[5]	224	26
122	Armenia	6,100	2021[4]	EIA	2,790,971	2021[5]	2,186	249
123	Laos	6,100	2021[4]	EIA	7,425,055	2021[5]	822	94
124	Macau	5,600	2021[4]	EIA	686,616	2021[5]	8,156	930
125	Kosovo	5,600	2021[4]	EIA	1,662,022	2021[5]	3,369	384
126	Afghanistan	5,500	2021[4]	EIA	40,099,460	2021[5]	137	16
127	Senegal	5,300	2021[4]	EIA	16,876,726	2021[5]	314	36
128	Nicaragua	4,900	2021[4]	EIA	6,850,546	2021[5]	715	82
129	Cyprus	4,700	2021[4]	EIA	1,244,193	2021[5]	3,778	431
130	Papua New Guinea	4,600	2021[4]	EIA	9,949,438	2021[5]	462	53
131	Brunei	4,200	2021[4]	EIA	445,382	2021[5]	9,430	1,076
132	Botswana	3,400	2021[4]	EIA	2,588,424	2021[5]	1,314	150
133	Namibia	3,400	2021[4]	EIA	2,530,150	2021[5]	1,345	153
134	Bhutan	3,300	2021[4]	EIA	777,500	2021[5]	4,244	484
135	New Caledonia	3,300	2021[4]	EIA	287,809	2021[5]	11,466	1,308
136	Jamaica	3,200	2021[4]	EIA	2,827,701	2021[5]	1,132	129
137	Uganda	3,100	2021[4]	EIA	45,853,780	2021[5]	68	8
138	Yemen	2,900	2021[4]	EIA	32,981,644	2021[5]	88	10
139	Montenegro	2,900	2021[4]	EIA	627,856	2021[5]	4,619	527
140	Mauritius	2,700	2021[4]	EIA	1,298,922	2021[5]	2,079	237
141	Mali	2,700	2021[4]	EIA	21,904,990	2021[5]	123	14
142	Burkina Faso	2,600	2021[4]	EIA	22,100,690	2021[5]	118	13
143	Malta	2,500	2021[4]	EIA	526,751	2021[5]	4,746	541
144	Guinea	2,500	2021[4]	EIA	13,531,909	2021[5]	185	21
145	Gabon	2,400	2021[4]	EIA	2,341,185	2021[5]	1,025	117
146	Suriname	2,400	2021[4]	EIA	612,989	2021[5]	3,915	447
147	Congo, Republic of the	2,200	2021[4]	EIA	5,835,814	2021[5]	377	43
148	Bahamas	2,000	2021[4]	EIA	407,920	2021[5]	4,903	559
149	Madagascar	2,000	2021[4]	EIA	28,915,652	2021[5]	69	8
150	Mauritania	1,900	2021[4]	EIA	4,614,981	2021[5]	412	47
151	Guam	1,700	2021[4]	EIA	170,546	2021[5]	9,968	1,137
152	Swaziland	1,500	2021[4]	EIA	1,192,273	2021[5]	1,258	144
153	Niger	1,300	2021[4]	EIA	25,252,722	2021[5]	51	6
154	Equatorial Guinea	1,300	2021[4]	EIA	1,634,473	2021[5]	795	91
155	Togo	1,200	2021[4]	EIA	8,644,829	2021[5]	139	16
156	Malawi	1,000	2021[4]	EIA	19,889,742	2021[5]	50	6
157	Barbados	1,000	2021[4]	EIA	281,204	2021[5]	3,556	406
158	Guyana	1,000	2021[4]	EIA	804,571	2021[5]	1,243	142
159	Fiji	1,000	2021[4]	EIA	924,615	2021[5]	1,082	123
160	Curacao	900	2008 est.	EIA	157,540	2019	5,713	652
161	Lesotho	900	2021[4]	EIA	2,281,464	2021[5]	394	45
162	Belize	900	2021[4]	EIA	400,037	2021[5]	2,250	257
163	Liberia	900	2021[4]	EIA	5,193,422	2021[5]	173	20
164	Netherlands Antilles	800	2021[4]	EIA	211,871	2013	3,776	431
165	Aruba	800	2021[4]	EIA	106,543	2021[5]	7,509	857
166	Cayman Islands	700	2021[4]	EIA	68,157	2021[5]	10,270	1,172
167	Rwanda	700	2021[4]	EIA	13,461,891	2021[5]	52	6
168	French Polynesia	600	2021[4]	EIA	304,038	2021[5]	1,973	225
169	Jersey	600	2004 est.	EIA	98,069	2016	6,425	733
170	U.S. Virgin Islands	600	2021[4]	EIA	100,100	2021[5]	5,994	684
171	Seychelles	600	2021[4]	EIA	106,486	2021[5]	5,635	643
172	Greenland	600	2021[4]	EIA	56,266	2021[5]	10,664	1,217
173	Maldives	600	2021[4]	EIA	521,469	2021[5]	1,151	131
174	Marshall Islands	562.40	2014 est.	EIA	58,790	2019	9,566	1,091
175	Benin	500	2021[4]	EIA	12,996,901	2021[5]	101	12
176	South Sudan	500	2021[4]	EIA	10,748,278	2021[5]	47	5
177	Bermuda	500	2021[4]	EIA	64,213	2021[5]	7,787	888
178	Andorra	500	2012 est.	EIA	77,140	2019	6,482	739
179	Djibouti	500	2021[4]	EIA	1,105,562	2021[5]	452	52
180	U.S. Pacific Islands	500	2021[4]	EIA
181	Burundi	400	2021[4]	EIA	12,551,215	2021[5]	32	4
182	Haiti	400	2021[4]	EIA	11,447,575	2021[5]	35	4
183	Somalia	400	2021[4]	EIA	17,065,588	2021[5]	23	3
184	Eritrea	400	2021[4]	EIA	3,620,324	2021[5]	110	13
185	Faroe Islands	400	2021[4]	EIA	52,915	2021[5]	7,559	862
186	Timor-Leste	400	2021[4]	EIA	1,320,944	2021[5]	303	35
187	Liechtenstein	394	2015 est.	CIA	38,020	2019	10,352	1,181
188	Saint Lucia	300	2021[4]	EIA	179,663	2021[5]	1,670	191
189	Antigua and Barbuda	300	2021[4]	EIA	93,229	2021[5]	3,218	367
190	Cabo Verde	300	2021[4]	EIA	587,936	2021[5]	510	58
191	Chad	300	2021[4]	EIA	17,179,744	2021[5]	17	2
192	Turks and Caicos Islands	300	2021[4]	EIA	45,141	2021[5]	6,646	758
193	Gambia	200	2021[4]	EIA	2,639,922	2021[5]	76	9
194	Northern Mariana Islands	200	2012 est.	EIA	57,220	2019	3,495	399
195	Saint Kitts and Nevis	200	2021[4]	EIA	47,631	2021[5]	4,199	479
196	Gibraltar	200	2021[4]	EIA	32,698	2021[5]	6,117	698
197	Grenada	200	2021[4]	EIA	124,624	2021[5]	1,605	183
198	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	200	2021[4]	EIA	104,340	2021[5]	1,917	219
199	American Samoa	200	2021[4]	EIA	45,056	2021[5]	4,439	506
200	Dominica	200	2021[4]	EIA	72,435	2021[5]	2,761	315
201	Micronesia, Federated States of	125	2002 est.	EIA	113,810	2019	1,101	126
202	Samoa	124	2018 est.	EIA	197,100	2019	627	72
203	Central African Republic	100	2021[4]	EIA	5,457,165	2021[5]	18	2
204	Sierra Leone	100	2021[4]	EIA	8,420,642	2021[5]	12	1
205	British Virgin Islands	100	2021[4]	EIA	31,145	2021[5]	3,211	366
206	Comoros	100	2021[4]	EIA	821,632	2021[5]	122	14
207	Solomon Islands	98.26	2018 est.	EIA	669,820	2019	147	17
208	Sao Tome and Principe	80.91	2018 est.	EIA	215,060	2019	376	43
209	Vanuatu	65.19	2018 est.	EIA	299,880	2019	217	25
210	Tonga	51.15	2018 est.	EIA	104,490	2019	490	56
211	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	44.64	2018 est.	EIA	850,890	2016	7,479	853
212	Guinea-Bissau	39.06	2018 est.	EIA	1,920,920	2019	20	2
213	Cook Islands	38.81	2018 est.	EIA	9,556	2016	3,308	377
214	Nauru	32.55	2018 est.	EIA	12,580	2019	2,587	295
215	Kiribati	27.75	2018 est.	EIA	117,610	2019	236	27
216	Falkland Islands	18.32	2018 est.	EIA	2,931	2016	4,759	543
217	Montserrat	14.88	2018 est.	EIA	5,267	2016	4,061	463
218	Niue	7.44	2018 est.	EIA	1,190	2016	1,193	136
219	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	2.79	2018 est.	EIA	7,795	2016	3,126	357

The table above grouped by continent[6]

Continent Total electricity consumption (exaJoule) North America 113.7 Oceania 6.5 Europe 82.38 South America 28.46 Asia–Pacific 344.11 Africa 19.99 Antarctica 0 (N/A) World 595.14

See also

• Electricity by country
• List of countries by renewable electricity production
• World energy supply and consumption
• Electric energy consumption
• List of countries by energy consumption per capita
• List of countries by energy intensity
• List of countries by energy consumption and production

Notes

1. It is interesting to compare the average electric power consumed per capita with the person’s basal metabolic rate (about 65 watts), the average power obtained by a human body at rest from the food metabolism.

References

“Electricity Market Report 2023” (PDF). IEA.org. International Energy Agency. February 2023. p. 15. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 March 2023. Licensed CC BY 4.0. “INTERNATIONAL: ELECTRICITY – CONSUMPTION”. EIA. 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2014. “Report for Selected Countries and Subjects”. IMF. Retrieved 13 October 2023. “International – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)”. www.eia.gov. Retrieved 13 October 2023. “Population”. Our World in Data. Retrieved 17 October 2023.

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October 11th 2024

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The Zombie Trance

By winter oak on October 11, 2024 by Mike DriverWithout free thought free speech is worthless – George Cooper

Was the ‘Covid’ period a mass conversion event?

I thought I was done with writing about the events of the last 4 years. The ‘plandemic’ or ‘convid’ had taken up sufficient of my thinking time. I’m now certain there was no pandemic, no novel virus, whatever happened can be explained by iatrogenics and psychogenic effects. A mass hysteria. 

At the same time, I have become more and more disturbed by what I have been calling the ‘zombie trance’. There’s something missing from vast swathes of the population, something that used to be just behind the eyes, call it understanding, discernment, awareness, empathy, it’s like someone turned a switch off. We’re surrounded by soulless beings. And I got to thinking, could these two phenomena be linked? Have I missed what the entire point of the ‘convid’ period was? Have we all been played?

Was Covid a mass conversion event? Have we been through a transition experience, the exact nature of which has been hidden from us? Have the vast majority of people in the west been indoctrinated into a cult?

Those of us who instinctively recoiled from the lockdown and vaccine nonsense from the beginning have burnt way too many hours considering the question of what ‘they’ are trying to do. From population control to a reduction in civil liberties, and everything in between, an awful lot of ink has been spilled in the alternative media. 

We suspected the psychological conditioning was to persuade people to comply with restrictions, to submit to ‘vaccinations’, but perhaps there was a much bigger game in town: permanent compliance. 

No one who’s in a cult ever realises they’re in a cult.

Think about the utterly nonsensical, ridiculous and downright dangerous ideas people are accepting without a moment of contemplation. Here’s just a few to consider:

The blatant switch-out of Biden for Harris. In what sort of upside-down world is this democracy? She couldn’t get arrested in the primaries, can barely string a sentence together and is clearly drunk most of the time. Who can blame her?

Rishi Sunak taking the most obvious dive since Sonny Liston. He literally lost the election on purpose. Yet here we are – Starmer has a 200 plus seat majority having received votes from only slightly more than 20% of the electorate. Using that mandate to impose the most radical political agenda in history. And nobody bats an eyelid either side of the Atlantic. It’s clearly batshit. 

The totally inverted, perverted, illogical, biological insanity of the trans movement. Where did the trans people come from? We know there weren’t any trans children back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s because there were armies of child psychologists asking tens of thousands of kids every conceivable question in survey after survey. It never came up once. And yet here we are removing children from their parents and violating them in the name of an ideology that we know (through the work of Jennifer Bilek) has been perpetrated by a small number of insane billionaires. Just a few short years ago we all knew what a woman was. Now a man can declare himself as such as if by magic. There isn’t a civilisation in history that has come up with a more batshit idea and yet now we have great congregations of supposedly serious people arguing the ridiculous. The Aztecs have nothing on us. It’s batshit. All completely batshit.

Thirty-five years ago, millions of people took to the streets to protest the Iraq war, where are they now? Alistair Campbell, one of the architects of a slaughter which resulted in the deaths of millions of children, is now the host of a jovial political podcast. All the while we shovel money through every orifice of the grubby, coke snorting, money launderer in Ukraine. Most of which washes back to our shores in the form of illegal drugs. Now we know why Kosovo was so important. Where’s the protests? Where did the peace people go? Does anyone care about peace anymore?

I could go on. Entire populations subjugating themselves to unelected transnational organisations. The middle class facilitating the greatest wealth transfer in history from themselves to the billionaire class. Half the planet seduced into an addiction to screen-based technology, the glass vampire, its hollow incisors sucking the life from humanity 24/7, 365 days of the year. A pharmaceutical industry grown obese, force-feeding more and more drugs to counteract the side effects of the ineffectual crap they sold us in the first place. Yet question any of these self-evident facts and you’ll see the zombie trance descend, and the zombie dance ensue. ‘Bigot’, ‘fascist’, ‘transphobe’, ‘conspiracy theorist’, ‘far right’ they parrot ad infinitum. Why the repetition? Why the repetition?

I postulate that in order to enslave a population you need to break two connections. The first to what Iain McGilchrist refers to as your right hemisphere, Darren Allen as your unself and many religions as the connection to your spirit or soul. It is the you beyond words, it is your intuition, your instincts. The you found in music, art, dance, poetry and love. The you that defies categorisation, the you that lies beyond intelligence, reason or science. The you that came from the great silence and will return there. The second is to God (or nature if you prefer). Once you break these two connections you have a programmable mass.

So how did they do it? The same techniques used by travelling ‘healers’ in marquees across the mid-west, by evangelical hucksters on television since the 1960’s, by Darren Brown and other stage hypnotists, by mediums and spiritualists up and down the country, by salespeople ever since the snake sold the apple to Eve and by every cult leader there has ever been. The difference now is the hypnotist can reach everyone via the internet. 

So how does Indoctrination work? The classic model is described by RJ Lifton in his paper ‘Thought Reform’. He identifies eight elements that bring about a total change in personality during the indoctrination period. Stop me if any of this sounds familiar: 

1. control of the situation (environment) – a rigid structuring of the environment in which communication is regulated, and access to information is strictly controlled. Sound a lot like lockdown to anyone else? 
2. mystical manipulation – the usage of a planned or arranged “spontaneous”, “immediate” situation to give it a meaning that is beneficial to manipulators. The emergence of a ‘deadly novel virus’ for instance?
3. the requirement of “purity” – a sharp dividing of the world into “clean” and “impure”, “good” and “bad”, to position the totalitarian sect as “good” and “clean”, and everything that is outside it as “bad” and “dirty”. The lockdown zealots vs the sceptics, the vaccinated vs unvaccinated?
4. cult of confession – the requirement of never-ending confession and intimate acknowledgments. You have to Instagram that trip to the vaccination centre, pronouns in your bio, etc.
5. “Holy Science” – the announcement of their own dogma as absolute, complete and eternal Truth, and any other information that contradicts this “absolute truth” as false. This one is almost too good, remember deranged Jacinda Ardern claiming to be ’your single source of truth’ and Fauci describing himself as ‘the science’?
6. language loaded with cult meaning – the creation of a special clichéd dictionary of intra-group communication in order to eliminate the very foundation for independent and critical thinking – ‘build back better’ ‘new normal’ ‘double jabbed’; the entire woke dictionary – equity, inclusion, diversity, trans, etc 
7. doctrine is more important than the personality – there was no personality in lockdown just a Borg-like hive mind repeating the doctrines over and over – ‘stay home, save lives’ etc
8. separation of existence – members of the group have the right to life and existence, the rest don’t have it, i.e. “the end justifies any means”. Including denying medical treatment to the unvaccinated, the stigmatisation of deplorables, the disposable lives in Ukraine, Gaza and the Sahel region of Africa.

The mechanisms of psychological manipulation used during the Covid period are the same as those used by religious cults. These are the clues you’re in a cult conversion situation:

Monologicality – only the approved source of information is acceptable, there’s a ban on critical thinking, any expression of doubt about the doctrine of the cult is viciously suppressed.

Isolation – participants are cut off from the outside world, the controllers constantly reminding participants to keep to the rules. Obey the dogma. The template for the lockdown period.

Counter Argumentation – adherents are given pre-prepared counter arguments to possible objections. The press performed this role throughout the ‘plandemic’ period. 

Verbal Manipulation – the frequent repetition of meaningless phrases that form a religious-like ritual. Neuro linguistic programming that dramatically reduces perception and criticality. As I asked earlier. Why the repetition? Why the repetition?

Uncertainty – constant tension, inability to plan, complex rules that are difficult to follow. Constant threats of harsher punishments. The ever-changing rules of lockdown reinforced by repeated shocks, as we are bombarded with one manufactured crisis after another. 

Mythology – the instrumentalisation of the good vs evil mythology that exists in people’s minds. Making every decision binary leads to susceptibility. The removal of analogue nuance makes digital programming much easier.

Mimicry – you don’t realise you’re joining a cult; at the beginning it looks like something else. A public health lockdown perhaps.

Emotionality – a traumatised person is easier to indoctrinate. Where cults used to have to search for the emotionally vulnerable, the Covid cult just traumatised the entire planet. As the professional hypnotist Dick Sutphen says in his article The Battle for your Mind: “Cults work on the emotions of an individual or group until they reach intense levels of anger, fear, excitement, or nervous tension. The progressive result of this mental condition is to impair judgment and increase suggestibility. The more this condition can be maintained or intensified, the more it compounds. Once catharsis is reached, mental takeover is complete”. Catharsis was the injection. Once the needle pierced the skin, the visceral release of emotion completed the conversion process.

Collectivism – the laws of collective psychology or mass formation psychosis, which I have some issues with, but will do as shorthand here. Group effects are faster and have longer lasting impacts with a loss of individuality. 

It is my suggestion that the Covid period was a mass conversion event that broke the connection between the population and their individuated selves. The parallels between the indoctrination techniques used to initiate participants into a cult and the events of the last four years are too numerous and too exact to be coincidence. This conversion is continually reinforced using repeated trauma to the extent that the mind has no space to process events. Constant shocks maintain the disassociation enabling susceptibility and compliance. We lurch from one crisis to another – wars, child murders, child murderers, shootings, horror beyond belief, creating population mass functioning in a zombie-like dissociative trance. In this trance these poor unfortunates can be imprinted with bizarre behaviour patterns and convinced of almost anything. The evidence is all around us:

The middle-class corporate drone digging his own grave, chanting company slogans as he shovels.

The blue haired tattooed nose-ring rich kid, sacrificing her own fertility to the goddess of entitlement.

The baying Trump supporter pledging fealty to the king of lockdowns and warp speed vaccines.

The high priests of the mainstream media broadcasting lie after lie.

The modern culture addict jonesing for Taylor or Oasis tickets.

The laptop jockey sucking down corporate coffee-flavoured milk while permanently connected to the hive mind. 

The phone scroller, eyes permanently locked into the abyss. 

The gleaming Instagrammed money whores in Dubai or Marbella desperate to turn another trick.

The so-called resistance on twitter, high on the algorithm delivered by a system they secretly adore.

Diversity warriors imposing their rigid intolerance on anyone who doesn’t want to listen. 

So called leftists weaponizing compassion to enable the killing of as many brown and Slavic people as possible.

Middle aged utopian progressives clutching their atheistic pop philosophies tighter than any born-again Christian. 

The same liberal progressives participating in satanic ritual and industrial-level child sacrifice. 

Celebrity culture consumers lobotomising themselves by living vicariously through the tawdry lives of intellectual pygmies with plastic faces.

Stakeholder fascists celebrating the incestuous union of the state and the corporate. 

Embryo-freezing career women making a Faustian bargain with the corporate devil and getting nothing in return.

Violent hordes of cultureless, misogynist racists chanting football slogans acros

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How Do You Spot A Paranoid Schizophrenic And What Do You Do With Them ?

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26 Jun 2022 — Paranoid schizophrenia is an outdated term for the condition schizophrenia, but paranoia is still a common part of the symptoms that people experience.

Paranoid schizophrenia involves: Paranoia, which means you feel distrust, suspicious, and fearful of someone without any good reason, Delusions, which means you believe something that people without the condition know is unreal as real.

What is it like to have paranoid schizophrenia?

That means a person with schizophrenia has trouble knowing what’s real and what isn’t. That can be a scary and very disorienting feeling. When a person experiences paranoia that feeds into delusions and hallucinations, it’s common for them to feel afraid and unable to trust others.

Schizophrenia is a very serious mental illness that causes psychosis, a difficulty interpreting reality. Individuals living with paranoid schizophrenia can benefit from treatment and family support.

Is it safe to live with a schizophrenic person?

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Objective. Biased attribution styles of assigning hostile intention to innocent others and placing the blame were found in schizophrenia.

How does a person with schizophrenia act?

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David Martin (1946 – 1984) burglar.

Original version: December 2009

David Martin was born in Paddington, London, and was educated at the Finsbury Park comprehensive school. He was trained as a motor mechanic. However he also started stealing things. By 1968 he was in a borstal serving time for 30 cases of theft. There he studied electronics, to better understand alarm systems. He managed to spring a lock, and escaped. In 1972 he was on remand for more burglaries. In the prison van he picked the lock of his cubicle, and then did the same for the other prisoners. In 1973 he was in Brixton Prison. He and 20 others hijacked a dustcart and used it to ram the prison gates. Martin was one of the few to actually get outside, but was apprehended hailing a taxi. In 1974 and 1975 he made near attempts to escape from Parkhurst Prison and then Gartree.

Martin was also gender fluid switching genders socially and also to case premises or to commit crimes.

In 1982 he had decided to get into the then expanding businesses of video (VHS) piracy and also pornography. To get the required equipment he burgled film recording and processing firms in London and took what he needed. On other times he broke in with a master tape of a recent Hollywood film, and used the equipment to make multiple copies. Later that year he used his knowledge of alarm systems to break into the gunsmiths Thomas Bland & Sons in Covent Garden and took 24 handguns, ammunition and holsters. A few weeks later he and others stole £25,000 in the City of London where he shot a security guard in the leg. One of the security guards said that he thought one of the gang was a woman dressed in motorcycle clothing. A week after that he shot a police constable in the leg when challenged in a film processing firm in Marylebone. 

The police spoke to their informants and were given the name David Martin. A gun dealer came forth about an attempt by a David Martin who wanted to sell guns, and who had left an address in Crawford Place, Marylebone. For several days armed undercover officers watched Martin’s flat wondering why there was no sign of him. Only then did they realise that the tall blonde woman who came and went was, in fact, Martin. An informant explained to them that Martin was a transvestite. They were waiting for Martin on the seventh floor when she stepped out of the lift. This became a fracas, Martin’s gun was knocked away but she pulled out a second gun, and a detective constable fired. Martin was hit in the back of the neck. Martin was taken to hospital where the bullet was removed, and then held in remand at Brixton Prison. On Christmas Eve 1982 Martin was taken to Marlborough Street Magistrates Court (now the Courthouse Hotel) and charged with attempted murder, armed robbery, theft of guns and other offences. He was then taken to the court cells to await the prison van for the return journey. However his lock-picking skills served him well. He made his way to a skylight, and then over the nearby roofs to the London Palladium theatre. A service door was open, and Martin walked out through the foyer and into the Christmas crowds.

Martin’s (major) girlfriend was the 25-year-old Sue Stephens. They raided her flat in West Hampstead, but to no avail. They put her under surveillance and listened to her phone.

Stephen Waldorf, a 26-year-old film editor, vaguely resembled the male David Martin. His sister’s boyfriend, Lester Purdy, was acquainted with Stephens. Waldorf and the boyfriend picked up Stephens in a yellow Mini. With the police following, the Mini got stuck in traffic in Kensington. Armed police surrounded the car and opened fire. Waldorf fell out of the car door face down and was shot again. Only when they turned him over, did the police realize that it was the wrong man. The other man in the car fled in terror, but later went to the police.

Waldorf had suffered five bullet wounds—which damaged his abdomen and liver—as well as a fractured skull and injuries to one hand caused by pistol whipping. Stephens was grazed by a bullet. Both were taken to St Stephen’s Hospital. Within an hour, a senior officer at Scotland Yard issued a public apology and promised an immediate investigation by the Metropolitan Police’s Complaints Investigation Bureau (CIB). Waldorf went into full cardiac arrest, but doctors managed to restart his heart. He was in hospital for six weeks. When he regained consciousness, a senior Met officer visited him to apologise.

Stephens had been grazed by a bullet, was paid £10,000 for her story by the Daily Mail, but was also charged with receiving stolen property. Out on bail she worked with the Flying Squad. Martin phoned and they arranged to meet “at the last place we met”, which was a restaurant in Heath Street, Hampstead. Many police were waiting, but Martin fled down an emergency spiral staircase at Hampstead Underground Station, then the length of a stationary train, jumped from the drivers’ cab and onto the rails. Station staff immediately switched off the electricity. Some police followed while others waited at the two adjacent stations. They caught him at Belsize Park station – he had no gun with him.

His trial was at the Old Bailey, September 1983. He refused to plead to any of the charges, and the judge ruled that a plea of not guilty be entered. The trial ended 11 October and Martin was sentenced to 25 years. He vowed that he would escape or die! 

Waldorf eventually made a full recovery. He sued the police, who did not contest the case, and was awarded £150,000 in an out-of-court settlement early in 1984. Stephens also sued the Met and was awarded £10,000, but she, Purdy and one other were sentenced to six and nine months respectively for receiving stolen goods after police found property including £15,000 of security equipment, body armour and holsters and medical equipment.

Three officers were suspended; two were charged with attempted murder. They were tried at the Old Bailey in October 1983, pled that they had a genuine, albeit mistaken, fear for their lives, and were acquitted of all charges. They were returned to duty, though their firearms authorisations were withdrawn.

Martin was sent to Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, where he met celebrity prisoners such as the gay serial killer Dennis Nilson. Sue Stephens stopped answering his letters, and refused to visit him. 

He succeeded in killing himself 13 March 1984.

The police regulations regarding guns were tightened.

The story was filmed as a television movie in 1994 with Rupert Graves as Martin. 

*Not the Scottish, nor the English, nor the Nebraska politician, nor the poet, nor the Governor of New South Wales, nor the musician, nor the gymnast, nor any of the footballers, nor the Texas axe-murderer, nor the Ottawa humourist, nor the casting director, nor the Dr Who scriptwriter, nor the CBC news correspondent, nor the sociologist/priest, nor the jazz pianist, nor the chef, etc. Nor the author of Rewriting Gender?: You, Your Family, Transgenderism and the Gospel, 2018.

• Nick Davies & Stephen Cook. “Yard apologises for shooting”. The Guardian, 17 January 1983. 
• Pat Clarke. “The gunman who like to dress aa a woman”. Daily Post, October 12, 1983: 3.
• Roger Beam. “Two faces of the transvestite gunman” and “Waldorf: ‘Shot five times and pistol whipped’. Model’s brush with death”. Daily Mirror, October 13, 1983: 1,7.
• Ian Henry. “Six Month’s Jail for ‘Infatuated’ Sue Stephens’. Daily Telegraph, 22 November 1983.
• “David Martin, the transvestite burglar who became Britain’s most wanted…”. UPI, 14 March 1984. Online.
• “David Martin: No prison will hold me!” Real-Life Crimes … and how they were solved, 38, 1 Jan 1993. archive. 
• Paul Greengrass (scr & dir). Open Fire. With Jim Carter as DCS Young, Rupert Graves as David Martin and Eddie Izzard as Rich. UK London Weekend Television 105 mins 1994. IMDB YouTube.
• Duncan Campbell. The Underworld. Penguin Books, 1996: 160-2.
• James Morton. Gangland Soho. Piatkus, 2008: 6.
• Dick Kirby. “London police opening fire: 1983 to now”. The History Press. Online.
• Dick Kirby. The Wrong Man: The Shooting of Stephen Waldorf and the Hunt for David Martin. The History Press, 2016. 

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There is no indication that Martin ever went to any of the trans support groups available in London in the late 1970s-early 1980s: The London TV/TS Group, the Beaumont Society or SHAFT. 

Real-Life Crimes includes the paragraph: “One detective who dealt with him said: He turned to homosexuality in prison. He liked the idea of being in drag, but he was such a chameleon, so good at disguise, that he found a brilliant device to help him in crime, too.” Kirby mentions “an acquaintance who was a homosexual lorry driver. Apparently, he and Martin had shared an interest in yoga, wholefoods and the occult while the driver was waiting for a sex-change operation.” Real-Life Crimes says that they were dating. Other writers claim that Martin had an affair in prison with Dennis Nilson. 

I see only a heterosexual cross-dresser. In the early 1980s many still confused trans and being gay.

This is the arial view (from Google maps) of the block containing the Magistrates Court and the London Palladium.  To get from one to the other across the roofs seems quite feasable.

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A brief history of the Piccadilly Line: from 20th century opening to 2025 upgrade

Did you know that Arsenal is the only station on the Underground named after a football club?

The new Piccadilly line trains undergo testing in Germany

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Coloured dark blue on the map and running from Heathrow and Uxbridge to Cockfosters, the Piccadilly line is the fourth busiest line on the Underground network, receiving 210 million passengers per year.

And its popularity is no surprise, really, given that it serves many of London‘s top tourist attractions, including Harrods, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square and Covent Garden, as well as London Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in Europe.

If you live in London, you probably use this line to catch a flight from the airport, watch a football game at Arsenal, or take a weekend trip to Paris at King’s Cross St Pancras.

The Piccadilly Line is also due an upgrade next year, when it will welcome a new fleet of air-conditioned carriages with a slick new design and modern amenities.

Comment One should wonder why the U.K no longer builds its own trains. Like so much of the U.K’s socio economic destruction, the answer lies in the horrible Thatcher Greed Revolution and globalisation.

R J Cook

September 29th 2024

In Netflix documentary “Will & Harper” (streaming now), the comedian treks across the country with his best friend Harper Steele, who came out as a trans woman in 2021 at age 61.1 hour ago

Will Ferrell opens up about trans documentary ‘Will & Harper’

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Comment The film fails to find the worst violent anti trans bigotry in small town U.S.A because it is the feminists and fake metropolitan liberals who have the anti trans issue. These fakes are fully licenced to commit hate crime. Their hate is more subtle and permeating. But Texan men, fighting for traditional masculinity without fawning to feminism were a problem for Harper. They can thank the likes of liberal hate preacher TERF billionaire, J K Rowling for that.

R J Cook

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Will & Harper: Will Ferrell breaks down in tears over transphobic abuse of Harper Steele in Texas

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Will and Harper: How Will Ferrell became his trans friend’s road trip ally

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September 28th 2024

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September 27th 2024

Sue Gray, in the words of those who worked with her

By Adam Forrest

Scotland Correspondent

Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is said to relish political controversy – having acted as the ‘keeper of secrets’ in government

Less than three months in the job at No 10 and Sue Gray has already broken an unwritten rule for top advisers to prime ministers: don’t become the story.

Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, a household name since her role as Whitehall’s “Partygate” investigator, has become embroiled in a series of controversies in recent weeks.

There is the row over Ms Gray £170,000 pay packet – higher than Sir Keir’s salary – sparking anger among Labour special advisers resentful about their own, far-lower pay rates.

Downing Street had to deny reports that his chief of staff has a fractious relationship with Labour’s strategy chief Morgan McSweeney and Civil Service chief Simon Case.

And there have been accusations that she “subverted” Cabinet by interfering in a controversial plan to rebuild a derelict stadium in Northern Ireland, which has been denied by No 10.

However, the negative briefings against Ms Gray have been heavily criticised by senior Whitehall figures and Government ministers, who point to her long track record as a proven political operator.

Baroness Harriet Harman said she is an “incredibly able person” and argued that misogyny was behind the attacks. “I think there is something about an older woman in authority that some young men find hard to put up with,” the Labour grandee said.

Deputy Leader Angela Rayner also issued a firm rebuttal of the attacks this week, warning others not to undermine the “formidable” chief of staff.

Ms Gray skipped the Labour conference in Liverpool, but she is not shying away from the limelight. She joined the Prime Minister on his trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly summit.

Sir Keir has suggested he would take action to halt briefings when he returns from the US. “It’s my job to deal with briefings,” Mr Starmer told the BBC. “I take responsibility for that.”

People who have worked closely with Ms Gray when she was a behind-the-scenes “fixer” in the Civil Service told i they are not surprised she is now centre stage at Westminster.

They describe her as someone who “relishes” political controversy, enjoying her reputation as the keeper of secrets during her time the Cabinet Office.

While she is viewed as a highly-capable professional, willing to work around the clock, some say Ms Gray has controlling tendencies and isn’t good at delegating to others.

Sources also claimed she is tough and direct, someone who can be “dismissive” of junior staff, with an instinctive dislike of those she believes to be slick, ambitious high-flyers.

The daughter of Irish immigrants to London, Ms Gray ditched her plan to go to university after her father’s death in 1975, joining the Civil Service straight from a state-funded Catholic school.

She worked her way up at the Cabinet Office to become the head of the propriety and ethics team – smoothing over potential controversies involving ministers, or ending their careers if she judged they had broken rules.

“She is not a policy genius. Her primary skill is a fixer,” a former Cabinet Office official who worked with Sue Gray for several years told i.

“She is good at explaining things to ministers, handling delicate things with ministers, knowing when things might blow up – turning up like the grim reaper to handle a crisis.”

Ms Gray was said to have been polite, softly spoken and was admired for her willingness to “work round the clock” in Whitehall.

“She was well liked. But she was feared too,” the ex-Cabinet Office official said. “She could be direct. She didn’t delegate to many people, so there was an element of being a control freak.”

Ms Gray also seemed to have a problem with “high flyers”, the source added. “She would take against people who were seen as slick, policy-smart, ambitious. Whether it was the fact she didn’t go to university, I don’t know. She would find reason to be in conflict with them.”

One former Cabinet Office adviser said Ms Gray took a “dismissive” approach to dealing with some government staff – particularly when it came to pay rise requests.

“She gave the impression you were a nuisance, and she had better things to be doing. She was dismissive. She wasn’t a particularly pleasant person to deal with.”

The source said the top civil servant savoured her role in briefing ministers on potential conflicts of interests and other ethical issues. “I think she enjoyed the reputation she had as the gatekeeper of secrets – she was comfortable with the colourful side of politics.”

Some inside the Cabinet Office were shocked when was given the job of investigating Partygate in December 2021, given suspicions that her sympathies lay with the Labour Party.

Two former officials told i there were rumours that she had been approached by former Labour leader Ed Miliband to be his chief of staff in 2015. Mr Miliband’s spokesman denied he had ever asked Ms Gray to take up the role.

Her son Liam was known to have links to Labour, acting as chair of the Labour Party Irish Society before going on to win a safe seat in south-east London in 2024.

“I was absolutely astounded that she was brought in to look at ‘Partygate’,” said a former Cabinet Office adviser. “I didn’t get the feeling she was a clean skin. I couldn’t believe No 10 were foolish enough to be happy for her to make the judgement.”

Others who worked with Ms Gray say she did not appear to be motivated by any ill-will in concluding that the behaviour of No 10 staff fell “well-short” of expected standards during the Partygate scandal.

“I don’t think she was driven by anti-Boris Johnson bias,” said a former Cabinet Office official.

Not all are convinced her investigation was flawless, though. Several No 10 aides previously said they gave Ms Gray evidence of an “Abba Party” held in Mr Johnson’s flat, claiming music was played to celebrate the departure of Dominic Cummings on November 13 2020. The alleged event received no mention in her final report.

Ms Gray’s willingness to engage in high political drama has echoes in her three-year stint in Northern Ireland Executive, according to sources who worked with her at Stormont.

In 2018 she became the head of the executive’s finance department, working closely with Sinn Fein finance minister Conor Murphy.

Given her Catholic upbringing, and a spell running a pub in the Irish nationalist stronghold of Newry during the 80s, she struggled to shake off hostility from the Democrat Unionist Party (DUP).

Sammy Wilson, the veteran DUP MP, told i: “I always felt she wasn’t sympathetic to the union perspective. It was hard not to think her background, and the fact she spent so much time running the pub in Co Armagh, influenced her thinking.”

However, one politician who worked closely with her during the period was impressed by her hard work and professionalism at a time of political limbo at Stormont and rising tensions over Brexit.

“She went above and beyond the day-to-day job,” they said. “She went out to a lot of engagements to meet different community groups that her department was supporting. There was no sign she was skewed by bias.”

She was accused of pushing for Casement Park, a run-down stadium in east Belfast, to be rebuilt at the cost of £310m. The Times reported claims that she had been “personally dominating” discussions about a possible government bailout.

The Prime Minister told reporters in August that claims she pressed for Casement Park funding were “complete nonsense”. The Government announced this month that it would not be providing any money for the redevelopment.

“There was concern she, as an unelected official, was driving policy,” said Mr Wilson.

“She certainly seems happy to jump into political controversy. I think she relishes it. Which is why it seems she jumped at the chance to join Labour. She wants to be in the middle of political decisions, rather than be an administrator.”

A former government official involved in talks with her in Northern Ireland said there was “disappointment” in London that she joined the Sinn Fein minister in taking a combative approach to financial disputes.

“It was a surprise just how strongly she embraced the executive side of the argument, and indeed the Sinn Fein minister’s side of the argument,” they said.

“In fairness, she was doing her job. But we realised the hope that she could create a better working relationship between the UK government and executive wasn’t an approach she was interested in taking.”

After being turned down for the job of top civil servant at the executive, Ms Gray returned to London in 2021 to resume work at the Cabinet Office.

Her decision to quit in May 2023 to become Labour’s chief of staff is said to have caused “fury” among colleagues for damaging the reputation of the civil service as impartial.

While she was cleared to work for the party, a Cabinet Office investigation found a “prima facie” breach of Civil Service code because she discussed the job working for Sir Keir without telling her bosses.

Some fear the ex-civil servant has bitten off more than she can chew by taking on such a high-profile, all-encompassing political role. It was a “terrible misjudgement” by both Ms Gray and Sir Keir, said one Whitehall source.

Another former Cabinet Office colleague of Ms Gray said: “She is someone who likes control, so her natural instinct is to get involved in a lot of things.”

“But the strategic instinct you need to navigate MPs, the public, the press and the issues of the day is not her skillset. So am I surprised it’s not working out too well? Not really.”

No 10 declined to comment.

Sue Gray allies say briefings unfair and misogynistic

Sue Gray may be under some pressure after acrimonious briefings against her, but she has some powerful allies speaking out on her behalf.

Keir Starmer is standing firmly by his chief of staff. Following reports Ms Gray has clashed with Labour strategy chief Morgan McSweeney and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, the Prime Minister said most of the stories about her are “wildly wrong”.

The PM told BBC the briefings are “not helpful” to the Government, and suggested he would “deal” with briefings when he gets back from the trip to New York for the UN summit.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner warned “entitled men” not to undermine the “formidable” chief of staff. “Sue Gray is another working-class kid that’s worked her way up through the ranks and I wouldn’t underestimate her,” she told LBC.

Baroness Harriet Harman defended the chief of staff’s £170,000 salary, saying she was an “incredibly able person” getting “paid the rate for the job”.

The Labour grandee also argued that misogyny from male Labour staff was behind the attacks. “I think there is something about an older woman in authority that some young men find hard to put up with,” she told BBC Newsnight. 

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds denied claims Sir Keir had intervened to boost Ms Gray’s salary, telling Sky News pay rates was a civil service process that “hasn’t changed”.

And Health Secretary Wes Streeting made light of the flurry anti-Gray briefings at the Labour conference, joking that she was “hiding Lord Lucan and shot JFK”.

Comment This woman is Sir Keir Starmer’s Dominic Cummins without a brain. She is the perfect choice to defend the corrupt U.K Deep State.

R J Cook

Judge says controversial women-only art exhibit is legal

Hannah Ritchie

BBC News, Sydney

A controversial women’s-only museum exhibit could soon re-open in Australia, after an appeal judge overturned a ruling that it breached anti-discrimination laws.

The luxurious Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors from entering.

It was forced to shut in May when one affected patron sued the gallery for gender discrimination and won.

But on Friday, Tasmanian Supreme Court Justice Shane Marshall found that men could be excluded from the Ladies Lounge, because the law allows for discrimination if it promotes “equal opportunity” for a marginalised group.

“(The Ladies Lounge provides) women with a rare glimpse of what it is like to be advantaged rather than disadvantaged,” he said.

Kirsha Kaechele, the artist who created the exhibit, called the ruling a “big win”.

“It took 30 seconds for the decision to be delivered – 30 seconds to quash the patriarchy,” she said in a statement.

“Today’s verdict demonstrates a simple truth: women are better than men.”

Mona has a longstanding reputation for being provocative, and the exclusive opulence and pageantry of the the Ladies Lounge – which opened in 2020 and housed some of the museum’s most acclaimed works – is no different.

Ms Kaechele said that she had created the space to highlight the exclusion Australian women faced for decades, such as the decision to ban them from drinking in the main section of bars until 1965.

She described the exhibit as a “flipped universe” that provided a much needed “reset from this strange and disjointed world of male domination”.

But one man felt that the message was unlawful, and after being denied entry into the lounge last year, New South Wales native Jason Lau took his case to the Tasmania’s civil and administrative tribunal.

• A museum tried reverse misogyny. Now a man is suing
  • Published20 March

Representing himself throughout the case, he argued that the museum had violated the state’s anti-discrimination act by failing to provide “a fair provision of goods and services in line with the law” to him and other ticket holders who didn’t identify as female.

Mona had responded by claiming the rejection Mr Lau had felt was part of the artwork – so he hadn’t missed out – but the tribunal dismissed that reasoning. Further, it found that women no longer experienced the same level of exclusion from public spaces as they had in the past.

The new ruling will now send the case back to the tribunal, which will have to reconsider its judgement.

A spokesperson from Mona said that several steps remain before the lounge can officially re-open – including the tribunal’s updated ruling.

But the legal team representing the museum said Friday’s decision recognised the intended purpose of the Ladies Lounge “to highlight and challenge inequality that exists for woman in all spaces today”.

“I look forward to sharing what comes next. I think a celebration is in store,” Ms Kaechele added.

Olga Ivshina

Notice how the following BBC extract references 70.000 ‘people’ killed in Russian army were in fact all men. Also notice the ‘people’ in the above image of Ukrainian troops are all men. Women have a long history of cheering men off to war and handing out white feathers to who they have considered cowards. The battle field is one all male space that women have no desire to invade. Any all male art exhibitions would be outlawed as misogynistic with all exhibits scrutinised for signs of sexism. So men are expected to accept conscription to fight, be killed or maimed in rich men’s wars, like Ukraine. R J Cook

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More than 70,000 people Sic) fighting in Russia’s military have now died in Ukraine, according to data analysed by the BBC.

And for the first time, volunteers – civilians who joined the armed forces after the start of the war – now make up the highest number of people killed on the battlefield since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022.

Every day, the names of those killed in Ukraine, their obituaries and photographs from their funerals are published across Russia in the media and on social networks.

BBC Russian and the independent website Mediazona have collated these names, along with names from other open sources, including official reports.

September 16th 2024

Why Gut Health Issues Are More Common in Women

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By Stacey Colino

September 13, 2024 12:26 PM EDT

There’s a hidden gender gap when it comes to digestive problems, with women taking the lead in this unpleasant contest. While men are hardly immune to gastrointestinal woes, certain digestive problems are considerably more common in women. “Women aren’t broken—they’re just different,” says Dr. Jeanetta Frye, a gastroenterologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. For one thing, she says, “women have more visceral hypersensitivity so they may feel gastrointestinal symptoms more intensely.”

Symptom sensitivity aside, there’s clear evidence that certain digestive disorders are more likely to affect women than men. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)—a disorder that involves repeated bouts of abdominal pain and changes in bowel movements (diarrhea, constipation, or alternating bouts of the two)—is two to six times more common among women than men. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, affects twice as many women as men, according to the American College of Gastroenterology.

In addition, celiac disease—an autoimmune disorder that causes bloating, chronic diarrhea, constipation, gas, and other GI symptoms and is triggered by eating gluten—is diagnosed nearly twice as often in women as in men. And functional dyspepsia (a.k.a. chronic indigestion) is also more common in women. So is a lesser known brain-gut disorder called cyclic vomiting syndrome—characterized by recurrent episodes of nausea, vomiting, and dry heaving, separated by symptom-free periods in between, says Dr. David Levinthal, a gastroenterologist and director of the Neurogastroenterology and Motility Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Across the board, “disorders of gut-brain interaction are more prevalent in women than men,” Levinthal says, and the same is true of motility disorders like gastroparesis (delayed emptying of the stomach) and chronic constipation.

A mysterious gender gap

Why are women more susceptible to GI disorders? What is it about being born female that puts their digestive systems at risk? The answer is complicated and not completely understood.

This much is known: Reproductive hormones may play a role. “The female hormones estrogen and progesterone have a profound effect on the GI tract in terms of motility, pain sensitization, and how the brain delivers messages to the GI tract,” explains Dr. David Johnson, chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk and past president of the American College of Gastroenterology. As a result, women may experience flare-ups of GI disorders at certain times of the month (such as during menstruation) or during pregnancy.

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For another thing, “women have a more easily activated immune system than men do,” says Levinthal. This is significant because immune function, including inflammatory processes, plays a role in celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease.

What’s more, the gastrointestinal tract itself is longer in women, and that difference in length can affect transit time through the GI tract, Johnson says. In addition, women’s stomachs empty slightly more slowly than men’s do—“why that is isn’t known,” says Levinthal, but it may explain women’s greater susceptibility to gastroparesis. Research also suggests that the intestine’s nerve cells are more sluggish in women, which may be why IBS and gastroparesis are more common in women.

Another possible contributing factor has to do with psychological issues. “Anxiety and depression, which are more common in women than men, can worsen the severity of disordered gut function,” Levinthal says. “Feeling stressed or depressed or anxious is linked with how our guts work.” When you’re stressed out or anxious, you may be more likely to experience flare-ups of these GI disorders.

Giving your gut the right TLC

Regardless of gender, it’s important to “do everything you can to be proactive about your digestive health rather than just reactive,” Johnson says. That means staying well hydrated and consuming a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods (like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds), and lean protein, and avoiding sugary, highly processed foods.

Read More: 9 Weird Symptoms Cardiologists Say You Should Never Ignore

In particular, “fiber helps good bacteria flourish in the gut,” Johnson says, which contributes to the health of the gut microbiome, the community of bacteria and other microbes that naturally live in the GI tract. Research has found a strong correlation between gut bacteria and the risk of GI disorders such as IBS, IBD, and others.

Being proactive about your gut health also means taking steps to manage stress, get plenty of sleep, and exercise regularly. “The more you move your body, the more your gut is moving, too,” says Dr. Samuel Akinyeye, a gastroenterologist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. That movement is likely to help with many of these disorders.

If these measures don’t help sufficiently, there’s no reason to suffer alone. Medications and other treatments are available for all of these digestive disorders. “If you have symptoms you don’t understand, talk to a gastroenterologist,” Frye advises. “A lot of women are embarrassed to talk about their GI symptoms—I want them to feel empowered to discuss them. I tell my patients that it’s a safe space, and I’m not embarrassed to hear anything. This is why I’m here.”

September 15th 2024

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September 13th 2024

The “Peter Principle”: Why most companies are filled with people out of their depth – Jenny Thompson

Why would someone who has spent their entire career following orders become a great leader overnight?

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• In 1969, Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull coined the term the “Peter Principle” to express how competent workers get promoted to a point where they are no longer good at their jobs.
• For example, this can happen when people who have been followers for all their careers are suddenly expected to be leaders.
• Here we look at ways we can learn from the Peter Principle — and how we can avoid its pitfalls.

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But it’s too much, too early. The wheels start to wobble. Peter misses deadlines and forgets to reply to emails. He works late into the evening but never seems to get things done. He doesn’t have a lunchbox anymore because he doesn’t have time to eat lunch. Peter is stressed, anxious, and woefully out of his depth. He’s been overpromoted and he’s incompetent.

Peter feels isolated and alone, but Peter is not alone. All over his company there are people like him —people who have been promoted to a position they’re unable to do well. It’s a problem that cripples any bureaucracy, and it’s got a name: The Peter Principle.

The Peter Principle

In 1969, Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull wrote the book The Peter Principle, where they laid out the theory that all employees will, eventually, hit a point in organizational hierarchy where they are ill equipped to do their job. The book was originally intended to be a satire — a lighthearted observation that most people can identify with. Hull and Peter argued that anyone good at their job will, eventually, get promoted. And they’ll carry on getting promoted until they reach a point where they are not good at their job. At which point they’ll not be promoted anymore but will linger in their post, flailing around in a job they’re not competent enough to do. And so, the book argues, a company will eventually be made up predominantly by people who are ill-equipped to do their job well. It’s a hierarchy of incompetence — children, dressed in suits too big.

One example of how this happens is the fact that “good followers do not become good leaders.” To work your way up the ladder, you often have to follow the rules, obey instructions, and pepper your interactions with varying degrees of sycophancy. You’re aiming to be likeable and friendly without being ingratiating. And so, “good followers” get promoted. But there comes a point in a promotion cycle when you need to stop following and take the lead. You need out-of-the-box thinking and need to rally the troops for a brave, daring assault that no one else saw coming. What Hull and Peter point out is that it makes no sense at all to assume that someone who’s lived their career in unoriginal subordination would suddenly become Abraham Lincoln with a corner office.

Learning from Peter

Of course, not all companies are filled with incompetents, and the Peter Principle is not some law of fate. Here are three things we can learn from Hull and Peter’s idea and how we can avoid it.

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The learning pit. If you spend any time talking to teachers or parents, they’ll probably be able to tell you about “the learning pit.” The learning pit is where you throw a student a task that is far beyond their current abilities so that they can’t possibly achieve it yet. Then, with scaffolding and careful support, you help them climb out of the pit to fist-pumping success. The idea is that we all need a degree of pit-panic. We need to feel challenged and to struggle a bit if we’re to grow. No one gets stronger by lifting the same weight every day; you need to increase the load. The Peter Principle is not bad in itself but rather highlights the need to train or coach people “on the job.” With our opening story, we don’t know the ending. It might be that after a year of struggling, Peter learned competencies he didn’t know — he grew from the challenge and came out of the pit. But you cannot let someone drown before they’ve learned how to swim. Every promotion needs support. Every new role needs training.

The leadership gap. On Big Think+, the principal of Bersin by Deloitte, Josh Bersin, talks about “the leadership gap,” where companies around the world are finding it hard to recruit competent leaders. Echoing what Peter and Hull wrote 80 years ago, Bersin tells us, “Every individual performer, individual contributor who gets promoted to a supervisor or managerial job isn’t really taking on a new job. They’re really taking on a new profession.” For so much of our early working life, a certain skillset is required. That often involves following instructions and being a team player. Then, suddenly, we’re expected to give instructions and to be a team leader. Without some substantive transitional period between the two, we’re bound to meet this “leadership gap.” Of course, Bersin does not leave us empty-handed, and his advice on Big Think+ is invaluable.

Right person, wrong job. Sometimes, a promoted employee cannot be trained up suitably for a new role. Sometimes, their skillset simply won’t bend to the needs of the job, and their natural work style isn’t right for that title. In this case, what do you do? It seems silly to fire the person since they were clearly hugely competent up to this point. In our modern work culture, it’s hard to demote a person — pride and “Oh, I just bought a new house” put a stop to that. The best solution, sometimes, is to create a job that suits that person better. Or, better yet, to move them sideways to a position where their skillset will be better applied. History is littered with examples of this. Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant writer but unskilled at speaking, so he was given the role of drafting the Declaration of Independence while Samuel Adams handled the oratory. Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976, but after the company went public in 1980, he soon found managerial roles hard work and so consciously turned to engineering and innovation. In 2019, Xin Jin of University of South Florida and Michael Waldman of Cornell University concluded that “lateral moves” like this were correlated with job satisfaction and wage increases. The paper contains proven and practical advice about how any company can implement lateral moves well.

September 10th 2024

Former partner accused of killing Rebecca Cheptegei dies in hospital from burns

• Hospital confirms Dickson Ndiema Marangach’s death
• Olympian Cheptegei, 33, died days after being set on fire

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The former partner of Ugandan athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who had been accused of killing her by dousing her in petrol and setting her on fire, has died from burns sustained during the attack, the Kenyan hospital where he was being treated said on Tuesday.

Cheptegei, 33, who competed in the marathon at the Paris Olympics, suffered burns to more than 75% of her body in the 1 September attack and died four days later.

Her former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema Marangach, died at 7.50pm local time on Monday, said Daniel Lang’at, a spokesperson at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret in western Kenya, where Cheptegei was also treated and died. “He died from his injuries, the burns he sustained,” Lang’at told Reuters.Quick Guide

Cheptegei, who finished 44th in Paris, is the third elite sportswoman to be killed in Kenya since October 2021. Her death has put the spotlight on domestic violence in the East African country, particularly within its running community.

Rights groups say female athletes in Kenya are at a high risk of exploitation and violence at the hands of men drawn to their prize money, which far exceeds local incomes.Rebecca Cheptegei’s family speak after death of runner set on fire by former partner – video

Nearly 34% of Kenyan girls and women aged 15-49 years have suffered physical violence, according to government data from 2022, with married women at particular risk. The 2022 survey found that 41% of married women had faced violence.

Globally, a woman is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes, according to a 2023 UN Women study.

Comment Most of the killings are in the Third World. Women who are dumoed or dump their ex partners have more subtle ways of killing a man. False domestic violence and false rape being high on their list when it comes to character assassination.

Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei’s attacker dies in hospital

Dickson Ndiema Marangach doused Cheptegei in petrol and set her on fire, leading to her death in Kenya on Sunday.

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The man who attacked Ugandan runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died from injuries sustained when he poured petrol over the Olympic athlete, the Kenyan hospital treating him said.

Police said that Dickson Ndiema Marangach assaulted Cheptegei in her home in western Kenya on September 1. The mother of two sustained 80 percent burns and died last week.

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In the course of the attack, Marangach also incurred 30 percent burns and was being treated in the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya’s Rift Valley city of Eldoret.

Marangach died at 7:50pm local time (16:50 GMT) on Monday, Daniel Lang’at, a spokesperson at the hospital said.

“He died from his injuries, the burns he sustained,” Lang’at told the Reuters news agency.

Police in Kenya said Marangach snuck into her home in Endebess, near the border with Uganda, while she was at church with her children aged nine and 11.

R J Cook

August 27th 2024

Ofcom is the regulator for online safety in the UK, under the Online Safety Act. Our job is to make sure online services, like sites and apps, meet their duties to protect their users.

Does Ofcom regulate social media?

Instead, our role is to make sure social media sites and other regulated online services have appropriate systems and processes in place to protect their users. Importantly, in our role as online safety regulator, we will always take into account people’s rights, including freedom of expression and privacy.

Online safety rules: what you need to know – Ofcom

August 24th 2024

‘I turned to bodybuilding at 75 following a cancer diagnosis’

‘I’ve always been confident in myself, but this was a new level of acceptance’By Marilynn Larkin As Told To Talene AppletonPublished: 21 August 2024

Marilynn Larkin

After I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2023, my world was turned upside down, but I refused to let fear take over—I wanted to do something. So six months ago, I picked up
the phone to call the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation for more information before signing up to compete.

The promoters were thrilled to hear I was interested because they want more representation in the Masters (over 50) age group, especially in the women’s division. I’m currently 75 and I felt my participation could make a meaningful impact for the sport and in my own life.

Natural bodybuilding is all about building up your muscles and “sculpting” your physique the old-fashioned way—without steroids or any of those artificial enhancers. Just good, clean hard work, lots of lifting weights, and eating right. I competed once before—but that was 22 years ago.

My relationship with fitness began in my childhood as a tomboy who loved movement. I’m a mover and a doer—I’ve always loved to move

My love for physical activity blossomed through college, where I fenced and danced, among other badass and acrobatic pursuits. I don’t have many regrets in life, but I do wish I learned martial arts.

Marilynn Larkin

Marilynn at a dance class in New York City.

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When the fitness movement gained momentum in the 70s, I dove in head first, becoming involved with fitness studios like Elaine Powers Figure Salons (what a throwback!)

I decided to start working out with a personal trainer, who encouraged me to enter my first bodybuilding competition

I was 54 at the time, and the oldest person competing. I placed in the competition, but I wasn’t particularly interested in signing up for another one. I quickly realised that what I loved most about bodybuilding was the training process, not game day.

Throughout my training phase, people would stop me in the gym and on the street to ask me what I eat, how I train, or tell me I inspired them. I loved the feeling of inspiring others just by doing something I genuinely love, which ultimately motivated me to get my personal training and group fitness certifications in 2005.

I quickly realised that what I loved most about bodybuilding was the training process, not game day.

While I was working with clients as a personal trainer, I recognised a strong connection between posture, confidence, and self esteem. I went on to develop a posture program using resistance bands and I traveled around New York City to teach it at various professional conferences and schools.

Fast forward to 2023: My routine was disrupted emerging from the pandemic, leading me to delay seeking medical attention for a lump I initially attributed to soreness from doing 80+ pushups per day. By the time I sought help, the cancer had progressed, ultimately metastasising to my liver. Despite the severity of my diagnosis, I opted for lumpectomies and radiation over mastectomy and chemotherapy, prioritising my quality of life and minimising time away from the fitness routines that allow me to feel centred and at my best.

Marilynn Larkin

Marilynn posing at her first natural bodybuilding competition in 2002.

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Bodybuilding was more than just a physical challenge; it was a journey of self-acceptance, empowerment, and relentless commitment to myself

I knew I needed a challenge to help me move forward with my life following the diagnosis and I immediately thought of bodybuilding. The sport is all about allowing your body to reach its full potential and accepting it as it is, which is just what I needed. Preparing for the competition involved a 16-week training program under the guidance of my trainer (even though I’m a trainer, I like working with a trainer for my own workouts), who I’d been working with for three years and trusted completely. Despite setbacks from my cancer treatment, I was determined to rebuild my strength with conservative progressive overload, thoughtful programming, and a focus on balance and symmetry in my physique.

During those 16 weeks, I strength trained an average of three times a week and did cardio twice a week. My trainer made sure to vary the exercises to keep sessions challenging and prevent plateaus. We transitioned from my typical program of doing three sets of 10 reps at a particular weight to heavier weights with four sets of eight reps on average, targeting areas of my body that needed more focus, like my lower body, which I’ve always found tough to work on. We mixed up the exercises often—for example, switching up my favourite exercise, cable rows, to bent-over rows, single-arm rows, and other variations—to ensure that my muscles were consistently being pushed in different ways.

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In addition to in-person sessions with my trainer, I also worked with a virtual coach who taught me the bodybuilding poses and created an on-stage routine for me. So, I was pretty busy with three sessions per week at the gym and online group and private coaching workshops.

Mentally, the journey was tough but incredibly rewarding. I had to overcome the self-consciousness caused by the physical changes from my cancer, such as swelling in my belly from the liver metastasis. Before I could step on stage in front of a bunch of strangers in a spray tan and minimal clothing, I first had to accept the way I looked. I’ve always been confident in myself, but this experience demanded a new level of acceptance and reinforced my belief that physical fitness and mental resilience are deeply intertwined.

In June 2024, I competed in my second-ever bodybuilding competition

I placed first in the Masters division of the Hercules Pro/Am World Natural Bodybuilding Federation in White Plains, New York.

Fitness, for me, has always been about the journey, not the outcome. It’s not about winning or losing, it’s about pushing my limits, trusting my body, and finding joy in the process. However I must admit, this accomplishment felt pretty amazing, and I’m still amazed that I did it.

My cancer has remained stable throughout the last year, and I’ve chosen to continue living with it rather than opting for aggressive treatment. I had thought about entering another competition taking place this September, but realised it would be too much along with launching my new motivational and posture platform, GET UNBENT. I’m planning to compete next in early spring 2026! Meanwhile, I’m training hard so I maintain my gains, while enjoying a respite from the pre-comp diet.

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Marilynn posing on stage at the Hercules International Natural Bodybuilding Federation competition in White Plains, New York in June 2024.

These four factors were key to my strength transformation success

1. I found a trainer who I trusted completely and who played an indispensable role

Having someone guide me through a results-driven strength training program made all the difference, allowing me to feel supported throughout the journey. My trainer’s approach was not just about lifting heavier weights but also about ensuring symmetry and balance in my physique, which is so crucial for bodybuilding. We focused on areas that needed improvement, and my trainer always adapted the routine based on my needs and any limitations. This trust and consistent communication were crucial, especially during my recovery period when I had to rebuild my strength.

2. I didn’t let fear take over during the bodybuilding prep process and ever since my cancer diagnosis

I like to say, ‘Feel your fear, then go through it.’ I don’t want to say I never felt fear—I was scared to death after my diagnosis. But then I realised, there’s so much more I want to do, and bodybuilding became a way to push through my fears. It’s all about giving yourself permission to find what lights you up, then go after it.

3. I focused on the journey, not just the outcome

I gave myself permission to not let self-consciousness hold me back from pursuing this goal, regardless of what the finish line would look like. Practicing self-acceptance throughout my training (and life!) and finding support in my community throughout this process was paramount.

4. I continued to prioritise my nutrition.

As soon as I received my cancer diagnosis, I cut out alcohol and fried foods, cut way back on sugar, and committed to a clean diet. This made my bodybuilding prep smoother since I was already eating this way. I don’t view it as discipline, but as a commitment to myself and my goals. During prep, meals became simpler and more focused on fuelling my body for the rigorous training ahead.

Marilynn Larkin

Marilynn and a dance partner ballroom dancing in New York City.

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August 18th 2024

Mumsnet has its flaws, but the depth of experience shared …

The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › article › may › mumsn…

11 May 2024 — … Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. … Some of this resistance is good old-fashioned misogyny, but some is valid.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a columnist, feature writer and editor for the Guardian newspaper. In 2012 she co-founded The Vagenda, a feminist blog which was published in book form by Vintage. In 2014 Rhiannon was short-listed for a press award for young journalist of the year.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett was born in London, raised in Wales, and has lived in France and Italy. She now lives in North London with her husband and her cat, Mackerel.

She writes columns and reviews fiction for the Guardian, where she also edits part-time. She has also written for the Observer Magazine, i newspaper, Vogue, TIME, the New Statesman, Stylist, Elle, and many other publications.

Her first novel, The Tyranny of Lost Things, was about trauma and memory and was published by Sandstone Press in 2018. She also co-wrote The Vagenda (based on the successful feminist satire website of the same name) with Holly Baxter, which was published by Vintage. She is writing a second novel, Female, Nude, which is about art, class, and femininity, and is set in Greece, and her new book, The Year of the Cat, a work of creative non-fiction, is forthcoming.

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81-year-old woman becomes oldest person to have gender ..

Ruth Rose, a former RAF navigator who has three children with her ex-wife, began transitioning to female four years ago, aged 77. As well as undergoing hormone treatment, in July she went under the knife and became the oldest person in the UK to have gender surgery.

What age can you get gender reassignment surgery in the UK?

The age for accessing medical NHS gender identity treatment is decided on by the NHS, not the Gender Recognition Act. Surgical treatment is not available to people under 18. Cross-sex hormones are available to those aged 16 and above under guidance.

How long is the NHS waiting list for gender reassignment surgery?

Transgender health services are one of several NHS services that have recorded increasing waiting times over the years. The number of cases on the overall NHS list for consultant-led elective care, reached 7.6 million in January 2024, with some waits being more than two years, according to the most recent data .20 Mar 2024

Do all humans start as females?

During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female. After approximately 6 to 7 weeks of gestation, however, the expression of a gene on the Y chromosome induces changes that result in the development of the testes.

August 16th 2024

What parents get wrong about raising boys – iNews

What parents get wrong about raising boysinews.co.ukhttps://inews.co.uk › Lifestyle

How to raise happy, well-adjusted sons amid toxic masculinity? One author and mother of boys says she’s found something parents miss. Marisa Bates has the answer to raising boys in an age of ‘toxic masculinity.’

In her new book, BoyMum: Raising Boys in an Age of Toxic Masculinity, she spoke to dozens of young men and a wide range of experts and specialists to understand what is to be part of what she describes as a “microgeneration” – those who were entering puberty, aged around 11 or 12, just as Hollywood kick-started #MeToo

How To Break the Cycle of Toxic Masculinity

1. Don’t be afraid to accept help, ask for help, and receive help from others.
2. Allow other people to be their authentic selves.
3. Avoid judging others or tearing them down simply for who they are.
4. Pursue your own self-development.
5. Work on reducing and controlling your hostile behavior.

At what point does masculinity become toxic?

Toxic masculinity is a term that has been gaining traction in the past few years. This term refers to the dominant form of masculinity wherein men use dominance, violence, and control to assert their power and superiority.

Incorporate these nine ideas for raising boys without toxic masculinity with your own, so you and your family can be part of the solution.

1. 1Ditch Harmful Phrases. …
2. 2Talk About LGBTQIA+ People. …
3. 3Teach Respect For Women’s Bodies. …
4. 4Slash The Sexual Conqueror Myth. …
5. 5Call Out Wrongness. …
6. 6Reframe Expectations. …
7. 7Have Check-Ins.

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Comment These are definitely not my views, which will follow soon. R J Cook

August 14th 2024

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Statistics on Male Victims of Domestic Abuse – ManKind Initiative

Over 483,000 men and 964,000 women are victims of partner abuse. (ONS 2022/23). One in seven men (13.9%) and one in four women (27%) will be a victim of domestic abuse in their lifetime (ONS figures 2022/23).

Richard Spencer case highlights female on male abuse …Today’s Family Lawyerhttps://todaysfamilylawyer.co.uk › richard-spencer-case…

28 Mar 2024 — In a case called “the worst incidence of controlling and coercive … cases centre around male to female abuse. Charity Women’s Aid …

Man burnt and cut by ex-girlfriend in horrific domestic …The Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk › UK › Home News

21 Feb 2019 — Alex Skeel, 22, recently shared his story of domestic violence in a BBC documentary Abused By My Girlfriend, where he described the horrific …

Male domestic abuse: stories of men like youMen’s Advice Line UKhttps://mensadviceline.org.uk › Male victims

Male domestic abuse: stories of men like you … Before Thomas was born, I bought a house in my own name (she told me that she had bad credit, so couldn’t go on …

Male domestic abuse victims ‘sleeping in cars and tents’BBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-england-54237409

24 Sept 2020 — Bradford-based charity Men Standing Up takes male domestic abuse referrals from across the country. … worse.” Ean Monk from the charity said: ” …

Domestic Violence Varies by EthnicityVerywell Mindhttps://www.verywellmind.com › domestic-violence-va…

25 Oct 2023 — And because abuse is not widely discussed by both victims and perpetrators, many speculate intimate partner violence is probably vastly under- ..

Male victims of domestic abuse: a hidden problem, worse as …silvermagazine.co.ukhttps://silvermagazine.co.uk › male-victims-of-domesti…

Male victims of domestic abuse: a hidden problem that gets worse as we get older. 24/04/2019Sam Harrington-LoweAgeing, Coming of Age, Date order, Family, …

This thing about male victimsKaren Ingala Smithhttps://kareningalasmith.com › 2013/04/29 › this-thing…

29 Apr 2013 — It is about domestic abuse and/or conflict, not domestic violence · The data does not differentiate between cases where there is one incident of …

Black people

Although completely accurate numbers are not easily available, researchers generally agree that, among ethnic minority groups in the United States, Black people are the most likely to experience domestic violence—either male-to-female or female-to-male—followed by Hispanic people and White people.25 Oct 2023

Domestic abuse 2020 Archived – Ethnicity facts and figuresGOV.UKhttps://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk › latest

26 Feb 2021 — Domestic abuse includes non-sexual abuse, sexual assault and stalking. You can read more about the definition of domestic abuse used in the …

What countries does this apply to?

• England
• Scotland
• Wales

Article 10 protects your right to hold your own opinions

Article 10 protects your right to hold your own opinions and to express them freely without government interference.

This includes the right to express your views aloud (for example through public protest and demonstrations) or through:

• published articles, books or leaflets
• television or radio broadcasting
• works of art
• the internet and social media

The law also protects your freedom to receive information from other people by, for example, being part of an audience or reading a magazine.

Restrictions to the right to freedom of expression

Although you have freedom of expression, you also have a duty to behave responsibly and to respect other people’s rights.

Public authorities may restrict this right if they can show that their action is lawful, necessary and proportionate in order to:

• protect national security, territorial integrity (the borders of the state) or public safety
• prevent disorder or crime
• protect health or morals
• protect the rights and reputations of other people
• prevent the disclosure of information received in confidence
• maintain the authority and impartiality of judges

An authority may be allowed to restrict your freedom of expression if, for example, you express views that encourage racial or religious hatred.

However, the relevant public authority must show that the restriction is ‘proportionate’, in other words that it is appropriate and no more than necessary to address the issue concerned.  

Using this right – example

This right is particularly important for journalists and other people working in the media.

They must be free to criticise the government and our public institutions without fear of prosecution – this is a vital feature of a democratic society.

But that doesn’t prevent the state from imposing restrictions on the media in order to protect other human rights, such as a person’s right to respect for their private life.

Example case – Observer and The Guardian v United Kingdom [1991]

The Guardian and The Observer newspapers published excerpts from Peter Wright’s book Spycatcher, which included allegations that MI5 had acted unlawfully.

The government obtained a court order preventing the newspapers from printing further material until proceedings relating to a breach of confidence had finished.

But when the book was published, The Guardian complained that the continuation of the court order infringed the right to freedom of expression.

The European Court of Human Rights said that the court order was lawful because it was in the interests of national security.

However, it also said that that wasn’t enough reason to continue the newspaper publication ban once the book had been published, because the information was no longer confidential anyway. 

What the law says

This text is taken directly from the Human Rights Act.

Article 10 of the Human Rights Act: Freedom of expression

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

Article 11 protects your right to protest by holding meetings and demonstrations with other people

You also have the right to form and be part of a trade union, a political party or any another association or voluntary group. Nobody has the right to force you to join a protest, trade union, political party or another association.

Restrictions to the right to freedom of assembly and association

There are some situations where a public authority can restrict your rights to freedom of assembly and association.

This is only the case where the authority can show that its action is lawful, necessary and proportionate in order to:

• protect national security or public safety
• prevent disorder or crime
• protect health or morals, or
• protect the rights and freedoms of other people.

Action is ‘proportionate’ when it is appropriate and no more than necessary to address the issue concerned.  

You may face a wider range of restrictions if you work for the armed forces, the police or the Civil Service.

What the law says

This text is taken directly from the Human Rights Act.

Article 11: Freedom of assembly and association

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

2. No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights other than such as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. This article shall not prevent the imposition of lawful restrictions on the exercise of these rights by members of the armed forces, of the police or of the administration of the state. 

Example case

In August 2010, the English Defence League (EDL) planned a protest in Bradford. A counter demonstration by Unite Against Fascism was also planned. Some local people wanted the protest banned and there were concerns about a repeat of the violent clashes that had happened at previous EDL events. West Yorkshire Police had a duty to protect the protest unless there was clear evidence that violence would occur. They examined the human rights aspect of the situation and talked to local people, in particular the Muslim community, about the right to peaceful protest. After this explanation the community realised that the police had to allow the protest. Community groups worked with the police to persuade young people not to get involved in criminal activity on the day.

See the publication ‘Human rights, human lives: a guide to the Human Rights Act for public authorities’ for more examples and legal case studies that show how human rights work in practice.

Article 10 protects your right to hold your own opinions

Article 10 protects your right to hold your own opinions and to express them freely without government interference.

This includes the right to express your views aloud (for example through public protest and demonstrations) or through:

• published articles, books or leaflets
• television or radio broadcasting
• works of art
• the internet and social media

The law also protects your freedom to receive information from other people by, for example, being part of an audience or reading a magazine.

Restrictions to the right to freedom of expression

Although you have freedom of expression, you also have a duty to behave responsibly and to respect other people’s rights.

Public authorities may restrict this right if they can show that their action is lawful, necessary and proportionate in order to:

• protect national security, territorial integrity (the borders of the state) or public safety
• prevent disorder or crime
• protect health or morals
• protect the rights and reputations of other people
• prevent the disclosure of information received in confidence
• maintain the authority and impartiality of judges

An authority may be allowed to restrict your freedom of expression if, for example, you express views that encourage racial or religious hatred.

However, the relevant public authority must show that the restriction is ‘proportionate’, in other words that it is appropriate and no more than necessary to address the issue concerned.  

Using this right – example

This right is particularly important for journalists and other people working in the media.

They must be free to criticise the government and our public institutions without fear of prosecution – this is a vital feature of a democratic society.

But that doesn’t prevent the state from imposing restrictions on the media in order to protect other human rights, such as a person’s right to respect for their private life.

Example case – Observer and The Guardian v United Kingdom [1991]

The Guardian and The Observer newspapers published excerpts from Peter Wright’s book Spycatcher, which included allegations that MI5 had acted unlawfully.

The government obtained a court order preventing the newspapers from printing further material until proceedings relating to a breach of confidence had finished.

But when the book was published, The Guardian complained that the continuation of the court order infringed the right to freedom of expression.

The European Court of Human Rights said that the court order was lawful because it was in the interests of national security.

However, it also said that that wasn’t enough reason to continue the newspaper publication ban once the book had been published, because the information was no longer confidential anyway. 

What the law says

This text is taken directly from the Human Rights Act.

Article 10 of the Human Rights Act: Freedom of expression

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

August 13th 2024

The Guardian – Transgender

Waiting list for children’s gender care rose after opening of new specialist hubs More than 5,700 under-18s in England and Wales by end May were waiting an average of 100 weeks for first appointment …

Hilary Cass & The Cass Report

Hilary Cass completed her early education at the City of London School for Girls. She studied at the Royal Free hospital medical school, graduating with a degree in medicine in 1982.

Dr Hilary Cass OBE is a consultant in Paediatric Disability at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health between 2012 and 2015, and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to child health.

Hilary has had two driving passions throughout her career; firstly, to develop inclusive, multi-professional models of care for children and young people, which cut across the boundaries between hospital, community, and primary care settings, and secondly to empower doctors in training to take control of their lives and the environment in which they work, because she believes that they are the best engineers of the future NHS.

After qualifying at Royal Free Hospital, London in 1982, Hilary trained as a general paediatrician, and then went on to develop her higher specialist training in the field of disability. She has held clinical consultant roles in three tertiary centres.

Over the years her clinical interests have included children with autistic spectrum disorders, children with cognitive impairment secondary to epilepsy, children with visual impairment, and management of children with multiple disabilities, with particular reference to feeding and communication problems. She runs a national service for children with Rett syndrome and has published widely in this area.

Since 2008, recognising the important interface between disability and palliative care, she started to take on a more active clinical role in this area. She established the Paediatric Palliative Care Service at Evelina London, before moving into her role as RCPCH President.

She attended the exclusive City of London School for Girls School ? The Cass Review was commissioned by NHS England in 2020, after a sharp rise in the number of patients referred to the NHS who were questioning their gender. In 2011-12 there were just under 250 referrals to the service; in 2021 – 22 the number had risen to over 5,000 referrals. The response was a ​“gender-affirming” approach to care, putting children on a life-altering path involving puberty blockers and hormone treatment. Vulnerable young people overwhelmed the service demanding medical interventions – despite a lack of evidence on the long-term effects.

Peter Lynas of the Evangelical Alliance writes :’ The Bible reminds us that we are made in the image of God. This is what grounds the Christian belief that all human beings must be treated with respect, love and dignity. From this flows the unique and transcendent value of every human being, the equality of every person and our understanding of inherent human rights.

…while the Cass Review obviously doesn’t contain a theological section, its conclusions are largely consistent with the biblical picture.

God created human beings in His image, both male and female. Man and woman are distinct, possessing equal value, made to glorify Him and together reflect His image. The human body, and therefore biological sex, is an intrinsic part of human identity. Cross-gender identification is problematic because it distorts the creational order of male and female.

A Christian Response to Cass

So, here are some of the key conclusions of the Cass Review that Christians should care about. The report highlights the ​“wholly inadequate” evidence for the medical pathway and instead recommends more holistic treatment. It highlights concerns around social transitioning – which means treating a child as their preferred gender in terms of name, pronouns and clothing choices. Dr Cass says that young children should have therapy before they are allowed to socially transition. In fact, the report says under-25s should not be rushed into changing gender, but should receive ​“unhurried, holistic, therapeutic support.” These ​“life-changing” decisions must be properly considered in adulthood as the report notes that brain maturation continues into the mid-20s.

Childhood trauma, neglect and abuse feature heavly in the cohort of patients seeking gender changes, the report shows. Puberty blockers and hormone drugs should not be given until a child is at least 18, and there was no evidence the drugs ​‘buy time to think’ or ​‘reduce suicide risk’. The report also looks at why so many younger females are wanting to change gender and highlights an anxious, distressed and digital generation who consume more social media, are exposed to more online porn, and have lower self-esteem and more body hang-ups – particularly young women and girls. This correlates with Jonathan Haidt’s research and his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.’

Comment I think it is amusing when religious fanatics quote science, in their defence. But if we subsitute the word Nature for God, then we should see sense in what Lynas is saying. The difficulty in dealing with the problem of little boys wanting to be little girls or vice versa, is how can one challenge how vested intersts, such as feminism and resultant marginalising and blaming men for everything deemed bad. TERF feminists hate transsexuals. But blaming men, notably white men because feminists see black men as fellow victims, is just another arrogant attack on nature – or God.

Religous extremism flourishes in a society where billionaires like J K Rowling espouse that transsexuals are all rapists.That is the sort of hate speech that motivated young Brianna Ghey’s weird sick sadistic killers. Dr Hilary Cass is from a very privileged background and should not be allowed the last word on this subject when it comes to the psychology. The psychology of one parent families and deprivation is the big issue here.

The solutions are more complex than Cass condemining the medication. Young western people are dying of all sorts of drugs, including the anti psychotics that turn them into zombies and suicide cases. Religion has no place in this world. That includes Islam, because Marx was quite correct calling religion the opium of the masses. I say my prayers every day and have done so since childhood. It is an animal instinct. Talking to God makes many of us feel less alone when we are alone. But I would never be an acolyte of the mainstream churches because they are just as much in the business of social control as children’s gender identity clinics. Religions are, including Islam, key operators in the world of politics, with money in charge of their operations. They have little, if anything to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

R J Cook

Cass Review: Gender care report author attacks ‘misinformation’

• Published

• 20 April

By Thomas Mackintosh

BBC News

The author of the landmark Cass review into gender identity services for young people says she is “very angry” about “misinformation” spread about her work.

Dr Hilary Cass’s review this month found “remarkably weak” evidence on treatments such as puberty blockers.

The physician told the BBC some claims spread online about her evidence were “completely incorrect”.

She said adults who “deliberately spread misinformation” put young people at risk, which was “unforgivable”.

The Cass report, external, published on 10 April, looked at gender identity services for under-18s in NHS England.

It found gender medicine to be operating on “shaky foundations, external” when it came to the evidence for medical treatment like prescribing hormones to pause puberty or to transition to the opposite sex.

It said: “The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”

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Watch: Dr Hilary Cass discussed gender care for children after her review was published

Speaking to the BBC’s More or Less: Behind the Stats podcast, Dr Cass was asked about particular claims spread online about her review – one that “98% of the evidence” was ignored or dismissed by her, and one that she would only include gold-standard “double-blind randomised control” trials in the review.

She said the 98% claim was “completely incorrect”.

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A total of 103 scientific papers were analysed by her review, with 2% considered high quality, and 98% not.

“There were quite a number of studies that were considered to be moderate quality, and those were all included in the analysis,” she said.

“So nearly 60% of the studies were actually included in what’s called the synthesis.”

And on the “double-blind” claim – where patients are randomly assigned to a treatment or placebo group, getting either medicine or nothing – she said “obviously” young people could not be blinded as to whether or not they were on puberty blockers or hormones because “it rapidly becomes obvious to them”.

“But that of itself is not an issue because there are many other areas where that would apply,” she said.

“If you were doing a trial, say, of acupuncture, people would know exactly what treatment that they were getting.”

August 9th 2024

Britain’s oldest transgender person: ‘I became a woman at 81’

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This week, charity Age UK announced they are offering advice on gender change, to support the growing number of over-60s seeking the operation. This announcement has been applauded by 85-year-old gran Ruth Rose, who underwent gender reassignment surgery herself aged 81 – making her one of Britain’s oldest transgender people.

Born James, Ruth knew she wanted to be female since she was nine years old. Unable to live the life she yearned for, she married a woman and had three children. But, in the end, Ruth had to reveal her true self, and four years ago finally underwent the surgery she says made her achieve total acceptance as a female.

Ruth joins us with her story.

Invited to the freak show – by R J Cook

Comment More to come on this issue, including how two vested interest police forces conspired to present me as clinically insane, corrupted my medical care with triage input to my GP who duly forwarded it to the police who have had major problems recognising my status as a woman. Thames Valley Police even used fabricated evidence to arrest and detain me in February 2018 on the basis that I had sent senior officers evidence of myself working for my eldest son and his criminal associates as a ‘gay escort’ in a home based brothel.

My home was raided by 7 Thames Valley Police Officers to search my home, confiscating vital property, including mobile phones , computers, and documents in the hope of finding evidence of as many offences as possible to add to my already substantial criminal record ( sic ). They were led by the promising then young Acting CID Constable Bellamy who eventually took me to Crown Court in September 2018, for leaving upsetting progressively rude messages on his phone because he would not update me on his ‘investigations’ ( sic ).

All of this was misrepresented to the GIC, via my GP Dr R Kamble forwarding correspondence, as a criminal conviction when in fact the female judge said : “I listened to your messages in the order they were made. You started with a polite request for information. Increasingly frustrated, you ended up simply doing what the Ameriacans call venting.”

Reverting to her magistrates powers, she gave me a six month conditional discharge. However, in 2021, I discovered that the matter was still on record and presented as a serious criminal conviction for malicious communication and harassment.

This was all fed to the Gender Identity as fact for the purposes of character assassination and avoiding facing legal action. It is how Andrew Malkinson did 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit and for which the only evidence against him was a CPS conspiracy of lies.

That is what the police do to protect themselves. This gross misconduct toward me led to a psychiatric assessment that I am a paranoid schizophrenic, bi polar, alcoholic unfit for gender reassignment surgery unless I accepted powerful anti psychotic drugs. As I pointed out at the time, if I had taken those drugs, then I would not have known whether I was a mouse or a monkey, let alone a woman.

Directed to intervene by the London Gender Identity Clinic, in the run up to my gender reassignment surgery, the psychiatrist Dr Christopher Ramsay from Aylesbury’s Whiteleaf Centre made a surprise one hour visit 15 minutes after I had returned from a long overnight HGV shift on March 19th 2019. Working at the GIC’s behest, Ramsay was well briefed, going through the motions and acting on police input. Bearing in mind it was winter time and I had been driving for hundreds of miles and handballing freight, Ramsay used my talking too fast to get rid of him, as pressured speech and a sure sign of schizophrenia. He was accompanied by a large African male mental health nurse in case I got ‘uppity’ and a young male student psychiatrist who had been invited to the freak show.

Ramsay lied on subsequent record, that I had refused a second assessment. He concluded that I am a paranoid schizophrenic, delusional, bi polar long term alcoholic but ‘didn’t need hospital yet.’ Among other things, he informed my GP that if I saw all of the police and medical records on me, then I would be very upset. He added that I was more likely to die by misadventure than suicide.

That is life in police state Britain, a progressively authoritarian kingdom that makes Russia look like wonderland when they want it to be more like the U.K and what its elite allies across the western world require. The recent English so called far right riots are being blamed on Russia and used as an excuse for more and stronger policing. The causes of such social unrest must never be considered. Social media companies must face tougher laws with serious consequences for non compliance.

Within 3 days of his March 19th 2019 visit, Ramsay had uploaded a report to my NHS Records. Mental Health judgements are profound. Once a person has been labelled there is always public doubt and even fear. As I have discovered, this highly favoured police scenario when all else fails, can be very hard if not impossible to escape.

Because of this, my driving licence, vital to what was then a 12 year period as a commercial driver, was invalidated, getting me fired, costing me well over £`100,000 in net lost income to date and pushing me ever closer to bankruptcy.

The system, with its key operatives, puts its’ collective and careers first. Whistle blowers are damned. Ultimately, ordinary people, at the bottom of the social herarchy, do not matter. That is why there are so many miscarriages of justice and NHS failures. The police, who apart from computers, have faced no serious effective reform since they were created in the Victorian age, starting with Peel’s 1829 Metropolitan Police Act. This was primarily to protect the rich, which is what they exist and are expanding for now.

That second psychiatric assessment took me four years of internet posts and complaints, with more serious trouble from the police, to achieve. When at last it came in March 2024, I faced a more than competent female psychiatrist, with time, patience and skill to consider the evidence over time – as required by law.

The current legal sitiation and related work is restricting my time for writing editorial here. However, I hope to return to the sites main pages, and the wider world, shortly. At the moment, I have a 15,000 word legal document to complete.

R J Cook

August 5th 2024

World’s biggest iceberg spins in ocean trap

Jonathan Amos and Erwan Rivault

BBC News

• Published4 August 2024

Something remarkable has happened to A23a, the world’s biggest iceberg.

For months now it has been spinning on the spot just north of Antarctica when really it should be racing along with Earth’s most powerful ocean current.

Scientists say the frozen block, which is more than twice the size of Greater London, has been captured on top of a huge rotating cylinder of water.

It’s a phenomenon oceanographers call a Taylor Column – and it’s possible A23a might not escape its jailer for years.

“Usually you think of icebergs as being transient things; they fragment and melt away. But not this one,” observed polar expert Prof Mark Brandon.

“A23a is the iceberg that just refuses to die,” the Open University researcher told BBC News.

The berg’s longevity is well documented. It broke free from the Antarctic coastline way back in 1986, but then almost immediately got stuck in the bottom-muds of the Weddell Sea.

For three decades it was a static “ice island”. It didn’t budge. It wasn’t until 2020 that it re-floated and started to drift again, slowly at first, before then charging north towards warmer air and waters.

In early April this year, A23a stepped into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) – a juggernaut that moves a hundred times as much water around the globe as all Earth’s rivers combined.

This was meant to put boosters on the near-trillion-tonne berg, rifling it up into the South Atlantic and certain oblivion.

Instead, A23a went precisely nowhere. It remains in place just north of South Orkney Islands, turning in an anti-clockwise direction by about 15 degrees a day. And as long as it does this, its decay and eventual demise will be delayed.

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A23a has not grounded again; there is at least a thousand metres of water between its underside and the seafloor.

It’s been stopped in its tracks by a type of vortex first described in the 1920s by a brilliant physicist, Sir G.I. (Geoffrey Ingram) Taylor, external.

The Cambridge academic was a pioneer in the field of fluid dynamics, and was even brought into the Manhattan Project to model the likely stability of the world’s first atomic bomb test.

Prof Taylor showed how a current that meets an obstruction on the seafloor can – under the right circumstances – separate into two distinct flows, generating a full-depth mass of rotating water between them.

In this instance, the obstruction is a 100km-wide bump on the ocean bottom known as Pirie Bank. The vortex sits on top of the bank, and for now A23a is its prisoner.

“The ocean is full of surprises, and this dynamical feature is one of the cutest you’ll ever see,” said Prof Mike Meredith from the British Antarctic Survey.

“Taylor Columns can also form in the air; you see them in the movement of clouds above mountains. They can be just a few centimetres across in an experimental laboratory tank or absolutely enormous as in this case where the column has a giant iceberg slap-bang in the middle of it.”

How long might A23a continue to perform its spinning-top routine?

Who knows, but when Prof Meredith placed a scientific buoy in a Taylor Column above another bump to the east of Pirie Bank, the floating instrument was still rotating in place four years later, external.

A23a is a perfect illustration once again of the importance of understanding the shape of the seafloor.

Submarine mountains, canyons and slopes have a profound influence on the direction and mixing of waters, and on the distribution of the nutrients that drive biological activity in the ocean.

And this influence extends also to the climate system: it’s the mass movement of water that helps disperse heat energy around the globe.

A23a’s behaviour can be explained because the ocean bottom just north of South Orkney is reasonably well surveyed.

That’s not the case for much of the rest of the world.

Currently, only a quarter of Earth’s seafloor has been mapped, external to the best modern standard.

An earlier version of this story contained an illustrative map of the English Channel containing an iceberg that was slightly over-sized. This has now been amended.

You’re Allowed to Have Dark Moods

6 minute read

Ideas

By Mariana Alessandri

August 1, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Alessandri is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the nation’s first bilingual university. Her first book, Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods (Princeton), is out now in paperback

In the years leading up to my father’s death, he suffered. I know this because he didn’t hide it. I witnessed one of his worst days in the hospital one week after suffering a stroke. His potassium level dropped dangerously low, and the doctor decided to administer it intravenously through his forearm. I scanned my phone for information and learned that the arm is a nasty place to inject potassium. I found grown men online who reported having had to stop their infusion due to stinging pain in their arm. When the drip started, my father cried out ¡No me abusen! (“Don’t abuse me!”) ¡Sean buenas conmigo! (“Be good to me!”) ¡Por favor! (“Please!”). Hearing his cries made me want to vomit, and he didn’t stop until the drip finished. In his old age, my father lived by the rule “if it hurts, tell someone about it.”

In contrast, when my mother was in the early stages of her death just three months after my father passed, her plan was to stifle her cries. Like a lot of people, my mom was raised on the belief that you shouldn’t burden people with your pain, and she understood full well that hearing her in physical agony would break my heart. Despite her resolve to shield me from her pain, one evening, as the caregiver was adjusting her body, my mom let out a cry. Immediately, she turned to me and said “I’m ok.” She had not been able to stifle that one, yet her first thought went to soothing me. My mother’s selfless act brought a knot to my throat, but it didn’t surprise me.

Many of us were raised on the belief that telling people about your pain puts a burden on them, so we end up telling everyone we’re fine when we’re dying inside. I used to think that masking your pain was noble; existentialist philosophy taught me otherwise.

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Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno wasn’t about to hide his suffering for the comfort of others. He wrote: “Whenever I have felt a pain I have shouted, and I have done it publicly.” Unamuno intended for his public cries to “start the grieving chords of others’ hearts playing.” Human hearts are like stringed instruments, he reasoned, and they can experience sympathetic resonance if they huddle close enough together. One bleeding heart can set off an entire symphony of compassion. We see it happen on deathbeds: When the power of positive thinking finally surrenders to breathing machines and ice chips, shared suffering can draw hearts into a sad embrace. When Unamuno’s six-year-old son died of meningitis, his grief was a catalyst for his fellow Spaniards to feel not sympathy but empathy, for him and each other. Unamuno told his readers that, although bodies use joy for connection, souls bond in sadness. Deep connection awaits us all, but it requires letting go of the idea that there is virtue in pretending we’re ok when we’re not.

Anyone experiencing a dark mood is faced with a choice: hide it from your loved ones or share it with them. If, like my mother, you believe that you shouldn’t announce your pain because it makes people feel helpless or burdened, then you’ll continue to hide your darkest moods from the people you hold dear. But if Unamuno was right that announcing your pain is a way of inviting people in, then my mother’s move to shield me from agony also kept me locked out of her sacred heart, whereas my father’s cries kept his heart open to me.

Of course, inviting a person to compassionately witness your dark moods is risky. In face, a student of mine at the University of Texas Rio Grande where I teach tested Unamuno’s theory. In an effort to forge deeper connections, she made herself vulnerable to the world, telling multiple people about her struggles. It did not go well, in part because the walls of U.S. society are still plastered with #nobaddays and #goodvibesonly. Under this regime, friends and loved ones get confused into thinking they’re meant to be cheerleaders, replacing our negativity with their positivity. Cheerleaders are those sweet people in our lives who remind us that we’re beautiful and strong when we’re feeling ugly or weak. “Don’t say that!” they counter at the first sign of self-doubt. “You’re going to get that job!” Cheerleaders feel responsible for making us feel better, which means that they perceive our dark moods as a problem, sometimes a puzzle.

Cheerleading often fails, but not because sufferers are addicted to negativity. When we hear “You got this!” instead of “I’ve been there” after we’ve disclosed something difficult, we can be left feeling lonely and misunderstood on top of sad or anxious. A nasty run-in with the bright side can give us a new reason for masking, not because we don’t want to burden our friends but because we don’t want them to pummel us with affirmations. We didn’t need to hear that it’s the company’s loss for not hiring us or that we’ll get the next one. In telling the truth, we were hoping that our people could remember what insecurity feels like and sit there with us, not stick their fingers in their ears and will our pain away.

What if humans are not responsible for making each other feel better? If everyone could agree that pain is inevitable and we are largely impotent against life’s losses, then fewer people might feel compelled to become cheerleaders. They could become confidantes instead. A confidante is the person we turn to when no one else gets it. They stay present when we tell the truth instead of trying to unlock our confidence. Without the pressure to be enthusiastic or offer words of wisdom, confidantes recognize that what we really need to know is that we are loveable even in our darkest mood, and they show us by showing up.

It’s not easy to be emotionally honest in a world that teaches its young to “be like a proton: always positive.” But the potential payoff of sharing dark moods with confidantes is huge: genuine connection, co-feeling, compassion, and a real sense that we are not the only one forging a path in this beautiful and terrifying world.

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