Drug control policies have had a disproportionate impact on youth and women, led to prison overcrowding, and arbitrary executions. Zaved Mahmood presents the OHCHR report on human rights challenges in addressing the global drug problem #reimaginingjustice #drugpolicy

Husband’s in Pakistan!

Ben Wilkinson is a new name to me but his beautiful, exact and emphatic poem Dog Years has been haunting me all week. Have bought two of his books.

For years, my argument about not saying “openly gay” was that you wouldn’t ever say “openly Jewish.” How did we get to this point?

Professional standards at usual level,

One good reason for The Spectator publishing all sorts of honest accounts of good and bad behaviour is humani nihil a me alienum puto.

Really, really excited to be in Waterstones Piccadilly next month with these amazing writers!

So approve of people not getting away with this crap.

In happier news, we had a South London Schnauzer meet - it was grand.

Wow. This is quite à radical rewriting of the recorded actions of Stonewall by the former director responsible. Ironic that she now claims to be in favour of “evidence”.

This is a very helpful explanation of the normal research protocols that the Cass Report attempted and failed to find, and why it had to dismiss almost all the specious research on which treatment was being based.

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The reasons the clinics have for not co-operating with the Cass report are mind-boggling. “We’re not going to supply you with data for your research because we think you’re going to criticise us.” P.303 of the full report.

Trevor Nunn’s Uncle Vanya at the tiny Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond - just wonderful, and supremely well cast. Pete Ashmore a doughty stand-in and so idiomatic. Orange Tree Theatre

British journalist Owen Jones, stated on live on TV tonight that Germany was 'making Palestinians pay' because of their obscene guilt over the Holocaust.

Setting aside the unethical weaponization of one of the worst atrocities in all of history, in other words, Owen Jones is

Fantastic. Good for John Gilhooly. Fuck ‘em. Here’s to excellence.