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Last week eight Darlington nurses won their employment tribunal against their NHS Trust over a male colleague being allowed to use the women's changing room at work. The court found this constituted harassment on the basis of sex and created a hostile, humiliating, intimidating, and degrading environment for women. That victory has had a ripple effect, as seen in the reinstatement of South London nurse Jennifer Melle only days later. Jennifer is still due to take her employer to court in April over their action against her.  We discuss both cases, including why the PMC are struggling to let go of transgenderism and are willing to break the law for it, and how the Sandie Peggy trial became a debate about whether she was lower working-class and therefore an unsympathetic figure, as if that means the law no longer applies. Plus, the Left’s cope and denial about legal victories against transgenderism, the vital organisation that is Sex Matters, how the Left today cares more about social and cultural issues than economics as evidenced by the fact they won’t give up transgenderism despite its failure, and we ask if it was the sexual revolution that made the Left so committed to expanding men's sexual rights?

Since 2020 there has been a sizeable reconfiguration of political lines, with new poles shaping up to replace left and right. Specifically, differing strains of a kind of conservative nationalism replacing the traditional right and liberalised globalism replacing the traditional left. We discuss those emerging configurations, the new American empire’s tendency towards realism, Heidegger, and technology as the central question of modernity, as well as how concepts like ‘human rights’ and ‘moral relativism’ are out of date, with potentially even ‘democracy’ soon for the chopping block. Plus, Gen Z’s realist approach to transgendersism, the recognition of Somaliland, human rights law’s failure around sanctions, Ed Miliband as future PM, monarchy, anti-sexist workshops for boys in school, and having to wait years for institutions to catch-up with discourse already evident via technology.

The new Netflix documentary 'Sean Combs: The Reckoning' profiling rapper, producer, and now convict P Diddy, has set the internet alight. We review the documentary, focusing on its themes of sexual violence and psychological control, behaviour that P Diddy got away with across four decades. We also discuss how the documentary presents a psychological profile of the real Sean Combs, someone who no matter what damage he caused, somehow managed to capitalise on it, only to cause more carnage.  Plus, revenge as justice, malignant narcissism’s sadism, Sartre, Freud’s Totem and Taboo, mechanisms of financial and psychological control, how the American black middle-class utilise the black working-class and lumpen underclass in the entertainment industry, and at the end we give our own examples from leftwing politics of individuals who sought to psychologically wield power over others and the ‘tests’ and tactics they would use.

Last weekend new leftwing UK party officially now called ‘Your Party’ held their first conference showcasing a bonanza of debilitating leftist tendencies. We discuss those and wider bonkers trends on the left. Including, obsessional lunacy with accessibility that is actually a tool of manipulation and grievance mining, individualism and politics as identity, the affectlessness of leftwing speech today, and social exclusion's relationship to the repetition of slogans. Plus, the term ‘retard’ as a distinguishing signal, why the left hasn’t had a new idea or take in decades, how every attack by the left has a social quality, Trotskyism’s anathema to power, Syriza, platforming nonces, political messianism, and the left’s hostility to arguments.

New UK leftist political group 'Your Party' is to hold its first national conference this weekend. We discuss this latest attempt to marry the Muslim community with the left, the resignation of Adnan Hussain MP from Your Party, and its ongoing split over transgenderism. We also talk more widely about the state of the left in general, including how its disagreeable women are only understood as wreckers, the cries of 'class' and 'materialism' as of paramount importance when the left has pushed transgenderism as its key issue for a decade, Zohran Mamdani's win, and the endless purity spiralling tendencies of the contemporary left, as seen in calling Jeremy Cornyn of all people a 'zionist'. Plus, Nick Land, men as the universal subject in leftwing thought, the near supernatural evil of the trans movement, ‘transwomen’ trying to sleep with their mothers and commit other incest, and the four ways women secure their place on the left (either as an attack dog against other women, through a male sexual sponsor, by being most head banging ideological zealot, or a dogsbody).

Lily Allen's latest album details her husband's infidelity after initiating an open relationship. We discuss the unviability of open relationships, the risks of public confessionalism as therapeutic, the pernicious valorisation of the concept of consent beyond sex, and how people are hacking their own privacy on the internet.

Last week saw the collapse of the Labour government's enquiry into the grooming gangs as both candidates for chair resigned and several survivors walked away demanding Jess Phillips' resignation. We discuss how the grooming gangs pose an irreconcilable intersectional car crash for Labour and the wider Left, which has produced a complex edifice of denial around the topic and unwillingness to address the issue as it truly exists. Plus, the Left’s conception of the Subject, how you can’t mark your own homework, why the lumpen are considered unreliable narrators and therefore politicians view them as ripe for own purposes, and how the politics of the Me Too era has been used to dilute the specificity of the grooming gang enquiry towards men in general.

This episode focuses on the political climate in the UK via topics including Graham Linehan’s armed arrest compared to actions police take against rapists, how Labour’s crack down on social media leads back to embarrassment over the grooming gangs, and digital ID. Plus, Matt Taibbi’s book 'I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street', Labour government policies as soon to be cultural historic artefacts, the Manchester synagogue terrorist out on bail for rape, how the UK’s euthanasia legislation is worse than Canada, middle-class nannying maternalism in politics, Jess Philips as a thug and therefore a vandal, and the Labour Party's implosion.

We review the Charlie Kirk memorial and discuss how Erika Kirk has been receiving the Amber Heard treatment online. Also, why women who refuse to be victims are often hated the most and women as symbols of cultural meaning. Plus, American evangelicalism, 'over performing' during times of grief, the first person industrial complex of confessional writing as the highest form of self-expression, forgiveness, and the "life disabled". Apologies for the noise of parakeets near the end, there are flocks of them in and around South West London, with many competing urban myths as to why!

We discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk, how transgender rights activism was a primary motivation of his killer, why the dehumanisation of political opponents has become the domain the political left operates from, and how subsequently it means Trump's decision to classify Antifa as a terrorist organisation is downstream of that. Plus, Robert Nozick's thought experiment 'The Experience Machine' becoming a real life test, Stella O’Malley’s excellent recent Spiked article, mass cultural infantilism, why being rightwing is the new youth subculture after transgenderism, and how revisiting childhood things takes the sheen off nostalgia.

The last fortnight has seen the failure of the high-profile trial of rapper P Diddy for sex trafficking and the Epstein files not released after months of promise they would be by the Trump administration. Could the American elites really be willing to embarrass themselves to this degree without incentive? We try to think of the best explanation for why Trump won’t release the Epstein files and how P Diddy has likely got away with sex crimes. We also discuss Obama's reported bisexuality, Mac Miller’s death and use of prostitutes as drug carriers, Joan Didion’s critique of leftism as an excuse for drug fests, Meek Mill and Nikki Minaj’s lavender relationship, sexual attraction to power, pizzagate, Kash Patel, Epstein as a Mossad asset, the rapid rise of antisemitism, and Holocaust denial in the Information Age.

Jordan Peterson appears of late to be a shadow of the man he once was, specifically in relation to the masculine strongman who took on C16 in Canada during the late 2010s. Peterson is in an odd position as a conservative figure, yet blatantly a radical subjectivist, leading him into the peculiar stance of being a postmodern anti-postmodernist. We discuss his bouts of crying on TV, how Peterson is an odd fit with the Daily Wire, the tendency of claiming feminist talking points after we've been proved right, Peterson’s Jungian conception of god, and how his naive advice for women was reality tested by his daughter Mikhaila, yielding very poor results.

We discuss the Darlington nurses' fight to secure a female-only changing room at work and how their hospital is refusing to implement it, despite the Supreme Court victory and supportive intervention by Minister for Health, Wes Streeting. Plus, the suffragettes, gay male culture, the ‘transman’ on I Kissed a Boy, how people are more likely to befriend those similar to them, why Education and Health sectors are manager top heavy, the atmosphere of dishonesty in intensely bureaucratic working environments, the quagmire that is online lesbian dating, the class context that supports 'good girlism' in Britain, middle-class people’s adultery hobbyism, and Jen proposes GC enforcement officers.

'Political Lesbianism' shares some characteristics with Butlerian Queer Theory, specifically: divorcing biological sex from sexual orientation, performativity, and asexuality and 'fluidity'. We discuss those and in particular 'political lesbians' criticism of butch / femme relationships that rely on the logic of transgenderism.  We put forward that, would we consider a group of heterosexual men who decide not to be with women, who consider that women oppress them, deciding to live together as friends, even if it includes some same-sex dalliances, would we consider them gay men? Or straight incel male separatists? We also discuss how 'political lesbianism' scores on the BITE Model of Authoritarian Control that is used to rate 'high demand' groups (cults).  Plus, 'political lesbianism' as a form of entryism in radical feminism and into lesbian groups / lesbians lives, how when you have access to people’s sexuality you have access to shame, and the 'political lesbian' concept of ‘compsex’ (compulsory sex) that renders lesbians who want to have sex with women as demonic sexual predators.

'Political lesbianism' can be traced back to heterosexual feminists of the 1960s second-wave in the United States. We discus its origin, the way 'political lesbians' change the definition of lesbian to fit themselves, the parallels with transgenderism, the nonsense concept of 'compulsory heterosexuality', denial of sexual orientation, and why due to its unpopularity a raft of euphemisms (such as 'lesbian feminist') are used instead of the term 'political lesbian' to disguise its proponents. Plus, spinsters, lifestylism as a turn away from politics, and Lesbian Nation author Jill Johnston sneaking out of women's communes for nighttime liaisons with men.