That train will be lucky to leave Caergybi un-torched.

Ah yes, all makes horrifying familiar sense now.

That cannot be an actual quote. I can't take the combination of despair and hilarity.

The Labour Government was wrong to say that the Supreme Court ruling brought clarity. But there is certainly more clarity now. And with that clarity, the Government should: firstly, reject the EHRC's erroneous guidance; and secondly, have the commissioners who drafted it relieved of their duties.

On the second point, I can't see the Government meaningfully undoing the harm caused by the Tories' EHRC appointees, because it's not meaningfully undoing the Tories' work in any other regard.

I think the Government will reject the guidance, but not because it is prejudiced against trans people—although it clearly is—but because it is unworkable, especially for businesses. Hardly progress but at least trans people's human rights will have been somewhat protected from a corrupted EHRC.

The Labour Government was wrong to say that the Supreme Court ruling brought clarity. But there is certainly more clarity now. And with that clarity, the Government should: firstly, reject the EHRC's erroneous guidance; and secondly, have the commissioners who drafted it relieved of their duties.

"[A] person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination ... if the circumstances so warranted."

Does this mean someone ought to sue Labour for banning trans women from their women's conference, on the basis of discrimination?

I suspect they're unfamiliar with how much their hated lanyard class actually helps things to get made nowadays. *Waves from my shiny engineering consultancy.*

"But you're holding down a job, aren't you?" - my new GP after hearing of my ADHD diagnosis, September 2025.

100% this. If you can be prejudiced in one regard, there's nothing to stop you being prejudiced on a whole range of matters. That's exactly my experience from years of governance roles. It causes me to question transphobes' judgement on *everything*.

Expanding airports (while cancelling high-speed rail) is a very poor investment during a climate crisis.