The podcast for employers and employees who think it's time to talk about the failings of workplace culture - and how we can do better. Host: Tanya de Grunwald
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ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
A reminder to the vocal gender zealots in the children's publishing industy that the vast majority of the population do not view JK Rowling or her opinions, as evil.
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Clause 5 of the conversion bill covers just about every form of organisation and certainly includes all companies. Galop who support this bill say that it covers “misgendering”, I actually agree with Galop’s analysis and think the bill is so wide and poorly drafted that it could.
💥 FRONT PAGE: Bosses risk jail if staff use wrong pronouns under gender law. @Telegraph
@Jebadoo2 "This bill covers every single workplace I can think of"
Government denies that misgendering could trigger prosecution. But nothing in the bill says so.
@Telegraph
@Daniel_J_Martin
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
I spoke to several parents who’d encountered this teacher as part of my recent Telegraph investigation. I think his photo may have done the rounds on X before.
He identified as ‘non-binary’, I'm told - and pupils were instructed to address him as 'Mx.' Parents said he ran a lunchtime LGBT club for primary school pupils.
“We all call him the man in the dress,” one pupil told a mother.
I don’t think this is an appropriate way for a male primary school teacher to present himself at work.
And if parents have questions about what’s happening at their child’s school, they should feel able to ask them. The parents I spoke to were afraid to do even that.
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
1/ Good to see the Telegraph really on top of the conversion bill generally and the extraordinarily wide corporate liability issues it raises. For more on this issue, Me and Tanya de Grunwald spoke about it on her show, link below:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
Really comprehensive explanation of the Conversion Practices Bill by @Jebadoo2. I would think that parenting, teaching and social stewardship is exactly the process of shaping and fostering the character and identity of children? This bill smashes that purpose. It’s an embarrassment 🤦🏻♂️
NEW EPISODE! Will New Law Make 'Trans' People Unemployable?
Could the Conversion Practices Bill create big risks for employers - and trans-identified employees? White-knuckle discussion with Dennis Kavanagh @Jebadoo2 premieres at 7.30pm TONIGHT (Tuesday 3 November) on YouTube! Links ⬇️ See you shortly...
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
It's outrageous that Sex Matters has anything to do with this, the @EHRC should be doing it. Seriously, what is it for?
Perhaps we can make Sex Matters the government regulator for issues around sex based rights and leave the ECHR for made up race grievance nonsense. We'll give @MForstater the £90k salary instead.
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
Excellent 🧵 to which I would only add this: the corporate duty is to take *all* reasonable steps to prevent abusive conversion practices. That's different to a duty just to take reasonable steps. It means every reasonable step. The difference is between a court having to decide>
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
1/ Clause 5 of the draft conversion bill imposes extensive corporate liability. This is an aspect of the bill not getting a lot of attention, so I'm grateful to Tanya for having me on her show to discuss how draconian and chilling the effect of this law would be on workplaces.
NEW EPISODE! Will New Law Make 'Trans' People Unemployable?
Could the Conversion Practices Bill create big risks for employers - and trans-identified employees? White-knuckle discussion with Dennis Kavanagh @Jebadoo2 premieres at 7.30pm TONIGHT (Tuesday 3 November) on YouTube! Links ⬇️ See you shortly...
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
NEW EPISODE! Will New Law Make 'Trans' People Unemployable?
Could the Conversion Practices Bill create big risks for employers - and trans-identified employees? White-knuckle discussion with Dennis Kavanagh @Jebadoo2 premieres at 7.30pm TONIGHT (Tuesday 3 November) on YouTube! Links ⬇️ See you shortly...
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
I'm being mercilessly throttled by @X yet again but would love this image of support for the brilliant @MForstater and the @SexMattersOrg squad be at least seen by a few eyes. Don't like to ask, but if anyone who can actually see it could help its visibility with a repost or quote thingy, that'd be wonderful.
Ta. TT.
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
My son is an electrician; he has a small company, employing a few people. He works on the tools, as well as chases contracts and manages workload. And carries all the stress. His company is only worth its current contracts. He is exactly the kind of working person our economy depends on: I thought Labour understood this.
“I don't think employers are working people.”
~ Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP.
And there is. A Labour government politician saying the quiet part out loud. This is what Labour really think. They have an inverted snobbery and disregard towards self employed workers and private sector businesses owners.
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
Under UK law, employers must now take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
I think telling men that dressing up like a plastic sex doll is unprofessional and likely to be experienced as unwanted conduct of a sexual nature that creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for female colleagues and students is a reasonable step.
🚨 NEW: “His presentation made me uncomfortable, but I quickly understood that saying so would not be acceptable. Colleagues applauded and celebrated him. You couldn’t simply ask: what on earth is he doing?”
A former Oxford postgraduate student writes for [Un]Captured about her experience of lecturer Matt Rattley - and why she feared speaking openly would damage her career.
She wasn’t taught by him, but saw him around the college regularly. She explains why the culture surrounding him affected her too.
Published anonymously, in her own words.
Link to read below 👇
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
The targeting of Kellie-Jay Keen, and her being charged by the Metropolitan police, is an outrage that should concern us all.
This is a sinister attempt to silence a woman who is perfectly entitled to be critical of any religion or belief she chooses. Beware those who attempt to silence women who are being openly critical of harms to other women.
Blasphemy is not a crime in the UK, nor should it be one. Everyone is equal under the law, and free speech must be defended.
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
How did I miss this jaw-dropping anecdote from Lucie Kon @imluciekon last week.
Apparently a BBC diversity officer told a Jewish staff member, who’d been trying to set up a Jewish BBC support group a few years ago, that it wasn’t needed “because Jews run the media”.
A ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ officer.
This is just dystopian now.
(@DailyTPodcast int here: youtu.be/sqB2GDunRZU?is=t8cV…)
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
Join the FSU. They are literally saving our right to speak.
🚨 ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW BY THE BACK DOOR 🚨
Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) has been charged with a criminal offence over posts criticising Islam, Muslim cultural practices and Islamism.
The Free Speech Union is proud to be defending her.
In a free society, no religion or cultural practice should be immune from criticism.
Since Labour came to power, the number of FSU cases involving people penalised for criticising Islam has doubled. It is now the single biggest category in our casework.
And now, with a state-approved definition of Islamophobia — rebranded as “anti-Muslim hostility” — things are only getting worse.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Communities Secretary Angela Rayner met Muslim community leaders in Downing Street. Burnham took a swipe at critics of Islam, saying “some of the language” opposition parties use “is unacceptable”, and told the leaders “we need to find ways with you to demonstrate that more and more”.
We now await Rayner’s appointment of an “Islamophobia tsar” who will help enforce the definition.
All five hand-picked members of the Working Group that drafted it have concerning links to Islamist organisations, as FSU Research and Policy Director @DavidRoseUK exposed in his report. We have little hope that the appointed tsar will be good news for free speech.
Meanwhile, the Government is refusing to say who submitted responses to the Working Group, so we cannot know which groups shaped the definition. Islamists may well have had a hand in its drafting.
Support the FSU’s campaign against an Islamic blasphemy law — and the people penalised under it 👇
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
How can Kellie-Jay expect fair treatment from the police if @metpoliceuk officers are allowed to hiss at her name in a DEI session?
Detective Constable Melanie Newman alleges that the Met Police created a ‘hostile environment’ for people with gender-critical views….. The hearing also heard from Newman how at one point the audience at the Transgender Day of Visibility “hissed” when the name of a prominent gender-critical campaigner, Posie Parker, was mentioned.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03…
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
I'm very glad to see FSU is supporting Kellie Jay on this. Free speech is not just for speech you agree with, etc. Gender-critical women are routinely targeted by the would-be censors, and it's in our interests that this sort of case receives a robust defence (in case the principled argument doesn't appeal to you)
🚨 ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW BY THE BACK DOOR 🚨
Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) has been charged with a criminal offence over posts criticising Islam, Muslim cultural practices and Islamism.
The Free Speech Union is proud to be defending her.
In a free society, no religion or cultural practice should be immune from criticism.
Since Labour came to power, the number of FSU cases involving people penalised for criticising Islam has doubled. It is now the single biggest category in our casework.
And now, with a state-approved definition of Islamophobia — rebranded as “anti-Muslim hostility” — things are only getting worse.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Communities Secretary Angela Rayner met Muslim community leaders in Downing Street. Burnham took a swipe at critics of Islam, saying “some of the language” opposition parties use “is unacceptable”, and told the leaders “we need to find ways with you to demonstrate that more and more”.
We now await Rayner’s appointment of an “Islamophobia tsar” who will help enforce the definition.
All five hand-picked members of the Working Group that drafted it have concerning links to Islamist organisations, as FSU Research and Policy Director @DavidRoseUK exposed in his report. We have little hope that the appointed tsar will be good news for free speech.
Meanwhile, the Government is refusing to say who submitted responses to the Working Group, so we cannot know which groups shaped the definition. Islamists may well have had a hand in its drafting.
Support the FSU’s campaign against an Islamic blasphemy law — and the people penalised under it 👇
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
“Now, Blair is fighting back. He has co-founded a new publishing company, High Line, dedicated to publishing voices – be they about gender, race, politics or the Middle East – that, in his view, the mainstream has either ignored or actively suppressed.”
@NeilBlairTBP fighting back with a new publishing house @HighLine__
Much as @Freedom_in_Arts documented in ‘The New Boycott Crisis’;
“A good number of publishers and editors,” Blair says, “have told me they don’t think that it’s healthy for society to have this sort of conformity of view. But many of them, either because they want a quiet life, or perhaps out of fear for their own well-being, don’t want to take on the younger activist employees, for fear they’ll threaten to go on strike or create an online pile-on. If you’re not particularly ideologically connected to the issues, you’re just going to go along with that.”
Links to follow:
ThisIsntWorkingPodcast retweeted
Really strong piece in the @DailyMail about the @UniofOxford St Hilda’s College lecturer wearing prosthetic breasts. Some v good quotes from those uncomfortable in interactions.
Institutions routinely misunderstand their free speech obligations. They do not excuse harassment.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: “At first, I thought it was a joke - fancy dress. But this is everyday attire. His prosthetic boobs are enormous, exaggerated and cartoonish.”
I spoke to Oxford lecturers and a former student about their experiences of Matt Rattley - the bearded lecturer who wears prosthetic breasts to work and posts pictures on LinkedIn.
They described their discomfort, concerns about sexual harassment and fear of making a formal complaint.
I also obtained three separate written complaints to St Hilda’s, including one from a parent and a joint letter from three former students.
One signatory, leading clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Johnstone, told The Mail on Sunday:
“As a psychologist who has worked with women clients for many years, I do know that in all forms of harassment and abuse, you see denial by the perpetrator, silencing of the victims, and often collusion by institutions.”
The piece also includes comment from @LoudBonnet - the barrister who has represented Sandie Peggie.
My latest investigation with Nick Pyke:
Read below 👇
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P.S. My inbox remains open: janet@janetmurray.co.uk. All messages treated in confidence.
