Welcome
Welcome to this personal website and blog.
Personal
If you want to find out a bit more about me and about the website, go to the About page.
Professional
If you are interested in my professional work as an academic, go to the research page.
Commentary
For discussion and commentary, perhaps evanescent, perhaps more fundamental, go to the Blog proper. Otherwise, my social media presence is mainly on Mastodon.
Contact details
Finally, there are details on how to contact me, and some personal principles on communication.
Recent Blog Posts
- Sun 10 August 2025
- The State of Scottish Gender Identity Clinics
- Wed 18 June 2025
- Standing for Candidate Selection (Glasgow List)
- Sat 24 May 2025
- Waiting on the Edge
- Thu 01 May 2025
- Adventures in Touch Screens
- Wed 30 April 2025
- The Clarity of Labour
Recent Mastodon Posts
- Sun, 10 Aug 2025 13:01
I am going to write a longer blog about this, but a very short version:
Sandyford is overwhelmed and chaotic (predictable)
Lothians and Highland have made progress, with leadership and imagination (intriguing)
The insistence on gatekeeping collides with a refrain of somebody-else's-problem [depressing).
I fear that ScotGov will be too timid either to provide adequate funding for the sclerotic GIC model, or to take the bold steps which are actually needed for a more humane approach.
- Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:16
Spent a few hours working through the evaluation of Scottish Government funding of Gender Identity Clinics. As readers may recall, one of the provisions of the Bute House Agreement between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party was a review of provision (notably including actual trans people) and a short-term injection of funds to tackle the appaling waiting lists. The results are by turns predictable, intriguing and depressing.
- Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:25
Here is a question for legal eagles. Is it possible to sue for libel as a member of a class of people, or does it have to be the libel of an individual qua individual?
Obviously, I am thinking of the relentless smears against trans people.