Jolyon Maugham KC
@goodlawproject.org
Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel. Hon Prof at Durham University.
Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts.
He/him.
https://goodlaw.social/nm7n
Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts.
He/him.
https://goodlaw.social/nm7n
25 paragraphs before the Guardian gets to the truth, which even then it can't bring itself to have a position on (www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...).
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
25 paragraphs before the Guardian gets to the truth, which even then it can't bring itself to have a position on (www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...).
Is there a stronger indictment of the state of UK politics than this coming from the mouth of the leader of the Opposition?
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Is there a stronger indictment of the state of UK politics than this coming from the mouth of the leader of the Opposition?
As the BBC carries anecdotal claims from a disgruntled former BBC staffer that it has a pro trans bias here is *actual* polling about trans people's level of trust in the BBC.
(The BBC refused to carry the polling, the first of what it is like to live in Britain as trans, because it is "too weak".)
(The BBC refused to carry the polling, the first of what it is like to live in Britain as trans, because it is "too weak".)
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
As the BBC carries anecdotal claims from a disgruntled former BBC staffer that it has a pro trans bias here is *actual* polling about trans people's level of trust in the BBC.
(The BBC refused to carry the polling, the first of what it is like to live in Britain as trans, because it is "too weak".)
(The BBC refused to carry the polling, the first of what it is like to live in Britain as trans, because it is "too weak".)
Lord Hodge of the Supreme Court. Goodness knows how he squares these positions. How can he criticise Lord Sumption whilst himself, as I read it, do worse himself because he's still a judge? supremecourt.uk/uploads/spee... and www.scottishlegal.com/articles/lor....
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Lord Hodge of the Supreme Court. Goodness knows how he squares these positions. How can he criticise Lord Sumption whilst himself, as I read it, do worse himself because he's still a judge? supremecourt.uk/uploads/spee... and www.scottishlegal.com/articles/lor....
I suppose it was only a matter of time, once judges decided that transphobia was protected under the Equality Act, before they decided that full blown fascism was (www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...).
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I suppose it was only a matter of time, once judges decided that transphobia was protected under the Equality Act, before they decided that full blown fascism was (www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...).
The top rate of tax on income in the 1970s was 98%.
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The top rate of tax on income in the 1970s was 98%.
We will pay the price for Nigel Farage's Brexit - and Labour's cowardice - until we reverse it.
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
We will pay the price for Nigel Farage's Brexit - and Labour's cowardice - until we reverse it.
Very insistent, is The Times leader today, that the Supreme Court ruling is clear. But even it can't agree what the ruling means.
Snips from The Times on 4/11/25, 12/9/25 and 26/9/25.
Snips from The Times on 4/11/25, 12/9/25 and 26/9/25.
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Very insistent, is The Times leader today, that the Supreme Court ruling is clear. But even it can't agree what the ruling means.
Snips from The Times on 4/11/25, 12/9/25 and 26/9/25.
Snips from The Times on 4/11/25, 12/9/25 and 26/9/25.
Oh, and here's Hadley Freeman.
November 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Oh, and here's Hadley Freeman.
If they are going after you it doesn't prove you are getting it right; but if they are not going after you it does prove you are getting if wrong.
Congratulations to @transsolidarity.bsky.social for this characteristically incoherent hit piece from The Times. archive.ph/2025.11.02-2...
Congratulations to @transsolidarity.bsky.social for this characteristically incoherent hit piece from The Times. archive.ph/2025.11.02-2...
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If they are going after you it doesn't prove you are getting it right; but if they are not going after you it does prove you are getting if wrong.
Congratulations to @transsolidarity.bsky.social for this characteristically incoherent hit piece from The Times. archive.ph/2025.11.02-2...
Congratulations to @transsolidarity.bsky.social for this characteristically incoherent hit piece from The Times. archive.ph/2025.11.02-2...
Job well done, I'd say.
Do you think the Telegraph might leave the UK if we put rainbow flags outside its offices?
Do you think the Telegraph might leave the UK if we put rainbow flags outside its offices?
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Job well done, I'd say.
Do you think the Telegraph might leave the UK if we put rainbow flags outside its offices?
Do you think the Telegraph might leave the UK if we put rainbow flags outside its offices?
I'd venture politely to suggest that if the EHRC had done its job and written a code that was about the law rather the pursuit of an anti-trans ideological agenda duty bearers would be better able to do what she urges upon them.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I'd venture politely to suggest that if the EHRC had done its job and written a code that was about the law rather the pursuit of an anti-trans ideological agenda duty bearers would be better able to do what she urges upon them.
I ignore, because it's a given that The Times is consumed by its hatred of trans people, its reporting increasingly reminiscent of how Jews were discussed in the 1930s, the spectacle of a notionally pro business paper cross with the Government for wanting to understand the costs for business.
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I ignore, because it's a given that The Times is consumed by its hatred of trans people, its reporting increasingly reminiscent of how Jews were discussed in the 1930s, the spectacle of a notionally pro business paper cross with the Government for wanting to understand the costs for business.
"Sources in the watchdog, however, have briefed that it is broadly similar to interim advice issued shortly after April’s landmark supreme court ruling that sex in the Equality Act refers only to biological sex." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
"Sources in the watchdog, however, have briefed that it is broadly similar to interim advice issued shortly after April’s landmark supreme court ruling that sex in the Equality Act refers only to biological sex." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Here's the question.
The EHRC has briefed that the draft statutory guidance is basically the same as the Interim Guidance. So why, if the draft statutory guidance gets the law right, did the EHRC choose to take down the Interim Guidance in the face of our Judicial Review?
The EHRC has briefed that the draft statutory guidance is basically the same as the Interim Guidance. So why, if the draft statutory guidance gets the law right, did the EHRC choose to take down the Interim Guidance in the face of our Judicial Review?
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Here's the question.
The EHRC has briefed that the draft statutory guidance is basically the same as the Interim Guidance. So why, if the draft statutory guidance gets the law right, did the EHRC choose to take down the Interim Guidance in the face of our Judicial Review?
The EHRC has briefed that the draft statutory guidance is basically the same as the Interim Guidance. So why, if the draft statutory guidance gets the law right, did the EHRC choose to take down the Interim Guidance in the face of our Judicial Review?
Labour doesn't want to build a 'new state' - it has been persuaded by the Big Tech backed Tony Blair Institute that it should outsource the state to Big Tech.
This is a catastrophe in the making. Here's how to tell the PM what you think: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...
This is a catastrophe in the making. Here's how to tell the PM what you think: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Labour doesn't want to build a 'new state' - it has been persuaded by the Big Tech backed Tony Blair Institute that it should outsource the state to Big Tech.
This is a catastrophe in the making. Here's how to tell the PM what you think: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...
This is a catastrophe in the making. Here's how to tell the PM what you think: action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st...
Thanks - I shared the link above but v grateful to you for pointing me to where the ONS does still publish the table.
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Thanks - I shared the link above but v grateful to you for pointing me to where the ONS does still publish the table.
So, the ONS used to produce this data in tables eg 👇🏻 (source www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...) but it doesn't any more (click on View Latest Release at link above). Make of that what you will.
October 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
So, the ONS used to produce this data in tables eg 👇🏻 (source www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...) but it doesn't any more (click on View Latest Release at link above). Make of that what you will.
It's time we were told the truth about taxes says The Times, before peddling what is a pernicious and seemingly deliberately misleading statement about the progressivity of our tax system.
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
It's time we were told the truth about taxes says The Times, before peddling what is a pernicious and seemingly deliberately misleading statement about the progressivity of our tax system.
Intellectually dishonest from The Times' Lord Finkelstein. If you look only at a progressive tax and ignore how much more the richest earn of course you 'prove' they "bear the heaviest burden". But if you look at all taxes as a percentage of income the poorest bear a similar burden to the richest.
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Intellectually dishonest from The Times' Lord Finkelstein. If you look only at a progressive tax and ignore how much more the richest earn of course you 'prove' they "bear the heaviest burden". But if you look at all taxes as a percentage of income the poorest bear a similar burden to the richest.
Ummm, the rise in the state pension age to 67 was introduced by the Coalition Government in 2014, not Labour, and paying inheritance tax when you die doesn't affect your retirement income when you're alive.
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ummm, the rise in the state pension age to 67 was introduced by the Coalition Government in 2014, not Labour, and paying inheritance tax when you die doesn't affect your retirement income when you're alive.
"We're going to move faster in the wrong direction": who do they think is going to buy this garbage?
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"We're going to move faster in the wrong direction": who do they think is going to buy this garbage?
'We are super trustworthy' (two stories, same day).
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
'We are super trustworthy' (two stories, same day).
Not much better than a lie, this from Starmer. He can't pledge what a Reform Government, following a Trumpist or Russian agenda, will do with digital ID. They certainly won't be bound by his promise!
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not much better than a lie, this from Starmer. He can't pledge what a Reform Government, following a Trumpist or Russian agenda, will do with digital ID. They certainly won't be bound by his promise!
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....