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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 3d

I don't.

Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 4d

Who is 'they' in that question please?

You really need to rephrase that so you don't seem to impute collective responsibility or imply that solidarity is conditional on reciprocity.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 4d

An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights.

He will be missed

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 10d

Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all.

Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

In a war with Nazis, Stalinists, anarchists and Church and King Tories fight alongside each other as they did in the French Resistance and settle other things once the Nazis are done for.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

More joy in heaven over a sinner who repents...

At this point I'll cut some slack for all sorts of people with terrible records depending on where they stand now and deal with their past offences later.

As JFK said, forgive your enemies but keep a.list of their names.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

Get a RADAR key now.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

He will have to abolish GRCs to make that practical and that means pulling out of the ECHR and that means losing the Good Friday Agreement and any concessions from the EU.

I'm not saying he won't do o all that, by the way

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

Farage opposes it vocally because his base dislikes it but will use it in a Draconian fashion if in power.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

My poem about Gallus' mistress.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

...while being pretty effectively brutal to artists who stepped out of line. We remember what happened to Ovid. We have no knowledge of the works of Gallus who was condemned to utter oblivion for some sort of political challenge.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

This is an excellent thread on how the brilliance of Vergil is closely tied to his ambivalence about power and success. It can be argued that the effectiveness of Octavian/Augustus was that he tolerated that level of ambivalence towards his autocratic rule from great artists.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11d

If you view the Aeneid simply as Vergil writing self-insert fan-fic, you are missing the complexity of the poem.

Vergil tasked with writing *the* definitive version of Rome's founding myths at the dawn of a new autocracy whose autocrat claims direct descent from Aeneas and this is what he writes!

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 11d

Ian Dunt being excellent - if on Substack - about Starmer's version of ID cards as an example of the folly of making concessions to racist populism.

substack.com/@iandunt/not...

ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea

Many people I admire believe firmly in ID cards, or have grown to accept them. This is why they're wrong.

substack.com

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

But it worked for me. When I first read it, I didn't know it was her and liked it for what it was.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

I am aware of my singular good fortune in that not only am I av76 year old trans woman, but that a significant chunk of the trans peer group I knew in my 20s are still here as well.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

To be accurate, I said that Deadly Hallows did a decent job of drawing together plot threads, CUCKOO'S CALLING was a decent Allingham pastiche and CURSED CHILD was an adequate vehicle for performances and practical stage effects.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

The thief condemned to death gets a year's reprieve by offering to reach the Sultan's horse to sing. Asked by a sceptical friend, he explains
'the sultan might die, I might die or maybe the horse will sing.'

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

Lovely piece and it plugs THE GREAT GOOD TIME..

At Pride I was talking to a nearby trans woman who was a bit down and I explained to her the usefulness of completely unjustified optimism by telling the story of the thief and the Sultan's horse...

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair.

ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Reject Trans Doom-Posting

This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…

ruthpearce.net

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

Has no one ever asked you why you are so obsessed with these issues? Looking at your time line you talk about little else. Have no women asked you by what authority you have appointed yourself as their defender against trans women (and presumably trans men though you never mention them)?

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

I am not someone of whom people are afraid.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 12d

It was a constant neurotic worry that I gradually realised did not reflect reality. Other women constantly asked me into their lives and shared those lives with me. Over the years I have periodically had bad quarrels. But even women with whom I quarreled badly never accused me like you just did.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 13d

Also that we were more and more in their spaces and faces.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 13d

You've slightly garbled things. My hip trendy GO referred me to the small GUC unit at the Maudsley who put me on HRT. My GP knew how impossible it would be for me to get help from CCX.

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