Daniel Savage

Sean Morley, writing for Now Then Magazine:

Every major political party seems to be operating under the belief that Reform UK supporters have five votes each and everyone who doesn’t want to pneumatically press disabled people into an impacted cube is unable to fill out a ballot card. We live in the (disenfranchised back of) the imperial core. Here, bigotry is always on the menu. Every policy dogwhistles pied piperishly at sunburnt pink-faced pint goblins who would sink the Titanic with a nuclear warhead if they heard there was a refugee on board. The culture is scarred with ancient ley lines of intolerance and conservativism.

I am astonished by the UK media/politicians who are seemingly desperate to placate the view of people who essentially have the intelligence and disposition of a someone who was kicked in the head by a horse.

They really exist. They have always existed. Trans people, just like gay people and short people, are just one of the types of people any person can turn out to be. And just like the gays and the shorts, they cannot be legislated out of existence. The most you can do is fearmonger them into retreating from public life.

But there’s always hope. This small, angry little island isn’t completely full of small, angry little islanders (although I am 5ft 6).

Messages of solidarity have poured in nationwide from feminist academics, musicians, writers, the film and TV industry, archaeologists, historians and geographers. The trans advocacy group TransLucent are taking legal action against the EHRC for inadequately scrutinising the supreme court decision. The Good Law Project are launching a legal case against Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson. People are clogging the inboxes of MPs and staffers to combat the excessive influence of a tiny handful. If you haven’t done so yet, there is guidance for writing to your MP here and to the Prime Minister’s office here.

After a dry Jan and an accidentally wet Feb, I got back to winning ways in March. 30/31 days without a drink, and that one time an almost unavoidable Stag/Hen party. It’s been a good month, and I’m feeling the benefits both in my head and in my wallet.

Looking at the whole year I’m 88/93 days without alcohol. Looking ahead to April there are one or two occasions where I might be tempted, but I can feel that 3 months in, my relationship with drinking has started to change. I’m no longer thinking about weekends and picturing the pub, I’m thinking about getting round to the things I put off because I knew I would be hungover.

Again, I realise it’s not a totally dry month but I’m really pleased with how it’s going and with how my life will look at the end of the year. Yes, it’s a little Fitter, Happier, More Productive but so far, true.