Interesting (Telegraph, £).

It is reported that the British prime minister “Two-Tier Keir” – who once declared that 99.9% of women don’t have penises – has declined to stop a plot by ministers to thwart last week’s Supreme Court ruling that transwomen aren’t legally women. Labour ministers and MPs will this week meet to discuss how to promote trans rights in the wake of that judgment. The plot emerged in leaked WhatsApp messages from a group chat of Labour MPs including ministers Sir Chris Bryant (married to a man) and Dame Angela Eagle (in a civil partnership with a woman).

I’m starting to feel like I’m the only straight in the village. In the BBC television series Little Britain, Matt Lucas played the part of Daffyd Thomas. From the Wikipedia page List of Little Britain characters:

“Daffyd Thomas, who lives in the small Welsh village of Llanddewi Brefi is a self-proclaimed gay man who dresses in a vast variety of tight PVC and latex rubber clothing and proudly proclaims that he is “the only gay in the village”.

In fact, there is a huge gay comunity in his village and the surrounding area, but he refuses to acknowledge or associate with them. Instead, he frequently proclaims his homosexuality as a means to draw attention to himself, and has almost no (if any) homosexual experience, appearing instead to be more terrified by the thought of it than having any desire to seek it out – in Little Britain USA he exclaims “I can’t have sex with a man, I’m gay!”. There is only one sketch in which he seemed to admire a handsome man he thought was gay. He secretly longs to be victimised for his supposed homosexuality and often brands anyone who speaks to him as homophobic (even if all they said was “Hello”).”

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