As Good As It Gets
Update 699. Women Won't Wait Special. #BeMorePorcupine.
Onwards with the Dusty, Nicola and Moodie Film Series. Please keep the suggestions for films coming in but please check the list first which I am updating as we go along. Please send suggestions in the comments here at this link:
As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American film directed by James L. Brooks. It stars Jack Nicholson as Melvin Udall, a misanthropic, bigoted and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as Carol Connelly, a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as Simon Bishop, a gay artist. Gosh, Melvin is something else!! Here are some of the best scenes:
OK, ok you want Melvin and Verdell the dog:
UK - Hate Speech
We reported recently on Helen Joyce discovering that instead of a non-crime hate incident being recorded against her following a complaint by the larping former police officer, Lynsay Watson, a crime was actually recorded against her (without her knowledge!!). As she proceeds with legal action, she has been investigating how this insane process ‘works’ and reports on this on her substack:
On being “hateful”
What I’ve learned since discovering my name in a record of “criminal harassment”
Sep 19, 2025
As I wrote in my previous post, in mid-August I found out about a crime report made last year concerning my referring to Freda Wallace, a fetishistic trans-identifying man, as a man and a fetishist. The complainant was disgraced ex-cop Lynsay Watson — fired for gross misconduct in 2023 and added to the “black list” of people who can never be hired by any police force again.
Here’s an interview I did with Josh Howie of Free Speech Nation last Sunday that sets out what happened in more detail than I was able to in the interview I shared in my previous post. I’ve also written it up for the Critic magazine’s October issue, which has just gone to press, and said a bit about how we got to a place where something so crazy can happen — and more importantly how we can get back out of that place. I’ll share that once it’s online.
Here’s what I learned about the UK’s Orwellian shadow crime-recording procedures, whereby you can be added to the Police National Database as guilty of a crime without ever being charged, tried or convicted — indeed without ever being told.
The whole thing started after the official inquiry into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence. In the Macpherson Report it was recommended that police start recording racist incidents that fell short of crimes — things like racist graffiti or name-calling — the idea being to spot patterns such as times and places where these things happened and hopefully to improve policing so that actual crime could be averted. I think it’s fair to say at this stage that this hope proved false — there is no evidence whatsoever that this sort of reporting has ever done any good. A very good recent article by Scottish policy analysts MurrayBlackburnMackenzie makes this point.
Despite this lack of evidence, such recording became more common and other personal characteristics were added to race. There are now five “monitored strands” — also known as “protected characteristics”, although confusingly they are different from those in the UK’s Equality Act. They are race, religion, disability, sexual orientation and transgender identity.
Dusty - note that ‘sex’ is not included!!
Over time, the way such “incidents” should be treated by police became formalised and more consistent between forces. In 2014 national guidance became embedded in all police forces that prioritised the perception of the “victim” above all else — in essence, if a person made a complaint about what someone said about a person with one of the monitored characteristics, or indeed about something the complainant claimed concerned all people with a monitored characteristic — then that complaint had to be recorded completely credulously. A “hate incident” was defined as “any non-crime incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice”. It didn’t matter if there was no evidence that the speech was motivated by hostility or prejudice, or indeed if such an interpretation was completely ridiculous.
The full piece is here:
https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/p/on-being-hateful
Antifa and Armed Queers
EDI Jester reports on Donald Trump aiming to proscribe Antifa as a terrorist group.
One of the problems with Antifa is that they are not a formal organisation but a loose collective. Additionally, in this country, doubtless due to the lack of firearms, they are not involved at the same violent level they are in the States though they have been involved in violent acts and are always threatening violence. My wife and I have had lots of experience of them when attending Let Women Speak events. I am not sure if proscribing them in this country wouldn’t simply make them martyrs and, additionally, how do you pin down whether someone is a member of Antifa? All thoughts gratefully received.
Talking of violent groups, I reported here on Armed Queers:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/armed-queers
Karen Davis reminds us that they have been around for a while!!
UK - The Captured Arts
To get into a professional position in the vast majority of museums and art galleries you need to be a member of the Museums Association. Malcolm Clark on his substack details how they are captured by both Gender Ideology and Critical Race Theory.
Scotland - Edinburgh Rally
Great piece by Mr Menno who was at the For Women Scotland rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on 04 September to press the Scottish Government about their failure to implement the Supreme Court ruling. Apparently it’s very complicated. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. Run that by me again!?
The women were being drowned out by ridiculous amplified music being played by Tom Harlow of Cabaret Against Hate. Anyone know what a Barclays Banker is? Though the Public Order Act in England makes such excessive noise potentially an offence I don’t think there is an equivalent to that in Scotland. There’s something for the next Scottish Government once they get rid of the SNP next year!
Ireland - Simeon Burke
We have reported before about Enoch Burke who was sacked by his school for objecting to gender ideology:
His brother, Simeon Burke, has passed all the necessary exams but is being prevented from becoming a barrister as he explains in this video:
Charlie Kirk RIP
Great piece by Terf Vibes on her substack, Til Sex Do Us Part on this matter;
'Almost too obscene to be real'
The relentless pandering to cocky young men that has created a generation-plus of casually cruel, self-loving monsters, men in whom I recognise, I am ashamed to say, my long-estranged sons.
Sep 19, 2025
I’ve been trying to finish this sub for a week. But I just can’t tear my eyes away from reading about the extraordinarily bad world we are living in from some of the fiercest truth tellers in the business who naturally are very busy writing too.
Because what a time it is to be alive and paying attention and caring right now. Just fucking WOW! I mean, I still can’t fully believe the evil extent of it all, the killing of this charismatic, genuinely caring (if I am any judge) and hard-working young man and father, in front of his wife and two children, then the shameless celebration, verging on gloating over his death by so many, including this 20-year-old head of the Oxford Union pictured here debating with the deceased just a few months earlier.
Bob Vylan’s front-man, the man pictured at top, felt free to celebrate Charlie’s murder on stage in a music concert setting. How very festive! How very musical! What a GIGANTIC ego it must take to say that, and with a smile.
Is this anti-white racism out in the open?
The full piece is here:
Europe - Sexuality Education and other matters
Róisín Michaux and her friend, Annette attended a recent conference in Barcelona organised by major grifters by the name of IGYLO (the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation). Only Róisín didn’t get to attend the conference because she was recognised as being a raging Terf and ejected! Róisín and Annette discuss all this ( this is very long) and thanks very much to Tenaciously Terfin for providing her summary of that discussion:
The first 50 minutes talks about the difference between the EU and the Council of Europe, the Denton’s Document and a conference they both went to but which Roisin was ejected from. After that they discuss the sexuality education which is being imposed from above and the ‘rights of the child’ both of which are being sneaked in as being part of anti bullying schemes. They discuss how sex education and gender ideology are being tied to human rights / rights of the child legislation thereby making it compulsory and overriding parental rights. The link to the methods used by the Denton’s Document is clear, they know parents won’t be happy so they’ll slip it in on the quiet before people understand the consequences. I’d have said we had some protection by being out of the EU but I don’t think that applies any more.
https://peaked.substance.com/p/the-first-rule-of-queer-club?publication_id=1053023&r=1v403b
LGB International
An LGB organisation aims to get away from the T and the Q and all the rest of the alphabet soup. Feminist Legal Clinic reports:
LGB International splits from ‘legacy gay organisations’ over gender politics | The Australian (20 September)
A prominent gay and lesbian group has announced it is divorcing itself from legacy LGBTQ+ organisations, claiming the institutions have sidelined those they were established to protect by focusing on trans activism.
A bias towards gender ideology has distracted from the fight for rights afforded to same-sex attracted communities, LGB International said.
The movement is driven largely by a belief that those who are attracted to the same sex are being “coerced” into being attracted to those of a sex biologically opposite, namely transgender men and women, LGB Alliance Australia spokesman Michael David said.
Last year, Australia’s Federal Court heard a discrimination dispute between transgender woman Roxanne Tickle and social media platform Giggle for Girls, the latter described as a “women-only safe space”.
Giggle app founder Sally Grover had argued Ms Tickle was an adult male and chose to describe her according to her sex at birth, as grounds for removal from the platform.
The Lesbian Action Group was granted intervener status in the case, arguing that biological women should have the right to their own spaces and that because of its special interest in creating female-only spaces and that parliament could not have intended that men would attend lesbian parties when it introduced changes to the Sex Discrimination Act.
Ms Grover ultimately lost the case, with the court determining Ms Tickle had been “indirectly discriminated” against under the Sex Discrimination Act. An appeal has been heard, but no decision has yet been announced.
Decisions such as these undermined the rights of same-sex attracted communities, whose “rights are predicated in sex”, Mr David said.
“For too long, lesbian, gay and bisexual people have been sidelined by legacy organisations who no longer represent us,” Mr David said.
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Women’s World Cup Rugby
As readers know, I am following this. We have got to the semi-finals. Yesterday Canada pulled off an amazing upset by defeating the Black Ferns ( New Zealand). I watched the match today, England v France in a pub in Birmingham. Great game and all I have to say is….ELLIE KILDUNNE!!!!!!
Update 700 🎈🥳🍾🥂
Last Chance For Your Votes
The next update is Update 700!!!!!!
So…..we started the current film series (with The Banshees of Inisherin ) in Update 564. Please have a scroll through updates since then up to update 697 and vote for your three favourite films that we have shown so far. The easiest way to scroll is to go to Archive and then scroll. I will then work out what the favourite film is and feature three clips from that film in Update 700. In fact, Update 700 will just be about that film. Thanks 😊 Get voting 🥳
Terf Island Discs
Thanks to an excellent suggestion from Tenaciously Terfin, we have paused Endpieces for the time being and we are giving Tenaciously and Liz a well earned rest from their hard work. So , since 07 July, we have been running Terf Island Discs.
Several readers have chosen up to 4 songs or pieces of music each and we are going through those one at a time in each update. This is going so well that I am going to continue it a bit further and you can now choose up to 6 songs or pieces of music each. They need to be reasonably short. We can’t expect to have readers listening to the whole of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto in B flat minor, albeit it is magnificent.
They don’t have to be from Terf Island BTW - anywhere in the world 😊
Please send links as well if you can.
So for those who have already chosen 4, please choose 2 more and, if you have not yet taken part, please choose 6!! If you repeat a song or piece of music that has already been chosen, I’ll let you know and you can choose another one. Please let me know your choices in the comments at this link:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/beware-of-the-flowers-terf-island
Next up!
Chosen by: Katrina Biggs
‘Proud Mary’ by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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I'm not voting purely because I can't get my list down to anything close to three!
I am alarmed by Simeon Burke's report on his difficulties due to the capture of the Irish Bar Council by transgender ideology. As unjust as their treatment of his petition to complete the process for admission to the bar is, this has implications far beyond just his particular case.