Diamonds Are Forever
Update 636. Inquiry Into Pride In Surrey Special. #BeMorePorcupine.
Now we are back with Dusty’s film series and the latest version of the list is here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/empire-of-light-dustys-film-series
Please let us have your suggestions for films but please check the list first to see if it is there already. I am updating the list as we go along. We are going through them alphabetically and had got to D prior to Terf Month.
Next up is Diamonds Are Forever (1971), the seventh Bond film! Don’t ask me to do the plot - it is far too convoluted!! It involves diamonds 😁 OK, I’ll give you a bit of the plot. M (Bond’s boss in the secret service) suspects that South African diamonds are being stockpiled to depress prices by dumping and assigns Bond to uncover the smuggling ring. Impersonating the smuggler Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet the contact Tiffany Case. Some time later, in Los Angeles, at the craps table, Bond meets Plenty O’Toole, and later brings her to his room.
Sean Connery is James Bond
Jill St. John is Tiffany Case
Lana Wood is Plenty O’Toole
What is this? A perverts’ convention?
OK, OK you want the theme tune! Over to Ms Bassey!
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
England - Pride In Surrey
On her weekly piece on the Glinner Update, Nutmeg calls for an inquiry into Pride In Surrey following the conviction for rape and other child sex offences of their CEO, Stephen Ireland and the conviction for child sex offences of his partner, David Sutton. I totally agree. It is outrageous that Pride in Surrey has just taken place again with two previous partners of Mr Ireland in place as CEO and safeguarding officer and that they are still being supported by the council and others!!!
Nutmeg's week: We need an inquiry into Pride in Surrey
Jul 06, 2025
This week Stephen Ireland, the founder of Pride In Surrey, was sentenced to a total of 30 years in jail for multiple child sexual abuse offences, including the rape of a 12-year-old boy. The boy, who was reported missing at the time, was drugged with crystal meth before the assault. Ireland then sent him photos of another Pride in Surrey organiser, David Sutton, and suggested they have a threesome. Sutton, who was also convicted of several child sexual abuse offences, was sentenced to four and a half years.
The role of councils, at least one MP, schools, the police, the media and, above all, Pride in Surrey itself, needs to be investigated to find out to what extent institutional failings enabled paedophiles to abuse. Was protecting an image of inclusivity prioritised over protecting children?
The full piece, which includes lots of other news, is here:
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/nutmegs-week-we-need-an-inquiry-into
The For Women Scotland Judgment - The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC)
Just one piece from the latest Women’s Rights Network newsletter ( 07 July) which exemplifies the continuing enormous problems with the police at senior level and their attitude to gender ideology.
National Police Chiefs' Council survey leaked to WRN focuses on “feelings” not facts of the judgment or persecution of officers challenging gender ideology
After the Supreme Court ruled that women are a sex-specific group, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) circulated a survey to staff nationwide.
The NPCC could have surveyed awareness of the facts of the judgment like: Are officers aware that single-sex spaces and searches mean just that? Do officers understand how to enforce and explain that to colleagues/the public? Instead the survey was used to detail how this “emotive and deeply personal” subject affects officers and to “help” the Chief Constables identify what “needs to be done”.
The survey does not explain why police officers and staff need to be asked about their personal safety “as a result of the Supreme Court ruling”, or why there may be a “conflict” with their “community.” The survey implies that the NPCC thinks there is something to be worried about!
The judgment is a ruling by the highest court in the land, which the police should have been following anyway, and have no excuse to avoid now.
WRN wrote to Chief Constables asking when they will comply with the judgment in relation to workplace facilities. They said that the interim EHRC guidance has been circulated, but this survey indicates that it hasn’t been made clear to their staff, or for some other reason, they are not following either the EHRC guidance or the law coded in 2010.
When the NPCC ruled that male officers were “entitled” to access female changing rooms, showers and toilets because of their “gender identity” and men’s gender identities meant female officers would have to strip search them, there was no survey asking how they felt, if they knew where to get welfare support and to assure them the force had their “inclusion” wellbeing at heart.
This time, the survey eventually gets past feelings to ask: “Since the Supreme Court ruling have you experienced hate crime while off duty/at work?” Then: “If you have experienced a hate crime either while on or off duty/at work since the Supreme Court ruling did you report it?”
A “hate crime” is a crime motivated by hatred of a protected characteristic (excluding sex!). This survey implies either that the NPCC expects officers to witness crimes and not report them or that the NPCC interprets notorious “non-crime hate incidents” as “hate crime”.
Towards the end, the survey asks, “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” Options for “gender” are: Male/Female/Non-Binary/Prefer to self-describe/Other/Prefer not to say. This means the nation’s law enforcement leaders are conflating sex and gender in a survey about the impact of the legal distinction between sex and gender.
A serving officer said, “I honestly could not believe what I was reading when I saw this survey. As a gender critical police officer, I have been openly called a ‘nazi’, ‘fascist’, ‘militant’ and ‘obtuse’ – just for expressing my views post-Forstater”, [the 2021 ruling that overturned the claim that sex realism is “not worthy of respect in a democratic society”, creating the acronym WORIADS]. [Dusty - I don’t think the Forstater case actually created that acronym]
The officer continued, “There is no mention of the horrendous treatment of gender critical people and, indeed, it actually goes above and beyond to imply my abusers might be the actual victims of the ruling.
“I have no hope that the current NPCC might do the decent thing and kick ideology out of policing once and for all. They seem intent on destroying the trust of the public, undermining the law and trashing what little morale there is left within the rank and file.”
The NPCC claims that its “shared focus is on creating a safe and inclusive environment”. We thought their focus would be legal compliance. Them being “law enforcement” after all.
UK - Freedom of Speech at University
Interesting piece by Sue Parker Hall on the substack for the Foundation for Academic Integrity and Responsibility about the effects of new guidance from the Office for Students on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
Free Speech in psychotherapy and counselling trainings
What the Office for Students new guidance could mean
Jul 05, 2025
The Office for Students (OfS) recently published detailed guidance on how higher education providers in England must uphold freedom of speech under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. This has wide-ranging implications, particularly for university-validated training courses in counselling and psychotherapy. Although professional bodies like BACP and UKCP are not directly regulated by the OfS, many of the trainings they accredit or endorse are run within or in partnership with universities that are bound by these new legal duties. As such, while BACP and UKCP are not themselves obliged to adopt the OfS guidance, their accredited courses cannot ignore it without risking significant consequences for the universities involved and, by extension, for the professional bodies’ influence over training standards.
Under the Act, universities and other higher education providers have a statutory duty to secure freedom of speech and academic freedom, which includes ensuring that lawful speech, no matter how controversial, or offended some academics or trainees may be, is not suppressed or penalised.
The OfS has been given strong investigatory and enforcement powers to support this duty. If a university is found to have unlawfully restricted free speech for example, by cancelling a speaker, disciplining a student for expressing a protected belief, or failing to provide a balanced curriculum, it may face legal and financial penalties. The OfS can direct institutions to take corrective action, such as reinstating an event, changing a policy, or issuing a public apology. It can also impose fines or require institutions to publish statements acknowledging a breach.
In addition to these regulatory mechanisms, individuals—whether students, staff, or guest speakers now have a statutory right to bring complaints via the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) or, in some cases, take legal action directly through the courts. This raises the stakes for any institution that mishandles a free speech issue, particularly in politically or culturally sensitive areas such as those frequently encountered in psychotherapy training: gender identity, race, sexuality, religion, trauma, and politics.
This is especially relevant for counselling and psychotherapy programmes, which often involve intensive group discussion, personal disclosure, and close supervision of beliefs and values. Such environments can become risky if trainers or institutions, consciously or unconsciously, foster ideological conformity or discourage the expression of lawful but unpopular views. For example, a trainee who expresses gender-critical views in a classroom or supervision context may find themselves at odds with prevailing cultural norms, yet those views have been upheld as protected beliefs under UK equality law. If a training provider were to discipline or marginalise a trainee for holding such views, and that provider’s course is validated by a university, there is now a clear legal route for redress that could bring the university under scrutiny by the OfS.
Dusty - I would emphasise the last sentence of this piece: ‘At a deeper level, it calls for a renewed commitment to viewpoint diversity and intellectual openness within psychotherapy education, principles that, arguably, should have been central all along.’ The Human Rights Act 1998 has been in force since 2000 and Article 10 protects freedom of speech. Organisations really ought to have got their head around the concept of protecting freedom of speech by now!
The full piece is here:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-167433157
England - Camden - The ‘Trans Crossings’
Christian Concern report (06 July):
BREAKING: Camden Council threatened with Judicial Review over transgender road crossing which ‘honours’ scandal-hit Tavistock gender identity clinic Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, long-time Camden resident, Blessing Olubanjo, is now threatening to bring a legal challenge to have the four transgender flag crossings at Tavistock Place and Marchmont Street removed or redesigned. The crossing, painted in the colours of the transgender pride flag (blue, pink and white), cost £10,000 and was installed by the Council in November 2021 to mark Transgender Awareness Week and ‘in honour’ of The Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. The Tavistock clinic was once the world’s largest children’s gender clinic but was permanently closed in March 2024 following revelations of systematic failures in patient care and treatment protocols. The closure followed the publication of the independent Cass Review, conducted by Dr. Hilary Cass, which exposed critical flaws in the clinic’s approach to treating gender dysphoria in young people. Blessing Olubanjo said: “I brought this case because I believe in fairness, freedom of belief, and the proper role of public institutions. As a Christian and a taxpayer, I should not be made to feel excluded or marginalised by political symbols in public spaces. “This crossing sends a message that only one viewpoint is welcome, and that’s not right in a truly democratic society. I’m standing up not just for myself, but for everyone who feels silenced or sidelined by discredited harmful activism forced on the public by ideologically captured local authorities.”
https://x.com/CConcern/status/1941771330665263237
Well done, Blessing Olubanjo.
I can’t resist the ‘transphobic police horses’ 😂
UK - Home Schooling
An increasing number of parents are taking their children out of school due to the teaching of gender ideology and other age inappropriate sex education teaching. A concerned member of the public has written a piece for James Esses’ substack warning that home educators should avoid a group which supposedly assists them called Down At The Cabin Ltd!
The Cabin in the Woods: A Cautionary Tale
Gender Ideology in Home Education
Jul 07, 2025
The below has been written by a concerned member of the public.
Homeschooling is on the rise in the UK. Last year, the UK government estimated that at least 111,000 children are being home-educated. Many parents are choosing to this path for their children because of concerns around the pushing of gender identity ideology in educational settings.
However, I am sorry to report that such nefarious ideologies are also managing to infiltrate home-schooling.
Down At The Cabin Ltd is a private company (company number 11017497) running ‘The Cabin’ and ‘The Lodge’. It offers, for a fee, activities for home-educated children, aged 5-16, during term time.
Locations were originally split with ‘The Cabin’ located in the village of Berden and ‘The Lodge’ located in Saffron Walden, utilising hired church spaces.
From September 2025, it will be re-locating both of its operations to the Friends Meeting House in Saffron Walden, and promotes a “self-directed, consent-based” education model.
The company’s website emphasises equity, inclusion, and affirmation of “trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming young people”, yet lacks clear safeguarding policies.
Co-founders and facilitators of Down at the Cabin – Gem Kennedy, Max Hope, and Sophie Christophy, openly promote gender identity ideology and “queer theory”.
Their statements, detailed below, reject the binary nature of sex, dismiss legal frameworks like the Equality Act 2010, and advocate for adult concepts like ‘self-identification’ that are not suitable for children. These views raise concerns about child safeguarding, compliance with UK law, and the blurring of boundaries between adult and child spaces.
The full piece is here:
Autistic Girls and Gender Ideology
On her substack, Neuro Poppins reports on the fact that autism in girls and women has previously often not been diagnosed and goes on to report on the dangers of gender ideology especially for autistic girls. All thoughts gratefully received.
The Erasure of Autistic Females: How Gender Ideology is Undermining Science, Medicine, and the Fight for Female Liberation
Jul 01, 2025
For generations, science and medicine have marginalised females. Women have been misdiagnosed, underdiagnosed, or excluded from research entirely, as male bodies and minds were treated as the "default" human subject. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of autism research - a field that, for decades, assumed only boys could be autistic.
Autistic girls and women have always existed, but they have been systemically overlooked. Why? Because their autism often doesn’t look like the male stereotype. Girls tend to mask, camouflage, and internalise their struggles due to both neurological differences and female socialisation. Their pain is hidden behind politeness, mimicry, and perfectionism. Their autism is quieter, more contained - often mislabelled as anxiety, depression, or personality disorder. An autistic meltdown - “hysterical”.
Only recently has the medical field begun to acknowledge that autism presents differently in females. But just as science begins to recognise autistic girls and women on their own terms, a new ideology is rushing in to erase them again.
In medical research and healthcare, biological sex matters. Sex-based differences are profound and fundamental in nearly every domain - blood serum biomarkers, immune responses, brain structure and function, hormone regulation, metabolic processes, reproductive systems and behavioral patterns. These differences are critical for developing accurate diagnostics, effective treatments, and tailored support strategies.
The full piece is here:
https://neuropoppins.substack.com/p/the-erasure-of-autistic-females-how
Terf Island Discs
Thanks to an excellent suggestion from Tenaciously Terfin, we are pausing Endpieces for the time being and giving Tenaciously and Liz a well earned rest from their hard work. So welcome to Terf Island Discs. Please let us have three of your favourite songs or pieces of music and provide a link if possible. 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. Obviously, the choices don’t actually have to be from Terf Island - anywhere in the world! We will feature one piece of music in each general update. Thanks to all those readers who have already sent in their choices.
Please send in your choices via the comments section at this link: https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/terf-island-discs
Here we go!
Chosen by: Rex Landy
‘Go Now’ by The Moody Blues
#BeMorePorcupine
#ThePorcupinesWillWin
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#LGB✂️TQ
#JoinFreeSpeechUnion
#BeMoreDissident
#NoSelfID
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
#WeWillWin
Excellent. Thank you for the cross-post my piece about Autistic Female Erasure due to this ideology
Thanks ,Dusty. These ideologues are so determined to destroy women and children that they will go to any lengths to achieve their aims. It's completely malevolent and they deserve to be severely punished for their utterly vile beliefs and actions.