Mr Right

Update 945. Bring Back Meritocracy Special. #BeMorePorcupine.

Aug 19, 2026

Thanks to Beverley Talbott on X for this great quote:

Women aren’t support animals for disturbed men, and the female category is not a dumping ground for mediocre male athletes.

I believe that the original quote may come from someone called Haley.

Thanks as ever to my paid subscribers and to those who buy me a coffee. These updates do take up an enormous amount of work, so please consider becoming a paid subscriber.

Onwards with the Dusty,Nicola, Moodie and Rex 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:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/empire-of-light-dustys-film-series

Mr. Right is a 2015 American film directed by Paco Cabezas. The film follows an overoptimistic young woman (Anna Kendrick) who discovers that her new boyfriend (Sam Rockwell) is a former professional hitman. This is another in Rex Landy’s Sam Rockwell ‘season’ and Rex writes:

Mr Right is silly. The premise, the story, the lot. It’s a fun, silly romp that is very enjoyable. Leave your credulity at the door and you’ll have a great time watching Sam and Anna Kendrick play off each other in this ripping yarn. Sam is a reformed hit-man who now kills anyone who tries to hire him. A chance encounter with Kendrick’s character (who has just been left on the roadside as romantic roadkill) leads to romance. There’s some great fight scenes, Tim Roth, RZA [ Robert Fitzgerald Diggs] and there’s even a happy ever after. Stupidly satisfying.

Dusty: I liked “When he said he killed a guy in the parking lot I thought he was joking.”

Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.

Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.

UK - Anti-Meritocracy!

We have been occasionally featuring the story of Jason Arday and his tragic death because Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is the vehicle by which, amongst other things, ‘gender ideology’ is enshrined in organisations and it installed Jason Arday as a Professor in Cambridge University despite the fact that the poor deluded man had no right to be in that position at all. By the way now the journalists doing their job ( and that includes me in my minor role) are responsible for his death according to the woke mob. I will let you, dear readers, go through three excellent pieces by EDI Jester and another excellent piece by Frederick Alexander on a site called Gadfly but, first of all, here is Martin Luther King:

The woke morons need to listen properly to this speech. He hoped for a nation where his children “will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.” Those in charge in the UK have lost this message, if they ever understood it in the first place. All thoughts gratefully received.

https://edijester.substack.com/p/arday-question-time-and-the-manifestation

https://edijester.substack.com/p/beyond-arday-affinity-groups-collectivism

https://edijester.substack.com/p/grief-as-weapon-how-the-left-turned

https://www.gadflynotes.com/p/educated-beyond-common-sense?hide_intro_popup=true

UK - Sarah Phillimore v The Good Laugh Project

We have been covering Sarah’s defamation case throughout. For example, here:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/home-alone-are-you-thirsty-for-more

In fact we are like the Sarah P fan club 😂

Here are her latest two updates both produced today. Please consider donating to her case.

Protection against defamation

Part 1

I am very sorry to have left it so long since the last update and even more sorry to have nothing much substantive to share. Maugham has objected to a paragraph in my Particulars of Claim and refused a proposed amendment so my solicitors have now made application to the court to amend it. I am warned that if he contests this and wins it could cost me up to £50K.

His defence will not be provided until this issue is dealt with.

This is very frustrating, particularly in light of the Good Law Project’s recent activity regarding the death of Jason Arday and Maugham’s denials that this is being used as a fund raising opportunity for the GLP.

https://x.com/BarbaraRich_law/status/2089390287395119111?s=20

Maugham has sole control of the GLP funds and therefore access to millions of pounds. My fund is now more than half spent and we have not seen the inside of a court room yet.

I hope this issue can be resolved swiftly and we can move on to a court date. I will keep you updated when I know the date of the hearing, and then its outcome.

Sarah P.

Part 2

Updates are like buses! Nothing for months and then two in one day.

I am really pleased to find on checking my email this afternoon, confirmation from the BSB independent reviewer, that its original decision to reject the Good Law Project complaint of August 2025 was the right one. The reviewer upholds that decision in full.

I have not harassed Mr Weddell and I have not behaved in any way sufficiently badly to merit sanction from my regulator.

I hope that Mr Maugham will now pause and reflect. If, as sadly I think is likely, he is unwilling or unable, his next step will be to apply to judicially review the BSB decision not to sanction me. I can only hope that it makes it very clear to donors to the Good Law Project that some of their money at least may now be diverted into what I can fairly describe as his private vendetta.

I remain willing to settle my legal action with a public apology and payment of my costs to date. A donation to FWS would be nice, but if he won’t - I will.

Go to case page

The European Union

Marianne Driessen of Athena Forum talks of the Gender Borg infiltration being enforced by the European Union.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-OW26u551IA

Pseudoscience - World Round Up!

Good round up as ever of what I call pseudoscience around the world by Bernard Lane on Gender Clinic News. I will highlight just three pieces:

Tavistock clinic whistleblowers Marcus and Susan Evans have launched a website “bringing together our books, articles, lectures and interviews on gender distress, identity and psychological development”. Resources include information and support for parents, and a Family Consultation Service, which “offers parents and families an opportunity to think together about a child’s or young person’s distress, the wider emotional and developmental context in which it has emerged, and the different ways of understanding and responding to it”.

Sounds excellent!

Given my very grave concerns about the UK Conversion Practices Bill I also highlight these two pieces:

Meanwhile, Canadian writer Peter Gajdics, a gay man who suffered conversion therapy, has thought better of his past advocacy for the deceptive new generation of conversion bans focused on transgender identity. He says he did not understand at the time that such bans would lead to the medicalisation of gender non-conforming minors. Now, on a Genspect podcast, he says: “Gender affirmative care is the new euphemism for conversion therapy.”

Thumb on the scale

Australia | In the state of Tasmania, the Greens party has released an exposure draft of a law against “conversion practices” involving not only sexual orientation but the ill-defined concept of “gender identity”. The accused could face civil or criminal proceedings, with a maximum prison term of 21 years. In a submission, Emeritus Professor of Law Patrick Parkinson argues that the bill, like its counterparts in other jurisdictions, is “deeply flawed”.

He writes: “There has never been a well-documented issue about therapy concerning ‘gender identity’ that has caused significant harm. The only issue has been debate about the role of psychotherapy in treating gender dysphoria or incongruence. On this issue, medical practitioners differ. That [psychotherapy] treatment, which some call ‘conversion therapy’, is now the mainstream option for gender dysphoric minors in Scandinavia, Britain and elsewhere, following expert medical reviews of the evidence for the efficacy of hormonal treatments in addressing gender dysphoria.

“The Parliament of Tasmania should not put its thumb on the scale on what is an intense debate in the medical and mental health professions internationally.”

The full piece is here:

https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/signs-and-symptoms-of-fraud

Bernard also looks at attempts to get around Queensland’s ban on provision of puberty blockers to minors:

https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/puberty-blockers-unleashed

The States - Mini Round Up

As usual, a good round up on the Terf Report by Kara Dansky. I thought the main case she refers to ( most of which is discussed behind the paywall) of a parent challenging the State of Portland was particularly moving and important so will quote a bit of that here:

This post is about a lawsuit that was recently filed by a Portland, Oregon, mom against her child’s school for introducing her child to so-called “gender identity” ideology. It’s hard to tell, but I think she stands a decent shot at prevailing.

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The mom in question is Allison Roberts. Before even reading the complaint, I noted from publicly available materials that before suing, she had written a letter to school administrators in which she said, “If we truly support the gay community, we should not blur the line between same sex attraction and medicalized identity.” She stood on the sidewalk outside her kids’ school and handed out copies of the letter to other parents.

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In February of this year, Allison was on school property chatting with a woman named Olivia about an unrelated matter involving the PTA [Parent Teachers Association] . The next day, she brought Olivia a cup of coffee and wanted to continue the unrelated conversation. However, that time, Olivia’s husband was present and he asked her if she voted for Trump. When she said that she did, he yelled “White people are disgusting!” “at the top of his lungs.” Apparently, there were elementary school children present, who reacted in shock to this yelling. There is no indication in the complaint what race the husband is.

Naturally, the police arrived at her home the following morning and served her with a one-year no trespass order from the school. The complaint states that the order said that Allison had engaged in “harmful, unlawful and/or disruptive behavior,” but did not provide any specific details. It stated that she had engaged in “threatening and intimidating members of the school,” which she denies. It threatened that failure to comply would result in law enforcement engagement.

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The lawsuit essentially boils down to several claims under the 1st Amendment (which applies to the school through the 14th Amendment, but don’t worry about that for now):

The school retaliated against her for engaging in free speech in a lawful manner.
The school engaged in viewpoint discrimination by punishing her but not the man who yelled “White people are disgusting!” in front of elementary school children.
The school chilled her free speech.
The school’s harassment policy is void for vagueness.

It also alleges that the school is burdening her right to the free exercise of religion.

It asks the court to state that the claims have merit and to enjoin (block) the school from engaging in further similar conduct.

Best of luck to Allison. The full piece is here:

https://karadansky.substack.com/p/do-parents-have-a-right-to-shield

Terflandia

Kara Dansky has edited what sounds like a great book about the Terven around the world and it will be officially launched on 6 October:

https://karadansky.substack.com/p/terflandia-how-the-global-terven-2dd

Australia - Fix The Sex Discrimination Act

Big rally coming up on 23 August. Wish I could be there!!

https://feministlegal.org/restore-womens-rights-and-fix-the-sda-wrna/

In Praise of Andrew Doyle

I am not sure that Andrew Doyle would describe himself as a Terf but he has always come out batting for the Terfs and we, as you know, frequently feature him on this substack.

Simon Edge wrote an excellent book called The End of the World is Flat which was clearly based on Stonewall’s 2015 U turn moving from gay rights to T and Q rights.

Following the Southport Riots after the killing of three young children at a dance class in the UK, Simon Edge co-edited a letter making outrageous allegations that certain women’s rights activists supported violence and racism. Nobody was named but it was clearly aimed at Kellie-Jay Keen and Let Women Speak.

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/serpico?utm_source=publication-search

Now he has launched forth again with defamatory allegations against Andrew, Josh Howie of GB News and others!!

https://kaygreen.blog/2026/08/09/the-alarming-tale-of-the-far-right-bookshop-in-rural-suffolk/

Andrew responds in a very measured way here:

https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/the-art-of-the-smear

Come on, Simon, ‘fess up. Are you the Mata Hari of the Gender Borg?