I am coming off the blocks early today following the arrest of Graham Linehan by FIVE armed police on his return to this country. He was arrested for 3 tweets!! Anyone know a nice Pacific island somewhere?
We are continuing with Dusty’s film series ( and, boy, will you need this film clip before you read the rest of this update) 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 have got to I.
Next up is Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges (2008). This is, basically, a gangster film. During a hit (on a priest!), Ray (played by Colin Farrell) accidentally shoots a child and flees to Bruges. His mate, Ken Daley ( Brendan Gleeson) is given the job by the godfather figure, Harry Waters (Ralph Fiennes) of killing Ray. Meanwhile Ray gets it together with local drug dealer Chloe ( Clemence Poesy).
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
Glinner Arrested
Graham has reported on this on his substack, The Glinner Update and I hope he will forgive me for quoting the whole piece:
I just got arrested again
I arrived back in London to discover the UK is still a police state run by trans activists
Sep 02, 2025
Something odd happened before I even boarded the flight in Arizona. When I handed over my passport at the gate, the official told me I didn't have a seat and had to be re-ticketed. At the time, I thought it was just the sort of innocent snafu that makes air travel such a joy. But in hindsight, it was clear I'd been flagged. Someone, somewhere, probably wearing unconvincing make-up and his sister/wife’s/mum’s underwear, had made a phone call.
The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. Not one, not two—five. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up.
…and then, a follow up to that one.
When I first saw the cops, I actually laughed. I couldn't help myself. "Don't tell me! You've been sent by trans activists" The officers gave no reaction and this was the theme throughout most of the day. Among the rank-and-file, there was a sort of polite bafflement. Entirely professional and even kind, but most had absolutely no idea what any of this was about.
“Kind” because the officers saw how upset I was—when they began reading me my rights, the red mist descended and I came close to becoming one of those police body-cam videos where you can’t believe the perp isn’t just doing what he’s told—and they treated me gently after that. They even arranged for a van to meet me on the tarmac so I didn't have to be perp-walked through the airport like a terrorist. Small mercies.
At Heathrow police station, my belt, bag, and devices were confiscated. Then I was shown into a small green-tiled cell with a bunk, a silver toilet in the corner and a message from Crimestoppers on the ceiling next to a concave mirror that was presumably there to make you reflect on your life choices.
By some miracle—probably because I hadn't slept on the flight—I managed to doze off. After the premier economy seat in which I’d just spent ten hours, it was actually a relief to stretch out. That passed the time, though I kept waking up wondering if it was all actually happening.
Later, during the interview itself, the tone shifted. The officer conducting it asked about each of the terrible tweets in turn, with the sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like… oh, I dunno—crime? I explained that the ‘punch’ tweet was a serious point made with a joke. Men who enter women’s spaces ARE abusers and they need to be challenged every time. The ‘punch in the bollocks’ bit was about the height difference between men and women, the bollocks being closer to punch level for a woman defending her rights and certainly not a call to violence. (Not one of my best as one of the female officers said “We’re not THAT small”).
He mentioned “trans people”. I asked him what he meant by the phrase. “People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.” I said “Assigned at birth? Our sex isn’t assigned.” He called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language. The damage Stonewall has done to the UK police force will take years to mend.
Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200—stroke territory. The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life! So I was escorted to A&E, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation.
The doctors suggested the high blood pressure was stress-related, combined with long-haul travel and lack of movement. I feel it may also have been a contributing factor that I have now spent eight years being targeted by trans activists working in tandem with police in a dedicated, perseistent harassment campaign because I refuse to believe that lesbians have cocks.
The police themselves, for the most part, were consistently decent throughout this farce. Some were even Father Ted fans. Thank God the Catholic Church never had with the police the special relationship granted to trans activists. The male officers were mostly polite but clearly nonplussed by the politics of it all—just doing their jobs, however insane those jobs had become. The female officers seemed more tuned in to what was actually happening. One mentioned the Sandie Peggie case in a certain way, and I realised I was among friends, even if they couldn’t admit it.
I looked at the single bail condition: I am not to go on Twitter. That's it. No threats, no speeches about the seriousness of my crimes—just a legal gag order designed to shut me up while I’m the UK, and a demand I face a further interview in October.
The civility of individual officers doesn't alter the fundamental reality of what happened. I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online—all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers. To me, this proves one thing beyond doubt: the UK has become a country that is hostile to freedom of speech, hostile to women, and far too accommodating to the demands of violent, entitled, abusive men who have turned the police into their personal goon squad.
Epilogue: At one point, I said “I bet I know who made this complaint. Lindsay Watson” (demented ex-copper troon who was fired for his online conduct). Then, lo-and-behold, one of my lawyers sent me this reply to the ‘bollocks’ tweet.
Watson is also involved in my OTHER case on Thursday and Friday at London Westminster Magistrates Court. Trans activists are planning to protest, so bring the nose-plugs.
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got-arrested-again
I understand that the Free Speech Union are funding Glinner’s defence.
Great take on it by Kellie-Jay ( and I agree with her advice not to answer the police unless you have a lawyer there):
EDI Jester also does an excellent piece on this:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-172554054
Women Just Want To Pee
Excellent piece on her substack by Kellie-Jay. The law in the UK is now crystal clear!! I will be writing to my (captured) Labour MP and my local Tory councillor about this. Please do the same.
We [women] just want to pee.
It's not complicated.
Sep 02, 2025
It really is that simple. Women just want to pee. We don’t want to perform politics in a toilet cubicle, we don’t want to weigh up our personal safety every time we need to relieve ourselves, and we don’t want to queue longer or risk embarrassment because some bright spark decided “gender neutral” was the progressive option.
Yet here we are, in 2025, being told again and again that single-sex toilets are somehow outdated or unnecessary. The truth is, single-sex spaces are a basic requirement for dignity and safety. When it comes to toilets and changing rooms, this isn’t about ideology. It’s about biology, law, and common sense.
The Law Is Clear, there’s nothing complicated about it.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) guidance on workplace toilets could not be plainer. If an employer provides unisex toilets, they must be self-contained, fully enclosed cubicles, each with its own wash basin, soap, and hand-drying facilities inside the locked room.
What you cannot do, by law, is throw up a sign saying “gender neutral” on a row of flimsy cubicles that open into a shared handwashing space. Yet that is exactly what’s happening in offices, schools, universities, shopping centres, and leisure facilities up and down the country. Managers think a quick rebrand makes them compliant. It doesn’t. It makes them negligent.
Unisex facilities that aren’t properly designed fail women on privacy, on safety, and on hygiene. And every single person who pushes this knows, or ought to know, that the HSE rules exist precisely because shared washing areas increase the risk of assault, intimidation, and embarrassment.
The Safety Data Nobody Wants to Talk About
Freedom of Information requests and parliamentary evidence tell the same story: when you merge women and men into shared changing rooms, sexual assaults soar. Over 90% of reported incidents in leisure centres happened in so-called “unisex” changing spaces. Only a small fraction occurred in single-sex facilities.
And let’s not pretend voyeurism isn’t part of this. South Korea has been fighting a plague of hidden cameras in women’s toilets and changing rooms, an entire porn genre built on spying on unsuspecting women as they undress or use the loo. Thousands of women have been filmed without their knowledge, with the footage traded and sold online. That is what happens when you devalue women’s right to privacy. Do we really imagine the UK is somehow immune?
By ripping out single-sex facilities and forcing women into mixed spaces, we are rolling out the red carpet for exactly this kind of abuse. Once you normalise the idea that women’s toilets are not private, you normalise the idea that women’s bodies are up for grabs.
But instead of taking responsibility, local authorities and leisure operators shrug, as though women’s safety is an unfortunate casualty of modern fashion. How convenient for them.
What Happens in Practice.
Women and girls end up holding their bladders at school or work because they don’t feel safe, and then get blamed for urinary tract infections. Mothers struggle to help their daughters with periods in mixed spaces. Older women, disabled women, religious women, they are all made invisible by this obsession with erasing single-sex provision.
We are told to “just get over it.” Meanwhile, men never lose access to their own facilities. It’s always women’s loos and women’s changing rooms that get sacrificed.
What Should Be Provided
It’s simple: male toilets, female toilets, and accessible toilets. That’s the legal, safe, and fair solution. Everybody knows it. Everybody understands it. The only people pretending otherwise are those who’d rather gamble with women’s safety than admit they’ve got it wrong.
Be More Karen
It’s time to stop shrugging and muttering that “someone should do something.” That someone is you. Write to your local council. Write to your MP. Write to your child’s school. Get your friends to do it too. Hold your institutions to account.
The full piece is here:
Sandie Peggie
We have, of course, been following the Sandie Peggie case against NHS Fife and Dr Upton throughout and over Monday and Tuesday we are getting the legal submissions from both legal teams.
Michael Foran on his substack Knowing Ius has provided a very useful summary of the first day:
https://knowingius.org/p/live-with-michael-foran-16a
UK - The Online Safety Act.
We have been discussing this Act a lot recently and its potential disastrous effects on free speech in the UK. Two American companies are taking action in The States against Ofcom ( the UK regulator). EDI Jester reports.
UK - Disabled Boy Banned From Camp
Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk TV interviews Connie Shaw, who now works for the Free Speech Union, about a mother and her disabled son who have been banned from a summer camp for disabled children due to the mother questioning the bit of the application form that asked for pronouns. An FSU freedom of information request confirmed that the reason for the banning was the mother’s ‘unacceptable’ views!!
Also Turkish drag queens get mentioned in this interview!
England - Manchester Pride
In case you missed it, this is Mr Menno’s third report this year on Pride parades and the capture of such parades by the T and the Q!! Talk about taking one for the team!!
You will note the number of young children involved and possibly the most shocking image for me was a young girl sitting on the ground with a fan on which was written in capitals - and forgive me for quoting this- CUNT!!!!
Additionally you can understand why the giant law firm Dentons back in 2015 advised Stonewall to not debate the T and the Q when you listen to some of those interviewed by Menno struggling to answer his ( very straightforward) questions!! Normally they end up stuck in a verbal cul-de-sac!
All thoughts gratefully received.
Australia - Women’s Football
Feminist Legal Clinic reports via Reduxx:
Australian Women’s Football Team With Multiple Male Players Wins Women’s Premier League Title For Second Year In A Row – Reduxx (01 September)
An Australian football team with multiple male players has won the Women’s Premier League in North West Sydney for the second year in a row, securing the title of 2025 Champions. The Flying Bats FC, a club described as being for “self-identified women and non-binary people”, defeated West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook FC (WPHC) 3–0 in the Grand Finals at Christie Park on August 31.
It is the second consecutive year the Flying Bats have beaten WPHC in the title decider, having also defeated them in the 2024 Women’s Premier League Grand Final. Despite finishing the 2025 regular season as minor premiers with more ladder points and the league’s strongest record, WPHC failed to score a single goal against the Flying Bats in the grand final match.
As previously revealed by Reduxx, there were at least five players on the team in 2024 who were confirmed to be male, including trans activist Riley Dennis. Dennis, who is originally from the United States, was accused of severely injuring female players while participating on another women’s team in Australia prior to joining the Flying Bats.
The World Health Organisation
Lucy Leader on her substack, Bodies get in the way details the capture of the WHO by the Gender Woo!
Has the World Health Organization Been Fully Captured?
Why have they abandoned evidence-based care and clearly understood language?
Sep 01, 2025
Those of us who try to keep abreast of the language used by global superpowers like the World Health Organization (WHO), have been relieved until recently that this long-established group has appeared to reflect biological reality over the fantasy embraced by the transgender lobby.
All this changed on December 18, 2023, when this announcement was published:
‘WHO's Departments of Gender, Rights and Equity - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (GRE-DEI), Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes (HHS), and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) are developing a guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people.’
The “trans and gender diverse people” that the WHO wants to develop a guideline for include children. Had no one in Geneva read the Cass Review? Even more concerning is that most of the panel convened to formulate this guideline do not have a medical background but are a mixture of activists, social justice advocates, human rights lawyers, STD researchers, and policy advisors.
The most egregious of these panel members is man living in womanface who, in addition to his academic publications, is most known for his book entitled Gender/Fucking, which Goodreads describes as:
‘Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world.’
The full piece is here:
England - A Squabble On The Far Left!
I have to say I had a good laugh at this report via FLC:
Corbyn’s new party split over trans policy | The Telegraph (02 September)
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party is already split over its policy on transgender issues.
Adnan Hussain, who will become one of the group’s six MPs, said last week that trans women are “not biologically women”.
But Ms Sultana declared she would “always” speak in support of the rights of trans people and insisted “bigotry has no place” in the new party.
The MP for Blackburn wrote on X: “Women’s rights and safe spaces should not be encroached upon. Safe third spaces should be an alternative option.”
Fewer than three hours after Mr Hussain’s post, Ms Sultana said: “I’ve always stood with the trans community, and I always will.
Mr Corbyn has previously spoken in support of trans rights, putting him and Ms Sultana at odds with Mr Hussain on the issue.
On being accused of “trans hate” by India Willoughby, a transgender journalist, Mr Hussain said: “There was no hatred expressed, India, it’s a conversation that needs to be had.
“Agreeing with women on their need for spaces exclusive to them is not an expression of hatred to any other community. I stated the need for safe spaces for trans people, that’s not hatred.”
Source: Corbyn’s new party split over trans policy
https://feministlegal.org/corbyns-new-party-split-over-trans-policy-the-telegraph/
The Next Stage of Trans Ideology?
In yet another forensic investigation on his substack The Secret Gender Files, Malcolm Clark looks at whether ‘non-binary’ surgery is the next stage of the Gender Madness!! All thoughts gratefully received.
Welcome to the Hermaphrodite Revolution.
The attempt to gain legal recognition for non-binary identity is really about normalising the ultimate expression of trans ideology: the right to have both a vagina and a penis.
Sep 01, 2025
It’s tempting to laugh whenever non-binary people hit the headlines. It’s hardly our fault. When singer Sam Smith declared himself “enby” in 2019 he began squeezing himself into fish net tights.
He seemed to imagine this was transgressive even though Kenny Everett had done the same decades before. In his case though the ensuing hilarity was deliberate. And it was all done in… “the best possible taste”.
Nor could anyone fail to snigger when non-binary activist Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them/very hairy) unveiled clothes he claimed were a glimpse of fashion’s genderless future. I keep expecting him to admit he was having us on.
That’s why when Ryan Castellucci’s lawyers announced they were preparing to go to the European Court of Human Rights to demand the UK legally recognise him as …neither male nor female…most people merely guffawed.
Yet we should take Castellucci’s campaign seriously. And not just because most of us failed to pay attention to the early legal machinations of transsexuals and look where that got us.
The full piece is here:
Women’s World Cup Rugby
As readers know I am following the rugby. Wins this weekend for, amongst others, Canada, Scotland, England, Ireland and New Zealand. But the game of the weekend was Australia v USA:
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: Iain McGlade
‘Cish Cash’ by Basement Jaxx
#BeMorePorcupine
#DontFollowTheHerd
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#LGB✂️TQ
#KeepSpeaking
#LeaveKidsAlone
#JustSayMen
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
#WeWillWin
I'm on the edge of being so angry I go quiet. There is nothing in any of those tweets of Linehan's that reaches an arrestable level, let alone one that requires arrest on a plane by armed police. I hope Linehan's and the FSU take this as far as they can.
Like Becca, I’m also fuming. This govt is dragging our country into the gutter and making us a source of shame a hundred times over. Poor Graham.
Unfortunately there’s a whole lot more on here to be angry about. KJK’s great piece about toilets, the online safety bill, the disabled boy, Manchester Pride, Australian ‘women’s’ football and so on 🤬🤬🤬
You’re right Dusty, at least we’ve got the light relief of infighting inthe Fruit and Nutcase Party. Who’d have seen that coming? 🤦🏻 thanks Dusty.