On 27 March 2026 I received the welcome and to be honest not entirely expected news that the Bar Standards Board was not going to investigate further the complaint of the Good Law Project against me on behalf of trans identifying man Euan Weddell, aka Sophie Molly/Sparkles.
This complaint has a long and unpleasant history. It was initially made by Weddell in March 2024, complaining that my calling him a man had ‘reduced him to tears’. This complaint was eventually rejected, despite the best efforts of an legally illiterate ‘reviewer’ who opined that because some teachers had been held to account for ‘misgendering’ their students, I might owe a similar duty of care to a grown man on the internet with whom I had no professional or personal relationship.
By August 2025 the complaint had enlarged somewhat and the Good Law Project were now making it on his behalf, describing publicly my social media posts as ‘harassment’ which was so unpleasant that Weddell tragically had attempted to kill himself on an overdose of anti histamines. Jolyon Maugham decided to defame me a few days later so I am now suing him. Good times!
I am still struggling to understand precisely how ‘gender identity’ became the one great untouchable ideology and I sadly suspect that a significant part of this has been because many of the professional elites that worship it, have children who have fallen into this social contagion and medically ‘transitioned’. It must be very hard to admit that as a loving parent you have allowed something irreversible to happen to your child, for which there is no compelling evidence of benefit and to which they cannot possibly consent.
Jolyon Maugham has three daughters, two of whom now believe they are his sons. In the response of the Good Law Project to my letter before action regarding defamation, I was warned that Maugham was contemplating his own legal action for my ‘defamation’ in this regard. I will await his action with interest.
Truth is an absolute defence to defamation and the only thing that will get us out of this mess. I am glad that today saw recognition and respect for the truth, sad only that this has taken so long, demanded so much energy and caused so much harm along the way.