Martin Booth

I made a football quiz game where the obvious answer is the worst answer. 7 questions a day, give it a go before midnight 👇 longshots.app

A lot of us were very willing to have a debate without heat, @stonewalluk, and the reason that never happened wasn't because gender critical feminists didn't want one. While we were trying to get you to listen to our concerns, your former CEO was telling a BBC boss that gay people not wanting to include the opposite sex in their dating pool was 'sexual racism'. While we were pointing out the homophobia inherent in gender ideology, Stonewall ambassador Alex Drummond (a bearded, heterosexual man who'd had no surgery and taken no cross-sex hormones but liked wearing skirts), was going into schools to talk to students about his 'lesbian' identity. @BluskyeAllison, who actually is a lesbian, was subject to unlawful discrimination at her place of work for tweeting: ‘Stonewall recently hired Morgan Page, a male bodied person who ran workshops with the sole aim of coaching heterosexual men who identify as lesbians on how they can coerce young lesbians into having sex with them. Page called [it] “overcoming the cotton ceiling”.’ When the UK Supreme Court upheld women's right to single sex spaces, you issued a statement expressing your unhappiness about the ruling. In her report on your unhappy influence at the University of Essex, you were found by barrister @akuareindorf to have misrepresented the law as it related to women's rights: '[Stonewall have] stated the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is’. In 2018, you publicly advised schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers, in spite of the fact that you aren't a medical charity and that there was already credible evidence that puberty blockers are neither irreversible nor harm-free. Meanwhile you produced your own educational packs, recommending a children's book, for ages 5-9, in which the parent 'is neither a man, nor a woman – they’re non-binary.' In July 2022, Stonewall sent out a tweet that read ‘Research suggests that children as young as two recognise their trans identity'. @thetimes has reported how you've sought to control the language used by NHS trusts and government on their social-media accounts. Organisations would get points from you for replacing commonly understood words with ideologically approved terms, eg, 'birthing parent' instead of 'mother'. thetimes.com/uk/society/arti… In short, you took a maximalist position on gender identity ideology, which you attempted to enforce by diktat. You refused to acknowledge that you'd hitched your wagon to a cause that, unlike civil rights, gay rights or women's rights, sought to strip rights from others. You sought to curtail everyone's right to freedom of speech and belief by controlling what it was permissible to think and say, through the management and political class. You have argued against women's and girl's rights to their own spaces, their sports and to assemble without men. Your former CEO tried to shame gay women/men into dating the opposite sex if the latter claimed to be female/male. Your mantra was 'no debate' because, like all totalitarians, you preferred slogans, bullying and infiltration of powerful institutions to talking to opponents. You appear to have had no concern for the lowly people your ideology was harming: gender confused kids, female rape victims, female prisoners, regular people hounded and investigated at their places of work for refusing to accept the new mandates on sex and gender issued from on high. Your 'activism' has been a disaster for those trans-identified people who really do just want to get on with their lives in peace. You have besmirched the name of an organisation many of us were once proud to donate to, the charity that was partly responsible for securing the legal right of gay people to marry, which a lot of us thought would never happen in our lifetimes. The milquetoast words quoted below do not erase a decade of gender activism that has been disastrous not only for individuals but for society as a whole. There was once a debate to be had, but until you acknowledge the direct harm you've caused, it is no more possible to debate you than to persuade a person in the throes of a drug-induced psychosis that they are not, in fact, the reincarnated Christ.

Marc White's absolute RAGE. 🤬 🗯️

One of the most well-written jokes ever captured on film.

🚨REMINDER: Fulham Broadway Station is closed all day on Saturday and there are no District Line trains running to any nearby stations on that branch of the tube network.

Finally a wet race

Attendances 1975-76 and 1976-77

From fooling Jürgen Hingsen to silencing Wimbledon stars and starring in his own computer game, the decathlon legend reflects on an extraordinary sporting life thetimes.com/sport/athletics…

From Etihad Airways 60-page submission to John Kerry, US Department Secretary of State, Antony Foxx, US Department of Transportation Secretary and Penny Pritzker, US Department of Commerce Secretary on May 31, 2015

You could say Mark Wood should have slowed down. Maybe he should have. Three ankle operations before he was 27 would have convinced most bowlers to settle for 85 mph. He went looking for more. You could say the longer run-up was madness. Every fast bowler past 30 is told to shorten it. Fair enough. But he added yards instead, and at 34 he bowled 97.1 mph at Trent Bridge, the fastest Test over any Englishman has bowled at home. You could say he was never fit enough to matter. Maybe. But in 2023 England were 2-0 down in the Ashes when he arrived, and 14 wickets at 20.21 later it was 2-2. You could say he would have lasted longer at a gentler pace. He probably would have. But then he would not have been Mark Wood. Elbow stress. Knee surgery. Fifteen months out. Eleven overs at Perth, and that was the end. It all came at a cost. He paid it every time, and never once bowled a ball slower. Thank you, Woody.

WE’VE DONE IT 🏆

Mistake acknowledged. ProRef has made contact with Manchester United this evening "to acknowledge what we deem is an error of judgement" over Manchester City's controversial goal. "A review of the incident will take place,” a Pro Ref spokesperson says. “The on-field decision was offside against Erling Haaland – that was checked by VAR and he was found to be in an onside position. In the same attack, it was established that Enzo Fernandez did not play the ball and therefore that makes any offside offence subjective, however, on this occasion, the VAR did not recognise the likely impact of his position and should have recommended an on-field review." Some official accountability but little consolation to United or Michael Carrick. Huge mistake.

Fifa has accused Uefa of a "smear campaign against it and its leadership" over president Gianni Infantino's scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors.

The joint-British record transfer fee! 💰 Man City have agreed a deal with Chelsea for Enzo Fernandez worth £125m 🇦🇷🤝

Adding further class to our ranks. 💪