Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Breed Me?

The best of luck to Eddie Izzard as he tries to get pregnant at 64. But the worst of luck to Alexandra Stewart and to whoever sent him to the women’s wing of HMP Greenock. The Trans Age will end either soon or, effectively, never. Its ideology still enjoys the full force of the State and of a cultural sector that the State very largely funded. That double force turned the England of 1530, an extravagantly Catholic country of many centuries’ standing, into the England of 1560, a country that would define itself as fundamentally anti-Catholic for 400 years.

Now as then, there have been some very good career moves. Gentlemen who were tired of being only moderately successful actors or comedians have declared themselves transwomen and felt their careers hurtle into the stratosphere. Ladies who fancied a bit more prominence than they had attained through academia or the worthier sorts of journalism have made names for themselves as gender-critical feminists and watched the new platforms build themselves. The latter have rarely used those platforms to advance economic equality or international peace. In what way are they still left-wing? In what way were some of them ever? But they still want to abolish the presumption of innocence in rape cases, to impose a curfew on men, and so on. There are no eternal alliances.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Hungary’s law to protect children from gender ideology violated “European values”. Defined as what? The overwhelming majority of public opinion? The beliefs passed down in word and deed over many generations? The recapitulation in Jesus Christ and His Church of all three of the Old Israel, Hellenism, and the Roman Empire? What, exactly? Remaining British enthusiasts for the EU should take note. As, rather more amusingly, they should take note of the fact that the EU’s anti-fraud office was now investigating their beloved Peter Mandelson.

Less than five months after Jeffrey Epstein’s first conviction, Mandelson was introduced to the House of Lords by a man who, until not much more than a year earlier, had been Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Between that and yesterday’s loss of his Assisted Suicide Bill, Charlie Falconer should take his leave of Their Lordships’ House, which approved the decriminalisation of abortion up to birth, contrary to his depiction of it as a citadel of godliness. Since an heir is no longer necessary, Baroness Izzard will fit right in.