The Labour Party is in termoil and Keir Starmer is hanging on for dear life as PM. We discuss who the next leader will be, the Mandelson scandal taking more scalps, Stella Creasy dancing while Rome burns, the parliamentary Labour party’s ‘chumocracy’ of former third sector wonks, and why Reform will win big on May 7th.

We discuss whether men should be entitled to their own single-sex spaces using the example of Men in Sheds, a club set up specifically for men that has recently been infiltrated by their wives and female partners. We also consider why exceptions to the rule should never guide policy, the reasons why women want to join men's clubs that cater to very male hobbies, and to what degree women have power over men.

We discuss why men who claim to be women by identifying as transgender are almost all exclusively perverts. Using Lacan’s concept of perversion and what perversity of mind entails we link fetishism, sexual offending, and the need for others to collude in ‘disavowing’ the rules of reality.

‘Transwomen’ are guided at all times by the knowledge they are men, so the idea they are a woman is not quite a delusion, but rather a perverse way of relating. This creates an integral need for others to affirm and validate that false claim as a source of collusion in their ‘disavowal’ as if the laws of reality somehow do not apply to them.

Why is Lacan’s concept of the perverse useful? It offers a theoretical psychoanalytic perspective why ‘transwomen’ continually raise the stakes, push boundaries, and why an erotic charge accompanies it, as well as their incandescent rage when the other won’t pretend and agree they are women. It also explains why there’s such a higher than average rate of sexual offending for ‘transwomen’ and a confident belief that anyone at all would join in to pretend that men can be women.