Jolyon’s Bluesky followers have been treated to a short video of the failed lawyer dancing backstage at a trans festival in London. This is what you’ve lost over on Musk’s X…
Jolyon is seen enthusiastically dancing at the Trans Mission festival in Wembley with American singer Beth Ditto. Zack Polanski was at the same event and gave a speech in which he said “trans rights are human rights” and asked “are you ready for hope to be normal again?” Such a shame to have missed it…
He’s back.
Jolyon has quietly reactivated his X account just over a month after announcing his dramatic departure. He promises in the resurrected account bio that the page is “no longer active and not monitored“. Except he’s already followed someone (Mike Burry) in the last 24 hours, so that’s not entirely true…
To be fair to the foxbeater, at least he held out longer than Jon Sopel – who only managed 24 hours off Musk’s platform. Sooner or later, they always return…
More than 30 barristers and academics have signed a public letter to equalities minister Bridget Phillipson accusing Jolyon’s Good Law Project (GLP) of making “egregiously false” claims about their High Court defeat on single-sex spaces. In a blistering attack, Jolyon’s learned friends say the GLP is repeatedly “selling hope” to its gullible supporters over trans rights, aggressively fundraising for court fights it inevitably loses. Don’t say Guido didn’t warn you…
The letter makes specific reference to Jolyon’s defeat in the High Court last week, which the GLP subsequently misrepresented by claiming “the High Court makes clear that service providers are not obliged to exclude trans people from gendered spaces and services”. The lawyers shot this down in no uncertain terms…
“Nowhere in his judgment did Swift J conclude that ‘service providers are not obliged to exclude trans people from gendered spaces and services’. The phrase ‘gendered spaces’ is absent from the judgment and has no legal meaning… We are aware of no other organisation that has ever published such egregiously false material about the judgment in a case that it has lost.”
Brutal. Guido has said for years that Jolyon tries to use the courts as a political vehicle. If he wants to stand for Parliament, he should. He’s familiar with how it feels to lose by now anyway. Even some of his former supporters have had enough: “Maugham always pretends he’s had some sort of win even when he has unambiguously and comprehensively lost. He did the same with his Brexit cases. I’m fed up of this turd polisher claiming he does so much for us.” From learned friend to ‘turd polisher’ – life comes at you fast…
The Good Law Project’s challenge to the EHRC’s interim trans guidance has been dismissed in the High Court today. Another notch on Jolyon’s belt…
Maugham described the ruling as a “pretty grim decision.” The case has been dismissed thanks to the fact that the interim guidance doesn’t exist any more, and that the GLP isn’t a valid claimant anyway, among other things. Oh dear….
UPDATE: Jolyon is already handing out the begging bowl for his appeal of the ruling.
Jolyon’s (requiescat in pace) Good Law Project has launched a campaign against group Sex Matters which is running a standard letter-writing effort aimed at MPs in the Council of Europe. Jolyon’s outfit is aghast that Sex Matters are “infiltrating the vote” and “bullying them to uphold transphobic ideas and asking them to vote against a ban”…
The GLP is therefore launching a counter-letter campaign: “Email the MPs and let them know they don’t have to bend down to Sex Matter’s transphobic threats, they can stand up for what’s right.” So upset are they that they’ve illustrated their big campaign with a photo of the European Commission not the Council of Europe. If even the Euro-crazies can’t get it right…
Jolyon has confirmed the worst: he’s leaving Musk’s X. Well, after he’s downloaded an archive of all his own great tweets…
The image based abuse is the last straw. Am requesting an archive and will then deactivate my account.
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) January 6, 2026
Jolyon sent more than 145,000 posts before calling it quits, so that’s quite a large archive. There’s really only one tweet he needs to save:
It’s been a pleasure, farewell. Unless he does a Sopel and returns within 24 hours…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”
