Plus: Manchester. This Saturday!
Hello! Enough of the exclamation marks, already. How are you? Well, I hope. I am writing with two pieces of news. Firstly, we are expecting judgment on the Crown v Linehan case (otherwise known as the Glinner trial) to be handed down tomorrow. As we have learned, things don't often go according to plan when it comes to legal hearings. There is some jeopardy already as Glinner's flight has been delayed and he may not actually make the scheduled 10am start. I will be at Westminster Magistrates Court tomorrow to see if the hearing goes ahead. I will post the result of the judgment on twitter and do my best to get a blog post or newsletter together. I will also be hoping to see if the court will grant my application for certain documents which I think will be very revealing about the way the case came to court. It is likely to be opposed. If there is a media barrister reading this who fancies what I expect will be a very short piece of pro bono (sorry) work in helping me secure those documents, please hit reply. I can send you the application and maybe we can have a quick chat. I would be most grateful. Otherwise I will represent myself and see where that gets me. For more on the Glinner trial - including the cases for and against, click here. THIS Saturday in Manchester - a dead good book festival The second thing to tell you about is that, I am very much looking forward to attending the inaugural Manchester Fringe Book Festival this Saturday at a central Mancunian location (which I understand is no more than ten minutes' walk from Manchester Piccadilly station). It is organised by the Manchester Women's Rights Network and the women behind the superb Inciteful Sisters podcast. The day features a whole host of brilliant people with me clinging gratefully to everyone else's coat-tails. As well as chatting to Bex from Inciteful Sisters about my Post Office work (and hopefully gender stuff too) I have the rare honour of interviewing Susan Dalgety, co-editor of The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht compendium (now available from all good libraries), which I am avidly re-reading this week. I cannot wait to meet/say hello again to the other supremely talented writers who will also be discussing their work, including: Jo Bartosch on Pornocracy My timings (if you want to say hello or attend one of the talks I'm doing) are: 13.15-14.30 Talking about The Great Post Office Scandal and Other Things with , Bex from Inciteful Sisters I suspect there will be some more chatting to be done in the bar after Susan's talk though I will have to get a train back to That Surrey at some point! I am also looking forward to (hopefully) completing the Philips Park Parkrun in Manchester at 9am on Saturday with Fiona McAnena. If you are up for that, too, please join us. Also if you have never listened to the Inciteful Sisters podcast, now is the best time to try them out, by dipping into their most recent episode. It is a celebration of one year of podding, discussing the high points along the way, how the pod came about and the fact that Jane and Bex aren't sisters - they are aunty and niece! Jane and Bex are doing an essential service in getting the hidden voices of the gender wars to air, as well as some high profile ones, too. Right I'll leave it there as, let's face it, you've heard quite enough from me over the last two weeks. I'll hopefully be back tomorrow, if not Wednesday, with some observations on the Glinner judgment. See you on Saturday, maybe? Nick This is the GenderBlog newsletter. If you have been forwarded it and would like to join the mailing list so each newsletter (and GenderBlog blog post) drops, freshly-baked, directly into your email inbox, please consider making a small one-off donation via the donate page on my GenderBlog website. Thanks. © Nick Wallis 2025 |
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