When will Jolyon Maugham take the hint?

So Jolyon Maugham loses again. The crusading barrister is now almost as famous for losing cases as he is for battering to death a defenceless fox. And he hasn’t disappointed with his latest legal shenanigans. The appeal against the LGB Alliance’s charitable status, which was spearheaded by troubled trans charity Mermaids and backed by Maugham’s Good Law Project, has been comprehensively dismissed. Clearly the gays are not as easy to beat as a fox.

We must be grateful for every flash of sanity in these strange times. And the tribunal’s decision not to rescind the LGB Alliance’s charitable status is very sane indeed. The judges ruled that Mermaids and the various other LGTBQ+ groups who threw their lot in with this daft crusade against the LGB Alliance had no legal right to appeal any organisation’s charitable status. So the alliance lives to see another day. Homosexuals continue to enjoy the freedom of association.