I think Newsnight owes me an apology

Tom Swarbrick @TomSwarbrick1

The Tavistock gender identity clinic “experimented” on vulnerable children It should rightly be viewed as a catastrophic failure.

So, this week, the Tavistock was closed down after it was found to be “not safe” for children. Doctor David Bell says it amounted to an experiment on children. In 2020, I said this on Newsnight and they treated me like I was David Icke.

I’m actually proud of the interview as I managed to get a huge amount of content into five minutes, which you can see via The State’s brilliant edit of it.

But I still don’t understand why I was subjected to a hostile interview when I was talking about a subject that had the highest stakes imaginable; the well-being of children. It’s all the more perverse when you consider the work Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes were doing for Newsnight on the very same subject.

The reason I bring this up is that I missed this framing at the time. “We challenged him on the way he conducted himself online”.

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What about my conduct? I still don’t know what this refers to. What exactly have I done wrong?

I said they were experimenting on children, the very point that you jumped on, and they were.