Meanwhile, in Leeds. A trans-owned bookshop has been inviting customers to vandalise JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels for 25p.  The Bookish Type in Leeds is inviting customers to deface the beloved children’s book to raise money for transgender healthcare. Customers can deface ‘as many pages’ as they want of an edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.  The…

Also: I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the “many, many good reasons” John Lithgow had to sign an 8 year contract of guaranteed work to play Dumbledore in the HBO Harry Potter despite his manly qualms about JK Rowling’s “cruelty” are all prefaced with a $ sign.

….For 47 years, the regime has sold a delusion of absolute victory and divine invincibility. If they show a single ounce of weakness to the United States or Israel, that illusion shatters. They are trapped in a cult of their own making, where admitting defeat means instant collapse from within. They fear the wake-up call…

What more can you say about the Greens under Zack Polanski? Well…. Green Party activists described Jewish people as “an abomination to this planet” in anti-Semitic WhatsApp messages, The Telegraph can reveal. One member of the Greens for Palestine group, a Left-wing faction in the Green Party, said Jews “murder, bomb and starve” children. Another claimed the arson…

JC report here.

A new progressive alliance is looking very much like the old progressive alliances. From the Times: Jewish groups say they have been ignored by the organisers of an anti far-right march in London, which has been backed by celebrities including Sir Lenny Henry and Paloma Faith. The Together Alliance, which is made up of groups…

Could Kim Jong-un be the next US target, after the killing of Iran’s Khamenei? In a word, no. The Daily NK talks to Ryu Hyun-woo, a former North Korean ambassador to Kuwait. Is a U.S. operation to eliminate Kim Jong Un conceivable? “The U.S. could remove Kim Jong Un, but the likelihood of actually carrying…

Sharron Davies at the Telegraph, in an unforgiving mood: While we are all bending over backwards in gratitude to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), how ridiculous that we have to be grateful just to have women’s sport returned to women. What an insane position that the IOC adopted in the first place, presuming that somebody who…

It’s a tough competition, but surely Nadia Whittome must take the title as the stupidest MP in parliament. Policing people’s gender expression is precisely what the trans movement is all about. Boy playing with dolls? – off to the gender medics with you, turn him into a gruesome facsimile of a girl. She’ll never get…