Argentinian photographer Adriana Lestido (via): [Images © Adriana Lestido]

We might, in the case of the former Hamas bodyguard wanted in Germany over an alleged plot to murder Jews and now found guilty of a knife attack, be left wondering why on earth the man was given asylum here in the first place, and then granted UK citizenship. Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator: One…

None of the UK gender clinics followed up any patients so please stop gaslighting the public with fake made up statistics. I work as a specialist in the field you do not and are just a non-clinical activist That study was from the WaPo: It was from a single clinic. Half of the sample didn’t…

At least the judge wasn’t fooled.

An interesting article in Quillette suggests that maybe we’re not always ruining the planet with our nasty industrialisation. Owen Lewis: Human activities that impact the Earth are often portrayed in a bad light. But a new study in Science gives us reason to be grateful for our newfound powers. Humanity seems to have interrupted the…

A Jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) with pollen. From the 2026 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. [Image © John-Oliver Dum (Medienbunker Produktion, Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany)] And, “Bat Defence.”, from the Close-Up Photographer of the Year competetion: [Image © Daniel Meier]

Here’s a welcome change from the familiar calls for slavery reparations. From the Telegraph – Malawi hails British Empire as ‘liberators’ who saved Africans from slavery. Across Africa, Britain has been called an oppressor and confronted with demands for slavery reparations. But one nation is celebrating the British Empire as a liberator. Malawi suffered from…

Another triumph for Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project.