This morning:

Julie Bindel talks to the three women who’ve started a women-only society at Cambridge: “University culture is obsessed with gender ideology,” says Halligan, 22, when I join the three women on a video call. “All you can see are pronoun badges, rainbow flags, literature about transgender issues… ‘Are you feeling gender distress?’, and trans flags…

Plastic surgery was born in the hospitals of the First World War, when doctors like Harold Gillies pioneered facial construction surgery on the appalling injuries that confronted them as the poor wounded soldiers were carted back from the horror of the trenches. Later, in peace time, it survived on nose jobs, blemish removals, and maybe…

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid at Spiked on the horrors of Sudan’s civil war: The violence visited upon the people of Sudan, particularly its non-Arab population, is without parallel in the 21st century. Darfur has been the epicentre of this misery. In the three decades in which Sudan was ruled by al-Bashir, the Sudanese army repeatedly attempted…

The government is procrastinating over the Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance on single-sex spaces. Rules that would ban transgender people from using facilities that do not match their biological sex could be delayed for more than a year, it has emerged, as ministers were accused of “undermining the law” by demanding extra checks. Bridget…

Since the trans idea of women is all about feminine performance – ie glamour – it makes a kind of sense for Glamour UK Magazine to feature nine transified men on the latest cover as their women of the year. Victoria Smith at UnHerd: Glossy magazines have always had a complex relationship with their female…

Story here: Transport for London have confirmed they are investigating a case where a Jewish man was trapped on a London bus by the driver, who allegedly made antisemitic comments and refused to give him back his bank card. In a video shared widely on social media, the Jewish man, identified as David Abraham, pleads with the…

I posted yesterday on last week’s disruption of an Israel Society Jewish history event at UCL, expressing the hope that some action might be taken against these antisemitic hooligans. Well, it’s not looking good… Full text: If you read UCL’s initial statement, you might think it sounds strong. But the devil is in the detail,…

Jenny Holland at Spiked on prospective NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and his poor auntie: Progressives took a break this week from their collective nervous breakdown over President Trump’s White House renovations in order to respectfully mourn with Zohran Mamdani, whose hijab-wearing ‘aunt’ – actually his father’s cousin – felt weird one time after thousands of New Yorkers…