BBC journalist Lucy Wiiliamson, as I noted at the time, reported in December 2023 on the violence and abuse that Palestinians supposedly suffer at the hands of the wicked Israelis in their jails. A poor lad, eighteen-year-old Mohammed Nazzal, was interviewed and photographed surrounded by his loving family, with his hands bandaged up after the…

The Daily NK on the business of recruiting young women to work in Chinese factories. South Pyongan province in North Korea has begun selecting workers to be dispatched to China following orders from the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. A source in the province told Daily NK recently that the order, issued by the Central Committee early this…

It was never about the prospect of violence: it was always about Israel, and Jews.

Helen Joyce, perceptive as always, speaking in Australia: Another reason we don’t see the emptiness of gender medicine is that gender clinics are doing a damn good imitation of medicine. Judith Butler famously said gender was an “imitation for which there is no original” – that it’s meaningful only because we do it over and…

From the Daily NK: As North Korea endures a severe food shortage, desperate North Koreans have been selling their blood, a practice that has surged recently after the fall harvest failed to improve the food supply. “In Hamhung, the number of hungry families has increased sharply, so more people are selling their blood just to afford at least one meal…

I’m not normally a fan of these comedy animal shots – the tacky anthropomorphism – but these, I’ll admit, are pretty good. Some competition finalists from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025, at the Times: RALPH ROBINSON/NIKON COMEDY WILDLIFE AWARDS 2025 GEOFF MARTIN/ NIKON COMEDY WILDLIFE AWARDS 2025 MARK METH-COHN/NIKON COMEDY WILDLIFE AWARDS 2025 HIKKADUWA…

More from City University (previously), where Jewish lecturer Michael Ben-Gad has had to face down threatening mobs: Masked thugs allegedly threatened to behead an Israeli professor after storming his lecture at a London university. Michael Ben-Gad, an economics lecturer at City St George’s, has faced calls to resign because he served in the Israel Defence Forces four decades ago. But the academic at…

A letter to the Home Secretary from the four survivors of the grooming gangs who’ve quit the inquiry: From the Times: Last night the four women who resigned from the advisory panel said they would return to the inquiry if Phillips resigned. In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, they set out five…

Joanna Williams in the Spectator sums it up: Grooming gangs thrived in Britain because the abused girls were the wrong kind of victims and their Pakistani-heritage rapists were the wrong kind of perpetrators. Now, as adults, these women continue to be the wrong kind of victims, wanting to lift the lid on the wrong kind…