Brendan O’Neill in the Telegraph, on Sally Rooney: At the weekend, she gave a speech in Amsterdam on the horrendous war in Sudan that has laid waste to so much human life. Only joking. She talked about Gaza. These people speak of nothing else. She was speaking at The People’s Congress for the Hague Group, a…

Kishwer Falkner, happily, is not staying silent after her time as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Here she is in the Times today: Exactly 45 minutes after the government published its definition of “anti-Muslim hostility” came the first attempt by a politician to weaponise it against speech he dislikes. Iqbal Mohamed, the…

From the Telegraph: Schools have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law. Guidance issued to teachers by Labour councils in northern England warns that images made by pupils in art lessons may be seen as “idolatrous” under sharia. The advice, designed to help teachers adapt to religious sensitivities, also warns that music…

Three women out of four. Almost there. Jordan Gray got his dick out to play the piano – which, to be fair, is the first time that’s ever been done by a female comedian.

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From the Times: Kim Jong-un has delivered an impassioned speech extolling the virtues of his country’s women despite what he described as their “weakness”, “plain faces” and “wrinkles”. In an address delivered on International Women’s Day, Kim urged female citizens to “fulfil the sacred mission and duty … in achieving the prosperity and development of…

Joan Smith at UnHerd – NHS pause on children’s cross-sex hormones doesn’t go far enough: Terms such as “gender-affirming” are all over the NHS website, which hasn’t yet been updated to reflect the newly-announced pause in prescribing hormones to under-18s. It attaches outdated stereotypes to young people who “might feel their physical appearance does not…