Hadley Freeman in today’s Sunday Times: Oh look, it’s an email from my youngest child’s school. The end-of-year concert is moving to another venue — fine, whatever … oh wait, what’s this? The concert was going to be in a local synagogue but because of safety concerns the school, which is non-denominational, will find an…

They’e now backed down. But, looking more deeply… It’s a scandal that cancellations like this for legally-held beliefs are still happening. However, I think many people have forgotten what Scope is supposed to do and what implications this attitude from its leadership has for the (actually) most vulnerable people in society. Scope is a disability…

The Southern Poverty Law Center is in trouble: US officials have announced fraud charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights group that tracks extremist organisations and played a prominent role in confronting the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). In a news conference on Tuesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche accused the non-profit…

Further to that Scope cancellation of the Singing Striders…

More on Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart from Milli Hill: I do spend a lot of my time telling myself and other women that we should speak with more confidence – because, after all, men do – but when I listen to Alastair and Rory, I find myself thinking that there is definitely a sweet…

It was a test of the moral and epistemic integrity of that class — a test that those who administered the test knew the takers would fail. Can we make you contort yourself to believe self-evident nonsense and join in treating those who don’t also lobotomize themselves as hated pariahs? Yes, yes we can. Yes,…

Another charity, another cancellation for gender-critical – sex realist – views. From the Telegraph: A choir has been dropped from the London Marathon over a member’s gender-critical views. The Singing Striders are frequently booked to stand on the sidelines and raise the spirits of runners, and the group had been invited to support the upcoming marathon by…

What never happens has happened again.

Owen Jones takes another step down into the pit of antisemitic conspiracies – which is, let’s face it, where he’s been heading for years. From the JC: Left-wing commentator Owen Jones has shared claims that IDF soldiers are training dogs to rape Palestinian detainees. The allegation has gained significant traction on social media in recent…