Sonia Sodha reflects on the Brighton violence: Those of us attending Europe’s largest feminist conference at the weekend in Brighton had more than logistics to contend with. A rabble of angry men greeted us at the venue by screaming “shame on you!” and brandishing placards telling us to get out of their city. The previous…

“How can you defend a movement that executes its own people, by shooting them in the street, without trial, for merely disagreeing or being labeled “collaborators”? How can you call that “resistance” while those very scenes mirror the barbarism you’d condemn anywhere else in the world? “You claim to stand for liberal values, for human…

Remember the name? Back in August Hamas released a video of him, skeletal, digging what was assumed to be his own grave, with unmistakable Holocaust overtones. It was an act of sadism – and provoked no kind of condemnation from the Free Palestine crowd. But now he’s free. “From the testimonies of other released hostages,…

From South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo: The South Korean government has failed to recover approximately 885.3 billion Korean won (620.2 million dollars) in unpaid North Korean loans as of the 13th. Despite the Export-Import Bank of Korea sending 100 reminders since the initial repayment deadline in June 2012, North Korea has never responded. Opposition parties criticized,…

Remember the Darlington Nurses? This ridiculous case rumbles on and on and on: NHS nurses who complained about sharing the same changing room as their transgender colleague could face a misconduct probe. Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy and Tracey Hooper, who all work at the Darlington Memorial Hospital, could be dragged through a disciplinary…

From the Times: Bridget Phillipson has been accused of delaying guidance on single-sex spaces until after Labour’s deputy leadership race over concerns that she could lose support from some MPs. The women and equalities minister received statutory guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) last month setting out how gyms, clubs and hospitals…

Over the past few days the feminist FiLiA organisation has been meeting in Brighton, only to be met by violence from trans activists operating under the name “Bash Back”. They vandalised the Brighton Centre where the meeting was held, smashing windows and spray painting the front of the building, and then kept up the by-now…

Back to Cafe Royal Books – it’s been a while – for Manfred Sundermann’s photos of Bristol over 50 years back: [Photos © Cafe Royal Books/Manfred Sundermann] With Stan Butt, your local butcher. Some pork bones for that dog, perhaps.

Not quite: three on one team, two on the other. So five out of twelve are men. Still, they’re getting there: the complete take-over of women’s sport by men who claim to be women because they’re not good enough for the men’s teams. Then what? It’ll be like the Taliban – or charity runs in…