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…

“Family friendly” – but no women allowed. A mosque has banned women and girls over the age of 12 from competing in a charity park run. The fundraising event, called the Muslim Charity Run and organised by East London Mosque, follows a 5km route and takes place on Sunday…. The run’s website describes it as…

Andrew Graham-Dixon appears to have made some extraordinary discoveries about Johannes Vermeer that shed a new light on his life and work. He writes in the Sunday Times today. The assumption behind nearly all writing on Vermeer thus far has been that his works were painted for the open market and should therefore be regarded…

Matthew Syed on the disastrous legacy of Islamic fundamentalism: One of the presiding iniquities of much western scholarship is the myth that all ills in the world can be traced to European colonialism, an untruth that serves as a sop to the developing world, the comforting delusion that the blame can be placed on outsiders…

The real problem with the Canterbury Cathedral graffiti… The full horror:

Winners of this year’s Pure Street Photography awards, celebrating that “decisive moment”: France Leclerc, “Head Ball” Stefanie Waiblinger, “Who is Next” Cazerella Tavs, “Meeting int he Middle’ Chris Yan, “Mirror” Cristiano Bartoli, “Kite Attack” Nicola Balestrazzi, “Puebla” [Images © Pure Street Photography]

Excellent from Janice Turner – What Jihad al-Shamie’s three wives tell us about terror: Before he made a fake suicide belt and purchased real knives; before he drove his black Kia into a crowd of worshippers gathering outside a Manchester synagogue; before he stabbed and killed and terrorised British Jews on their holiest day, Jihad…

This is good news. From the Times: Prosecutors were accused of trying to recreate blasphemy offences “by the back door” after a judge overturned the conviction of a man who burnt a copy of the Quran. Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, hailed the ruling that exonerated Hamit Coskun as a “victory for free speech”. Coskun, 51,…

“Let’s start with facts. Mizrahi Jews didn’t “come from Europe.” They lived in the Middle East for thousands of years, long before Islam, long before Arab conquest, long before any modern state. Their ancestors spoke the same ancient Hebrew mentioned in the Qur’an’s stories, they prayed facing Jerusalem, and their communities in Babylon, Damascus, and…

David Collier has compiled a list of Islamic terror attacks in the UK, starting with Manchester and going back two decades. It’s a grim catalogue, yet little has been done beyond treating each incident as one of a kind, as another inexplicable shock which we’ll overcome by pulling together, turning our backs on hatred, and…