Powerful stuff from Lionel Shriver in the Spectator – Transgenderism proves people will believe anything: The fad for transgenderism is unbelievable and should stay that way. This movement gleefully defies biological reality. Sex is not in the mind but is written in our every cell. ‘Some people are born in the wrong body’ is an…

Matthew Syed, in today’s Sunday Times, asks some of the pro-Palestine demonstrators a question. It doesn’t go well: Let me transport you into the heart of London — Trafalgar Square, no less — in a nation that likes to pride itself on tolerance, the rule of law and mutual respect. There is a circle of…

Jason Burke’s new book The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s is reviewed by Simon Sebag Montefiore in the Times. It was the decade that saw the birth of terrorism as we’ve come to know it, with the Palestine cause and its western supporters, then as now, a central feature: The…

“Confirmed via Harvard’s WGS announcement and Khubchandani’s Tufts bio. Not a parody.” New York Post article here. The institution welcomed Kareem Khubchandani in a July message to the college community and revealed that the visiting professor from Tufts University will teach in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality program thanks to the Harvard Gender and…

A reminder.

Labour peer Maurice Glasman in the Times, on Manchester: This is not a matter of concern to Jews alone. This is a dishonour to our nation. A festering wound is weeping poisoned blood into an already weakened body politic. The response must be profound.It is a meaningful and significant rupture in our national story because…

Will some attention now be paid to the hate preachers regularly urging violence against Jews, in mosques across the UK? I’m not holding my breath.

Photographer Christopher Herwig captures a dying art on the Indian sub-continent, from trucks in Pakistan to tuk tuks in Sri Lanka: White stallions and exotic birds frolic around a waterfall, glamorous Bollywood stars sing, a sunset-silhouetted couple bathe in the ocean – such are the images that adorn the trucks and tuks of the Indian…

“On the holiest day of the year we are attacked at a Manchester synagogue. Our children walk to school behind barbed wire protected by guns. Yet some still answer this atrocity with “what about…” This is my country, the sanctuary my grandfather found after surviving the Holocaust, promising freedom under the rule of law. Today…