Stephen Pollard at the JC: Today’s attack in Manchester was always coming, because the authorities have made it clear to Jew haters that they are effectively free to go about their business. When they chant “Khaybar, Khaybar, Ya Yahud! Jaish Mohammad sawf ya’ud!” on the hate marches, (“Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews! The Army of Muhammad…

Meanwhile, in Russia: A Russian scientist who is close to President Putin has told a forum of schoolteachers in Moscow that the West is planning to exterminate the majority of the Earth’s population, leaving a tiny elite whose needs will be serviced by robots. The comments by Mikhail Kovalchuk, the head of Russia’s Kurchatov nuclear…

The Greens continue their downward spiral towards irrelevance. The Times: Women’s rights campaigners have claimed they are victims of discrimination after being banned from the Green Party conference. The Green Women’s Declaration (GWD), a group advocating for sex-based rights for women, were told two days before the party’s conference that their stall booking was cancelled and they…

Worth revisiting this Far Side cartoon, after the death of Jane Goodall. The Jane Goodall foundation was horrified, saying it was “incredibly offensive” and in poor taste, and threatened legal action. When Goodall herself saw the cartoon she loved it, licensed it from Gary Larson for her Institute to sell for fundraising, and wrote the…

Globalising the intifada. This is what it means. Can we start taking antisemitism in the UK seriously? At last? Update: two dead, two injured. Suspect, who was shot dead, appears to have been carrying explosives – so this could have been much worse. Police have declared it a “terrorist incident” – code for, a Muslim…

Last we heard from Barbie Kardashian – born Gabriel Alejandro Gentile – he was serving time in Limerick Women’s Prison after threatening to torture, rape and kill his mother. Now he’s been released: From Reduxx: Kardashian, who has been described as a risk to public safety, served two years and six months of a five and…

The acquiescence of so many academics on the subject of women-only spaces, and of keeping men out of women’s sports, has been something of an embarrassment – and especially in the field of philosophy. Of course a very vocal minority of trans activists and gender champions populate the field, but the majority of philosophers –…

Through north east London, from Tottenham below the North Circular down to Hackney’s Springfield Park, running along side the reservoirs. No, it’s not quite Little Venice.

The state of academic publishing: part 87 in a continuing series. Susan Pickard at UnHerd on the trans co-option of Simone de Beauvoir, and the rejection of her book: In 2022, I signed a contract with an academic press for a book on Simone de Beauvoir, titled Beauvoirian Feminism. Two years later, I finished the book,…