Oliver Brown in the Telegraph on the lamentable Lisa Nandy and her latest trans plea: Lisa Nandy should surely have taken the hint when, having worn a “protect the dolls” T-shirt on a transgender rights march in August, she found herself roundly eviscerated. Dolls, a slang term from the 1980s for men trying to pass…

Hampstead yesterday; View, The Hill. Under the chestnut tree. Kenwood bench.

In other words, as I’ve noted before, it’s all about Islam.

From Facebook: Derrida’s contribution to postmodern philosophy. Not just Derrida: it was the house style of French post-structuralism – Lacan, Althusser, the whole crowd. Which was then copied to America and became the house style for a whole generation of postmodern academics – most notably, perhaps, Judith Butler. John Searle died a couple of weeks…

Like those Labour women (previous post) this man doesn’t seem to understand what the law says now about single-sex spaces. But as he’s asking for feedback, the chance to provide it should not be missed. Here.. As there are three ponds – men, women, mixed – there’s absolutely no reason to be “inclusive” and allow…

They can’t be trusted to protect women. They still see trans as that poor minority in need of protection – the latest in the civil rights battle after race, women, and gays. If they still don’t get it now, after the Supreme Court ruling and all, they probably never will. They’re not, like so many…

Photographer Bryan Sansivero, from his book ‘America the Abandoned’, capturing a few of the estimated 15 million abandoned houses around the country: [Photos © Bryan Sansivaro]

Einat Wilf at Quillette talks about “Schrödinger’s Palestine”. The one state – the state people like to kid themselves that the Palestinians want – is a responsible partner to Israel which accepts that the talk of permanent refugees into the fifth generation is nonsense, and accepts responsibility for the violence against the Jews culminating in…

South Korea presidents seem to alternate between hard and soft in their attitude towards the North. Currently, with Lee Jae-myung, we’re very much on the soft side. Here’s Kang Dong Wan at the Daily NK on the latest idiocy: After 52 years of broadcasting hope into the darkness of North Korea, the silence is deafening.…