Me yesterday on cousin marriage, after the latest NHS provocation. Now here’s Joan Smith at UnHerd: Children whose parents are first cousins are at higher risk of birth defects and genetic conditions such as sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis. According to guidance published last week, however, cousin marriage is linked to “stronger extended family…

Full text: On this day in 1941, 33,771 Jews were murdered over two days in Nazi occupied Ukraine. The Babyn Yar massacre was the largest killing of Jews outside of concentration camps and destroyed most of Kyiv’s Jewish population. Using newly uncovered data, researchers pieced together the identities of 1,761 previously unknown victims. The last…

I won’t post the whole thing as it’s as it’s a long one, but here’s JK Rowling on Emma Watson.  Conclusion:

Jo Bartosch at Spiked on the state of the Lib Dems: There is opposition within the party – the gender-critical Liberal Voice for Women (LV4W) – but while it has widespread support among the rank and file, the leaders are having none of it.

Unbelievable. From the Telegraph: First cousin marriages are, of course, prevalent as a long-standing cultural tradition in Britain’s Pakistani communities. A 2005 report, commissioned by MP Ann Cryer, revealed that the Pakistani community accounted for 30 per cent of all births with recessive disorders, despite representing 3.4 per cent of the birth rate nationwide. From…

Winning hearts and minds. From the Daily NK: North Korea has ordered mandatory weekly indoctrination sessions for young people nationwide, deploying revolutionary slogans and historical lessons to counter growing youth dissatisfaction with economic hardships and military deployments to Russia. The Socialist Patriotic Youth League’s Central Committee ordered chapters nationwide in mid-September to study North Korean…

This. From the Sunday Times. Schools have become “therapeutic institutions” for children, and should return to their pre-pandemic focus on academic and extracurricular activities, according to the former head of Ofsted. Baroness Spielman said schools are encouraging children as young as three to identify negative emotions, which are a normal part of childhood, when many…

The ironies of protesting Israel: The warship sent by Spain to protect the “Global Sumud Flotilla” heading to Gaza is kitted out with Israeli weapons. The Furor is said to be "equipped with all necessary means", has a 76mm Oto Melara cannon and two MK-38 25mm automatic machine guns, all developed by Israel's Rafael defence…