From the Flemish nationalist Belgian Prime Minister: I have understandably received many questions from abroad regarding the recent decision of the Flanders Festival Ghent to ban the Munich Philharmonic on the basis of the conductor’s nationality. This decision has rightfully provoked great consternation and has been characterized… — Bart De Wever (@Bart_DeWever) September 12, 2025…

This story hasn't had quite the coverage it deserves. From the JC: Police are investigating an alleged arson attack on MP Sharon Hodgson's constituency office. A fire broke out at the office in Vermont House, Washington, last night. The cause is not yet known, but the incident is being treated as suspicious. Hodgson, whose father…

This must be the worst reaction to losing a debate in the history of the Oxford Union. https://t.co/u7uiUobSk1 — Graham Linehan 🎗️ (@Glinner) September 12, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph on "how many progressives have become the very fascists they claim to deplore": : There are people who will celebrate the murder of a father of two young children and still think themselves on the side of the angels.: We have seen this play out in real time. The appalling…

An elected representative of your own party, @RosieDuffield1, was advised by police not to attend Labour conference because of the physical risk to her from trans activists. You did nothing. You showed her no support, You criticised her for stating biological facts. pic.twitter.com/TzoXTic62Q — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 11, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

If we said something like this about a transgender person we'd have the police taking the door off our hinges quicker than you can say, Sophie Molly will never be a woman! pic.twitter.com/8rv0LgWiq9 — Caroline Farrow (@CF_Farrow) September 10, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "Why do none of them fear the consequences for their vitriolic hate?" Good question.

Tali Smus, a Jewish student at King's College London, in the Times: Students across the country are excited about the start of the new university year. One exception is Jewish students, many of whom are wondering: “Am I safe to return to campus?” I should know. I have experienced crippling antisemitism in the past year,…

Gary Geipel at Quillette on the Gaza aid-site controversy: On 31 July 2025, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a press release in which it announced that “at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food” since 27 May. “Most of these killings,” the statement added, “were…

Photos of Leeds by Ricky Adam, taken between 2006 and 2024. From his book Back to Back. These photos are the result of going round the houses, quite literally, all over Leeds, in all manner of weather, taking snapshots in and around the red brick terrace houses that surround the city like a giant donut…

The French Revolution was a disaster: killed 2 million people, led to the rise of Napoleon–perhaps the world's first totalitarian fascist dictator, who began wars of conquest that killed an additional 4 million people, led to the restoration of slavery, to the restoration of the… pic.twitter.com/jgzk1SRkua — Steven Pinker (@sapinker) September 9, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full…