Victoria Smith at UnHerd joins in the Chris Columbus vs. Rowling debate: One thing that the past decade’s “gender wars” have thrown into sharp relief is the difference between those who get their views by thinking through an issue and making a choice, and those who simply self-ID into being a member of Team Progressive.…

Lewis Wickes Hines, August 1908. "Clyde Bradford, 315 E. Third Street, Cincinnati. Been with a bakery." [Photo: Shorpy/Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee] Looks like the experience left him traumatised. Lewis Wickes Hines was a campaigning photographer, documenting child labour in the early 1900s.

The lost generations are those who educated in the UNRWA schools on the destructive ideology of “return” as the singular obssession with the undoing of a Jewish state and who grew up to pursue butchery in its name. It is one of the greatest educational crimes of the last century. https://t.co/yA1aQ7Xao8 — Dr. Einat Wilf…

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry… — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling)…

Evidence that woke isn't dead, peer review is problematic, and science needs to address deep problems in its culture: A grad student at Harvard conducted the first systematic, data-based study to document & explain the rise in gender dysphoria. His paper was rejected from a… — Steven Pinker (@sapinker) August 31, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js …His paper…

Interesting times for the new Corbyn-Sultana "Your Party". The obvious mismatch between the traditional Corbyn hard-left and the fervently anti-Zionist Sultana and her Islamist chums has come into the open over – well, this is 2025 – the trans question. Of course. Joan Smith at UnHerd: Anti-establishment parties are famously prone to splits early on.…

What an embarrassment to Glasgow. pic.twitter.com/q2VRbyMBGG — Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) August 31, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Your gender gibberish for the day. Yes, it's a thing. And here's the original for easier reading, including a recommended reading list, "as the starting point for an historically informed and sustained engagement with the discriminatory dynamics of the Supreme…

In trying to avoid offending anyone, the NHS comes up with strangled wording. 'Women and people with a cervix,' it says. Which basically makes it sound as though women don't have a cervix. Utterly ludicrous. Just say 'women' and leave it at that. (H/t @JamesEsses). pic.twitter.com/5GvhBWqGMK — Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) August 31, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Jonathan Spyer argues that Israel, prior to October 7th, was guilty of concentrating on the empirical and ignoring the ideology of Hamas – the power of political Islam: To understand the dynamics and likely direction of events, one must study ideas, and the societies that adhere to those ideas, and not only military systems.  This…

"It's very sad", said Harry Potter director Chris Columbus the other day. He was talking about JK Rowling. “It’s unfortunate, what’s happened. I certainly don’t agree with what she’s talking about. But it’s just sad, it’s very sad.” Sad about what, he doesn't say – but we can guess. Today he's interviewed in the Sunday…