From the Telegraph: Sir Keir Starmer has “ended up in the wrong place” on trans issues, Dame Emily Thornberry has said. The senior Labour MP, who was Sir Keir’s shadow attorney general before the general election, claimed the party had not been “following our hearts” when it came to trans people. The Prime Minister’s public position on trans…

In Batley: Added: 14 x 11 = 144? Non-binary maths, perhaps. [h/t Alan]

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Stephen Pollard in the Spectator reinforces the point made here yesterday – that the fight against Iran is our fight too: It must be a comforting thought to those who oppose the military action against the Iranian regime that it is, to coin a phrase, a quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom…

Here’s the cringe “message to our trans and non-binary community”. We have and will continue to support students who feel impacted by the event. There are many routes you can use if you feel that you have been subjected to harassment or discrimination of any kind in relation to this event, and we encourage you…

From the Times: The team of Reza Pahlavi, the shah’s son, have urged President Trump to abandon his view of Venezuela as a model for Iran in an interview with The Times…. He has been stung by Trump’s references to the US military action to capture Nicolás Maduro and replace him with his deputy as…

It’s the old red-green alliance again – the hard left and the Islamists. Jawad Iqbal in the Times – Tears for ayatollah are a troubling sign in British cities: How is anyone to make sense of the outbreak of grief at some UK mosques and universities after the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali…

Photographer Camille Seaman, at Lens Culture, chasing storms acroos the American Midwest: The United States has what I call the perfect playing fields. You have the jet stream dipping down and looping back up around Texas and Oklahoma, and warm, moist air pushing in from the Gulf of Mexico. When these collide, you can get…