Now it's Paul Weller. From the Times: Paul Weller has threatened to sue his former accountants because they refused to work for him after his statements accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. The former Jam frontman, 67, threatened a discrimination claim against Harris & Trotter, which had worked with him for more than 30…

Further to that Rowling and Boyle post yesterday, see Victoria Smith's Critic piece – The most pretentious edgelord: Not being offended by Frankie Boyle is an in-group signifier. It shows you’re one of those special people who knows all the hidden meanings, not just why Boyle’s back catalogue of transphobic gags isn’t offensive, but also…

“At what was meant to be a trauma workshop, the person leading it inflicted fresh trauma on me and on several other Jewish attendees" Renowned psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, who has revolutionized the field of trauma, shocked an audience at a psychiatry seminar when he… pic.twitter.com/KOiKH8s63X — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 20, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js…

Lisa Nandy, secretary of state for culture media and sport, has been photographed looking very pleased with herself wearing a "Protect the Dolls" t-shirt – as worn by luminaries such as Pedro Pascal, Tilda Swinton, Alan Cumming and Madonna. The "dolls" here are trans women – that is, men – who are deemed to be…

Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán discussed Ukraine’s potential EU membership and possible talks between Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Vladimir Putin, with Budapest under consideration, a senior White House official told Reuters. Hmm. Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In…

In which the doctor who coined the phrase "evidence based medicine" makes it clear that of course this doesn't apply to "gender-affirming care". Gordon Guyatt flushing his life's work down the pan is one of the most depressing self-beclownings I've seen yet in the gender wars. 1/3 https://t.co/5J5FGtKOrN — Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) August 20, 2025…

From the Times: Two decades after the end of the war, diplomats and civil servants were horrified by what they saw as a flood of “anti-German” films and television series that slandered the Wehrmacht soldiers as villains. “You see them plundering, committing arson and murdering women and children,” the West German outpost in Caracas wrote…

“Being attacked on the train tracks into Auschwitz, this really is a whole new low.” American-Israeli educator Charlotte Korchak was verbally accosted for carrying an Israeli flag while visiting Auschwitz with a group of high school students. It began with the attacker asking… pic.twitter.com/Z3slMtqGRa — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 19, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: It…

Your occasional reminder that JK Rowling has literally given away around £200 million to charities for vulnerable women and disadvantaged children, whilst Frankie Boyle is a tedious, insufferable, misogynistic pillock who has never done anything for anybody. https://t.co/7OFryARBTr — Tom (@Tom_D_B_) August 18, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Translation: We have capitulated. We extend heartfelt apologies to any of the bullies who were affected by our failure to capitulate sooner. From now on we will do as they say as soon as they say it, and indeed they have already told us who will be on the judging panel next year https://t.co/vsJ0QwFn3K —…