From the Telegraph: When the author John Boyne was shortlisted for the Polari Prize – a literary award that champions gay writers – several fellow nominees (as well as two judges) asked for their own work to be removed from contention. One, Jason Okundaye, even said he was “not interested” in the merits of Boyne’s…

Well here's a thing. A man is accused of grooming and raping a young girl. The man has since transed, identifying now as a woman. And the report, in the Times, actually calls him a man, and uses male pronouns. Times are changing.  A volunteer police officer groomed a vulnerable 12-year-old girl he met online…

Times editorial: Last month Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, used the blunt instrument of the Terrorism Act to classify Palestine Action as a proscribed organisation. For anyone who doubted that the move was a political misstep, the weekend’s protests provided a vivid illustration of its predictable consequences. Within minutes of the start of an anti-Israeli…

Caitlin Moran makes some excellent points about the Bonnie Blue saga. What, men kept asking her, do you make of this awful woman? Why did she do it? But what about the men? Is she emotionally damaged? Why does Bonnie Blue want to be filmed having quick, rough, often painful sex with 1,057 men? What…

A powerful piece from Liel Leibowitz in Tablet: It is no coincidence that Hamas brazenly chose to publish photographs of the skeletal Jewish prisoners it is deliberately starving in its war tunnels after a week of successfully marketing its blood libel about how the IDF is starving Gazans. If you’ve ever seen a Mafia movie,…

BBC man Russell Davies in the Guardian: Russell T Davies has said gay rights are “rapidly and urgently getting worse” thanks to the rise of Reform UK and the influence of the Trump presidency on British politics. The award-winning screenwriter, who is best known for reviving Doctor Who and writing Queer As Folk, said the…

More on Agustín Fuentes, whose book on sex being non-binary was just given a rave review in Lancet. Victoria Smith at The Critic. Agustín Fuentes is a biological anthropologist at Princeton University. This allows him to adjudicate on this particular issue. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of many a great man (we…

The Times finally gives some coverage to Australia's Giggle v Tickle case – largely ignored by mainstream Australian media, apparently – with some useful background:  As a 27-year-old Hollywood scriptwriter, Sall Grover was dumbstruck when a film producer offered her work and then plunged his hands down her pants. She fled and called her manager,…

From the Telegraph – Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions.  The Culture Secretary is facing criticism after she appointed the boss of a Muslim charity as an adviser to a new civil society project but no one from Christian, Jewish or other specific faiths. Lisa Nandy has made Fadi Itani, the chief…

Attempting to change the nature of the category woman by linguistic fiat is like trying to live forever by stipulating that by “death” you will mean something that happens to other people. https://t.co/gxVY8oHzs3 — Daniel Kodsi (@dfkodsi) August 10, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js