From the Mail: The boss of Scotland’s biggest book festival has provoked fury after claiming the authors of best selling gender critical books have not been invited to take part because the issue is too divisive. Edinburgh International Book Festival Chief Executive Jenny Niven told a complainer: 'We do not want to be in a…

Shahrar Ali in the Telegraph – How my beloved Green Party lost the plot: I’d probably mark Autumn 2016 as the point when the identitarian turn really started to take grip of the party. This coincided with the end of my term as Deputy Leader (of course!) and Aimee Challenor (the party’s equality spokesperson) successfully…

The brutality Afghan women endure under Taliban rule is not just a national crisis—it is a stain on the conscience of the world. Girls as young as ten are being stripped of education. Women are being beaten in the streets for the simple act of trying to live. Every day, their… pic.twitter.com/wLkFiRmxT9 — WDI.Afghanistan (@WDIAfghanistan)…

"The video shows Evyatar in a really deep and extreme starvation. It's the same tunnel I was held in. Just few meters away there is an iron door. Behind that door Hamas terrorists eating plenty of food – vegetables, meat, fish, fruits. They steal it from humanitarian aid that is… pic.twitter.com/nDUe6EpXdF — lelemSLP (@lelemSLP) August…

Janice Turner in the Times on the class snobbery at the heart of the Sandie Peggie case – a working-class woman being hounded by doctors and managers for wrongthink on trans ideology: Each day we learnt new ways in which senior hospital staff had persecuted a nurse with a flawless record. Jamie Doyle, head of…

Our ex-Harvard Liverpudlian philosopher is now enthusiastically catching up… Hey remember when convicted kidnapper, torturer and attempted-murderer Alan ‘Sarah Jane’ Baker called on a crowd of TRAs to ‘Punch a TERF in the fucking face’, thereby splitting the TRA movement as some felt she’d gone too far?https://t.co/ayidVZAWdd Oh wait none of them… — Jimmy Doyle…

Nick Freitas, a combat veteran: “When Hamas attacked Israel, they knew the Israeli army would go after them. Hamas also knew the Western media would be behind them.” He was right all along. pic.twitter.com/WQanBphHFX — Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) August 1, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

John Vachon, April 1943. "Dallas, Texas. Linotype operators at the Dallas Morning News." [Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

Jimmy Doyle, the Harvard philosophy professor who quit and then felt free to speak out on the trans farce, is interviewed in the Times by Andrew Billen: One Tuesday evening last month in his mother’s house on the Wirral, the recently ex-Harvard philosophy professor Jimmy Doyle took to X to say, at last, what he…

Dave Rich, from a lecture he gave at the Holocaust Museum Houston earlier this month, on the subject of ‘Antisemitism Today’. There's a video in the link. It's a long speech, starting off with the important point that the surge in antisemitism after October 7th started before Israel made any move in response. But here,…