As well as the BMA's obsession with Gaza, there's its obsession with gender. Yes, the two do seem to go together. From the Times: The British Medical Association has failed to produce a promised “critique” of the Cass Review, amid a bitter internal row over its “abysmal” handling of gender policy. The doctors’ union prompted…

Two works by Emily Allchurch caught my eye at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: The Six Seasons – (Winter) after Breughel, and The Six Seasons – (Late Summer) after Breughel. I found the full series on her website: In 1565, Bruegel the Elder was commissioned by the Antwerp merchant Nicolas Jongelinck to paint the ‘Seasons’,…

A damning report on the sorry state of publishing – governed by trans orthodoxy and viciously dismissive of gender-critical viewpoints – from Matilda Gosling, for Sex Matters and SEEN in Publishing. Some highlights: Publishers have made poor commercial decisions guided by ideology, not markets. There is a vast gulf between books commissioned on gender-identity beliefs and…

Labour are trying to draw up an extreme definition of Islamophobia in secret – with severe consequences for freedom of speech. The general public aren't even being allowed to submit evidence or share their views. My letter to the Deputy Prime Minister👇🏾 https://t.co/utUw1NFxVo pic.twitter.com/4MxrsgBi84 — Claire Coutinho (@ClaireCoutinho) June 19, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

It's always the way. Unions attract the ideologically committed – and there's no better example than the BMA. Jawad Iqbal in the Times: A staggering one in ten motions on the agenda at the annual conference of the British Medical Association (BMA), the doctors’ trade union, are about the Israel-Gaza conflict. No wonder the union…

Stella O'Malley at Spiked – No more experiments on children: In saner times, nobody would need to spell this out: puberty is not a problem. It’s not a pathology. It’s not something to be halted, postponed or ‘paused’. It’s a normal, necessary part of growing up. But today, in an upside-down world where truth must…

Interesting. It's also parrots near century old standard Stalinist championship of Yiddish as True Workers language while Hebrew banned as the language of Zionist nationalism https://t.co/Uqu2me3jHr — Simon Schama (@simon_schama) June 24, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: As a linguistics PhD student, I always find it interesting when anti-Zionist activists hugely praise Yiddish representation. It is…

It's like Queers for Palestine, up a notch. "The Islamic Republic subsidizes sexual reassignment surgery + gives legal recognition to transwomen".  They don't subsidise trans surgery, they force gay men to either have mutilation surgery to make them 'trans' or to be put them to death by hanging them from a pole and letting their…

Someone at the Palestine Action protest in Manchester yesterday brought a placard with a quote from US neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier, Kevin Strom. The image was shared on Instagram by a number of groups, including Palestine Action themselves. pic.twitter.com/JDt5gTGKNr — Danny Morris (@DannyMMorris) June 24, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

A sign of the times: The University of Bristol has been ­accused of failing to protect one of its professors who was falsely accused of Islamophobia. Free speech and academic groups have asked the Office for Students (OfS) to examine alleged government and management failings that were said to have put Professor Steven Greer at…