It's like the Soviet show trials in the Thirties, when disgraced apparatchiks confessed to their ghastly wrong-think crimes against Stalin the great leader, before being led out to be shot. From the Telegraph: Transgender rights activists have forced a spa to apologise for banning biological men from a steam room session. Beach Box Spa in…

From the Telegraph: British courts have been accused of reviving blasphemy laws after a man who set fire to a copy of the Koran was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence. Hamit Coskun shouted “f— Islam” and “Islam is religion of terrorism” while holding the religious text above his head during a protest…

National Trust "deeply disappointed" by removal of stitching over JK Rowling's name. Full story:https://t.co/qH0JVaeil2@WRNDerbyshire @JeanHatchet @LightninLex @nationaltrust — Nick Wallis (@nickwallis) June 1, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js In brief: the National Trust's Hardwick Hall has a "collaborative artwork" celebrating women, where people are invited to stitch in famous names. Someone stitched in JK Rowling and, inevitably, someone…

Helen Joyce at The Critic, with a nod to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, on The five stages of victory after the Supreme Court ruling. Most gender ideologues are still stuck on anger: Signs waved at a demo in Parliament Square called for the hanging of TERFs and the return of witch burning. One cross-dressing man wanted the…

Homosexuality is illegal in Iran – punished by execution. Transitioning to female, for gay men, is the only option if you want to avoid the noose. From a Feb 2023 post: In Iran, the regime believes that homosexuality is a disease that needs to be treated like any other, typically by physically changing a person’s…

Yes, he's a man: Imane Khelif’s sex-test results from the 2023 World Championships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically male. Just 36 hours after World Boxing ruled that Khelif, a hugely controversial Olympic champion in women’s boxing at last summer’s Paris Games,…

Jack Delano, March 1943. "San Bernardino, California. Women workers employed at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops coming out at the end of the day's shift." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

Off for a few days. Back Monday 2nd June.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has banned puberty blockers, but not cross-sex hormones. This now looks like changing. A New Statesman report from Hannah Barnes: It emerged last week that the Health Secretary was “actively reviewing” whether to restrict or ban the prescription of cross-sex hormones to children who want to transition to another gender. On…

Who could possibly have anticipated this? From the Telegraph: A training session for psychotherapists on tackling Islamophobia was cancelled after three academics leading the event were accused of posting anti-Semitic material on social media. Messages posted or shared by the trainers on X described Israel as a Nazi state and referred to “a Zionism problem”…