Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx on the latest Canadian horror: A Montreal man who has spent the majority of his life in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting women is seeking a transfer to a female prison. Manfred Sperling, 58, began to self-declare a transgender status while behind bars and now blames his predatory behavior on his…

From my bike ride this morning. Late Victorian red brick (Birnam Road): Late Georgian terrace (Bewdley Street): Early Victorian Tudor Gothic revival (Lonsdale Square):

Further to today’s gender clinics news:

Good news – CPS loses bid to overturn Quran-burner’s acquittal: The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has lost a High Court bid to challenge the acquittal of a man who burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London. Hamit Coskun was initially convicted last June of a religiously aggravated public order offence after he held…

Zionist war criminal? Because he defeated the Nazis? The true motivations of the Free Palestine crowd become clearer…

Good news on the puberty blocker front. From the Times: Gender clinics will be forced to release data on the outcomes of thousands of children who received puberty blockers on the NHS. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has announced a law change to allow researchers to study the long-term impact of medical interventions given to…

The poor lamb has been accused of antisemitism after saying that humanity has a common enemy in Israel. Cue the tiny violin.

The new regime in Syria seemed at first to be a welcome change from the chaos and brutality of the Assad years, but it wasn’t long before tales of violence against minority groups emerged….Alawites, the Druze, and in particular the Kurds. Giran Ozcan in Fathom – How Syria’s transition went off the rails: It is…

Owen Matthews in the Spectator – ‘More than half our squad were executed’: Inside Russia’s rotten army: For a more complete depiction of the reality of the war in Ukraine from the Russian side, take a look at the feature-length documentary Russians at War, available on YouTube. This extraordinary film was made by the Canadian-Russian filmmaker…