Jerry Coyne is vexed that yet another US science journal, Natural History, has jumped on the sex-isn't-binary bandwagon – first by publishing a contentious article by Agustin Fuentes, but then, more worryingly, by arguing that they were right to do so, and Fuentes is correct: Note as well that the editors have been taken in…

In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These… — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 3, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full…

Ca. 1901. "Near Franklin, New Jersey." The Detroit Photographic Special – William Henry Jackson's traveling photographic studio-salon – being pulled by a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western locomotive. [Photo: Shorpy/William Henry Jackson]

More union opposition to the Supreme Court ruling: Civil servants have defied official trans guidance from the equalities watchdog. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said interim advice issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) was “not fit for purpose”. …the PCS said the guidance was “damaging” and “impossible to implement” in…

Mind you, those "not in our name" feminists have nothing on the righteous fury about the Supreme Court ruling over at The Nation: Try as they might to wrap themselves in the antifascist flag, though, these activists are hailing a decision that represents a ghoulish culmination of fascistic “family values” agitation in women’s name—something it…

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that people who think defining women as female equals 'enforcing the idea that all women need to conform to a singular, racialised and ableist model of femininity' probably shouldn't be teaching anything in university, let alone feminism. — Dr. Jane Clare Jones (@janeclarejones) May 3, 2025…

The Greens have done well in the local elections. Nothing new there: a lot of people tend to vote Green when uninspired by the main parties, believing themselves to be voting "for the planet". If only. Julie Bindel in the Spectator: In recent years, the party has gone bonkers: it has become obsessed with supporting…

Laundry soap that doesn’t clean, toothpaste lacking flavor, toothbrushes too stiff. It's a losing battle.  North Korean authorities are restricting the distribution of foreign products in markets while encouraging the sale of domestically produced items. However, people are responding coldly to these locally made goods. A source in South Pyongan province recently informed Daily NK…

"You've never seen a more grassroots movement in your life" This is a really important point by @HJoyceGender and we can't repeat it often enough in the face of constant lies about how we supposedly have all the money, all the power, bla bla bla… This legal victory was won… pic.twitter.com/cjFTWhl10A — MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶 (@MrMennoTweets)…

Well now….bring out the cliches. "You couldn't make it up"; "sounds like a comedy sketch"; "it beggars belief"; "what's the world coming to?" Licence to Offend exhibition cancelled in case it causes offence.  An exhibition of work by political cartoonists including The Times’s Morten Morland has been cancelled because of fears it could cause offence.…