Arthur Rothstein, June 1939. "A ghost mining town. Pony, Montana." [Photo: Shorpy/Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration]

Rosie Duffield on Starmer, in the Times: When she was bombarded with death threats online and ostracised by her Labour colleagues after agreeing with the view that individuals with a cervix should be described as women, Rosie Duffield just wanted a bit of help from her party leader. “I would have really liked to have…

At the Isabella Plantation, Richmond Park:

The Guardian has concerns: The supreme court’s decision might, for some, revive a Victorian idea: to protect women legally, we must define them biologically.  Efforts to ringfence women’s spaces could end up excluding trans people entirely. It's true. Women were invented by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. There's a plaque near Swindon — Sunday Sport (@thesundaysport) April 25,…

Further to the fantasy history propounded by Mahmoud Abbas, here's Einat Wilf with the real story of how "Palestine" has been appropriated by the Arabs: The land “from the river to the sea,” to use the now-ubiquitous slogan, has been known as Palestine only twice before. First, the Roman Emperor Hadrian used “Palestina” as a…

Oliver Brown in the Telegraph: Waiting for guidance. It has become British sport’s answer to Waiting for Godot, such is the glacial pace with which this major country’s governing bodies move towards upholding fairness for half the population, rather than for the males who want to pass themselves off as female. The London Marathon is…

At the Sony World Photography Awards 2025 exhibition currently on show at Somerset House, Iranian photographer Masood Talebi: ‘Give your heart to the sea, if there is water hidden in it.’ It may be hard to believe, but what once had a long history of shipping, boating and swimming has now become a tragedy. Lake…

From Mahmoud Abbas, talking here at the 32nd (PLO) Central Council meeting in Ramallah. He accuses Israel of attempting to alter the historical and legal status of Christian and Islamic holy sites, "especially the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque, which is an inseparable part of our religious faith and national identity, and our presence in our historic…

מדינת ישראל אינה ״מתנה״ ליהודים של אומות אירופאיות אכולות רגשי אשמה בעקבות השואה. הציונים בנו את התשתית למדינה לא כדי ש״לעולם לא עוד״ אלא ש״לעולם לא״. Israel is not a “gift” to the Jews by guilty European nations after the Shoah. It was the outcome of Jewish vision and action: pic.twitter.com/nnVfn3sCTd — Dr. Einat Wilf…

A history lesson from Jonny Best at The Critic: It’s understandable that Conservatives would want to stick it to Starmer’s Labour after the Supreme Court’s ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act. Labour has supplied the Tories a target-rich environment, from David “men can have a cervix” Lammy, to Dawn “a child…