It’s a tough competition, but surely Nadia Whittome must take the title as the stupidest MP in parliament. Policing people’s gender expression is precisely what the trans movement is all about. Boy playing with dolls? – off to the gender medics with you, turn him into a gruesome facsimile of a girl. She’ll never get…

Men raping women in women’s prisons – a violation of the constitution or not? A question for our times.

Rod Liddle in the Spectator ‘Listen to what the man on the left of the camera has to say about Israel, the man who is addressed as Nick,’ a radical Corbynista friend suggested to me the other day in a social media message designed to change my mind about the Middle East. It’s part of…

Remember Tariq Ramadan? Handsome and charismatic, and an Oxford professor, he was for a while, as the acceptable face of Islam, the darling of the progressive classes. Christopher Hitchens, citing Paul Berman’s “The Flight of the Intellectuals”, noted the contrast between the liberal intellectual response to Ramadan and to Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “Look here upon…

Though of course trans-identified women – trans men – can still compete in the women’s events. To be absolutely clear.

A former BBC staffer writes for SEENinJournalism about the appointment of trans-friendly Matt Brittin as the new BBC DG. Cards on the table: I want the BBC to survive and thrive. I worked there for decades and there are many, highly professional people still there, who do their best every day to hold the line…

Here: The past 3½ weeks of war have confirmed what we have known for nearly 50 years—Iran’s revolution is a threat to global security and economic stability. We can’t let Iran hold the U.S., the United Arab Emirates and the global economy hostage. A simple cease-fire isn’t enough. We need a conclusive outcome that addresses…

We’ve heard about BBC Arabic. BBC Persian, it seems, has its own problems. From the Times: A former head of BBC Persian has warned that the service’s reputation has been “shattered” by its coverage of the Iran war because of a failure to reflect the mood of many ordinary citizens. Sadeq Saba, who was head…

The Crown Prosecution Service, no less – “Woman found guilty of murdering her ex-partner”. He is, of course, a man. They’re lying to us. Still. Update: CPS post now deleted.

Jamal says that in 1991, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Palestinian leader Arafat said in a speech before the Arab League that “the Kuwaiti problem will be solved only after the Palestinian Cause.” Palestine was a cause, but Kuwait — invaded and burnt down by a fellow Arab country — was only a problem. In 1991,…