And here's Hadley Freeman's comment piece in today's Sunday Times: We don’t want to be on the wrong side of history.” The first time I heard that sentence was in August 2015: I was meeting one of my editors at The Guardian, where I then worked, before going on maternity leave. Along with the usual…

Hadley Freeman interviews the For Women Scotland trio behind the Supreme Court victory: [Susan] Smith started following this issue in 2016: “It was actually your fault, Hadley, because it was something you wrote that made me go, ‘Hang on a second, I need to look into this.’” This was a column I wrote for The…

Iranian power in the Middle East may be waning, but could the Shia ring round Israel be replaced by a Sunni ring, led by Turkey? The fall of Iranian ally Bashar Assad in Syria was a huge gain for the Turks, who have long viewed parts of northern Syria, like Aleppo, as essentially Turkish –…

With Hezbollah's grip on Lebanon severely weakened thanks to the IDF, will the Sunnis now assert their claim to dominance? From MEMRI TV: Lebanese Sunni Islamic scholar Aboubaker Zahabi, speaking at a Beirut protest in support of the people of Palestine, aired on Palestine Today TV (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) on April 7, 2025, said, "Our…

And this, from Julie Burchill: In the process of dignifying a male sexual fetish – autogynephilia – into the latest human rights crusade, careers have been ruined and reputations wrecked by trans activists and their creepy ‘allies’: all in the name of the ultimate patriarchal plan; to colonise everything won by women, from toilets to…

Janice Turner struggles not to be triumphalist over the Supreme Court decision. Still, she can't quite forget the pusillanimous many who embraced trans dogma when it seemed like the fashionable cause, despite its manifest absurdities. And she's kept the receipts. So yes, we will move on. Gladly! But before the memory hole sucks away a…

Good stuff from Richard Dawkins in the Spectator. Will there be any apologies from those who grovelled before the gender gods? So let us not name and shame. I shall call out no specific names in accusation. But I think apologies are called for, and there may be some out there who are big enough,…

An important and extremely grim long read from Julie Bindel at UnHerd – The grooming gang scandal isn’t over, and Labour is looking the other way. An excerpt: It is raining in Manchester when I arrive at the Crown Court, where eight Asian men from Rochdale stand accused of treating two girls as “sex slaves”.…

Letters to the Times today: From Sir Peter Rubin, retired professor of medicine: Sir, One of the most puzzling aspects of the Supreme Court’s judgment is that a scientifically illiterate ideology became so entrenched it needed our highest court to state the obvious. If you are born with a Y (male) chromosome you will carry…

Manhattan ca. 1901. "Madison Square, New York". "Highlights of this panorama made from three 8×10 glass negatives include 23rd Street at left, the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Fifth Avenue/​Broadway, Madison Square Park, Stanford White's Madison Square Garden campanile, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Metropolitan Life building at the corner of Madison and 23rd Street." [Photos:…