Kathleen Stock at UnHerd on How women won the gender wars: For much of the past 10 years, transactivist organisations have been directing an immersive theatrical performance across the UK, with participation virtually mandatory. Women have been forced into supporting actress roles, propping up the leading lady fantasies of especially demanding and sometimes dangerous men.…

That strange letter to the Times on Monday from a bunch of retired UK ambassadors to the Arab world about the need to recognise the state of Palestine (and Israel's supposed use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza) has prompted a response from a considerable number of Lords: Sir, A two-state solution…

A good editorial in the Times: After years of argument, ideological extremism and an outbreak of collective insanity across the public sector and in corporate boardrooms, the Supreme Court has finally proclaimed that a woman is an adult human female, and references to “sex” and “women” in the Equality Act refer to biological sex and…

It's lucky for women that they have men like Owen Jones to tell them what they really should have been doing. The problem being, Owen, that every time we tried to talk about women's specific needs, we were told we were being exclusionary, that female people had no specific needs or rights, and to die…

In New Hampshire, debating NH SB268 – "Permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances".  "It takes unrelenting coercion to make people pretend that a man is a woman." My testimony on NH SB268, restoring women's sports and spaces. pic.twitter.com/JiXVWfPZxW — Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 16, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

London street photography from Matt Stuart – collected together in his new book from Bluecoat Press, All That Life Can Afford: [Photos © Matt Stuart]

And Janice Turner: The question that has made politicians sputter or, in the case of Nicola Sturgeon, implode their careers, is answered. Campaigners held their collective breath for legal caveats, but none came: the ruling was categorical and clear. The concept of woman does not include male persons who, with a bit of admin and…

Our statement in response to the @UKSupremeCourt ruling in @ForWomenScot vs Scottish Ministers pic.twitter.com/9rFSEdwfoB — LabourWomen’sDeclaration 🦖 (@LabWomenDec) April 16, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Well there we go: "The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex." Supreme Court rules that “woman” means biological woman in the Equality Act 2010 and “sex” biological sex, reserving legal protections intended for women for women,…

Rude, certainly, and not at all the sort of behaviour one expects from our charming and fragrant lady tennis players….but funny nonetheless: Harriet Dart asked an umpire to tell her French opponent to wear deodorant after claiming “she smells really bad” during a heavy defeat in Rouen. In comments picked up by court-side microphones, the…