Questions to which the answer is 'yes'. From the Telegraph.

From the Times of Israel: Defense Minister Israel Katz reveals an intelligence document showing that Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Deif sent a letter to Iran’s IRGC Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani in June 2021 seeking support for the terror group’s plans to invade Israel, which was ultimately carried out on October 7, 2023.…

Trevor Phillips in the Times this morning on the parlous state of free speech in the UK, comes round to the universities: And finally, the education secretary appears at last to have found better advice about the wildfire running through our universities and colleges on this issue and decided to allow the Office for Students…

🚨BREAKING🚨 Two men will face each other for a women's championship title at the Ultimate Pool Women's Pro Series Event 2 tonight in Wigan, UK. Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both trans-identified males, beat all female competitors to take the spots in the women's final event. pic.twitter.com/CNrfPuWEB7 — REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) April 6, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Added:…

The latest on the nurse who faced investigation at St Helier Hospital for misgendering a trans paedophile. Yes, she's now been suspended: Jennifer Melle, 40, was previously investigated and disciplined by St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, London, after refusing to refer to a child sex offender patient as a woman. Following widespread coverage of her…

The Telegraph: Joan of Arc was non-binary, secondary school pupils are being taught. Lesson plans produced for English language students aged between 11 and 14 include the claim about the medieval figure, who is the patron saint of France and fought against the English during the Hundred Years’ War. In the Who We Are anthology…

More on those Democrats. From Andrew Sullivan – via Jerry Coyne – the story of Biden's decline, and how blind loyalty and stubbornness led to the election debacle and Trump's second term: By April of last year, the health of the president had clearly declined. As with many older men in their eighties, this didn’t…

The youths just can't resist South Korean TV. From the Daily NK: North Korea has recently intensified television inspections in the border city of Haeju to ensure locals are keeping their channels locked and avoiding South Korean television shows. “Two young people in Haeju were recently caught watching South Korean shows on their home television.…

Oliver Brown at the Telegraph talks to Stephanie Turner, the woman who "took the knee" rather than face a male fencer: Turner’s motives in taking her memorable stand should not require forensic scrutiny. The instant she learnt that Redmond Sullivan, who participated in men’s fencing as recently as 2023, would be in her bracket for…

Mobile, Alabama, 1906. "A typical cotton cart." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company]