Backlash against Keir Starmer's plan to show the Netflix drama Adolescence in schools has grown after more than 1,500 teachers and parents signed a letter saying the series is not suitable as an educational resource. https://t.co/O3LEN2vxOQ — Toby Young (@toadmeister) April 5, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

World's tiniest violin. https://t.co/1tzBgg0cAr — Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) April 5, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Teenage boys are the hot topic now, after the Adolescence storm. It was a girl who was killed, though. Joan Smith at UnHerd: A third of teenage girls don’t feel safe at school. That’s the headline finding from new research, showing that the proportion has more than doubled in four years. In 2019, 15% of…

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Further to On Adolescence – from the Telegraph: When Antoinette Keane – a teacher and the mother of two teenage boys – overheard her colleagues talking excitedly about playing the smash-hit Netflix drama Adolescence to pupils, she was alarmed. Keane teaches English and has spent her career showing children how to sort fact from fiction…

We heard earlier in the week that Hamas had removed thousands of deaths from its Gaza casualty figures – a good proportion of them children. Brendan O'Neill in the Spectator:  Are we being lied to, or at the very least misled, about what’s going on in Gaza? It increasingly seems so. Israel is carrying out…

More women are now casting off the old "heroin chic" look of the Kate Moss era, and use gyms as men do – to get fit and to put on some muscle. Jean Hatchet at the Critic applauds the change but notes onr big problem: Unfortunately, as in every other area of women’s public lives,…

This is very depressing. From the Times: Prisoners who refuse to join radical Islamist gangs are having to be placed in segregation units for their own safety, The Times can reveal. Officers at HMP Frankland in Co Durham, one of the highest-security jails in Britain, are keeping vulnerable prisoners apart from Islamic extremists in an…

Simon Evans at Spiked on the extraordinary establishment fixation with Adolescence: Alongside the ubiquitous demands for more social-media censorship, moves are now afoot to make Adolescence not merely free to view in British schools, as Netflix has just agreed to do, but also compulsory. It’s only a matter of time, surely, before it replaces the…

New York Dyke March bans ‘Zionists.’ Organizers of the New York Dyke March, one of the largest LGBTQ Pride events for women worldwide, have announced that anyone identified as a “Zionist” will not be allowed to participate in this year’s march, scheduled for June 28. Once… pic.twitter.com/3Kzp7lkRO8 — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 3, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js…