BBC Arabic has come under the spotlight again after Kemi Badenoch wrote to BBC Director-General Tim Davie last week demanding “wholesale reform” of the corporation’s Arabic service, saying it provided a “platform for terrorists” and promulgated “appalling antisemitism” and “anti-Israel bias”. David Rose at UnHerd has a closer look: In the first year of the…

On the gender front, despite America's best efforts, Scotland happily leads the way: Girls in care should share a bedroom with boys who ‘self-identify’ as the opposite gender, according to ‘terrifying’ guidance issued by a watchdog. In the latest development of Scotland’s single-sex scandal, the Care Inspectorate says looked-after transgender children ‘should not be made…

In Illinois – Deerfield middle school administrators force teen girls to change in front of boy in school locker room: After receiving a complaint from girls in early February that a boy was in their locker room while they were changing for gym class, District 109 “Assistant Superintendent for Student Services” Joanna Ford, “Assistant Principal”…

From my guilty verdict: "The panel understands that the statement that there are only two sexes — male and female — is an oversimplification that does not align with current medical or biological understanding." — Amy Eileen Hamm (@preta_6) March 14, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The panel, in other words, understands nothing. Amy Hamm in Canada's National…

This story hasn't had the coverage it deserves. From the JC: Three men who kidnapped and brutally assaulted an Israeli Jewish man with both the intention to extort him for money and because of his Jewish heritage, have received over eight years imprisonment. Appearing in Swansea Crown Court on Friday, the three men, Faiz Shah,…

From the Times: Antisemitism in the UK is “off the rails”, according to the director of a new film about an explosion of violence on American university campuses. Wendy Sachs’s documentary October 8 was released on Friday in the US and she hopes to bring the film to British audiences this year. The film comes…

You know, the way Putin is now wriggling out of the ceasefire proposal is just the quintessence of how Russia has behaved for all these decades and what kind of 'peace deals' it is willing to make. In particular, he's saying: 'We are, in principle, open to a ceasefire, but… — Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko)…

Q&A Wisconsin testimony AB104 @JamieWhistle talks about how she came to change her mind. …. “ I beg my party , please, do the scientific right thing.” pic.twitter.com/2dRHQe63jO — LGB Courage Coalition (@LGBCourage) March 13, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Street photography from David and Sonya Newell-Smith: [Photos © Sonya Newell-Smith] From their new book Brick Lane in London: All the World’s a Stage.

The magazine that's spent decades telling you you're too fat, too old, too unfashionable, too unsuccessful, too poor and too unfeminine now wants you to know you're too obsessed with "narrow ideals of womanhood" https://t.co/b630eUhRW3 — Victoria Smith (@glosswitch) March 14, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Article https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“>here. It's about the woman opening a gym in South London…