Men 😂 pic.twitter.com/duzk0thef3 — The Goddess (@TheGoddessF) March 11, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Well now… “All bad ideas are French. It is an absolute principle of human existence.” David Starkey pic.twitter.com/nBmmcWiKys — Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) March 11, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Also postmodernism: Derrida, Lyotard, Althusser, Foucault, Lacan, all that crowd. Started in France, taken up in American universities: Queer Theory, Postcolonial Theory, all the rest….

Savannah, Georgia, ca. 1901. "Down the Savannah River." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Photographic Company]

Hardwick Hall was used as a filming location in one of the Harry Potter films. Last year they ran an art installation the public could take part in, embroidering names of women they admire. Several children embroidered the name @jk_rowling and it caused so much controversy the pic.twitter.com/b4vbZR13ZN — Lottie Lewis (@LottieHistory) March 11, 2025…

UN Watch: Despite its abysmal record on women’s rights, Saudi Arabia is now chairing the UN’s top women’s rights body, presiding until March 21st at a gathering of global leaders that is supposed to address gender equality amid a reported backlash against women’s rights, at the 69th annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of…

Some of those involved in last November's "Jew-hunt" in Amsterdam, when fans of visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv were targeted by a violent mob, are currently on trial in Holland. You won't read about it here, but still…it matters, as an insight into the vicious antisemitism now commonplace in many European cities. Brendan O'Neill at Spiked:…

Mandatory reading and study sessions, and now mandatory group singing. It's a wonder they have any time for work. The South Hwanghae provincial party committee has made weekly “song dissemination” sessions mandatory at all workplaces, leaving many North Koreans frustrated as they’re forced to sing propaganda songs amid difficult living conditions. According to a Daily…

1909. "View toward Campus Martius from Detroit Opera House." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company]

Astonishing. The memos about Sandie Peggie and NHS Fife, or the Darlington nurses, or the general turning of the tide on gender ideology, don't seem to have arrived at Guy’s and St Thomas’s: A London hospital trust has told trans employees they can use the lavatories and changing rooms of their choice in a challenge…

The fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as with the fighting in Sudan, barely if ever makes the news. Still, you'd think this might be worth a mention somewhere, but today's the first I've heard of it (via). It happened some three weeks ago.  Around 70 bodies, including those of women, children and…