Mee-mawing and fluing gangs. Daniel Meadows’ photos of one of the last remaining steam-powered cotton weaving mills in Lancashire: In 1975 Daniel Meadows began a two-year post as photographer-in-residence to the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire. Here, he found himself drawn to Bancroft Shed, the last remaining steam-powered cotton weaving mill in the district. Against…

Twenty North Korean soldiers who "showed dishonorable behavior" to Kim Jong-un on his visit to a special forces training site last September were arrested and sent to a military-run labour camp. They're to be transferred to an isolation zone after serving their time, instead of being sent home. Their parents, meanwhile, were told they were…

A Camera UK report on BBC Arabic: BBC Arabic is a foreign language service that broadcasts 24 hours a day from London and Cairo to the Middle East, across TV, radio and online. It is the BBC World Service’s largest, most heavily funded and most influential foreign-language service. It is part funded by the Foreign,…

Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator – Why is the LSE hosting a Hamas book launch? The London School of Economics’ decision to host the launch this week of Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters – a book that attempts to sanitise and fails to properly condemn a terrorist organisation responsible for the worst massacre of Jews…

Since Unison is now as useful to women as a chocolate teapot… Enough is enough. The UK's biggest trade union@unisontheunion no longer supports women who don't want to undress in front of men at work. The Darlington Nurses have therefore faced no alternative but to start their own union to protect women in the workplace.…

Ursula Doyle was hounded out of publishing for her gender-critical views: I have worked in publishing for 30 years. I have left my job after four years of hounding and abuse from peers who think I should not express my GC opinions nor publish authors who share them…. In 2020 I published Kathleen Stock’s influential…

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, there's been trouble at the Archimedes Banya spa. They had a women-only night, but so many bepenised individuals showed up that they decided to run a non-bepenised night as well. It's almost – phallic and non-phallic – as though they're talking about men and women. But those trans activists saw what…

Yale history professor Dr Marci Shore, interviewed by Heidi Siegmund Cuda, on Trump, and why we should expect more depravity to come: America thought it won the Cold War in 1989 but didn’t read the battlefield. It ended on 28 February 2025, when the United States surrendered to Russia in full view of the world.…

It's these "minor" infractions that really show the horror of living in North Korea: teenage boys, aged 14-15, sentenced for using ‘foreign’ gaming nicknames. Every aspect of life must be controlled. From the Daily NK: Three teenage children of North Korean army security officers were sentenced to unpaid labor for “nonsocialist behavior” earlier this month.…

Yesterday's report on NHS antisemitism: NHS staff are more likely than members of the public to perpetrate antisemitic abuse in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries since the October 7 Hamas attacks, according to complaints compiled by an influential charity. The file includes a Jewish doctor being given a hijab as a secret santa present and a…