A much-deserved kicking for Stonewall from Baroness Falkner, head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission [ECHR]. Stonewall made a formal complaint against the EHRC in 2023,  claiming that it was “trans-hostile” and “not fit for purpose”, and criticising its decision to back new legal protections for biological women. Well, they lost. Now, from the…

Jailed for… singing?! The Iranian regime is beyond parody. Every woman has the right to sing, speak, and be free. Bita Sadeghian faces charges of "violating public morality" and "disseminating inappropriate content online." Summoning a woman for singing is not about… pic.twitter.com/gjSBSdtPP7 — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) March 1, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: Jailed for……

More on that BBC Gaza documentary from Rosamund Urwin in today's Sunday Times: Danny Cohen, the former controller of BBC1, said the corporation has allowed itself to be “manipulated by terrorists”. He called on the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, who met the BBC chair Samir Shah on Friday for what government sources say was a…

Bret Stephens in the NYT: If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky. Whatever one might say about how Zelensky played…

April 12, 1912. Atlanta, Georgia. "Southern Iron & Equipment Co. — Locomotive SIECO 807. (West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Locomotive 1; Dobbins, West Virginia. Climax Loco #534, 1904)." [Photo: Shorpy/Marre Rail Transportation Photo Collection]

Yes, we know how this goes. The winner, of course, is a man.  This year’s Sydney Local Woman of the Year has been announced, with MP Alex Greenwich presenting the award on Wednesday afternoon. T Brianna Skinner has been working with Greenwich for more than a decade, first meeting with him in 2014 to discuss…

London. A meaningful and warm meeting with Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer. During our talks, we discussed the challenges facing Ukraine and all of Europe, coordination with partners, concrete steps to strengthen Ukraine’s position, and ending the war with a just peace, along with… pic.twitter.com/IAwcPgbhYW — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 1, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full…

For many of us, our images of Russia's brutal destruction of Ukraine are centered on the port of Mariupol, after the 20 Days in Mariupol documentary film, and the BBC's Mariupol: The People's Story. Now, from the Times – Museum celebrating Stalin’s culture chief opened in Mariupol: At the height of his powers after the…

I'm astonished at the number of articles (the Spectator, notably) that criticise Zelensky for yesterday's debacle in the White House – he should have simpered and fawned before Trump apparently, because that's what Trump likes. But Zelensky's only mistake was in believing that he was dealing with serious adult politicians rather than the crude, schoolboy,…

An excellent editorial in the Times this morning – NHS puberty blockers trial would turn children into guinea pigs: The mistreatment of children at the Tavistock’s gender identity clinic ranks as one of the gravest medical scandals in recent history. By the time the NHS-run service was permanently closed last March, it had become a…