100% agree. pic.twitter.com/mbaf3x3MZL — Holly Grayle (@HollyGrayle) February 23, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Jon is an @bbcnews correspondent. He sees Hamas abusing and torturing Israeli hostages on TV. Then he sees Israeli families indescribable happiness as their loved ones return. And he thinks they are the same. We should not be paying his salary. pic.twitter.com/5nGYUt9pMi — David Collier (@mishtal) February 23, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "The propaganda efforts by both…

An excellent article by Kathleen Stock in today's Sunday Times.  What makes you the same person as 20 years ago? Philosophers have offered different answers. Some think maybe if you had a brain transplant, or a different set of memories, you’d be a different person. The General Medical Council (GMC), we found out this week,…

We've been here before with Jo Phoenix, after she won her case against the Open University for unfair dismissal after a campaign of harassment against her for her "transphobic" – ie sex realist – views. And here we go again: A law lecturer who was sacked by the Open University after expressing gender-critical beliefs has…

Dominic Lawson in the Sunday Times: Trump truly is the Kremlin’s most useful idiot. In fact, it is a genuine attraction to Putin’s exercise of unbounded brute power that makes Trump roll over to have his tummy tickled by the poisoner in the Kremlin. There is no need to seek a reason based on rumours…

Chairman Mao and Donald Trump: both agents of chaos. Orville Schell at the Daily NK makes the unlikely comparison: When US President Donald Trump’s factotum, J.D. Vance, held forth on Europe’s “threat from within” at the recent Munich Security Conference, his audience was left struggling to make sense of America’s confounding new approach to foreign…

Baroness Falkner of Margravine to the rescue. Watchdog tells NHS Fife to provide single-sex changing rooms: ​A top UK human rights body has written to “remind” an NHS board at the centre of a single-sex spaces row that changing rooms must include separate facilities for men and women. Baroness Falkner of Margravine, chairwoman of the…

The BBC's obsession with drag queens and transvestites plumbs new depths. Jo Bartosch at Spiked: CBeebies, the BBC’s platform for pre-school children, has run a bizarre puff piece lionising two transvestite prostitutes. Ahead of this year’s International Women’s Day, CBeebies’ staff saw fit to include the late Ray ‘Sylvia’ Rivera and Marsha P Johnson in…

Augusta, Georgia, 1903. "A Southern fish vender." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Photographic Company]

Francis Fukuyama at Quillette: Even though anyone with eyes could see this coming, Donald Trump’s recent moves with regard to Ukraine and Russia come as a huge blow. We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides…