A look at the East End Bangladeshi community round Brick Lane and Whitechapel, with photographer Wayne Tippetts at Café Royal Books: In 1991, this vibrant neighbourhood, shaped by migration and resilience, was alive with the sounds of daily life—children playing in the streets, bustling markets, mosques, and the emerging youth culture. The children of Bangladeshi…

Here you can see why my leaving academia was the only sensible option. The synopsis of a 608-page academic book published in May 2024 is below. I can’t understand even one paragraph. 608 pages is unimaginable. I think it says mountains are racist. ‘In Geologic Life, Kathryn… — Dr Diane Rasmussen McAdie – UK Column…

Interesting how Hamas's banner doesn't say "Palestinians will win," but "Nazi Zionism will not win." Hamas doesn't seek peace orPalestinian freedom. Their goal is to destroy Israel and kill every Jew. I repeat: Hamas does NOT want a two-state solution. They want us dead. pic.twitter.com/k5m1xUqW16 — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) February 1, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js And it's…

From the NYT (via) – After being lured to Pakistan, Hira Anwar was fatally shot by her father and an uncle over online posts that her parents believed were immodest, the police said: Hira Anwar, 14, lived in two contrasting worlds in New York, where she was born and raised. Outside her home, she was…

July 1913. "The heart of Detroit." Including, from the left, Fort Street, the twin towers of the Dime Savings Bank, City Hall, the Majestic Building at the corner of Michigan and Woodward Avenues, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, and the Detroit Opera House. [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Photographic Co.]

More on the desecration of Holocaust Memorial Day, from the JC: The grandson of Holocaust survivors says he was “forced out” of Leicester’s Holocaust Memorial Day event after a speaker accused Israel of “genocide”. Approximately ten Jews, including a local rabbi, walked out of the HMD commemoration after a speaker claimed Israel was committing a…

Six years ago Conrad Roeber was asked by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), the press watchdog, to report on the trans issue, then just raising its head, and see if the issue was being treated fairly by the press. So, not knowing much about the subject, he started to do some research: Part of…

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid in the Spectator on the killing of Salwan Momika, the Iraqi/Swede who protested against Islam by burning the Koran. There was a tragic inevitability to this, and Sweden has little to be proud of in its handling of the furore surrounding Momika. Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who spearheaded the Quran burning…

After yesterday's refections on the steady removal of any mention of Jews from Holocaust Memorial Day comes this, from the Times: A Holocaust memorial exhibition has been banned from parliament for being too political even though the authorities have allowed pro-Palestinian activists to campaign in the same space…. A committee that advises the Commons Speaker,…

Meanwhile, in France. From Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx: A French gynecologist has been sanctioned by medical authorities after a trans activist group reported him to the Minister of Equality for comments which they deemed to be “transphobic.” Dr. Victor Acharian, who operates in the Pau region, has been prohibited from practicing medicine for five months,…