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,…

An interesting article at Quillette from Matt Johnson – The Open Society and Its New Enemies – on the legacy of Karl Popper, in defence of Francis Fukuyama, the dangers of Trump and his threats to democracy, and other related stuff. Also, some optimism amid the gloom. You wouldn’t know it by looking at the…

The impartial BBC here referring to castrating autistic boys as gender care. I suppose that euphemism suits their politics better than such or phrases like “medically unnecessary double mastectomies on girls with serious comorbid conditions” https://t.co/WEqqZaZnRB — Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) January 29, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Ah, gender care. Or "gender affirming care", as they like…

Holocaust Memorial Day without the Jews? Jake Wallis Simons at the JC – This was the year the Jews were told ‘the Holocaust is not about you’: But the Good Morning Britain presenter talking of the deaths of six million “people”, not the Jews? The deputy prime minister Angela Rayner lighting a candle for “all…

Before October 7, 2023, travel from Gaza was just that. Not exile. Not mass displacement. Just an everyday reality. Each month, about 25,000 people crossed borders. Ten thousand through Rafah into Egypt, 15,000 through Erez into Israel, for medical treatment, education, work, or… — Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) January 30, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text:…

Just shocking. Why on earth is the UK Government giving more money to @UNRWA? You can't talk about tackling extremism in the UK and then literally send cash to groups that helped carry out the Oct 7 atrocities with Hamas. Are you completely mad? pic.twitter.com/H7o9LyVt4j — David Collier (@mishtal) January 29, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js As has…

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph: Change happens, according to the famous Hemingway quote about his bankruptcy, “gradually, then suddenly”. The same could now be said of the dismantling of gender ideology. Its moral bankruptcy, a decade of sterilising and mutilating children’s bodies, looks to be over. In the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump…

William Henry Jackson: the Mississippi River ca. 1902. "St. Paul from High Bridge." [Photo: Shorpy/William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company]

Fun and games at Rape Crisis Scotland and the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, where former head Mridul Wadhwa, beloved of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, was forced to resign last year after pushback to his imposition of trans ideology. In, of all places, a rape centre. He shouldn't have been in the job anyway –…

In October we had the case of a girl footballer with suspected autism threatened with a ban by the FA for asking a man with a beard if he was a man. The point, of course, was that this man was pretending to be a woman, playing in a woman's football team, so the poor…