Yes, Stonewall is out, but it'll take a while to get rid of their lingering influence. From the Times: Every major government department has left a diversity scheme run by the charity Stonewall after a string of controversies over gender ideology, The Times has learnt. The exodus from Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Programme (DCP) came after…

Perhaps best known for documenting the Rock Against Racism movement in the late Seventies, photographer Syd Shelton takes his place in the illustrious Café Royal Books catalogue with his three-part Street Portraits: These portraits are a sort of ongoing conversation with people in the theatre of the street. My approach, in some ways, has more…

Yesterday I wondered if gender woo was the hill that the Democrats were choosing to die on. Kara Dansky at Spiked has had the same thought – Will Democrats ever drop the ‘transgender lunacy’? It’s difficult to know exactly when the Democratic Party began its full-throated embrace of gender-identity ideology, at the expense of women…

Here we go. Trump prepares to sell out Ukraine: President Donald Trump claimed in part two of a televised interview that the nearly three-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine that started when Moscow’s forces kicked off an invasion in 2022 was the fault of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s failure to preemptively capitulate before Russian troops…

(1/3) Steve Witkoff – Trump's man of the moment in the Middle East – noted other countries like Qatar could join the Abraham Accords if the Saudis lead the way. There are few in Israel who would oppose normalization with Qatar…. — Calev Ben-Dor (@Fathom_Editor) January 24, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full thread: (2/3) But they remain…

From the Times: The number of children in England diagnosed with gender dysphoria has risen 50-fold over the past decade, research shows. Analysis of NHS GP records suggests that more than 10,000 under-18s identified as transgender or struggled with gender distress in 2021, up from about 200 in 2011. Gender dysphoria describes the sense of…

A BBC report – 'I had anti-government views so they treated me for schizophrenia': When Zhang Junjie was 17 he decided to protest outside his university about rules made by China's government. Within days he had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and treated for schizophrenia. Junjie is one of dozens of people identified by…

Melanie Phillips interviewed at Spiked on October 7th and its aftermath: This was not just murdering Jews or murdering Israelis. This was the seeking out of Jews and Israelis. It was almost like a kind of ritual mutilation. Hamas militants beheaded some of them. They burned some of them alive. They tortured them. They raped…

More trees, plus Henry Moore at Kenwood. That second image: I thought for a moment it was a carving – an angel or devil, perhaps – but no, just a natural break.

Trouble at the nuclear power plant. In North Korea “failing to successfully complete their project and close the gap with international technological standards” warrants a public execution: North Korean authorities have executed and imprisoned several key researchers involved in nuclear power plant construction, Daily NK has learned. According to a Pyongyang source speaking to Daily…