Hamas feels like it did not pay a price for the October 7 Massacre, says Dr. @EinatWilf, former member of Knesset. pic.twitter.com/y0dLKGmos7 — Israeli Citizen Spox (@IsrCitizenSpox) January 19, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Refreshing honesty from Kishwer Falkner, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, in today's Sunday Times – I’m afraid there is a Pakistani problem, and we must root it out: For two weeks the government said no to calls for a public inquiry into the grooming scandal. Now it is trying to deflect criticism by…

Just another day in academia: This is how a Canadian academic (approvingly) describes sex with animals: "We conclude with a queer bestial ethics of avowal, one that dispenses with anthopatriarchal innocence towards a more capacious embrace of the panspecies desire for touch and thriving." https://t.co/nzhwlLR1Vr pic.twitter.com/vYpV3T3PVF — Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) January 17, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Abstract:…

Ca. 1906. "Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. The New Hotel Weirs and Soldiers' Monument."  [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company]

Members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy [BACP] are responsible for a new app, “Exploring Lesbian Culture for Trans Femme”. Yes, it's the return of the cotton ceiling. Bev Jackson at The Critic has the details: The resurgence of “cotton ceiling” rhetoric among — of all people — members of the BACP –…

An AI simulation of Anne Frank (!) allegedly teaches ppl to “think critically” about #history and the #Holocaust. Judge for yourselves: pic.twitter.com/ts7wUANUv7 — Daniel Mendelsohn (@DAMendelsohnNYC) January 17, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Added: see Cynthia Ozick's New Yorker article fom 1997, Who Owns Anne Frank? But the diary in itself, richly crammed though it is with incident…

To pee or not to pee. Where, is the question https://t.co/l7GMU9CpJN — Juliet (@Jsoosty) January 17, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Janice Turner in the Times, on the resolution of a case that marks another victory in the war against the Stonewall-driven gender nonsense that's become dominant in the Civil Service: At a time of fiscal black holes comes news that the civil service spent £116,749.44 (plus tax) on what it could have obtained a year…

Jonathan Sacerdoti at the Spectator tackles the obvious point, happily ignored by all mainstream comentators, that celebrations in Gaza after the ceasefire agreement don't quite match the story of a suffering people welcoming peace at last. Why Hamas keeps on celebrating: As plans for a ceasefire were announced on Wednesday night, videos of Gazans celebrating…

How did international superstar Eartha Kitt end up at a market stall in Batley, tasting tripe and being taught how to sing Yorkshire's unofficial 'national anthem'? pic.twitter.com/jDtLfN3NSC — BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) January 17, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Bittersweet. Batley is now best known for other reasons.