Janice Turner in the Times: At a trade fair called the Modern Family Show in a luxury London hotel I paid £32 to hear a PowerPoint presentation on how to buy a baby abroad. If you have $150,000 for a full “concierge service”, I was told, you send your embryos to be incubated by a…

September 1937, Washington, D.C. "Capital Transit Locomotive 1135 on Pennsylvania Avenue at Post Office Department. Wheel arrangement: PCC." [Photo: Shorpy/C.W. Witbeck from the Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection]

Tales from the Vienna kindergarten, with Marielena Meder at Reduxx: A kindergarten in Austria has expelled two children after their parents expressed concerns about graphic, sexual posters that had been hung in the facility. The posters, depicting nude trans-identified males, were reportedly created to “facilitate discussions in kindergarten settings.” The incident occurred at a corporate kindergarten…

Brutalism may be associated with the west – Europe and America – but it made its way to Japan too. Of course it did: a perfect fit. Photographer Paul Tulett, from his book Brutalist Japan: Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, 1964 Kyoto International Conference Center, 1966 Nago City Hall, 1981 Nago Civic Hall And Center, 1985 Mixed-use…

Our statement on the behaviour of the UN's 'Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories', Francesca Albanese, and her support for the conspiracy theorist David Miller. "We call on our Government to openly request Ms Albanese's dismissal; her ongoing association… pic.twitter.com/m4PMSVgm8d — Board of Deputies of British Jews (@BoardofDeputies) January 6, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "We call…

The new puritans. If comedy makes someone laugh, it'll very likely offend someone else. Best skip the jokes altogether.  Hope everyone's up to date on all the rules for watching a bit of comedy in Glasgow – Glasgow! – these days. pic.twitter.com/Uyo8f0mzW0 — Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) January 9, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Billy Connolly wouldn't stand…

Under the Assad regime with Hezbollah’s help, Syria became the world’s largest producer of Captagon, accounting for 80% of global production. This powerful stimulant known for erasing fear, numbing pain, and boosting endurance, is the same drug taken by Hamas terrorists on Oct… pic.twitter.com/yEZMWbboK9 — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 9, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "This powerful stimulant…

This sounds horribly plausible.  I just got into a debate with one of my democrat friends about trans surgery. I wish the conversation was recorded. For background – she’s 33 years old, married, just had her first kid, and she voted for Kamala. This is how the conversation went: Me: If we’re going to let……

Photographer Richard Sharum has a long-term project exploring and documenting a 100 mile-wide corridor of land and people that runs through the Central United States, covering Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. He calls it Spina America. Also known as flyover country. This term, flyover country, was one I’d heard my entire life but…

The Daily NK reports on North Korean troops in Ukraine: The White House’s disclosure during a briefing late last year that around 1,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to Russia had been killed or wounded shocked the international community. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service likewise determined that around 10,000 North Korean troops had been sent to…