The Times, on Surrey council boss Joanna Killian: The leader of the county council responsible for providing social care to Sara Sharif was given a £234,000 salary months before she was murdered. Well, at least she died a wealthy woman.

Confusion in North Korea over this idea that, in South Korea, people can call, in public, for the resignation of their leader. How can such a thing be possible? Students at Haeju Teachers College in South Hwanghae province faced disciplinary action for questioning content from a lecture about South Korean politics, Daily NK has learned.…

UK Conservative Party leader @KemiBadenoch explains why she is a “gender critical feminist.” “To say that you can just self-define as a woman, for me, has no basis whatsoever in reality. When I call myself a ‘feminist,’ it is about equality. I believe women should be able to do… pic.twitter.com/53mmvjECSx — Honestly with Bari Weiss…

Urgh. The language used by MPs protesting the necessary, sensible and welcome ban of puberty blockers for children caught up in transgender identity ideology: – Maggie Chapman talked of 'trans siblings'– Sian Berry 'trans youth'– Stella Creasy 'young trans men', and — Dr Karen Ingala Smith (@K_IngalaSmith) December 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: The language…

George Galloway swims, as ever, in murky waters. At least – some consolation – he's not at all happy with the latest developments in Syria. “October 7 now looks like a very bad idea, and it makes you wonder whose idea it was anyway.” Hmm. From MEMRI TV: Iranian Professor Mohammad Marandi, who teaches English…

Translation: 'Dangerous, violent man who subjected a woman to terrible sexual and physical abuse is now pretending to be a woman in the hope of garnering sympathy and leniency from the judicial system.'https://t.co/27QqMRE6XW — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The Manchester Evening News report: A judge has jailed a ‘dangerous’ woman for violent…

In Iran, the Khamenei regime’s parliament has passed new laws allowing the death penalty for women who refuse to cover their hair. On the very same night as this shocking announcement, Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi performed without a hijab (veil). The concert was streamed… pic.twitter.com/d17oKvLoIm — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) December 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text:…

The time has come round for the National Portrait Gallery's annual Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize exhibition. And this year's 1st prize winner…Sonam by Steph Wilson: [Photo © Steph Wilson] Not, as you might think, a trans man, but a woman wearing a false moustache. From the series Ideal Mother: Wilson was compelled to broaden…

We've heard this before – how extraordinary, how vile, has been the response by many on the Western Left to the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7th last year – but it's always worth reminding ourselves of the sheer scarcely believable outpouring of antisemitism – disguised, very thinly, as anti-Zionism – that we've experienced, on the…

I’m trying to put together a list of UNRWA teachers who have condemned the October 7 Massacre. I want to show how mad UNRWA teachers were when they found out that their former students invaded Israel and took hostages. I have zero names so far. Please retweet to help me. — Daniel Rubenstein (@paulrubens) December…