For perhaps the best guide at the moment for understanding what's happening in Syria, here's Jonathan Spyer in the JC: Syria, like Caesar's Gaul, is divided into three parts. The largest part is under the control of Assad, responsible for the death of some 500,000 Syrians and the flight of millions more, and supported by…

WOW: The President of Turkey calls for the end of Western Civilization: “Western civilization will collapse, our divine and humane civilization will flourish.” How is Turkey still a NATO member?pic.twitter.com/9kbdkBsORj — Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 4, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The normally unspoken bit out loud: “To have a transgender child has made me so much more interesting” Annette Bening, channeling the worst of Hollywood, speaks outside SCOTUS during the Skrmetti hearing. Are bans on puberty blockers for kids constitutional? 🤷‍♀️ But having a trans kid makes you interesting & wise pic.twitter.com/qQWGFW3Cly — WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals)…

In a nutshell: The ACLU think its cruel to give sex offenders drugs that chemically castrate them.The same ACLU thinks it's a human right to give innocent children the same drugs to 'affirm their gender identity'.#DefundTheACLU https://t.co/9p8iMfpGaj pic.twitter.com/5KNeOSHMCM — Biology Rules Ok (@OkayBiology) December 4, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The ACLU has become a single-issue organisation, now…

“I felt this charity was harming children…If that is being a Terf then I’m proud to be one.”@RosieMillard defends her decision to step down as chair of the BBC charity Children in Need. #TimesRadio pic.twitter.com/1hhM9evC3v — Times Radio (@TimesRadio) December 4, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Janice Turner in the Times has the last word on the BBC and its "100 women" list: Every year the BBC trolls women by sticking a token biological male in its “100 women” list. It just can’t help itself. Somewhere in the BBC charter must be a clause that women can’t have anything. Certainly not…

Nicole Lampert in the JC – Why is our government hosting Qatar while threatening Israeli leaders with arrest? There have been so many incidents that have seemed upside down since October 7 that sometimes it is all too much to bear. The celebrations in the street on October 8, the way the BBC keeps parroting…

Campus anti-Zionists are “arguing with Jews who survived the 20th century that they should give up their self-defense… Yemen just had a war in which a quarter [of a] million people starved to death—literally—and none of those college students gave a shit. I submit to you that… pic.twitter.com/LVeHeQOvfI — Honestly with Bari Weiss (@thehonestlypod) December…

A smug young Iranian intellectual explains to his captive audience of one – silent, obsequious, hair covered: how they like their women in Iran – that the Holocaust was, in fact, impossible. It would have taken 68 years to kill them one by one in the gas ovens. [Hint: they didn't do it one by…

I was wondering what response might be forthcoming after the Oxford Union debacle. Today, from the Times: Hundreds of academics have written to Lord Hague of Richmond, the newly elected Oxford chancellor, saying that an Oxford Union debate which praised the October 7 attacks on Israel broke the law. Professor Sir Vernon Bogdanor, ­Baroness Deech…