Helen Lewis at The Atlantic acknowledges the Dem's gender problem: One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown…. Biden’s administration has long pushed the new orthodoxy on gender, without ever really…

Meanwhile, in Libya: Libya's interior minister has announced the reintroduction of the morality police to the streets to enforce what he called "society's traditions" and restrict women's freedom of movement. On Wednesday, Emad al-Tarabulsi said the patrols would resume next month. They would target people with "strange" haircuts, ensure women wear "modest" clothing and prevent…

Iraq recently took a step toward a heinous objective: to allow men to marry 9-year-old girls. Is the world up in arms about this barbarity? “Hardly,” writes @yasmohammedxx, who shares her personal survival story with The Free Press. https://t.co/PYhGNrkK6r pic.twitter.com/tYbPLRLXAk — The Free Press (@TheFP) September 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

From Kenan Malik in the Observer: When Musa al-Gharbi first arrived in New York in 2016, what he most noticed was the operation of a “racialized caste system” under which “disposable servants… will clean your house, watch your kids, walk your dogs, deliver prepared meals to you”. The “disposable servants”, who earned “peanuts for their…

All my posts so far on Café Royal Books have been looking back at England: mostly black and white (and mostly grim). See here for a list. But they do venture further afield – as for instance here, with photographer Andreas Bleckmann, New York 1985–1990: [Photos © Cafe Royal Books/Andreas Bleckmann]

🚨 Breaking: The IDF uncovered thousands of hours of footage showing Hamas torturing innocent Palestinians. According to @NatalieLisbona, the victims include gay men, individuals accused of adultery, political opponents, and those suspected of "collaborating" with Israel pic.twitter.com/lU8bXIfCDm — Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) November 10, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From the Mail on Sunday: Israel's military says it has…

Yes we've been hearing this a lot this past week – the left's trans own goal that helped Trump's triumph – but Joan Smith at UnHerd puts it well: Is the US about to become the first country to restore protections for women and girls from trans ideology? If it happens — and that depends…

I wrote the words below in April, about the UK left, and I'm retweeting them today for the benefit of some of the numbskulls in my mentions. Women like me, and there are a lot of us, aren't and never have been far-right. We simply want the left to wake the hell up, because we're……

A few more autumnal shots, this time from Highgate:

From MEMRI TV: In an October 18, 2024, lecture at the Islamic Society of Central Jersey, American Islamic scholar Suhaib Webb stated that student activism can go “hand in hand” with Islamic practice. He praised Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and other student groups for inviting imams to lead prayers at their encampments. Webb…