Be prepared to have your pronouns ready – it's the new-look Scouts. The Scouts have been encouraged to use gender-neutral language and to drop the terms “mum and dad”. Members have been encouraged to guide children through a card game called “Pronoun Pairs”, which has been devised as a way of teaching them about gender…

Over the summer, I went to the very North of the Isle of Lewis on a field trip to map the geology there with a close friend of mine. The google street view car went past. We had a geological hammer. The following masterpiece, now on google street view, was the result pic.twitter.com/NIBPnxuIl5 — Gideon…

Two buildings housing Jewish charities in North London were vandalized with red paint overnight. It’s already bad enough when protesters target Jewish businesses; now they’re even attacking charities? How does that help the Palestinian cause? pic.twitter.com/jQPyslG10G — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 2, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Nothing to do with Palestine, of course: this is straight up…

Janice Turner, in the Times, on the Darlington nurses and the Unison leader: On Wednesday Lisa Lockey cancelled her Unison membership. Starting as a teenage trainee nurse, she’d paid her union dues (latterly £11.50 a month) out of her modest salary for 33 years. But a public statement by the Unison president Steve North gave…

I've already posted about North Korea's deteriorating relations with China as its Russian links grow ever stronger – first with the Chinese expelling North Korean garment factory workers, and then with the North Koreans seizing and firing on Chinese fishing boats. Now the BBC's Laura Bicker reports from a border town in China overlooking their…

Helen Joyce was in Berlin yesterday, for the protest outside the Bundestag against the new gender self-ID law that has just come into force. Here's her speech: George Orwell is supposed to have said: “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” We live in a time of deceit. The deceit…

The ethnic cleansing of over 14 million Sudanese, 30% of the population, marks one of the most severe humanitarian crises of our time. Yet, where are the global protests? pic.twitter.com/fG3hGTYOOO — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 2, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js As I've said before, whoever's doing the PR for the Arabs is doing one hell of a…

The next time someone tells you how Palestinians have never had viable options for peace, show them this statement from former US President @BillClinton: “And the only time Yasser Arafat didn't tell me the truth was when he promised me he was gonna accept the peace deal that we… pic.twitter.com/YlckFqdqUS — Emily Schrader – אמילי…

The exhortations for ideological purity in the Kim Dynasty of North Korea keep on coming, and keep on ramping up. It's never enough. There are always greater demands of loyalty to be made, and more draconian punishments to be meted out to those showing the slightest hint of individual thought, and deviance from the all-consuming…

Anyone who follows Israeli news knows that Haaretz is on the left. But this far left? At least three Israeli government ministries have announced they will be terminating all cooperation and advertising with Israel’s most prestigious left-wing newspaper after the group’s publisher accused Israel of “apartheid” and described Palestinian terrorists as “freedom fighters” during an event…