The UN Secretary General *bowing* to Putin at the BRICS conference. For shame! pic.twitter.com/Vg5pBEBMRf — Alan Johnson (@Fathom_Editor) October 24, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

A story that sheds some light on the life of North Korean workers in China, and what the Chinese think of them. From the Daily NK: Some 120 North Korean workers from a garment factory in Dandong, China, were repatriated to North Korea on Sept. 30. The unexpected deportation by Chinese authorities has strained relations…

Eliza Mondegreen at UnHerd on the suppression of the puberty blocker study exposed in the NYT (yesterday): At the outset of the National Institutes of Health study, principal investigator Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the most vocal advocates of “gender-affirming care” in the United States, expected that young patients put on puberty blockers would experience “decreased…

In response to a news item about Mohammad Abu Itiwi, a Nukhba commander in the Al Bureij Battalion of Hamas' Central Camps Brigade who'd been employed by UNRWA: The involvement of numerous UNRWA employees in terror activities, especially on October 7th, is more than just a scandal—it’s a symptom of a deeper, festering disease. A…

Today at Winkworth Arboretum in deepest Surrey: I acquired a folding bike some while back for just this sort of trip – tube down to Waterloo, train to Godalming. Perfect. A car journey down from north London would be grim. Hadn't realised that the three or so miles from Godalming to Winkworth is all uphill…

Oliver Brown in the Telegraph: Lord Triesman, the former chairman of the Football Association, has said he is “deeply concerned” that the governing body he used to lead is “not providing women and girls with fair, safe sport” because of its policy of allowing biological males to compete in the female category. In a sharply…

France has just announced that it has successfully raised $800 million from the international community following a conference aimed at addressing the crisis in Lebanon. The funds are primarily intended to assist displaced Lebanese civilians. While the Élysée emphasized the… pic.twitter.com/8EPZw8l5Ho — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) October 24, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: While the Élysée emphasized…

Kyle Orton in Fathom – 2024 is not 2006. This time Israel is beating Hezbollah: Four days into the 2006 war, Israel’s air force had hit everything on its target list, and yet the Hezbollah rockets continued to rain down on Israel for the remainder of the month-long engagement because Jerusalem’s intelligence on the launch…

We heard about this gender doctor a couple of days back, from detransitioner Clementine: When she was 12, Johanna Olson-Kennedy at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles put her on puberty blockers. At 13, she was put on testosterone. At only 14 years of age, she was given a double mastectomy! Clementine had suffered sexual…

Yes, there are some – and the numbers may be growing. Hillel Kuttler in Tablet on Arab Advocates for Israel: Born in Damascus to secular Muslim parents and raised in the village of Chtaura in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, Rawan Osman, 40, was on her fourth trip to Israel this year when we dined outdoors at…