Eleanor Hayward, the Times health editor, on the influence of the Cass Review, how it's been misrepresented in America, and how the BMA has helped to spread the disinformation.   The retired paediatrician, now Baroness Cass of Barnet, had spent four years meticulously researching the most toxic and complex question in modern healthcare: how should we…

A particularly nasty victimisation of someone not prepared to pay lip service to the gender cult. From the Telegraph: A girl footballer with suspected autism is facing a ban of up to 12 matches for asking an adult transgender opponent: “Are you a man?” In the latest case to raise major questions about the Football…

From the Telegraph:  Trans teachers must be allowed to use the same showers and lavatories as female colleagues, schools have been told. Training from the National Governance Association (NGA) tells governors that staff should be given access to the bathroom “available to other members of their newly acquired gender”. Their "newly acquired gender”? What a…

With a touch of mellow fruitfulness. Up at Kenwood (first pic) and The Hill in Hampstead this morning: Click to enlarge.

As Shoshona Bryan said, sometimes only force will do – you can't negotiate with evil. Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator: The death of Yahya Sinwar, the top military commander of Hamas, is an important and symbolic moment in Israel’s ongoing war against the terror group. His elimination was finally made official by an evening statement…

In Iran, the real criminals make the laws. Today marks the anniversary of the Isfahan acid attacks on these women, whose “crime” was wearing an improper hijab. Ten years later, the attackers walk free, because why arrest yourself when you hold power? Meanwhile, those who dared… pic.twitter.com/WSUrkQVNv2 — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 17, 2024…

The view from the Beeb: Jeremy Bowen calling Oct 7 a “defeat” isn’t a neutral word – it echoes Hamas’s own narrative that it was primarily a military engagement rather than a massacre of civilians. Bad enough to refuse to call Hamas terrorists – so much worse to use their own language instead. pic.twitter.com/vTbrnDfeIZ —…

Relations between the two Koreas, never good, are going through one of their periodic lows. South Korea president Yoon Suk-yeol is a hard-line conservative who is not willing, as so many of his predecessors have been, to try the friendly appeasement approach. It never worked, anyway. So when North Korea blew up a couple of…

More on the uselessness of UNIFIL [United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon], tasked with preventing the militarisation of southern Lebanon under Hezbollah, failing completely, and now, it seems, largely concerned with preventing Israel from doing the job. Shoshana Bryan at the Jewish News Syndicate: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a decorated retired Army…

#Hamas terrorists murdered a young Tanzanian in Israel because Islamic jihadists hate Africans like they hate Israelis. “Stop claiming solidarity where there is none.” – @JoshWashIBSI pic.twitter.com/jurKxMPkRD — Dumisani Washington (@DumisaniTemsgen) October 17, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js