At that age, I refused to wear any colour other than blue. I pleaded to have my hair cut short, properly short, like the boys. My parents would not let it be shorter than a bob. I am sparing you the photograph. It was truly dreadful. From about the age of three, I was unmistakably…

They still go on, these trans disruptions. Incredible. A leading academic who led a recent government review into sex and gender data collection has threatened legal action against the University of Bristol, claiming it failed to protect her freedom of speech. Prof Alice Sullivan has also written to the university regulator, the Office for Students,…

Jo Bartosch ponders the very different career paths of Graham Linehan and David Walliams. The former went against the “correct” media thinking, and was ostracised; the latter said whatever he thought was required, and stayed on board. Britain’s creative class functions as a gated community, policed by fashion and bounded by fear. For decades, comedy…

A headline BBC Indepth piece today – Why British Jews are experiencing their biggest change in 60 years. David Collier: In typical BBC whitewash fashion – the long 1700+ word article does not mention Muslims, Islam, Islamism anywhere (SERIOUSLY!!) – even though it mentions both Bondi Beach and Manchester. The BBC erases the biggest change…

Full thread: The Supreme Court spoke plainly. Sex in law means biological sex. Single-sex spaces exist to protect privacy, dignity, and safety. That ruling was unanimous, deliberate, and designed to end a decade of institutional confusion. It was not ambiguous. It did not invite reinterpretation. It settled the matter. And yet, months on, women are…

The Bronzefield Six, I suggested. OK, they’re not all at Bronzefield. Hunger striker Kamran Ahmed is in Pentonville. He’s interviewed (by phone) in the Sunday times today, in the most laudatory terms. Not a word is offered to counter his view of himself as a devout Muslim who considers his life a small price to…

The Times, profiles hunger striker Amy Gardner-Gibson, one of “the Bronzefield Six”…..as no one to my knowledge has yet called them, but it’s surely only a matter of time. In a prison voicemail from HMP Bronzefield, Surrey, Gardiner-Gibson made a new list of demands including access to entertainment and distance-learning classes. The inmate, who is…

Story here: An image of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh that has become associated with Palestinians on display at a museum in Potsdam has drawn criticism from the Jewish community and a criminal complaint by the head of the German-Israeli society. There’s nothing they love better, the Palestinian crowd, than to portray Jews as the…

Full text: I spent part of my childhood in the Middle East before immigrating to Canada in my late teens. None of my Muslim girlfriends liked wearing the hijab or niqab. Whenever they could, they took it off because they found it oppressive. If their parents found out, there would be consequences. I often helped…