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The queen of weaponising the trans debate shows zero comprehension or remorse. From the Times: Nicola Sturgeon has claimed there “was nothing I could have done” to have improved the tone of the debate on trans rights, in a reversal of her previous position. Apart perhaps from slagging off her opponents as homophobes, bigots and…

A GLAAD mea culpa here. Finally admitting to what everyone’s been saying for years.

Worth a read. October 7, 2023, was the day Islamic terrorism finally hit its perfect target. Not office workers in New York. Not commuters in London or Madrid. Jews. The one people on earth against whom no justification has ever been required. The one people history itself has already condemned in the eyes of their…

This is an example of the immense symbolic moral power of the British monarchy deployed to protect and reassure a small, beleaguered section of the British people.It may seem a small gesture but it has touched and heartened the Anglo-Jewish community.It is symbolic of course but monarchs have a special ability to make such symbolic…

The headline – Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September. They’re boys. So transgender boys. Boys pretending to be girls. It’s not a tragic loss of inclusivity, but a reassertion of the obvious point that Girlguiding is for girls.

More on that Margate exhibition of antisemitic scrawls – from the Telegraph: Labour-led Thanet council apologised for promoting the event on its tourism website after being accused of supporting the exhibition. A spokesman said: “Once the council was contacted regarding the nature of the content, the link to this exhibition was removed. The council is…

Melanie Phillips in the Times looks at the malign influence of Tucker Carlson – Maga’s favourite podcaster platforms antisemitism and refuses to say if Israel has a right to exist. Carlson is no mere crank. He has enormous influence over millions of Americans — mainly men under the age of about 40 — who treat…

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph – “Despite the law supporting female-only spaces, biological men who have been rightfully excluded will do all that they can to destroy them”. We all know the scenario where two small children are playing and one snatches a toy off the other and they start fighting. An adult comes along,…

It gets sillier and sillier. From the Telegraph – National Trust boss: Ethnic minorities don’t know what to wear in countryside; Non-white people do not feel welcome in the countryside because they do not know what to wear, the head of the National Trust has claimed. Hilary McGrady said it was the heritage and conservation charity’s job to stop…