The classic deflection from Rachel Millward here… Good comments…. Also:

From the Times: The Home Office has been accused of allowing Islamists and fascists to glorify terrorism against Jews because it has repeatedly ignored recommendations for new counterextremist laws.  Dame Sara Khan, the government’s former counterextremism commissioner, said new legislation was needed more than ever before to close gaps in the law.…. The aftermath of…

It’s not just the Greens. Reform too. From the Jewish News: Jay Leslie Cooper, who won a seat in the Bootle West ward of Sefton council, was previously revealed by the Liverpool Echo to have said on Facebook last year about Adolf Hitler that “I don’t agree with him murdering innocent people. But the Hallocaust [sic] is a…

Just beamed down… Was the victory due to the super-high environmental awareness in Hackney? Or was it perhaps, given the borough’s high Muslim representation. more about the new-found antisemitism driving the Green Party now?

From the Telegraph: An Arts Council-funded magazine cancelled a poet because she was critical of pornography, legal documents have revealed. Abigail Ottley’s poem was accepted by the Aftershock Review, a literary magazine funded by Arts Council England, but later withdrawn by editors with no explanation. The poet, who is in her 70s, has now applied for a judicial…

Well then. Not all Reform and the Greens.

Dickensian-style labour in the great socialist nation. From the Daily NK: Wig and eyelash assembly work has taken off as a cottage industry in Chongjin, North Korea’s third-largest city, as intensifying market controls and rising inflation leave North Korean people with few other ways to earn income. “Wig and eyelash contract assembly has until now been carried out mainly in detention facilities…

Equally infuriating is the way harrowing stories such as this one from detransitioners were suppressed because their stories might “harm” the trans community. Young people who regretted irreversible medical damage were treated not as victims deserving compassion, but as inconvenient obstacles to an ideological narrative. “She then told my mom that if I matured through…