Euan Malcolm in The Scotsman on the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre farrago, and the silence of Scottish politicians: The intellectual vacuity is bad enough but it’s the moral cowardice that really sickens. More than a week after an independent review found rape victims were damaged by catastrophic failings at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, senior politicians…

I posted about David Lammy's latest blunder the other day. Dominic Lawson in today's Sunday Times has more: David Lammy has a peculiar knack for getting the simplest facts upside down, as anyone who recalls his — very game — appearance on Celebrity Mastermind might attest. Or the time in 2013 when the BBC tweeted,…

If Lebanon cares so much about solidarity with Palestinians, why do they force them to stay in refugee camps? Palestinians in Lebanon are denied basic rights like owning property, and almost half of them live in overcrowded, impoverished refugee camps. They are banned from… pic.twitter.com/4vIIAzmt4V — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 21, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "They are…

At Frieze Sculpture 2024 in Regent's Park: The Duet, Theaster Gates The Dancer, Leonora Carrington Ennui Head, Yoshitomo Nara The Form, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim seeing both sides, Woody De Othello steadfast (scrotum flower), Theresa Chromati Pillar V, Frances Goodman Lightning Rod, Kirstine Roepstorff Ent-(non-earthly delights), Libby Heaney The Ghaf Tree, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim For more…

Naziesque propaganda from the @IrishTimes I’m done trying to restrain my language on this platform. Fuck the IT. https://t.co/caTPFXE1AZ — Karen Ievers (@karenievers) September 20, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js He says Israel's targeted counter-terror operation against an antisemitic enemy that is canonically pledged to the annihilation of the world's only Jewish state is "worse than the Holocaust"…

Christian preacher, Hatun Tash, has won a £10,000 settlement after being falsely arrested again at Speakers' Corner in London. Watch the shocking footage of her arrest, where the police, without establishing the facts, arrested and frog marched her through a baying crowd of… pic.twitter.com/zCMyOBGC53 — Christian Concern (@CConcern) September 20, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: Watch…

Hamas base themselves in hospitals and schools, using civilians as human shields, while Hezbollah have been indiscriminately bombing northern Israel for months, careless of where their missiles land. Israel, on the other hand, devised a plan that would target only Hezbollah members… According to self-described human rights organizations, there are two, and only two, rules…

Germany has recently passed a self-ID law – the snappily-titled Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (SBGG) – allowing anyone to change their legal gender on say-so, without any of that tiresome medical bother. There are complications though. For instance, can a male cross-dresser and foot-fetishist with a history of violent attacks on women be charged with exposing his penis?…

Steerpike at the Spectator on the latest David Lammy blunder: It’s a gaffe a day with David Lammy. Now the Foreign Secretary has come under fire after he hailed Azerbaijan for being able to ‘liberate’ territory – in an ongoing conflict widely viewed as an ethnic cleansing operation – in a recent Substack post. Lammy…

I had a go yesterday. Now here's Jo Bartosch at Spiked on the fourth plinth farce: The lump of art unveiled this week on the Fourth Plinth couldn’t be more revealing. For the next 18 months, visitors who pass through Trafalgar Square will be confronted by a cube of 726 pseudo-death masks of ‘trans and…