Journalist Hadley Freeman, who has written about her past anorexia, says she spoke to clinicians, including some at the Tavistock gender clinic, who told her– "Yes, [trans/non-binary] is the new way for girls to express fear of womanhood and it's being socially validated and… — Bernard Lane (@Bernard_Lane) September 18, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: Journalist…

Jack Delano, March 1943. "Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. Locomotives in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway roundhouse. Note train control mechanism on truck wheel of the engine." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

Islamism is generally used now to refer to the political side of Islam, and serves as a useful word, for those who don't want to appear offensive, to talk about aspects of Islam without seeming to assume that all Muslims share the same supremacist agenda. So, really, in what way does Islamism differ from Islam…

The Labour threat to make "Islamophobia" illegal is a major threat to free speech, introducing a blasphemy law by the back door. Other religions – notably the Sikhs – have expreessed their concerns. So why is the nominally secular Labour Party so keen? Could it be that, with the decline of the white working class…

Another headline that would have made absolutely no sense a few years back – Social worker wins £55,000 after row about gender-fluid dachshund. Not that it makes much sense now. Local authority bosses must pay a lesbian social worker more than £63,000 after she was disciplined for having “nasty opinions” about a colleague’s “gender-fluid” dog.…

Alex Byrne's recent book Trouble with Gender is a rare example of a philosopher willing to tackle the trans industry and the quasi-religious notion of gender identity. Following Byrne's lead, Daniel Kodsi (via Kathleen Stock) writes in The Philosopher's Magazine in support of sex realism – the once obvious but now controversial view that a…

Interesting, from NK News. North Korean arms shipments to Russia are Ukraine’s ‘worst problem,’ Kyiv says: North Korea’s shipments of weapons to Russia are the “worst problem” that Ukraine currently faces, Kyiv’s military intelligence chief said Saturday, identifying Pyongyang as the leading arms supplier supporting Moscow’s invasion.

The plot thickens. It turns out that the partner of Sandy Brindley, the CEO of Rape Crisis Scotland, is one Sharon Cowan, Professor of Feminist and Queer Legal Studies at Edinburgh University. I know – an academic specialising in " transgender legal issues, and queer legal theory" at the heart of the ERCC controversy. Who…

To expand on that Genevieve Gluck X post I included in my post yesterday….from JL's report at the Glinner Update – The Wadha story is not over: It is also worth noting that, in 2021, three women’s sector services in North Lanarkshire were forced into closure after their funding was withdrawn. The council then awarded…

Rampant antisemitism on the streets of Sydney. And thousands of people happily march alongside this, the Greens nod approvingly and how many more will see this image and smirk to themselves, hopeful the Jews are getting what’s coming to them. pic.twitter.com/KzHZaADbtt — Alex Ryvchin (@AlexRyvchin) September 15, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js What used to be shocking is…