A useful briefing from Sex Matters, in light of the current Olympic boxing controversy – Sport and DSDs (disorders of sex development): What are disorders of sex development (DSDs)? A DSD is a condition which stops a baby’s reproductive organs from developing normally before birth. There are around 40 different DSDs, all rare. Some are…

The last interview. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh toured an exhibition of "Islamic lands" in Tehran on July 30, 2024 with the mayor of Tehran and leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Ziyad Nakhalah, where he gave an interview to SNN.ir that was uploaded to the media outlet's Telegram channel. Haniyeh said that 'false civilizations' that…

A powerful and important intervention from female British boxing champion @NicolaAdamsOBE. https://t.co/0o4wJhCO66 — FairPlayForWomen (@fairplaywomen) August 2, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

BBC News presenter Christian Fraser gets his arse handed to him by Sharron Davies: pic.twitter.com/72hHI7aEWI — Samantha Smith (@misssamsmith) August 1, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph on the Olympic boxing farrago: A woman on her knees sobbing after being punched hard in the face by an opponent who has characteristics of a biological male. She may have a broken nose. Is this sport now? Is this the Olympic ideal? Because that is what we have just…

In which the BMA disgraces itself: The British Medical Association has called for children to be given puberty blockers to help them change gender and vowed to oppose the implementation of the Cass review. Leaders of the doctors’ union have voted in favour of a motion calling for “prompt access” to gender-affirming medical interventions for…

The Olympics at last gives us the opportunity to watch a man beating the shit out of a woman in the boxing ring. Ah, the sporting life! Here's Olympic spokesman Mark Adams justifying the decision to allow two men – Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif – to compete against women: it says they're women on…

Jack Delano, March 1943. Kansas City, Kansas. "Argentine Yard, Santa Fe R.R. — Night view of the departure yard on the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

Richard Landes in Fathom – see Graham's comment here – on how the supremacism built into Islam from its foundation could never accept a Jewish state on Arab-Muslim land: The unimaginable success of the imperial expansion of the first century of Islam fed this triumphalist strain among followers of the Prophet. It led to the…

Nicole Lampert at the JC on the BBC's anti-Israel bias: The BBC regularly trumpets itself as the nation’s most trusted news brand. And if the nation"s most trusted news brand is intent on demonising Israel, focuses on stories about the bombing of schools in Gaza without explaining they are Hamas holdouts, never queries people when…