The SNP saga continues: A former SNP activist who once tweeted how he wanted “beat the f**k” out of feminists has been jailed for six years for a series of sexual assaults. Cameron Downing, 24, preyed on six victims at locations across Scotland during a course of conduct which began when he was just 16-years-old. The man…

We heard last week about the North Korean film club determined to fight the spread of ideologically impure films from South Korea by showing heroic old films about the “Fatherland Liberation War” (the Korean War), to inspire regime loyalty. Here's more Daily NK film news: A propaganda film was recently shown in Kyongwon County, North…

Another high-level North Korean defector – from Richard Lloyd Parry in the Times: A senior North Korean diplomat based in Cuba has defected to South Korea because he could not bear the idea of his children “bowing” before Kim Jong-un’s young daughter. Ri Il-gyu, 52, formerly a counsellor at the embassy in Havana, said that…

Significant, I think. From the Telegraph: Companies can legally block trans women from taking jobs intended only for women, the equalities watchdog has ruled. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said that if an employer wanted to advertise for a woman-only job, that must only mean biological women or those who have received a…

At The Critic, Jo Bartosch on the BBC and its reporting priorities: BBC audiences might be surprised to learn that the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, is committed to upholding the ban on puberty blockers. That is because on the same day as the puberty blocker story broke, our national broadcaster instead ran an interview with…

New York State Attorney General is going to sue a county because they dared to have women’s sports. She says it is ILLEGAL for women to have their own sports in New York. Illegal. Let that sink in. ILLEGAL. pic.twitter.com/CZnPRF3HgP — Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 (@babybeginner) July 16, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

A Female Genital Mutilation ban has been upheld in Gambia: Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to become the first country in the world to reverse such a ban had been closely followed by activists abroad.…

Another look at the effect of puberty blockers, from clinical psychologist Dr P: The child whose puberty is being blocked does not live in a vacuum. They are part of a network of siblings, friends and peers. They are part of a community. What then, is the broader impact of blocking puberty? For the sake…

More on the same lines in the Telegraph – this time from Suzanne Moore: Now Wes Streeting knows what it’s like to be a certain kind of woman. I jest, but not much. Since the Health Secretary announced he is going to maintain the ban on puberty blockers that Victoria Atkins brought in, he has…

Kathleen Stock in the Telegraph. Wes Streeting is right about puberty blockers – "We need brave adults in the room to defend vulnerable families from the policy demands of activists". [I]n the aftermath of the Cass Review, the evidence – or more precisely, lack of evidence – in the area of medical interventions upon children…