What is more embarrassing: — Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) July 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Currently the bottom choice has a healthy lead. It's what I voted for. Note: "embarrassing": there's nothing particularly embarrassing about evolution denial, however stupid and ridiculous it may seem. The sex-binary denial, on the other hand…

A JK Rowling thread: .@wesstreeting, the UK's new Health Secretary, has indicated that he plans to make the temporary ban on puberty blockers permanent. This has made the usual suspects very angry. Streeting, they say, will have 'blood on his hands.' He will 'kill trans kids.' 1/10 — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js…

Meanwhile, in Dublin: Spotted in @Hodges_Figgis Dublin's premier bookshop under the Judaism section. What on earth??? "If ever a piece of writing could produce mass hatred, it is this one. . . . This book is about lies and slander." – Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate pic.twitter.com/khfWkct949 — Ireland Israel Alliance (@irlisrAlliance) July 12,…

A good piece by Jenni Russell in the Times today – Starmer’s first credibility test is women’s rights: Days before the election, Sir Keir Starmer declared to The Times that “biological women” had the right to single-sex spaces, separate from biological men. He had, he claimed, “always said” that women’s spaces needed to be protected.…

The essence of Islam – what makes Islam so great – as outlined by Dr. Nasser Karimian at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Columbus, Ohio: "We know, subhanallah, of the things that are paradoxical thinking in Islam, perhaps one of the most paradoxical, is that we think that when the warrior goes to war, he's…

Nothing definite, but the indications are that Wes Streeting's post-Cass u-turn on trans matters was geuuine. From the Telegraph: A ban on puberty blockers could be made permanent as the Labour party takes a harder stance on transgender issues, The Telegraph can reveal. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, intends to stop powerful hormone blockers being…

Worth a repeat: Ever wondered what education UNRWA 🇺🇳 provides? There you go 👇 "Stabbing Jews brings dignity to the Palestinians""We have to constantly stab them""I want to fight against Jews""They teach us that Jews are terrorists""I am ready to stab a Jew, and drive a car over them" pic.twitter.com/gYTVvtU80X — Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) July 10,…

Questions to which the answer is, yes – of course, obviously, indubitably. .Jacob Heilbrunn in the Spectator – Is Joe Biden in denial? Him and most of the Democratic party.  No one has reason to be happier with the outcome of the press conference than Trump. An enfeebled Biden will remain in the race as…

John Vachon, March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Associated Transport trucking terminal. Truck loaded with explosives." [Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

From the Daily NK – Hell on Earth: Disabled prisoners suffer in N. Korea’s brutal camps: Disabled people in North Korea’s political prison camps are suffering severe human rights violations, enduring horrific working conditions and daily violence, a source inside the country recently told Daily NK. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told Daily…