This is worth a read: https://t.co/hC754KKrT0 — Dr P (@Psychgirl211) July 4, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js An extract: Psychological distress and aberrant behaviours are always conceptualised through the lens of culture, and in any society, at any given time, we create medical and psychological narratives to best understand aspects of human behaviour based on these prevailing norms.…

From the JC: The grandmother of Israeli opposition lawmaker Sharren Haskel was the victim of an antisemitic assault by “Arab thugs” outside Paris, the Knesset member said on Wednesday. “Antisemitism in France has been on the rise for a long time. Since October 7, it has become unbearable, and the government of France ignores it,”…

The University and College Union (UCU) has history in the trans debate, having notably failed to support Kathleen Stock as she was harrassed out of Sussex University for her gender-critical views, and, according to a Times report, having organised witch-hunts against those members deemed to hold "transphobic" opinions. No surprise, then, that they've now come…

John Collier, February 1943. Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Photographs show the modern city and 'Old Town' Albuquerque." [Photo: Shorpy/John Collier for the Office of War Information] Still there:

Graham Linehan wrote in The Critic some weeks back on Ian Hislop and Private Eye, where the issue of gender ideology has been completely ignored despite the obvious point that – you'd think – it should be right up the Eye's street to expose surely the greatest medical scandal of recent times and an extraordinarily…

I wondered the other day why Starmer has such a perverse reluctance to apologise to Rosie Duffield. Could it be that he's been warned by colleagues that he mustn't go there, on pain of rejection by all the trans-friendly Labour figures who hate her and have been so rude to her? Jean Hatchet at The…

An interesting analysis of the new Kim Jong-un badges and their significance, from Gil-sup Kwak in the Daily NK: North Korea’s Korean Central TV broadcast news of the second day of the Eighth Party Central Committee’s 10th Plenary Session on June 30, showing party officials attending the session wearing a Kim Jong Un portrait badge…

John Vachon, March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Davidson Transfer Company trucking terminal. Lubricating a truck tractor." [Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon, Office of War Information]

From the Times of Israel: ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — An anti-Israel protester approached this reporter while narrowly avoiding the guidelines of the 20-odd tents that dotted Erasmus University campus’s main square. Wearing a keffiyeh over her face, she asked about the purpose of my visit. About 30 of her comrades watched while eating dinner: a…

This poster appeared on the Darlington nurses' changing room this week. A changing room where nurses have had panic attacks after having to undress in front of a biological male identifying as a woman who openly says he is trying to get his girlfriend pregnant. When they… pic.twitter.com/5GKTNkpTqN — Christian Concern (@CConcern) July 2, 2024…