An interesting insight from a war correspondent into the gullibility of western journalists reporting from Middle East war zones. Jonathan Foreman – The media need to stop treating medics in war zones as fonts of truth. In the spring of 2005, when I was covering the Iraq War for the New York Post, I accompanied…

Graham Linehan at Spiked – Starmer’s slipperiness on trans is utterly inexcusable: As the Telegraph noted this week, Keir Starmer’s pledge to remove ‘gender ideology’ from schools is hollow, as he doesn’t understand what the term means. This the Labour leader has in common with many comfortable, middle-class men who only read the Guardian and get their news…

Oh dear. The Democrats wanted and needed a compelling performance from Joe Biden last night: a rebuttal to the concerns about his age and ability. Instead, his performance was disastrous. His voice was hoarse, he rambled, frequently lost his chain of thought and sometimes couldn’t even get to the end of his sentences. Donald Trump…

Bret Stephens at the NYT (via Jerry Coyne):  The notable fact about the anti-Israel campus demonstrations is that they are predominantly an elite phenomenon. Yes, there have been protests at big state schools like the University of Nebraska, but they have generally been small, tame and — thanks to administrators prepared to enforce the rules…

A fine rant by Lebanese TV Host Dima Sadek: There is nothing left from Lebanon except for Hizbullah and its weapons. The Lebanese people are like the passengers of the hijacked airplanes on 9/11 heading for certain death. “We are being held hostage. We have been hijacked.” Lebanon now is like one of those insects…

How socialism works in North Korea: you pay to get the job: As more North Koreans seek jobs at food processing plants, where food rations and wages are guaranteed, the cost of bribes for those jobs is rising, Daily NK has learned. “Amid a boom in production at food processing factories, jobs at the factories…

Wow. Girls being prescibed testosterone because they have a "testicular disorder". Gender medicine at work: I’ve obtained Health Department data showing doctors are recording thousands of Australian women and girls as having testicular disorders in order to get taxpayers to subsidise testosterone. Thousands of young women and girls are being exposed to lifelong consequences and……

.@sally_hines, I've given your book 'Is Gender Fluid?' to several people who want a short primer on what gender identity ideology's all about. So far, 100% of readers have rated it self-contradictory, unevidenced bollocks. You have my permission to use that quote on the cover. https://t.co/gUw8EHnyTz — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 26, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

🇺🇸 Biden officials pushed WPATH to scrap age limits on trans surgeries, fearing they "could fuel growing political opposition to such treatments."@nytimes coverage on this must wake people up: @wpath's "Standards of Care" are driven by politics & activism, not evidence or… pic.twitter.com/rPxa3XsFAQ — Genspect (@genspect) June 26, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Who's pushing for it? Yes,…

Capybaras wandering around at dawn. pic.twitter.com/hsgG2KxOm5 — Figen (@TheFigen_) June 23, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Dawn is traditionally when they bury their dead.