I just wrote this about Keir Starmer (not really. It's from 18 months ago, but we always *knew* you would do this) https://t.co/5rP51YZ71q pic.twitter.com/1cbdqjbLOu — Victoria Smith (@glosswitch) June 21, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

JK Rowling wasn't too impressed with Starmer's performance at that election debate: Rowling, 58, says that Starmer has done nothing to allay her concerns about his position, attacking him in particular for failing to defend Duffield, who has suffered death threats. “Rosie has received literally no support from Starmer over the threats and abuse, some…

This from February in the Telegraph: BBC journalists have appeared to support anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and statements that Israel is “pure evil”, despite the corporation promising to crack down on bias. One reporter based in Egypt liked a tweet in December making unsubstantiated allegations that large numbers of Jews from around the world are buying…

In North Korea not only must the watching of foreign media be severely punished in the name of preventing anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior, but actual cases of this happening must be suppressed, in case it arouses interest in the general population. The censorship is censored. From the Daily NK: Police and security officials have been…

Why is it so hard for people to understand something so simple? Protesting outside of Jewish day school in LA, while shouting for Jewish families to “Go back to Germany,” does not resemble anything CLOSE to activism. It’s antisemitism in its purest form. pic.twitter.com/DVrmmosmZ3 — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 21, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "Go back to…

Kathleen Stock on Keir Starmer’s moral vacuum: Interpretations of his background commitments differ wildly. Peter Hitchens thinks he’s “far-Left” bordering on Trotskyism; Jordan Peterson predicts that should he win, Britain will be “Venezuela for 20 years”. The New Internationalist says Starmer is a “cold-hearted Blairite”, and Corbyn’s former advisor Andrew Murray scornfully dubs him a…

Last night's election debate, and it's the old "toxic" trope from Starmer again – and a return to his stand-by, the Brianna Grey case, with Starmer's point depending on the unspoken assumption that Grey was killed because he was trans – which as far as we know ain't so – and hence the fault of…

That Pride London poster:  a letter to Sadiq Khan from the LGB Alliance's Kate Barker: [Click to enlarge]

Maya Forstater at UnHerd on her Met Police saga: Last year I was threatened with arrest and called into Charing Cross Police Station to be questioned for the offence of “malicious communications”, a crime with a penalty of up to two years in prison. 10 months later, I remain under investigation. The police questioned me…

An interesting article from Georgian Natalia Antelava – why don't we tend to see Russia as a colonizer? My parents may have cherished Georgia’s freedom from Moscow, but somehow I had still bought into a widely accepted myth that the Soviet Union was an anti-colonial power. Both at my Soviet school, and later at university…