With Arabic cartoons like these pumped into the heads of kids across the Middle East, Hamas is the only result. pic.twitter.com/X7cSxzaN8q — Jake Wallis Simons (@JakeWSimons) June 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

As we feared. Childen deluded into the fantasy that they were born in the wrong body and require medical intervention will, under Labour, have their delusions confirmed – on pain of prosecution.  The Labour Party's manifesto confirms it will "deliver a trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices" to stop therapists exploring reasons for their gender-confused patient's…

A Russian woman explains to her fellow Russians who they really are – in no uncertain terms – invaders, terrorists and murderers. pic.twitter.com/WqEal5niHr — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 11, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Deputy Green Party Leader admits to performing hypnotherapy to 'enlarge' women's breasts in the past https://t.co/BSf4vyqU0z — LBC (@LBC) June 12, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

April 28, 1909. Wyandotte, Michigan. "Launching party, steamer Benj. Noble." Before and after. [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company] The Benjamin Noble sank exactly five years later: Top-heavy with a cargo of steel rails, the Benjamin Noble capsized in a squall 20 miles out from Duluth on April 28, 1914, vanishing into Lake Superior with the loss of…

Julia Davis has been monitoring Russian propagandists since 2019, and has now collected together a collection of essays and article for her new book, In Their Own Words. For more than two decades, the Kremlin’s agitators have been tasked to lay, in advance, the groundwork for various domestic and foreign actions by the regime of…

Letter to the Times from Maya Forstater: Sir, I was disappointed that your detailed coverage (Jun 11) of the Liberal Democrats’ general election manifesto did not include any reference to the party’s major proposals relating to sex and gender. The Liberal Democrats’ pledge to introduce gender self-ID, so that anyone is allowed to “change sex” by simply…

Andrew Fox on the hostage rescue – International media embarrasses itself daily over Gaza: Hamas followed their usual media tactics after any prominent Israeli Defence Force (IDF) tactical success. They claimed an atrocity, supported by faked casualty videos, exaggerated casualty numbers and a call for retribution. The IDF were much quicker to the counterpunch this…

Robert Jensen, a professor of journalism in Texas, has a new book, It's Debatable: Authentic Discussions About Tricky Topics, due out here in August. Chapter 5 is on ‘Defining Sex/Gender: Beyond Trans Ideology.’ Or it was. The book as published by Olive Branch Press omits that chapter, "because of their support for the goals of…

There's a movement in American and European universities to cut ties with Israeli institutions over the war in Gaza. Maarten Boudry in Quillette: What arguments are there for such a boycott? An open letter at Ghent University signed by more than 1500 students and staff, including dozens of professors (mainly from the humanities), denounces the…