At the same time as yesterday’s rescue mission, American students dressed up as terrorists and chanted for the death of Jews and Israelis — code name “Zionists” — infront of the White House. This isn’t the 1930s, you can’t just call for antisemitic, genocidal regimes to murder… pic.twitter.com/rBXW4OQU5L — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 9, 2024…

Sonia Sodha in the Observer – Labour’s reaction to Kemi Badenoch’s plan to define sex is not only a hapless fudge, it’s legally illiterate: The law is a mess, and the situation is made worse by activists such as Stonewall who have taken advantage of the confusion to mislead people about what it says….I’ve spoken…

Amusing letter from Andrew Lloyd Webber in today's Sunday Times: Have any political pundits considered the following scenario (offered with apologies to Mel Brooks and The Producers)? A prime minister wishes to lose an election to pursue a far more lucrative career elsewhere. The PM contrives an unelectable case for his or her party; MPs…

Ca. 1900. "Château Frontenac & Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City." [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Photographic Company] Opened in 1893, now the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Hotel.

Just when you thought Stonewall was on the way out. From the Telegraph: Staff at a top university say they feel coerced to subscribe to a Stonewall agenda by signing a pledge to oppose transphobia and demonstrate “allyship” by sharing their pronouns. Exeter University last week asked its academics to sign the “inclusive practitioners commitment”…

Excellent news: It has been cleared for publication that in a complex operation by the IDF, Shin Bet, and the Israel Police (Yamam), four Israeli hostages were rescued this morning (Saturday). The hostages, Noa Argamani (25), Almog Meir (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40), were kidnapped by Hamas to the Gaza Strip from…

The problem with Pride, pt. 74: San Francisco Pride denies Israel float, but okays Palestinian groups. Dennis Kavanagh noted the trans takeover. Now it's the Palestinian take-over. The common thread: homophobia.

Shutting down free speech if they don't agree with some of the speakers. It's all the rage. Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Durham locked students inside a building after a cancellation of a debate titled “This house believes Palestinian leadership is the biggest barrier to peace,” according to the university, media and participant reports.…

An alarming step back prior to the Olympics. From the Telegraph: The International Olympic Committee have provoked fury among former female competitors by asking journalists attending this summer’s Paris Games not to use terms such as “born male” or “biologically male” to describe transgender athletes, arguing that they were “dehumanising” and constituted “problematic language”. Factual…

brilliant achievement Fossil boycotters and all those self righteous saboteur " writers" who signed up to their blackmail https://t.co/Fz4w9yiPG0 — Simon Schama (@simon_schama) June 7, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js "We've fucked up SO bad, and now we're scared we're going to get beaten up when everyone realises how much damage our whiny posturing has done for no…