Shocking. "Woman adult female human". "Man adult male human". And on the first day of Pride month too!  No place for this in Beeston. This goes against the spirit of postbox toppers which aims to bring communities together & not divide. Conscious decision to place this on the 1st day of Pride month 😡 🌈…

More on the Edinburgh Book Festival farrago, from Alex Massie in the Times: Some 800 authors, including the likes of Sally Rooney, Frankie Boyle, Amy Liptrot, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein and many others you have never heard of, have demanded that Baillie Gifford “divest” from its investments in fossil fuels and companies “linked” to Israel.…

From the Telegraph: Female ice hockey players as young as 14 are being forced to play against adult competitors who are biologically male but identify as female and are being allowed to play in women’s leagues. One angry father has revealed that his 15-year-old daughter was in an amateur league game when a trans player…

pic.twitter.com/GHbOP3CsS7 — 🐦ALittleBird🐦 (@uglyspirit0) June 1, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Dorothy Bohm – "one of the doyennes of British photography" – has an exhibition in the Print Room downstairs at the Photographers' Gallery. "I have spent my lifetime taking photographs. The photograph fulfils my deep need to stop things from disappearing. It makes transience less painful and retains some of the special magic, which I…

Today, June 1st, is the anniversary of the Farhud, a two-day massacre of Baghdad’s Jewery that led to the eventual exodus of Jews from Iraq to Israel. In 1941, the Nazis incited The Farhud, a massacre against the Jews of Baghdad. Hundreds of Iraqi Jews were murdered in this… pic.twitter.com/bZsZska77k — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June…

Jack Omer-Jackaman, in a long read at Fathom, on the obscene jubilation of the anti-Zionst left at the October 7th pogrom: Every radical generation has its Kronstadt, said the American sociologist Daniel Bell – has, in other words, that revelatory moment when, at least for some, the intellectual evasions and moral contortions of the party…

Oh ffs. Woman, 70, in court over husband's death. It's a man: A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her husband, who was found dead at their home in East Sussex. Emergency services were called to a property in Lavender Street, Brighton, at about 19:30 BST on 27 May. Joanna Rowland-Stuart,…

Joan Smith at UnHerd: An intolerant movement has found a new target: literary festivals. Last night, in a development that should worry everyone who values open debate, the Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) followed the example of the Hay Festival by suspending links with one of its sponsors, the investment company Baillie Gifford. Both festivals have been…

An opinion piece in the BMJ from Glasgow GP Margaret McCartney – Medical institutions must treat the Cass review as a significant event and act upon it: The conclusions of the Cass review should not be surprising to anyone who has watched the promotion of medical interventions as necessary or curative in young people with…