From the Times Viewing Guide to tonight's TV – Praying for Armageddon: Storyville, on BBC2., "which focuses on the evangelical right in the US and hopes among some that America’s relationship with Israel could somehow lead to Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ". Christian fundamentalism is a favourite subject for documentary makers. It allows…

New from Hoxton Mini Press, photographers worldwide look at the grey and green contrast of plants against concrete. Collated by Olivia Broome: Architects have long found ways of exploiting the contrast between the natural and the manufactured, but nowhere more keenly than in the meeting of plants and Brutalism. From angular terraces overgrown with vines…

Jerry Coyne has been outspoken on his blog about the Gaza conflict, and his support for Israel. He's currently in Amsterdam, preparing to give a talk on the ideological subversion of biology – a subject on which he's also outspoken.  Well, not any more. He's been cancelled: Our discussion was supposed to center on a…

Gary Lineker is at it again. He just can't stay silent about Gaza – though he's managed it about Syria, Ukraine, Darfur. It's the worst thing he's seen in his lifetime.  Michael Deacon in the Telegraph: Gary Lineker, the BBC’s chief political commentator, believes it’s unfair that he receives so much criticism for his comments…

As North Korea's relations with China improve, the prospects for North Korean defectors in China are getting worse: Once strained, the relationship between North Korea and China appears to be on the mend again as the two countries mark the “year of North Korea-China friendship” to celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations. This situation is…

Sandra Pertot, a retired clinical psychologist, on the Queer theory underpinnings of gender medicine: The thing that has played on my mind ever since I became embroiled in the gender wars is, how did we get here? How is it possible that large sections of Western society—including health professionals who should know better—have come to…

We've heard from Oxford students about the "Free Palestine" camps there. Now here's Devika Shah at Cambridge: I am a third-year undergraduate student at Cambridge, and have been following the activities of a small number of my fellow students currently occupying the lawn outside King’s College and the official response of the university. I am writing…

From the NYT: The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times. The unit,…

The grim reality of the lives of North Korea's nuclear scientists turns out to be very different from the indulged favourites of the regime that we assume. From South Korea's Chosun Ilbo: “North Korean nuclear scientists have no autonomy over their lives, with their life paths set for them in almost every aspect – including…

As we heard yesterday, the ACLU now seems to be concerned chiefly with trans rights, and in particular with the rights of trans women (male) criminals to get themselves into women's prisons and rape with impunity – condoms provided. Genevieve Gluck has an X thread on the subject: The @ACLU hates women and is led…