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…

Matt Ridley, co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, looks at some significant new information from a couple of key figures in the Covid saga that was revealed last week before the US Congress. See the article at Spiked for details (it's complicated). Ridley's conclusion: The case for the lab-leak theory of…

A Scottish mental health clinician speaks out, in today's Sunday Times: I have worked for 20 years with mental health patients in Scotland. Before the pandemic I saw only two people who were transitioning. Both were men who identified as women. My caseload is small because my patients have complex problems. Over the past two…

No surprise here, sadly: A director of an Islamist group who described the Islamic State executioner known as Jihadi John as “a beautiful young man” has been giving advice and support at pro-Palestine encampments at British universities. Asim Qureshi, the research director of Cage, which has regularly campaigned on behalf of terrorism suspects, was invited…

Rape in a women's prison? How could that possibly be? We know the answer of course – it's gender identity, innit? Men with penises can get into women's prisons just by saying they're women. Why wouldn't they? Natalie [not her real name] had been housed with Tremaine Carroll in a prison cell in Central California…

Rowling again: When I was young all the football managers were straight, white, middle-aged blokes, so it's fantastic to see how much things have changed. https://t.co/jx9zp0hRyU — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 11, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Yep – Chase Strangio finally gets it: Astounding how often militant trans activists tell the rest of us, ‘so what you’re saying is, trans girls aren’t real girls’. Yes, that’s exactly what we’re saying. Girls are being robbed of honours and opportunities by mediocre, uber-privileged, establishment-enabled boys. pic.twitter.com/3iPOmpO5s4 — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 11, 2024…

Another Jewish student at Oxford speaks out: Growing up, I had a strong Jewish upbringing celebrating festivals such as Passover and learning about my own family’s history of persecution in Egypt, Holland and Russia. I take great pride in my heritage (Harry Hatwell, 26, studying for a masters in civil law at St John’s College,…

An idiosyncratic historical take from Lebanese University Professor George Harb: "After the so-called annihilation of the Zionist Jews by Hitler – which is in doubt to begin with – they gained the sympathy of all the people in Europe, and fled to France, and when Hitler entered France, most of them went to Britain. "The…

Classic. Nadia Murad, a Yezidi girl, was 19 years old when lSlS kidnapped and held as a slave for 3 months, tortured and raped.lSlS kiIIed her mother and 6 brothers. Nadia's book event was cancelled in Canada because organizers felt 'her story could promote Islamophobia' pic.twitter.com/5GW6ZEaFXK — Azat Alsalem (@AzzatAlsaalem) May 10, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js