The forgotten conflict in Sudan, from Jane Flanagan in the Times – ‘My dark skin is a death sentence in Darfur’: The threat of genocide has returned to Darfur, the western region of Sudan that two decades ago bore witness to the mass killing of at least 300,000 people from non-Arab communities during an ethnic…

From David Rose at the JC: Delegates at a National Union of Students (NUS) conference voted in a breakout meeting to stop recognising their Jewish members’ main representative body because of its support for Israel, the JC can reveal. The non-binding vote against the continued affiliation of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) was carried overwhelmingly at the…

Natalie Elphicke, MP for Dover – was Conservative, is now Labour. Well, at least one woman from Kent got a meeting! 😉 https://t.co/SgFJlFS2ya — Rosie Duffield MP (@RosieDuffield1) May 8, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Gareth Roberts – with his book Gay Shame: The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia just out – talks to Brendan O'Neill at Spiked on how a mad, homophobic ideology disguised itself as a civil-rights movement: The change happened very, very quickly. It was less of a long march through the institutions and…

Patrick West in the Spectator on the delusion of the pro-Palestinian campus protestors: Just as some critics of radical trans ideology regard the rapidity in which that fashion took hold as an example of social contagion, what we are witnessing here could be seen as something similar: an example of low-level, mass hysteria. The sheer…

From the latest Private Eye:

It's not just Islamic hardliners: Another Green Party councillor has been accused of using “inflammatory rhetoric” after he accused the Israeli government of having presided over an apartheid regime since the Hamas attacks on October 7. Three days later Alexi Dimond, who represents the Gleadless Valley ward in Sheffield, criticised the local town hall for…

Jack Delano, February 1943. "Chicago, Illinois. One of the Pennsylvania Railroad's giant '6100' class [T1 prototype] engines pulling out of Union Station on the 'Manhattan Limited' run." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

In Athens, Greece, a crowd of Pro-Palestinian protestors is combing the streets for Israelis who are staying at a nearby hotel. Many are even trying to break into the hotel to get to the Israelis inside. A group of people is being hunted and attacked solely because of the… pic.twitter.com/PrkKG2TSne — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May…

Victoria Smith at UnHerd quickly disposes of the "my toilet at home is gender neutral" argument regularly trotted out by those who can't, or won't, see why single sex toilets are so important for women: Do the people who make the “gender-neutral at home” argument offer up their own toilets for use by any passers-by?…