Welcome news from the Telegraph: The NHS is to crack down on transgender ideology in hospitals, with terms like “chestfeeding” set to be banned. Victoria Atkins, the Health Secretary, will this week announce a series of changes to the NHS constitution which sets out patients’ rights. Referring to “people who have ovaries” rather than “women”…

Susie Linfield wrote about The return of the progressive atrocity last November, in response to the left's embrace of Hamas after the Oct 7th pogrom, which she characterised as "a kind of moral rot". She's now interviewed by Robert Boyers in Salgamundi, again on the left's persistent determination to misread the situation in Gaza. On…

The "debate" over trans women (men) competing against women continues to rumble on, despite the obvious fact which everyone knows: that men have an inbuilt biological advantage over women in sport which no amount of messing around with testosterone level tests can disguise. It's perhaps the clearest indication in the whole trans debate of how…

Lionel Shriver in the Spectator. Following the release of the Cass report deprecating NHS ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors as reliant on rubbish medical research, the number of comment pieces disparaging the cult of transgenderism has exploded. Such columns would never have been published even a couple of years ago. Finally, pushing disturbed children and adolescents…

"Baltimore waterfront and skyline." Circa 1912. [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Co.] A skyline dominated by the Emerson Tower on the left, better known as the Bromo-Seltzer Tower, surmounted by a giant, 20-ton Bromo bottle.

It's not as bad here as it is on US campuses, but it's still bad. In the Times – Jewish students at UCL say they are facing rising antisemitism: When [Romilly] Blitz posted on social media in the hours after the attack about rapes perpetrated by Hamas, a classmate said that she was “clearly racist…

Photographer Jamie McGregor Smith has been visiting brutalist and modernist churches across Europe for his book Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture. From Dezeen: The churches in Sacred Modernity have sculptural concrete forms that break away from the mould of conventional churches, which typically have a floor plan in the shape of a…

Well well – in the Guardian, no less. David Bell – The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended: The policy of “affirmation” – that is, speedily agreeing with a child that they are of the wrong gender – was an inappropriate clinical stance…

Here's North Korea's famous Arch of Reunification in Pyongyang: [Photo © Filippo Venturi]  Not any more. After Kim Jong-un's recent declaration that reunification with the South is no longer possible and South Korea has become "the principal enemy", the arch had to go. Recent imagery from the Maxar WorldView-3 satellite confirmed that the Monument to…

Biden has condemned the protests on US campuses…sort of: “I condemn the antisemitic protests,” the president said on Monday, before quickly adding: “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” As Jerry Coyne puts it, "It’s as if he said, “I condemn the attack of ships in the Red Sea,…