Like a religious meeting. Indoctrination at Canada's Professional Women's Hockey League: I went to a PWHL game last night. Before the game, the audience was asked to read the following pledge out loud together. Part of the intention is to train the audience (which was full of young girls) to accept boys in their sports…

On #TransingAwayTheGay, here's the German endocrinologist who in 2005 put a 12-year-old Kim Petras on puberty blockers: "Before puberty blockers came along we accepted that most of these kids would simply grow up to be gay, but now that we have them I'm happy to 'take the risk'… — MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶 (@MrMennoTweets) October 24, 2023…

The latest from Lawrence Freedman, on western miscalculations following on from Biden's early declaration that the US would never get involved in a war with Russia: We miscalculated how much control of Ukraine mattered to Putin, and were therefore shocked when he gambled on being able to subjugate his neighbour in a matter of days.…

The life of a North Korean stationmaster: The North Korean Ministry of State Security has recently informed senior officials at provincial bureaus about the punishment given to people arrested in connection with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s visit to Russia last September, Daily NK has learned…. According to the material, the stationmasters at four…

I cannot even express the dark thoughts I wish for these foolish useful idiots repeating, spreading, and chanting Khamenei propaganda in America's streets. They have the nerve to tell us Iranians that we "don't represent Iranians" as we sound the alarm for our youth being… pic.twitter.com/teFnIUUmPj — Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن (@elicalebon) April…

While the students at Columbia and elsewhere, in their righteous anti-Israel frenzy, chant the praises of Hamas and of Iran's proxy armies committed to the killing of Jews, real protest heroes do emerge. Just not on American campuses. An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and…

Photographed by Siobhán Doran, these are the sala mayor (living rooms) of The Houses that Sugar Built – mansions in the Philippines financed by the sugar trade. As seen at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition at Somerset House. This series is part of a book project, Houses that Sugar Built: An Intimate Portrait of…

From the Daily NK: Some of the more than 200 defectors repatriated from China to North Korea last year are being held in political prison camps. Among the 200 defectors, all those who tried to reach South Korea or interacted with Christians while in China were sent to the camps without exception. Speaking on condition…

But if you are attacking Jews for being 'Zionists' or 'Zios' or 'Global Zionism' crack on? I think Mehdi – who has been a perfect gentleman to me when he invited me on his shows – does not see that contemporary antisemitism, antisemitic anti-Zionism, bends the meaning of Israel… https://t.co/d694nc11KO — Alan Johnson (@Fathom_Editor) April…

In New Hampshire they're debating a bill that "requires school sports teams to be expressly designated as male, female, or coed, and prohibits biologically male students from participating in female designated sports or entering female locker rooms." Here's a science teacher: "When it comes to biological sex.. Nature doesn't stick to categories that humans have…