From the Telegraph: JK Rowling has said Labour must apologise to an MP who was investigated over allegations of transphobia, after a frontbencher said she agreed with the author’s stance on biological sex. Shabana Mahmood, the shadow justice secretary, last night said she supported JK Rowling’s view that “biological sex is real and is immutable”,…

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph, on those still in denial after the Cass Report: How do we deprogramme a cult? Cult thinking, after all, involves unquestioning commitment; thinking one is on a special mission to save humanity; an “us versus them” mentality; peer pressure that may induce guilt or shame; the cutting of ties with…

The street photography of Tony Van Le: Le is fueled by serendipity and strangeness. Having originally explored these grounds through music production, the artist has since moved toward manifesting a similar ethos through photography. Impassioned by the transient work of Vivian Maier, Le has spent years cultivating this calling, becoming more confident with focusing his lens…

According to Kathleen Stock in the Times, cool rich kids in liberal US colleges are beginning to reject all that pronoun stuff – it's "so over" – while the East Coast broadsheets are beginning to talk about stuff like unfair male advantage in women’s sport and the experimental status of medicalised child transition, having avoided…

Back on the track with Jack Delano, March 1943. "Chicago, Illinois. Switchmen riding one of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe diesel switch engines." [Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

To reinforce that Columbia jibe in the last post, here's John Aziz in the JC: “A message to the scum of nations and pigs of the Earth. Paradise lies in the shadow of swords. Glory to he who makes the occupier taste bitterness”, the tattered brown cardboard sign read in peculiarly pretentious and melodramatic language,…

Dearborn Friday Sermon by Dr. Baqir Berry: Dr. Baqir Berry discussed the “dangers” of dealing with the Jews in his April 12, 2024 Friday sermon streamed live on the Facebook page of the Islamic Institute of Knowledge in Dearborn, Michigan. He said that Zionism is the “ISIS of today” and that it is “million times…

Yes, as the Cass Report shows, "gender-affirming care" in the form of puberty blockers is based on shoddy to non-existent medical foundations. But the question that now needs to be asked is, as Helen Saxby writes in The Critic, Where is so much gender confusion coming from? A few days after the publication of the…

Back in February we had Kemi Badenoch robustly calling out Labour's Anneliese Dodds, who'd been bemoaning the failure of senior conservatives to tackle "the scourge of Islamophobia": We use the term “Anti-Muslim hatred”. It makes clear the law protects Muslims. In this country, we have a proud tradition of religious freedom AND the freedom to…

From the Telegraph: An NSPCC whistleblower has quit the charity after claiming it risked “grooming” children with aggressive trans ideology. Julia Marshall, who had volunteered with the organisation for more than 30 years, warned that it had been “completely captured” by the hardline Stonewall campaign group. The 62-year-old claimed that she and other school volunteers…