Interesting. A letter from sixteen senior clinical psychologists in the Observer: We write as clinical psychologists with longstanding concerns about the scandal unfolding at Gender Identity Development Service clinics. Some of us are former Gids clinicians. While welcoming your editorial stance, we would like to point out that it is not just the medical profession…

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It's salutary to step back and take a cool look at Iran beyond the mullahs: a country with a rich history and vibrant culture trapped by a small coterie of fundamentalist bigots, who are driving the nation to penury and ruin in their ideological/religious obsession with destroying Israel and spreading their gospel of hate. It's…

A useful piece by Arty Morty here on the "circle of horror" that keeps trans activists committed to their cause, and deaf to the gender critical arguments or the scientific rationalism of the Cass Report. Trans is a "cultural movement, immune to scientific evidence". In the eyes of the gender fundamentalists, the priests and priestesses…

Yaser Mohamad Khani, 3rd place Professional Competition, Architecture and Design, in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024: In recent years, due to population growth and lack of sufficient housing, the towns near Tehran have been crowded and people have to migrate here. [Images © Yaser Mohamad Khani]

From the Telegraph – King’s College London bars staff from promotion unless they support pro-trans diversity policy: A major London university may have broken equality law by barring staff from promotion unless they support its pro-trans diversity policy. A barrister has found that King’s College is potentially discriminatory against those who believe there are only…

When facts intrude on a cult belief. Hilary Cass interviewed in the Times: Dr Hilary Cass has criticised the spread of “disinformation” around her report, including from a Labour MP, as she revealed she had been told not to travel on public transport over safety fears. In an interview with The Times, the paediatrician behind…

John Vachon, April 1943. "San Augustine, Texas. Story of a small town. The waiting room in the railroad station." [Photo:Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

Yesterday we heard about "LGBT Youth Scotland", a group promoting trans ideology in Scottish primary schools. Here's how it worked for a 12-year-old autistic girl: Within months of joining the LGBT club, Holly, who her mother says had never shown any hint of being uncomfortable as a girl, announced in a Christmas card to her…

Some reactions to the Israeli hit inside Iran. Yossi Kupperwasser in the JC: The presumed Israeli attack on Iran was a message that was delivered very precisely, in the exact strength that was necessary. It clarified to the Iranians that whereas we are not as vulnerable as they thought, they are more vulnerable than they…