An alarming piece from Freddie Sayers at UnHerd on the government-sponsored agency that was set up to counter disinformation but – surprise surprise – is now busy censoring journalism: “Our team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives… The site authors have been called out for being…

Rosie Duffield in the Mail – Where was Keir Starmer when I was being bullied and threatened by the trans lobby – and, worse, by my colleagues in the Labour Party? On X, I noticed my colleague Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, was taking the report very seriously. 'The Cass Review…

John Vachon, May 1943. "Beaumont, Texas. Wartime occupational replacement by women in men's traditional jobs. Lady in signal tower who operates block signals for railroad crossing." [Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

From the Telegraph: The BBC has been accused of allowing trans activists to peddle propaganda in its Scottish coverage of the landmark Cass Review into child gender services. The campaign group For Women Scotland has made a formal complaint to the broadcaster, accusing it of a lack of balance and allowing partisan commentators to make…

Homage to Orwell from Matti Friedman in the Jewish Review of Books. Orwell's experience in the Spanish Civil War made him realise how the reported news was not so much about what really happened, more what ought to have happened according to various “party lines”. And it's the same now: It is obvious that the…

An important article from Kyle Orton in Fathom on Iran's "ring of fire" round Israel, and "the West’s ongoing appeasement of Tehran and refusal to see plain the IRGCs transnational Jihad": Synopsis: Soleimani’s ‘ring of fire’ strategic concept envisioned surrounding Israel with IRGC units—in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, and Yemen—that are steadily equipped with better…

This is good news: One of the country’s best-known state schools has won a High Court challenge over a ban on “prayer rituals” brought by one of its students in a victory for Britain’s “strictest headmistress”. A pupil, who cannot be named, took legal action against Michaela Community School in Brent, northwest London, claiming that…

The BBC reports on that latest Sydney knife attack: Australian police have declared Monday's stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated "terrorist act". A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church. At least four people suffered "non-life-threatening" injuries,…

The Science dept at Australia's most prestigious university, is now offering a course in "Indigenous Mathematics," in an effort to "decolonise maths." "Numbers and arithmetic and accounting often are of secondary importance in Indigenous mathematics."https://t.co/hw4DLFy0nt — Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) April 16, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From the article: What constitutes mathematical knowledge? What is included in mathematics?…

Letter in the Times from Maya Forstater, Stephanie Davies-Arai, Kate Barker, et al: Sir, Following the release of the Cass review, Stonewall now says it supports Dr Hilary Cass’s recommendations of a cautious, evidence-based non-medicalised approach to children with gender distress. This is a stark contrast to its previous stance that children can identify an…