Jonathan Glancey, at The Critic, on cooling towers: These awe-inspiring structures, each taller than St Paul’s Cathedral and three times the diameter of its inner dome, were what had caught my eye. Now, I knew where I was. This was Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, closed in September 2024 and the last of its English coal-powered kind. King Coal may have been dethroned…

Remember Chris Wiliamson? Mr Williamson was elected as Labour’s MP for Derby North in 2010 and re-elected in 2017 after losing the seat to the Conservatives in 2015. He stood as an independent in 2019 after being suspended by the party in a row over anti-Semitism. Antisemitism? Surely not. Daniel Sugarman: A reminder that the idea…

St James Clerkenwell and Southwark Cathedral, this morning.

Former Metropolitan Police officer Gill Evans at the JC, on how the Met failed the Jewish community. As long as there was no overt violence in the Free Palestine marches, the Met could pat themselves on the back and consider they’d done a good job. But the demonstrators saw this as a free pass to…

The Telegraph – Phillipson blocks trans rules protecting safe spaces for women: Bridget Phillipson is blocking the publication of trans guidance that would force business and public bodies to protect women-only spaces. The Women and Equalities Secretary has given a statement to the High Court describing the proposed rules as “trans-exclusive” and has failed to…

Colin Lourie at Cafe Royal Books: Piccadilly, taxi drivers protesting VAT, 1972 Trafalgar Square, 1971 Berwick Street market, 1973 Portobello Road, 1972 On Whitehall, 1971 Petticoat Lane, 1971 Trafalgar Square, 1971 Covent Garden, 1971 Tottenham Court Road, 1974 [Photos © Cafe Royal Books/Colin Lourie]

Jonathan Sacerdoti in the Spectator: Protesters chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ will now be arrested, according to the heads of Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan Police. The announcement has been framed as a response to a ‘changed context’. But what it actually represents is an admission, belated and heavy, that the authorities spent years refusing…

Braver government would tackle grooming gangs and cousin marriage, provide more female only shelters, get police to take sexual assault more seriously than speech crimes and get men out of women’s spaces. But all Labour has to offer is ‘re-educating’ boys out of ‘toxic masculinity’. Politics as chastisement. Terrible for boys and women. Well, nobody…