Earlier this year we had the case of Abdul Ezedi, the Afghan who was given asylum here despite being a convicted sex offender, on the grounds that he was now a happy Christian convert and would never do anything nasty ever again. He went on to throw corrosive chemical over a woman and child in…

From Stalin to Hamas: The Return of the Left that Doesn’t Learn? A lengthy interview with Mitchell Cohen at Fathom…an extract: Anti-Zionism is part of a larger intellectual crack-up on the left with distant roots. There is now a kind of meeting point between simplistic post-modernism and simplistic anti-imperialism. This conjuncture can be called ‘the…

All hands to the ideological pumps. From the Daily NK: Ahead of the Day of the Sun (Apr. 15, a holiday celebrating the birthday of Kim Il Sung), North Korea has ordered that the country’s youth be further indoctrinated with an anti-American and anti-imperialist class consciousness, Daily NK has learned. “The Central Committee ordered the…

Labour's health supremo Wes Streeting made all the right noises yesterday, after the release of the Cass Report. Julie Bindel, though, is still bitter: In the aftermath of the Cass Report into the state of Britain’s youth gender care services, I have little interest in condemning people for stupid things they have said in the…

At New York's Rochester Institute of Technology: NCAA male athlete, Sadie Rose named “Athlete of the Week” after he won two individual women’s events and was a member of a winning relay at the U of R Invitational, Sunday. https://t.co/FOyv3Wgooz pic.twitter.com/CWjkxy2vXl — ICONS (@icons_women) April 11, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Surreal; This awesome graduation dance video got these female students into trouble. They now face prosecution for the “crime” of dancing during their graduation ceremony at Al-Zahra University in Bushehr, Iran. The university president threatened legal action against all these… pic.twitter.com/aUoanA17nK — Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) April 9, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: Surreal; This awesome…

Jake Wallis Simons in the Spectator – Hamas has all but won: The way in which the Jewish state – the regional military superpower, enjoying huge military support from the global superpower – is being forced to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory is a cautionary tale for the West. It is often correctly…

Putin's derangement gets ever darker: President Putin has compared himself to Jesus Christ as he quoted the Bible to explain his divine mission schooling Russia’s youth in “traditional” values. The Russian president has frequently portrayed himself as a stalwart defender of the Christian faith against the “Satanic” West. But in a revealing insight into how…

And this is very encouraging, from Labour's Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting: The Cass Review must be a watershed moment for the NHS’s gender identity services. My response for @UKLabour underlining our support for the Cass Review’s evidence-led recommendations and our determination to put children’s health and wellbeing above the political fray 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/2wiiml8mTZ —…

Hannah Barnes on Newsnight last night: “Where have large swathes of the media been? And sadly, I include the BBC in that outside of this programme…” A devastating critique of professional failure to stand up for truth and safeguarding from @hannahsbee on @BBCNewsnight pic.twitter.com/srAILtkpwP — SEENinJournalism (@JournalismSEEN) April 9, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js