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

As we expected. NHS review rejects puberty blockers for gender transition in children: An entire field of medicine aimed at ­enabling children to change gender has been “built on shaky foundations”, the chairwoman of an NHS review has concluded. Dr Hilary Cass found that there was no good evidence to support the global clinical practice…

Has the war in Gaza just finished? Anshel Pfeffer at the JC: Wars usually end with a formal act – a ceasefire being put into effect or one side surrendering and laying down its arms. But there are wars that you only realise ended long after the event. History may yet remember the early morning…

Well who could have seen this coming? Hate crime reports in Scotland are on course to outnumber all other offences put together, figures show, as front-line officers warned they “can’t cope” with the surge. Around 8,000 hate crime reports have been made in the first week of the new Scottish legislation coming into force, which,…

Even for @amnesty this is sick.Daqqa abducted 19-year-old Moshe Tamam, castrated him, gouged his eyes out, mutilated the rest of his body and then shot him. https://t.co/Ft9Q9a1Z6H — Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) April 8, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It gets worse. I hear that Israel executed this man merely for being an architect. https://t.co/bjRAtrFLlt pic.twitter.com/4qj5f7uV15 — Rachel Moiselle…

85 years ago. #OnThisDay 1939: Labour Party newspaper, the Daily Herald, reporting on Nazi propaganda targeting Palestinian Arabs. “Arabs in the pay of German agents are collecting signatures all over the country for a petition asking Hitler to take Palestine under his protection” pic.twitter.com/oYho7m6uci — James Vaughan (@EquusontheBuses) April 8, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph: When Dr Hilary Cass was commissioned to report on standards of care within the NHS, it was as if finally an adult had stepped into the room. She and her team have looked at the evidence and practices that had recently evolved the affirmative model (designed to support and affirm…

The Telegraph previews the Cass review, due to be released on Wednesday – Children must not be rushed to change gender, report warns: Children who believe they are transgender may actually have mental health issues, a landmark report is set to find this week. It is expected to advise that children should not be rushed…

As we heard last week, a new study in the Netherlands found that most gender-confused kids just grow out of it. It's no surprise, of course, though the silence from trans advocates – keen to seize the kids at their most vulnerable and mutilate them – has been noticeable. Jo Bartosch at Spiked: The Dutch…

Published by Bluecoat Press, a new book from photographer Janine Wiedel looks at West Midlands industry in the late 1970s: An internationally acclaimed documentary photographer, Janine Wiedel spent five years in the late 1970s embedded with industrial communities in the West Midlands. Her compelling images poetically capture the harsh realities faced by workers as their…