David Rose at the JC on the increasingly strident anti-Israel output from the media: As hostility to Israel has grown, things are being said on “respectable” outlets that would once have been inconceivable. On Thursday, the former Tory MP Sir Alan Duncan went full ‘Jewish conspiracy’ Monty as a guest on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show,…

As we heard last week, the official term for South Korea now, as recently decreed by Kim Jong-un, is "the South Korean puppet state". This new line also requires that earlier calls for the reunification of Korea were not only ideologically unsound and misguided, but, in fact, never happened: North Korean authorities have ordered that…

An enlightening report at Spiked from Rob Killick, visiting Israel: ‘Hamas must be eradicated.’ You can rely on taxi drivers the world over to deliver blunt opinions. Unusually for Israel today, my taxi driver is a Netanyahu supporter. He has lost family in the war with Hamas. ‘Our minds were broken’, he says of the…

From the Telegraph: Russian troops are carrying out a systematic campaign of illegal chemical attacks against Ukrainian soldiers, according to a Telegraph investigation. The Telegraph spoke to a number of Ukrainian soldiers deployed in positions across the front line who detailed how their positions have been coming under near daily attacks from small drones, mainly…

Carl McDow, summer 1950. "Heart of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and Union Terminal Group (Terminal Tower and Hotel Cleveland)." [Photo: Shorpy/Carl McDow]

At the Let Women Speak event, where the usual disruptive masked men shouted and paraded their contempt for women, and especially for lesbians: As homophobic trans activists in Edinburgh wave placards saying lesbians should entertain cock – Mr @HumzaYousaf was very keen recently to say @PoliceScotland should monitor any “rise in homophobia”. So where the…

Well who could have predicted this? As the furore around Scotland’s Hate Crime Act extends into its sixth day, there are now fears about police spending as the force looks set to struggle with the sheer volume of complaints. It is understood that, since the Act was implemented on Monday, 40 officers a day have…

From Oxfordshire: A teenage boy has been handed a youth rehabilitation order after raping a 12-year-old girl who has since died in Kidlington. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty earlier this year of raping a girl at Exeter Park in June 2021, when he was 13 years of age.…

A grim analysis from David Patrikarakos at UnHerd:  Israel had not just a right but a duty to respond to the October 7 atrocities. No state could stand by and do nothing. No nation could suffer such a loss and not respond. But the events set in motion by October 7 were always going to…

Last week: Britain’s largest teaching union has voted to condemn “Israeli apartheid” and blame the Jewish state’s “hard-right, racist government” for being the main force behind violence in Gaza. After an occasionally fractious debate held at their annual conference on Thursday, National Education Union (NEU) delegates overwhelmingly backed a motion that Education Secretary Gillian Keegan…