Scotland is not, of course, a cesspit of hatred. Like most countries in Europe the incidents of racist or homophobic abuse have been on the decline for years. Abuse of women – well, that's another matter, but that's the one area the new Hate Crime Act was never interested in since sex – unlike gender…

The cases are real, the people are real, the breasts are vinyl, this is Jugs Judy — Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) April 5, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js In Seattle. Story here.

MIT philosophy professor Alex Byrne on The Phantasmagoric World of Judith Butler. He's not at all impressed with her new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? Worth a read for the detail, but here's his conclusion: In Butler’s phantasmagoric world, the oceans are boiling, bisexuals lie dying in the streets, and the empty shelves of school…

The determination by sections of the Western media and the Western elite to portray the killing of the aid workers in Gaza as deliberate, and part of Israel's "genocide" against the Palestinians, is, says Daniel Bel-Ami at Spiked, the new blood libel: Israel’s unintentional killing of seven aid workers in an airstrike in Gaza on…

Leor Sapir – The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived: Across the United States, thousands of parents have consented to having their children’s puberty stopped with a class of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists. Known colloquially as “puberty blockers,” these drugs overstimulate the pituitary gland to the point of preventing it from sending signals to…

Brazil's President Lula appears to be in the grip of antisemitic mania. From the JC: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva claimed on Wednesday that over 12 million children have died in Gaza and Israel due to the nearly six-month war. Citing documents circulating online, the leftist leader said that "12.3 million children died…

Girls in Kabul attend a graduation course for memorising the Koran. From the Times (paper, not online). [Photo: Samiullah Popal/EPA]

The Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, as we know, is run by trans woman Mridul Wadhwa, who was appointed to a woman's job despite having no gender recognition certificate. He made no secret of his aims, suggesting that women rape victims who objected to being dealt with by a man needed to reframe their trauma, and…

UK media – the BBC, the Times – are determined to paint Israel as uniquely malevolent, deliberately targeting aid workers. Friendly fire errors in war are tragically common, but when Israel is involved it can, of course, only be deliberate. Brendan O'Neill in the Spectator: David Cameron has got some front. The Foreign Secretary is…

John Collier, November 1942. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion No. 1 cleaning plant. Loaded coal cars ready for market." [Photo: Shorpy/John Collier, Office of War Information]