Arty Morty – The Hole Where Gay Rights Used to Be: Comparing yesterday’s gay rights movement to today’s trans rights movement is like comparing Jaws to Jaws 2: the first was an unprecedented phenomenon, a masterpiece, and a blockbuster. The second is a cheap knockoff greedily churned out to exploit the market the first one created. […] Progressives…

An interesting article in today's Sunday Times from Dominic Lawson, who comes to his late father Nigel's defence after the man's record as chancellor was trashed by Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves in her recent Mais lecture (here). Reeves, though, extolled one figure above all, who was associated with that period: the Cambridge economist Joan…

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

An Easter message from Pravda: The World Russian People's Council led by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has adopted an "order" that refers to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a "holy war" and states that "the entire territory of present-day Ukraine should be included in the area of Russia's exclusive influence". Easter greetings from Moscow:…

It's almost two weeks now since the neighbourhood made the news, to much excitement, with our very own Banksy mural. Things, alas, have not gone well. Someone sploshed some white paint over it a couple of days later, and now… All fenced in, "CCTV in operation", and barely visible behind all the panels. The tree,…

The Office for National Statistics made the news last year when they “hugely overestimated” the number of transgender people in the UK. The finding that the numbers were particularly high in London boroughs like Newham and Brent, where large numbers of non-English speakers reside, was suspected to be less because of the number of trans…

The same old story: "Zionist scum off our streets" pic.twitter.com/vW8zEczGek — Harry's Place (@hurryupharry) March 30, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Right down to the arrest of the Iranian "Hamas is Terrorist" counter-protestor: INCOMING Police have arrested Iranian anti Hamas activist Niyak Ghorbani AGAIN!! His previous arrest while holding an anti Hamas banner caused outrage @metpoliceuk what are…

Predictable, but still depressing: Britain’s biggest teaching union is to blame Israel for the war in Gaza and publish “educational resources” about the conflict for teachers. Leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) are calling on their 300,000 members to actively campaign for Palestine and “increase understanding” of the conflict. The union’s executive board has…

The Telegraph sums it up – Scotland’s Hate Crime Act will make opinions dangerous – and play into the trans lobby’s hands: Imagine living in a world where sitting in your own living room and saying “men can’t be women” could result in the police logging a “hate incident” against your name. Imagine, too, that…

A new dystopian vision comes to Scotland next week with the introduction of the extraordinary hate crime law. If you haven't been following the debate, Kathleen Stock at UnHerd is probably as good a place to start as any. If the Scottish establishment is to be believed, ordinary Scots are positively frothing with hatred at…