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…

From the Mail: A trans woman has been helped to breastfeed her grandchild, in what is thought to be a world first. And, let's hope, a world last. The unidentified 50-year-old was helped to express up to 30ml of milk at a time, after a four week course of hormone treatment. Researchers from Duke University…

Meanwhile, in Sydney: A women’s football competition has been branded “misogynist” after it was won by a team featuring five transgender players amid accusations one had broken an opponents’ leg in two places. Flying Bats FC won every match they played during the four-week Beryl Ackroyd Cup, including a 10-0 victory in which one of…

From French photographer Thibaut Derien's project J’habite une ville fantôm – "I live in a ghost town": photos of old abandoned shops and cafes in small towns across France – relics of a disappearing world. Derien, who is also a musician, has traveled all over France, visiting countless small towns and villages along the way.…

A photo of a truck with the half-naked body of Israeli Shani Louk, abducted and killed by Hamas, features in the “Team Picture Story of the Year”: Poyipics is the oldest photojournalism competition in the world.  Their Pictures of the Year International award began as a photographic contest in 1944 by Cliff Edom at the Missouri School…

More on the Moscow terrorist attack – realistic this time – from Kyle Orton at UnHerd: Much of the media coverage has so far focused on Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), an Afghanistan-based IS contingent that was likely involved in the atrocity. But this should not be misunderstood as a separate entity: IS’s “provinces”, such…

It's worth remembering quite how poisonous George Galloway really is. The newly elected MP for Rochdale campaigned on a Gaza Free Palestine ticket, cynically appealing to Rochdale's disaffected Muslim voters – and no doubt to a few hard leftists as well. His party, the Workers Party of Britain, is not only aggressively anti-Israel; it's also…

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

The United Nations does it again: Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the chair of the UN commission that is supposed to promote gender equality and empower women around the world, after an unopposed bid for leadership condemned by human rights groups because of the kingdom’s “abysmal” record on women’s rights. The Saudi ambassador to…

A few weeks back I featured a Tablet article from Abraham Wyner, a professor of statistics and data science, arguing that the Gaza Ministry of Health was faking the casualty figures. Now here's an article in Fathom from Tom Simpson, Lewi Stone, and Gregory Rose – Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and…