The case of nurse Jennifer Melle still astonishes. A nurse threatened and racially abused by a convicted trans paedophile because she wasn’t willing to call him a woman – and the authorities and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) saw her as the problem. She’s interviewed in the Times. The nadir came when the NMC…

What went wrong in Birmingham? Fiona Hamilton in the Times talks to Shabina Bano, a Muslim woman who was approached by Labour’s Birmingham power brokers to run for the city council. Initially excited and honoured, she soon saw what was really going on: Bano now believes that, as a British Muslim of Pakistani-Kashmiri heritage, she…

From the Telegraph: The Green Party is being sued by a former member who was suspended for mocking “fairy” pronouns. Emma Bateman, who was co-chairman of Green Party Women, was found to have breached diversity rules by making “clearly antagonistic” comments about “fae/faer” pronouns used by people who believe they are mythical beings. She was also condemned for…

Full interview here.

Now, something completely different.

In that last post we saw a scion of the hard left acknowledge and welcome the Islamic inspiration driving their battle against the West and the Jews. This video, from Dearborn Shiite “poet” Hassan Salamey at MEMRI TV, is the other side of the equation: an Islamist in praise of the glorious Islamic regime in…

“And I don’t think you can understand the efficacy and the strength of the resistance without understanding its Islamic character, and its spiritual character that unifies it, that provides it with this strength and this determination …”. The total moral bankruptcy of the hard left Free Palestine crowd in one short video.

They – the media – often claim that it’s difficult to know what’s going on, or to verify the sources. That never stopped them from splashing every Hamas “news” release across the front pages.

Victoria Smith in the Telegraph: According to Meghan Trainor, surrogacy “is not something to whisper about or judge”. Then again, she would say that. The singer has just announced the arrival of a third child, Mikey Moon, born via surrogate. An Instagram post shows Trainor in a hospital bed, tears of joy in her eyes as…