Life for Jews in Bristol: When a fellow parent at a park in Bristol learnt they were Jewish, Francis Jones and his wife, Rachel, were asked: “Well, you’re not Zionists are you?” “We looked puzzled, and from then it didn’t go well,” Jones said. “That family no longer talk to us.” The Joneses [not their…

From the Darlington nurses judgement: Nicely put. Exactly.

Akua Reindorf, former commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, joins her former colleague Baroness Falkner in criticising the government’s delaying tactics on single-sex spaces: Ministers are undermining the independence of Britain’s equality watchdog by delaying guidance that would ban transgender women from single-sex female spaces, the lawyer who helped write the guidance has…

Why Israel has sovereign rights to the West Bank. Eugene Kontorovich at Tablet Israel and Jordan signed an armistice agreement in 1949, ending the fighting without agreeing to permanent borders. Jordan remained in control of the Old City of Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. It proceeded to ethnically cleanse every single Jew from this territory,…

Victory for the Darlington nurses: NHS bosses discriminated against a group of female nurses by allowing a trans colleague into their changing room, a tribunal ruled on Friday. In what the eight nurses’ legal team described as a “landmark judgment”, a specialist employment law judge also said the women were harassed by managers at County…

From Reduxx: A drag queen has appeared in a Scottish court after being charged with child sex offenses. Craig Baxter, who performed under the name Miss Kitty Swallows, had worked in multiple nurseries and childcare centers in his community. I wonder if the name, “Miss Kitty Swallows”, might perhaps have suggested to these nurseries that…

Meanwhile, in Wandsworth: A Labour-run council has told staff to announce their pronouns at the start of meetings. Bosses at Wandsworth borough council are also encouraging employees to add general neutral pronouns such as “ze/zir/zem” to email signatures and their social media profiles. In an internal memo, seen by The Telegraph, it is argued that…

The latest exciting revelation from Birmingham: The elected police chief at the centre of the Israeli football ban row has been accused of offering to give a controversial mosque the equivalent of a “blank cheque” to apply for public funding. Simon Foster, the West Midlands police and crime commissioner, wrote that he would be “very…

Jerry Coyne – This is why Democrats are in trouble.