Story here. Transgender teen killer loses bid to stay in Ontario women’s prison after threatening inmates and staff. Michael Williams, who now goes by Michelle Autumn, played ‘with her penis and buttocks in a sexually suggestive manner,’ during a strip search at Grand Valley Institution for Women. The implication being that if he hadn’t been…

Good to see Kishwer Falkner, former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, now ready to speak out on matters of importance – as, for instance, on the government’s proposed Islamophobia legislation. In the Times today: Another day, another government U-turn. Some can be justified by changed circumstances, others are simply the product of…

From the Daily NK: Two young vagrants in Samsu county, Ryanggang province, died of cold and hunger in late December, a source in the province told Daily NK recently. “The county officials swiftly processed the case to keep it under wraps,” the source added. According to the source, the two deceased vagrants were sisters whose…

“The Gaza numbers were just as unverified, and as proven often completely fabricated, deliberately used by Hamas to fuel a global propaganda war. “The bias in media coverage is clear. And it’s obvious which side far too many of them are on.“

This morning:

Helen Rumbelow, in the Times, interviews Masih Alinejad, Iran’s public enemy no. 1: The Iranian regime wants her dead. Her distinctive hair is to them both a threat and a target. Having fought so long against the forced hijab, the physical symbol of savage political oppression, she has been urged by her FBI handlers to…

“And every decent person on this planet truly wants the people of Iran to finally free themselves from the current regime that has brought so much evil to Ukraine and to other countries.   “It is crucial that the world does not miss this moment when changes are possible. Every leader, every country, and international…

More on that banning of the Jewish MP at a Bristol school: School workers who stopped a Jewish MP from addressing students also successfully lobbied their bosses to cancel a speaker from an Israeli tech firm. The members of the National Education Union (NEU) warned opponents “don’t mess” with them, as “we are not here…

Daniel Finkelstein, in the Times, on Iran and the hard left: Five years ago, during a row about his behaviour towards Jewish students at Bristol University, hundreds of leftist academics signed an open letter in defence of Professor David Miller. Despite Miller’s capacity for glaring factual errors and unhinged interpretations, his allies described him as…