Making more excuses: Bridget Phillipson is delaying the release of guidance which would bar transgender women from single-sex spaces by demanding the equalities regulator calculates how much it will cost businesses. Desperately clutching at straws. The law is the law, never mind the cost. It’s not the job of the EHRC to provide a financial…

Meanwhile, at the Birmingham mosque: A preacher at a mosque consulted by police before an Israeli football fan ban said that men can physically discipline their wives and that they should not leave the house without permission from their husband. During the sermon shortly before Christmas a preacher at Green Lane mosque in Birmingham said…

The UAE is limiting students coming to the UK, concerned about the dangers of radicalisation. From the Times: The United Arab Emirates is restricting students from enrolling at British universities over fears that campuses are being radicalised by Islamist groups. Officials with knowledge of the situation told The Times that federal funding was being limited…

From Reduxx: A Ukrainian family in California says Child Welfare removed their teenage daughter from their home and placed them on the child abuse registry after they declined to “affirm” her transgender identity. Speaking to Reduxx under the condition of anonymity, the parents say the removal followed a report filed by their daughter’s psychiatrist without their knowledge.…

Terry Glavin on Trump and Venezuela: Most of the coverage of President Trump’s Caracas caper has been pretty superficial and muddled by shallow and partisan American coverage. Don’t be led astray. Here’s how I put it in the Post: “If you’re not careful you’ll end up believing that Trump is primarily intent upon regime change…

Jo Bartosch in the Telegraph, on Bash Back, the new face of trans violence: It was an attack that stripped away the chintzy veil of victimhood that has long shielded the transgender movement, revealing well organised thuggery. Yesterday, Bash Back, the self-described “direct action project” hacked the Free Speech Union (FSU) website and published the names…

As ever, the unions are mindlessly right behind the latest progressive group-think, with no awareness that its time has passed. Bear in mind, also, that more than 70% of Unison members are women, and you get an idea of how out-of-touch they are. If you object when you find a man in the woman’s toilet…