Patrick Porter, at The Critic, on Venezuela. Yes, for those who say that China will now have an excuse to invade Taiwan if the US is tearing up the international order – that horse has already bolted. Russia and China haven’t been notably concerned about UN approval. Really? Where have these concerned folk been? Well…

Oh dear.

The attribution of mental illness to dissidents was a classic technique of the Stalinist Soviet Union. Now in America – where else? – comes decolonising therapy, targeting the mental illness of Zionism. From the JC, in April 2025: In the 1990s, as the Aids epidemic ravaged the LGBTQ community, well-meaning members of the mental-health community…

From the indefatigable David Collier – The Lie Beneath the Tree: From Wikipedia Fiction To Witch Hunt: In September 2025, a large delegation of U.S. legislators visited Ofakim – a small town in southern Israel and one of the communities devastated during the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023. During their visit, they planted trees…

On the subject of Starmer’s obsession with the law (except when it doesn’t suit him), his disastrous deal to give away the Chagos Islands is back in the news, with the bill to cede sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius set to be forced through its final stages in the House of Lords this week.…

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the government really has no intention of publishing guidance on the Supreme Court single-sex spaces ruling. It’s the law, and Starmer is a stickler for the law, as we all know, but…well, it’s just too inconvenient to alienate all his backbenchers and all the Stonewall-trained bureaucrats, so he’ll continue to…

Gary Cohen at Jewish News compares and contrasts: These are not protests choreographed for export, or designed to flatter Western sensibilities. This is a ruthlessly oppressed population pushing back against a regime that rules through religious coercion, intimidation, and violence, while steadily destroying the country itself. The Islamic Republic has crushed dissent at home and…

Article here. Also, from the Telegraph – “West Midlands Police consulted mosques that had hosted anti-Semitic preachers before banning Israeli fans from an Aston Villa football match, The Telegraph can reveal.”