It’s encouraging that the new head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, is staying firm on the question of single-sex spaces. From the Times: The government is facing renewed pressure to publish delayed guidance on single-sex spaces after the new chair of the equalities watchdog insisted the document was “legally sound”.…

A fitting postscript to that previous “community of the good” post, from the Telegraph. BBC boss criticised over discredited Gaza documentary handed OBE: A former BBC executive criticised over a now-discredited Gaza documentary has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List. Charlotte Moore was the corporation’s chief content officer when Gaza: How to Survive…

The problem is not a single failure. It is that the UK’s information ecosystem has been captured by what can be called a self-styled “community of the good” – and it is leading the country toward oblivion…. Layer on top of that a culture of institutional laziness, risk aversion, and an inability to truly engage…

The former CEO of LGBT Youth Scotland, who ran one of the largest paedophile rings in the country’s history, has just been released after serving his sentence. The whole sordid tale is here at Reduxx: A once-prominent gay rights activist who ran a youth LGBT charity in Scotland has been released from prison after serving…

We rarely hear about the Uighur persecution – cultural genocide – nowadays. China’s repression is so total that news barely ever leaks out – and it’s much easier for our brave reporters to go to Gaza, say, where they’re spoon-fed the latest “news” from Hamas, than to risk their lives evading the Chinese police in…

Melanie Phillips adds her bit to the El_Fattah debate: People like Sir Keir Starmer who campaigned for Fattah’s release have fallen into the usual western trap of viewing the developing world through western eyes. Presented with someone fighting an obviously repressive and authoritarian regime, they assume he must be a pro-democracy campaigner and a heroic…

We’ve already noted Sohrab Ahmari’s view that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is “a genuinely odious character”. Here he is now at UnHerd – El-Fattah’s release exposes Starmer’s moral emptiness: Starmer’s government made it a “top priority” to obtain El-Fattah’s transfer to Britain. The cause célèbre was also pushed by the likes of Judi Dench, Brian Cox,…

Ella Kenan – Qatar’s Long Game: How Influence, Ideology, and Money Shape the West: Any serious examination of Qatar’s influence strategy must address its relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement whose ultimate objective is the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate governed by Islamic…

A companion piece, as it were, to that previous post. Adam-Louis Klein: The Western and academic left has fundamentally failed to understand the Middle East—not just politically, but cosmologically. It approaches the region through a narrow, narcissistic lens of anti-colonialism, in which only those voices that oppose “the West” in the correct idiom are granted…