Worth a read – Nick Wallis on the persecution of Cheshire councillor Mandy Clare after she complained about inappropriate sexualised displays at Winsford Pride, a supposedly family-friendly council-funded free day out… “… The police arrived, and the security guard who had Mandy’s right arm alleged she assaulted him.”

From Anna Slatz at Reduxx: A father who murdered his two young children has been transferred to a women’s prison after beginning to identify as transgender. Paulus Said Foukaih Abdelshahed, an Egyptian national who had been living in Sweden for almost two decades, is serving a life sentence for the killings. After psychiatric examination it…

Meanwhile, in Southwark: It was as Miranda Newsom entered the female changing room of her local council-run leisure centre in Southwark, south London, that she first noticed someone who was clearly a biological man washing his hands at the sink. Newsom, a 60-year-old marketing executive, had been a member of the gym for over two…

“”For Stock and Power are correct about this much: psychoanalysis does not presume that we in general know our own minds.” There’s more to Srinivasan’s LRB article than her patronising dismissal of Nina Power and Kathleen Stock. Here’s how it starts: The unconscious​ is back. Why now? Certainly it ruptured into consciousness in the days and…

Julie Burchill, in the Spectator – It’s hard to take the Palestine Action hunger strikers seriously: For connoisseurs of silliness, the group’s website provides a smorgasbord of the stuff. Even overlooking their demands to be released on immediate bail, shut down a defence firm with links to Israel, achieve an end to the ban on Palestine…

At that age, I refused to wear any colour other than blue. I pleaded to have my hair cut short, properly short, like the boys. My parents would not let it be shorter than a bob. I am sparing you the photograph. It was truly dreadful. From about the age of three, I was unmistakably…

They still go on, these trans disruptions. Incredible. A leading academic who led a recent government review into sex and gender data collection has threatened legal action against the University of Bristol, claiming it failed to protect her freedom of speech. Prof Alice Sullivan has also written to the university regulator, the Office for Students,…

Jo Bartosch ponders the very different career paths of Graham Linehan and David Walliams. The former went against the “correct” media thinking, and was ostracised; the latter said whatever he thought was required, and stayed on board. Britain’s creative class functions as a gated community, policed by fashion and bounded by fear. For decades, comedy…

A headline BBC Indepth piece today – Why British Jews are experiencing their biggest change in 60 years. David Collier: In typical BBC whitewash fashion – the long 1700+ word article does not mention Muslims, Islam, Islamism anywhere (SERIOUSLY!!) – even though it mentions both Bondi Beach and Manchester. The BBC erases the biggest change…

Full thread: The Supreme Court spoke plainly. Sex in law means biological sex. Single-sex spaces exist to protect privacy, dignity, and safety. That ruling was unanimous, deliberate, and designed to end a decade of institutional confusion. It was not ambiguous. It did not invite reinterpretation. It settled the matter. And yet, months on, women are…