Finally, on the Sandie Peggie tribunal judgement, Alex Massie in the Times: The long-awaited judgment in the employment tribunal brought by Sandie Peggie against NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton is a near-masterpiece of fat-headed and meretricious special-pleading. Although it found that NHS Fife had indeed harassed Peggie by allowing a male doctor to use a changing…

This is interesting, from MEMRI TV, featuring Iranian International Relations professor Gholamreza Haddad. Israel, he says, is accused of being an expansionist power – “from the Nile to the Euphrates”. But isn’t this slogan a much better fit for Iran, with its intrusions into Iraq and Yemen and Lebanon and Syria and Sudan and Gaza?…

From the Telegraph. No, mixed-sex changing rooms are not a good idea: Women and girls are being sexually assaulted in mixed changing rooms across the country. New police data show that at least 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults and 65 acts of voyeurism were committed in sports centres in 2023, equating to three offences a week. Many…

Gethin Chamberlain: Sandie Peggie has been badly let down by a legal system hamstrung by class and sexism. The employment tribunal simply couldn’t accept that a working class woman might be entitled to stand up for her rights. So it rejected her evidence and tried to rewrite the law. Her win was a technical one;…

Paul Knaggs at Labour Heartland – Sandie Peggie and the Institutional Madness That Chose Ideology Over Women: A 318-page tribunal judgment confirms what working women already knew: Britain’s public institutions will sacrifice them on the altar of fashionable nonsense Ask yourself a simple question. What kind of health service suspends an experienced nurse for objecting…

Photographer Peter Benson, at Cafe Royal Books, These black and white images were taken between 1968 and 1999, initially as a result of my interest in the demolition and clearance of the built environment between the Newport Bridge and the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough. From here, this body of work expanded to include Port Clarence,…

A very American problem. A professor at the University of Kentucky has said that the state of Israel needs to be destroyed militarily by international force. He was suspended, and is now suing the university for reinstatement, with civil liberties groups taking his side. Professor Ramsi Woodcock really, really hates Israel. And he doesn’t just hate the Netanyahu…

Yes, an appeal looks likely in the Sandie Peggie case. In public, at least, her supporters claimed victory. Sandie Peggie had, after all, been found to have been harassed by her employer, NHS Fife, in four different ways. But the veteran nurse’s win was a relatively narrow one. It was far from the slamdunk gender-critical…

“…to “help mitigate the placement of students in their class who come from families that do not support LGBTQIA+ identities.” The whole byzantine tale is laid out here.