That’s Baroness Falkner’s view of the Labour Party. She’s no longer the head of the EHRC, and is therefore free to speak her mind – which she now does in the Times: The past five years have been, as Baroness Falkner of Margravine puts it, a white-knuckle ride. As chairwoman of the Equality and Human…

At the Print Sales room downstairs at the Photographers’ Gallery. Shin Shin from Michael Kenna: Drawing on the quiet stillness of shin shin, the silence of falling snow, this exhibition presents Michael Kenna’s refined, long-exposure analogue landscapes. Shin Shin しんしん  is a Japanese onomatopoeia that describes the quietness or silence of falling snow. This sensory word captures…

Jo Bartosch at Spiked picks up that case of the nurse racially abused by an aggressive trans paedophile Nurses are as close as we get to a universally beloved profession. We trust them with our newborns, our dying parents, and quite a lot of the bits in between. So when nurse Jennifer Melle was verbally abused at…

Bristol city council, under the Greens, has criticised the Supreme Court ruling that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the words “woman” and “man” refer to sex at birth. Last month a number of Green councillors paraded out of a public meeting clutching their trans placards, after concerns were raised about women’s safety in…

An apology at last. From the Times: Scotland’s national library has apologised to two authors whose gender-critical book was banned from an exhibition due to demands from activist staff. Sir Drummond Bone, chair of the National Library of Scotland, admitted the institution had been wrong to refuse to include The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, an account…

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Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore has a new book, The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East, out next summer. He’s interviewed today by Daniel Sugarman at Jewish News. What, he’s asked, have been his impressions since 7 October 2023. “I found massive support from all over society, both high and low… almost unanimity in…

Jonathan Sacerdoti at the Spectator on the Free Marwan Barghouti campaign: The path to peace lies not through seasoned statesmen or regional experts, but through the collective judgment of Delia Smith, Stephen Fry, Benedict Cumberbatch, and naturally, Gary Lineker. They are joined by Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Simon Pegg and a list of figures known…

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