The BBC news headline – Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women’s Conference events. It’s not because they’re trans: it’s because they’re men. Jesus.

Hannah Barnes at the New Statesman takes a detailed look at the puberty blocker trial: ​​​​​Strange as it may sound, there is not one agreed view on what the primary purpose of puberty blockers is when used in gender medicine. Cass summarised in her interim review in 2022, that depending on who you ask, the answer to…

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…

Full interview here.

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…