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…

A welcome voice.

From the letter: This trial is unethical in principle and unsafe in practice. The multiple foundational flaws in the PATHWAYS study design, along with the conceptual errors on which the entire protocol rests, have already been well documented.” More importantly, the very notion of a trial designed to test whether it is appropriate to block a…

Sunshine after the rain. The Heath this morning:

How it works. “Let me run that by you again. The state of CA denies menopausal women the HRT they need to alleviate a legitimate medical condition, but has no problem with handing out titty skittles to convicted baby rapists who say they want to grow breasts….and then does nothing to ensure that these men…

The case of nurse Jennifer Melle is one of the most egregious cases of institutional NHS trans capture. Back in March: The convicted paedophile, ‘Mr X’, is in a high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media. After refusing to…

Not going to copy it all out, the whole rant, but….wow. Abulhawa, according to her hagiographic Wiki entry, is… …a Palestinian-American scientist, writer, and activist. Her first novel, Mornings in Jenin, was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies. The sales and reach of her debut novel made Abulhawa the most widely read Palestinian…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) seems now to confine its activities solely to the business of getting men transferred to women’s prisons. All they have to do, these men, is claim that they’re trans, and the ACLU is right on their case. From Reduxx: At least four trans-identified male convicts were transferred into an…