Stella O’Malley at Spiked At the start of this year, it did seem as if sanity had returned to the discussion of children’s mental health after years dominated by trans ideology. The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) had been closed down. The NHS had banned puberty blockers. And the claim that trans-identifying people face a…

Life in North Korea. From the Daily NK: The number of child beggars in the North Korean border city of Hoeryong is surging, with homeless youngsters increasingly visible near train stations and marketplaces. “Kotjebi typically loiter around the marketplaces in the daytime and around the train stations at night. Most are teenagers, but some are even younger. The vast majority…

Jewish journalist and academic Peter Beinart has spent his professional life siding with the Israel-haters, most notably with his recent much-lauded book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza. It is, of course, all about that nasty old Jewish supremacy, which we’ve seen so much evidence of in recent history. If only Jews could be…

It is simply a comparison of the short-term effect on the mood of kids who want puberty blockers between… Kids who get what they want straight away and Kids who are told they will have to wait a year for what they want. That’s all. 2/3 This is insane. I can tell them right now that the kids…

Last of autumn up on a sunny Hampstead Heath this morning:

Islam a misogynist religion? An Islamophobic slur, surely. At MEMRI TV: In a November 7, 2025 lecture at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois, its principal imam and director, Jamal Said, stated that men are perfect, while women are governed by emotions and hormones. He said that it is wrong for a man to treat…

Ella Kenan on The Forgotten Origin of the ‘Free Palestine’ movement: Long before it showed up on banners in Western protests, the phrase “Free Palestine” had an entirely different origin story. It didn’t start in the Arab world. It didn’t begin with the PLO. It began with Jewish Zionist movements in the United States. In…

They don’t give up. Back in the summer The National Library of Scotland dropped The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, a collection of essays by gender-critical women, from an exhibition after complaints from staff that it was “hate speech” comparable to racism. After a backlash the book was reinstated. They’re at it again. From the Daily Mail:…

More at the Mail. Andrea Thompson, the second-placed woman walking off – “this is bullshit” – is a Brit. Added: Breaking: Official Strongman Games releases statement that they will honor the rightful female champion, Andrea Thompson and restore the places to women competitors stolen by a male competitor in the Women’s Strongman World Championships.