Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph adds her voice to the puberty blocker debate: All the “Be kind” folk , the “Live and let live” people – you need to wake up. You need to understand this is where gender ideology has led: not to merry rainbow parades, but to stunting the bones and brains of…

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a book by one Omar El Akkad. It won the Palestine Book Award and the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The Guardian applauded it as “powerful, angry, but compelling in its moral logic”, and for the New York Times it was “fiercely agonized,” “a distraught but eloquent cry against our…

From their latest exhibition The Long Now: From artist Rafael Gómezbarros, addressing “the fragility of the human condition, and the history of violence in his native Colombia”. Ah yes. Of course. The paintings – the artworks – are fine. It’s a good exhibition. I enjoyed it. And we can shrug and move on when we’re…

Male commentators, the latest being David Aaronovitch, are wondering what the fuss is about. Why can’t women just be nice and use people’s – well, trans women’s – preferred pronouns. Victoria Smith at The Critic sets him straight: At a time when the work of gender critical campaigners finally seems to be paying off, it…

From MEMRI TV, Osama Abu Irshaid, the Executive Director of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), at the Third Palestinian National Dialogue in Istanbul. [T]he Zionist enterprise can only be dismantled if Palestinians understand that it is not limited to Israel but is a multifaceted global enterprise. He said that “Israel has blackmailed the world with…

When the police want – as recently in the case of the planned UKIP march in the East End – they can ban demonstrations on the grounds of preventing serious disorder. They realised that a ruckus was likely with the local Muslims, and, no doubt wisely, told UKIP it wasn’t going to happen. Contrast that…

Andrew Doyle adds to the clamour against the puberty blocker trail: We need to be honest about what is happening here. An unevidenced and pseudoscientific claim is being assumed to be true, and innocent children will almost certainly be injured as a result. This is wholly unethical. Medical trials are initiated on the principle that…

From the Telegraph: A study of BBC headlines since the Oct 7 attacks has found three times more were critical of Israel than of Hamas. According to research by a media monitoring group, references to Hamas committing possible war crimes appeared once in the broadcaster’s coverage, while those featuring claims of Israeli genocide, famine and starvation appeared 45 times.…

Letter from MP Rupert Lowe to Wes Streeting: I have just invited all MPs to sign this letter urgently calling on the Secretary of State for Health to immediately halt a new trial administering dangerous puberty-blocking drugs to young children. We cannot allow experimental drugs to be given to confused young boys and girls. We…