Astonishingly, the Crown Prosecution Service is proposing to appeal against the dropping of charges against Hamit Coskun. He was the man who set fire to a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London, and was then attacked by a Muslim man armed with a knife. He, Coskun, was found guilty of a…

Of course, we have different personality traits, and some of us (male and female) are more masculine or more feminine. But this is not some kind of gendered soul which can be so at odds with our bodies as to give rise to a medical condition that demands physical body modifications. A masculine girl may…

Jonathan Sumption’s article in today’s Sunday Times is the best commentary on the Hallett Covid Inquiry that I’ve yet read. The report has two yawning gaps. One is the inquiry’s failure to address international comparisons. The best way to discover whether lockdowns work is to compare the experience of other countries which did something else.…

Hadley Freeman visits Newnham College Cambridge: When The Times broke the news last week that the Equality and Human Rights Commission submitted its guidance three months ago that single-sex spaces should be protected, and not breached by those of the opposite sex no matter no matter how they “identify”, and Labour has done sod all…

LGB Alliance on the puberty blocker trial: We are horrified by the announcement of the PATHWAYS trial. As a charity representing lesbians, gays and bisexuals we are outraged that the lives of mostly LGB teenagers are held in such contempt that blocking their development has been given ethical approval. We are supporting increasing numbers of…

The papers were all over the Covid Inquiry yesterday, headlining that 23,000 extra dead that Boris Johnson was supposedly guilty of. It’s simplistic nonsense, of course. Does anyone actually remember the pandemic and the lockdown? It was chaos; it was unprecedented. People from all sides were screaming at the government—do this, no do that. Even…

This morning, Finsbury Park. Also, a duck.

Oh look, it’s the BBC Scam Safe Week – “The scams aimed at kids and what you can do about them”. They have three to watch out for: Be aware of in-game currency scams. Stay safe from scam text messages. Look out for Labubu scams. There’s another much more serious scam that they don’t mention…

Me the other day, on toilets and single-sex spaces: It should all be quite straightforward – no men in women’s spaces, and particularly no men in women’s toilets. Trans women – transified men – should use the Gents. If they insist on wearing short skirts and high hells, in a pornified caricature of a woman,…