So what happened at that Oxford Union debate? – the one about Israel being a greater threat than Iran to stability in the Middle East. Well, of course: The Oxford Union has voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of a motion declaring Israel a greater “threat to regional stability” than Iran. At a debate on Thursday night between Hillel…

Turkey has already replaced Iran as the hidden power behind the new Syrian regime, with Turkish politicians claiming, for instance, that the Syrian city of Aleppo “is Turkish and Muslim to its core”. It’s all part of Erdogan’s vision of a new Ottoman Empire, under the banner of Sunni Islam. Now, as Jonathan Spyer tells…

At The Glinner Update, a top 40 from ripx4nutmeg “from just the last 12 months, which show how slanted the BBC has been on this issue. It could easily have been 80 – there was no space, for example, for BBC Reporting Scotland’s promotion of a furry convention or BBC News describing a violent group of trans…

We heard from Tavistock whistle-blower Sue Evans the other day, complaining about her treatment by the BBC. She now elaborates, at the Telegraph: The BBC has been captured by activists who peddle trans “propaganda”, the woman who blew the whistle on the Tavistock clinic has claimed. Sue Evans helped expose the medical centre’s use of puberty blockers on child…

By popular demand. Queen’s Wood and Highgate Wood this morning:

Why is the government’s legal representative at the High Court arguing against the implementation of single-sex spaces, contrary to the its claimed position? I wondered about that yesterday, and now here’s Legal Feminist with the same question: Lawyers in court act on the client’s instructions. Which part of government is instructing the lawyers to make…

On the subject of UK universities failing Jewish students….from the Times: The Israeli government has accused the University of Glasgow’s rector of being a “propagandist and a fraud” after he claimed organs had been removed from the bodies of Palestinians. Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic surgeon who specialises in conflict injuries, said photographs of the…

Former UCL student Fiyaz Mughal, in the Telegraph – British universities have failed Jews: A Muslim student and staunch anti-racist, I was friends with people from all different backgrounds, including several Jews. We stood together when some students spoke of receiving racist chants and abuse when they visited football matches, and I remember Jewish students…

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, ffs.

The Labour government say they’re right behind the Supreme Court ruling on single sex spaces – that “women” means real actual biological women, not men-who-say-they’re-women – but they don’t seem to mean it. At this latest Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project case at the High Court, where the obsessive trans champion is attempting to overturn…