Figures at the Victoria and Albert Museum. At the Cast Courts – David, of course, and Mercury and Psyche by Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1593) – then a gaunt St Peter, about 1520, from Holland.

More on that UCL blood libel case, from the JC: University College London has banned an academic who told students a “story” that Jews murdered a priest and used his blood to make “pancakes” in what has been condemned as an “outrageously antisemitic lecture”. In a lecture titled ‘The Birth of Zionism’, Dr Samar Maqusi…

BBC children’s programmes pushed a trans agenda. As if we didn’t know. From the Times: BBC bosses have been accused of “downplaying” concerns that children’s programmes promoted transgender ideology after producers were influenced by activists. The accusation came after a cache of emails, shared with The Times, revealed how both a Labour peer and campaigners…

That’s The Big Issue, but it’s a lesson the BBC would do well to learn.

David Rose at UnHerd: University College London has issued an “unequivocal apology” following a lecture hosted by the institution’s Justice in Palestine Society which uncritically referred to a 19th century antisemitic blood libel. The lecture on the history of Zionism, given by a “former fixed-term researcher” at UCL, Dr Samar Maqusi — whose profile on the website…

Two Piece Reclining Figure no. 5 is its full title – Henry Moore’s sculpture in the grounds of Kenwood House, Hampstead. Yesterday I walked round it.

From Jewish News, the dark side of an animal rights group: An animal rights group that claims to fight cruelty to pigs is spreading vile antisemitic conspiracy theories – blaming “Zionists” for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine – while boasting celebrity backers, Jewish News can reveal. Farms Not Factories, which campaigns for consumers to…

“If he’s a refugee then isn’t every single Jew alive a refugee?,” Rettig Gur poses. Einat Wilf – former Israeli MK, author and intellectual – responds, unpacking how the Palestinian leadership turned a temporary refugee mechanism into a permanent political weapon – and why that decision keeps the conflict alive to this day.

It seems that Hitler was, in fact, more like Göring, or Himmler. From the Times: In May 1945, Allied soldiers wandered through Adolf Hitler’s Führerbunker in grim fascination, but one of them spotted a macabre opportunity. Colonel Roswell P Rosengren of the US army, one of General Eisenhower’s press officers, fixed his eye on the…