Up on Hampstead Heath this morning:

From the Daily NK: North Korea has been focusing on ideological indoctrination to teach the public that it is a completely independent nation — not an incomplete, divided nation — in accordance with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s “two hostile states” doctrine. A Daily NK source in North Hamgyong province said recently that the Central Committee’s publicity and information department has been striving to…

From the JC: A Conservative MP and former treasurer of the prestigious Oxford Union debating society has condemned the union for positing a motion that presents Israel as a greater threat than Iran to stability in the Middle East. Greg Stafford, the MP for Farnham and Bordon, which covers parts of Surrey and Hampshire, also…

“After several back&forth convos, his producers absolutely refused to let me have a reply to mermaids- so I said I wouldn’t go on at all. This unanswered coverage went on regularly. The bbc staff were complicit in this censorship. It was not an ‘outside plot’ it was bbc staff activism (not all of them Of…

Stella O’Malley at Spiked: The reckoning is finally arriving, echoing the dilemma in Eugene Genovese’s powerful essay, ‘The Question’. Writing in 1994, Genovese confessed that he and many others had remained loyal to the Soviet Union long after they knew about the mass killings and the gulags. ‘For many years’, he admitted, ‘I have lived in…

From North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun: Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at the School Things Factory and the School Fixtures Factory under construction on November ４. It’s the usual unhappy official style. He earnestly…

There were rumours of a split in the Your Party leadership between Jeremy Corbyn and arch Israel hater Zarah Sultana. Corbyn has now seen the writing on the wall, and is fully committed to Sultana’s brand of antisemitism anti-Zionism. What took him so long? Jeremy Corbyn has declared his new political party’s commitment to “absolute…

On the BBC’s celebration of transified men in women’s sport, from the Telegraph: BBC bosses “ignored” warnings about pro-transgender bias in its sports coverage, The Telegraph can reveal. Messages seen by The Telegraph reveal that female staff repeatedly raised concerns over several years about the nature of reporting on gender issues. BBC Sport bosses were…

The BBC’s Panorama on Trump is claiming all the headlines – largely because of Trump’s threat to sue. This makes it easier for the Beeb’s apologists: it was just a one-off error of judgement. The real scandal, though, is the long-term bias, on trans issues, and on Israel. Stephen Pollard at the JC: Clearly it…