There’s that other BBC bias factor, of course: their Gaza coverage, and their hatred of Israel. Jonathan Sacerdoti at the Spectator: The organisation’s bias is not subtle. It is not occasional. It is systematic. Certain worldviews are endlessly reinforced and opposing views treated as aberrations. This intellectual monoculture has had profound consequences. Nowhere has this…

This is absolutely damning, on Cath Leng in the Times – ‘I was forced out of BBC News over gender critical views’:: A BBC News at Ten editor “deferred” to a junior reporter on what language he should use when reporting transgender stories, a veteran BBC broadcast journalist has claimed. Cath Leng, a former chief writer for…

Interesting thread.

After the two top BBC resignations, the problems are: first that it’s seen as all down to the Trump Panorama business when other issues seem to me to be more significant – in particular the long-term capture by gender ideology and the bias against Israel – and second, that after the ritual sacrifice, as it…

In 1978, at the age of 67, photographer Zofia Rydet set out on her “Sociological Record” project in the Polish countryside, aiming to record rural life as it was at the time, particularly in the regions of Podhale, Upper Silesia and the Suwałki area. She took nearly 20,000 pictures, many of which remained undeveloped when she died in 1997 at the…

Full story here: The incident occurred on October 20 at the Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library in Tucker, Georgia. On that day, Sasha Swinson, a man who identifies as a woman, was using the library’s female restroom. After exiting, a male police officer approached him and asked him to use the men’s facilities instead. Speaking to…

Is there more to say about the cancellation and rehabilitation of author Kate Clanchy? Yes there is. Hadley Freeman in today’s Sunday Times: In 2021, when lockdown was driving people insane, Clanchy’s 2019 book about working with children, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, was suddenly derided on social media as racist, because she…