2025年1月29日 · Politics and Culture. Whenever it seems that the tide is finally turning on the whole gender nonsense, along comes a story like this:. A film showing the use of cross-sex hormones and chest binders among teenagers is to be made available in state schools across the country as part of LGBTQ+ History month.

David Patrikarakos at UnHerd rubbishes the Trump Gaza plan, but then equivocates somewhat at the end. His conclusion: But if this idea is dangerous, impetuous and unlikely to see the light of day, the impulse behind it (even though borne from instinct rather than design) — to think about a seemingly unsolvable problem in a new light, however crazed, is perhaps worthwhile.

Beyond Utopia: Escape from North Korea, shown on BBC4 last night, was a superb piece of documentary film-making.The journey of the family from the border Yalu river across China and through Vietnam and Laos to Thailand - with the hero pastor - was extraordinary, only made bearable by the knowledge that, if they'd been caught, …

Helen Joyce reviews Victoria Smith's new book UnKind at The Critic: "What about men?” Anyone who runs something solely for women — a women’s centre, a course for female leaders, International Women’s Day — gets used to being asked …

The paradox of the wars that Israel's fought over the last 75 years is that it could never really win. If the opposing Arab armies had won we know what would have happened: the Israelis - the Jews - would have been slaughtered and driven out, to much rejoicing across the Arab/Muslim world.

Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids. Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it …

🧵 While everyone is focusing right now on the return of the hostages, the next stage of the deal and the uncertain future of Gaza, things must be said about the body that produced HAMAS's "theater of horror" and is responsible for framing of the conflict and other news for a…

2025年1月2日 · If you want to know how Labour-led areas treat abuse survivors, here’s a (brief) insight into my story: One of my earliest memories is sitting on his lap in the garden, and a hand going into my underwear.

2024年10月13日 · An informed look at the current situation in Lebanon - in contrast to all the hand-wringing - from Jonathan Spyer in the Spectator. Israel is successfully dismantling the offensive capabilities of Hezbollah, but the problems of Lebanon as a whole...

Howard Jacobson at the JC on remembering Auschwitz:. I don’t expect everybody to agree that the only real subject of art since 1945 has been the genocide – I mean the actual genocide of the Jews, not the politically manufactured genocides of which Jews are now routinely accused – and the only testing philosophical question, “How did that ever happen?”