Jan 29, 2025 · 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.

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, …

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 …

Jan 24, 2025 · Here we go. Trump prepares to sell out Ukraine:. President Donald Trump claimed in part two of a televised interview that the nearly three-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine that started when Moscow’s forces kicked off an invasion in 2022 was the fault of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s failure to preemptively capitulate …

🧵 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…

Nov 21, 2024 · I've just finished Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism.It's not much over 100 pages, so an easy day's read. As he notes, it started out with academics in the US, Australia, and Canada, searching for new ways to celebrate the wickedness of their countries - founded as they were by stealing the land from the indigenous inhabitants.

Jan 27, 2025 · This from Andrew Sullivan reinforces the point made by Justin Webb yesterday about the sense of exhilaration in the US now after the moribund Biden years, and making America normal again. Yes, it's Trump...but: To say I have conflicted feelings after a week or so of Trump’s return to power would be an understatement. Some of his early decisions remind me why I couldn’t vote for him.

Oct 13, 2024 · 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...

Aug 16, 2024 · There's a long and depressing read from George Chesterton in the Telegraph today on the Jewish experience here since the Hamas pogrom - ‘Friends no longer speak to me’: How it feels to be a British Jew after October 7: It wasn’t just the world that changed the day Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 last year.