In October we had the case of a girl footballer with suspected autism threatened with a ban by the FA for asking a man with a beard if he was a man. The point, of course, was that this man was pretending to be a woman, playing in a woman's football team, so the poor girl was naturally accused of transphobia.

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, …

🧵 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…

Here you can see why my leaving academia was the only sensible option. The synopsis of a 608-page academic book published in May 2024 is below. I can’t understand even one paragraph. 608 pages is unimaginable. I think it says...

“I was hounded, day in, day out. Bullied, hounded, with protection from nobody.” These are the words of Alice Nderitu, the UN’s former Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. In a shocking article, she details the appalling treatment she …

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...

Sep 27, 2024 · Remember the Abraham Accords? - when it seemed that, at last, those Arab states alarmed by the rise of Iran and its proxies in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, realised that their best hope lay in putting aside the old hatreds and aligning with Israel.

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.

Oct 7, 2024 · It started on the morning of October 7. There’s been a year of gaslighting, denialism, hatred and war but let’s remember how it started. With thousands of terrorists and ordinary civilians invading Israel and murdering, kidnapping and raping civilians. This...

On Nov. 29 1947, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent Jewish state of Israel. One of the biggest and lesser known stories of Nov 29 is that the lands allocated to a Jewish state (two color map) were essentially those the Zionists reclaimed from malaria through land purchase, science and education (blue map).