Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A clearer direction.

The police are being much too lenient on themselves. They weren’t “policing toxic culture-ware debates”, they’d become footsoldiers on one side of that war, becoming the de facto political police of trans ideology, stamping out Thoughtcrime and Wrongthink. They weren’t acting like some kind of harried, exasperated referees, patiently standing between the parties in conflict. The police went out of their way to eagerly enforce “NO DEBATE!” and “TWAW!” to such a degree that it was approaching terrorism.

It might be considered a waste of scarce time and resources, but there should be an externally run investigation into the authoritarian actions of the police force around this … Read the rest

It’s about goddam time!

Britain’s biggest police force has announced it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents.

The Metropolitan Police said it hoped the move would provide a “clearer direction for officers”, allowing them to focus on criminal investigations. The force said incidents would still be recorded for intelligence purposes but officers would not get involved in “policing toxic culture war debates”.

Good, because culture war debates are none of their god damn business. Debates in general are none of their god damn business. Public in the flesh bullying or harassment, sometimes, but debate, never.

On Monday [Graham] was informed that following an investigation he would face no further action.

A Met spokesman said: “We understand the concern around

The Free Speech Union steps UP.

After weeks of police bail – subject to unlawful conditions, including a ban on posting on X – officers have told @Glinner that prosecutors say there isn’t sufficient evidence to support any charges. That shouldn’t have been a surprise since opposing trans ideology is not a crime.

Throughout this probe, the police have behaved like activists, not impartial upholders of the law. Last week, FSU lawyers had to take the Met Police to court to get their illegal ban on Graham contacting any trans-identifying male dropped. The Met didn’t even show up to the hearing.

Rather than inviting Graham for an interview in September, the Met sent five armed police officers to arrest

One bit of good news – but really it’s only the end of a bit of bad news.

The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow in September. After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn't even bother to attend) the Crown…

— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) October 20, 2025

The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow in September. After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn’t even bother to attend) the

Trump does his Neville Chamberlain routine again.

Trump reiterated his call on Sunday for an immediate halt to the three-and-a-half-year full-scale war in Ukraine, saying the battle lines should be frozen where they currently stand, with Russia’s invading forces occupying most of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected the idea of forfeiting the Donbas, or any other occupied ground, to Moscow in the years since Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. 

But Trump likes Putin and he doesn’t like Zelensky. You do the math.

“Let it be cut the way it is. It’s cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave

From The Australian:

A second woman has come forward to reveal her “five months of hell” locked in a cell with South Australia’s most notorious transgender prisoner, after being horrified by Premier Peter Malin­auskas’s dismissal of the safety of female inmates as “a niche issue”.

The then 30-year-old woman was forced to share a cell with Krista Richards, a violent criminal who was alleged last week to have brutally sexually assaulted a young woman known as Katie, who had also been forced to share a cell with the would-be hitman in Port Augusta Prison.

But it’s a “niche” issue. Why is that? Welllll come on, women don’t matter, you know that. Let’s not be silly here.

In a

Measles continues to spread.

The South Carolina Department of Health reported three additional cases of measles in Spartanburg County. That brings the number of cases in the state to 19 in 2025 overall and 15 in the current outbreak.

Two Spartanburg elementary schools have been linked to the ongoing outbreak ― Global Academy of South Carolina and Fairforest Elementary. About 140 students are quarantined at home.

“We have seen measles spread quickly in unvaccinated households here in South Carolina,” state health officials said. DPH confirmed that the three new cases are among unvaccinated individuals.

Thanks Trump, thanks Evil Kennedy.

Dr. Aqil Surka, with AnMed Pediatrics, underscored that vaccines are safe and effective in a recent Greenville News article about

Trump thinks Putin owns vast chunks of Ukraine because “they fought.”

He is helping an enemy country because it has career-
ending information on him https://t.co/rHdUNmEkYB

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) October 19, 2025

Yeah we know, bozo, they attacked Ukraine and “they fought”; that doesn’t mean Ukraine belongs to them.… Read the rest

There are usually more than two possibilities. Lots more. Sometimes it’s just on or off, up or down, in or out, red or blue, but most of the time it’s more or less rather than yes or no.

Like, reasons for objecting to Trump, for instance. This is a subtle point but I think it’s fair to say it’s not just communists who consider Trump a regrettable head of state.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday doubled down on his criticisms of millions of protesters who joined Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies across the nation, decrying the widely peaceful demonstrations as evidence of “a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.”

Mmmno. Really. No Marxism is required to perceive that … Read the rest

Leo Varadkar in the Times:

Our gender recognition law is not perfect, but it is right

Is it? How is it right to have a law that “recognizes” pretend genders? Is it right to have a law that recognizes the human ability to fly like a bird?

Subhead:

Opponents spout myths on sport and single-sex spaces while ignoring the evidence that the trans community poses no threat and self-determination works

Point either missed or deliberately ignored. After all this time, the latter is far more likely.

What does saying “the trans community poses no threat” have to do with anything? Nobody says they’re like the Taliban. Point one is that people can’t change sex. Point two is that letting … Read the rest

The struggle to demolish women’s rights never ends.

A group of peers is at the centre of a House of Lords plot to derail guidance protecting women’s single-sex spaces, leaked documents have revealed.

The group, which includes a former head of Stonewall and one of its founder members, is seeking to scupper rules drawn up by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) by delaying the government’s process until a new chair of the regulator is appointed.

A source told The Times that Lord Collins of Highbury, the government’s equalities spokesman in the House of Lords, had been involved in “strategy development” with the group.

Always with the doublespeak. An equalities boffin is working to destroy women’s rights. Where’s … Read the rest

Julie Burchell asks: How do so many women end up as ‘Feminists for Islam’?

The first sign that something might have been amiss at FiLiA was a hijab’d woman selling similar head-coverings in the foyer. ‘What next, binders?’, Sonya Douglas asked on X. The number of keffiyehs and Palestinian flags on show could have persuaded a person that they had wandered into the Oxford Union debating chamber by mistake. Veteran feminist Bev Jackson posted that: ‘An organisation called Total Woman Victory had a stand at FiLiA disseminating a pamphlet with some of the most virulent anti-Jewish tropes I’ve ever seen.’

Jewish women have had to put up with enough monstrous bullying and belittling from the world generally over the past

Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on Blame the women.

The thing the pro-Palestine idiots don’t get is how this contributes to creating the ideal conditions for a genocide.

Look at it from the Israeli perspective, practice some of that empathy that these activists love to yammer on about without ever once in their lives exhibiting.

I mean, these are the same types who think death and rape threats will somehow magically make people think trans women aren’t a potential problem in prisons, women’s shelters or toilets. “Accept us into your places of safety or we’ll beat you up” isn’t the sales pitch they seem to think it is.

Anyway, you are told that your country is committing genocide, … Read the rest

Speaking of community leaders…

Put your hands together for…

the Green Party.

"We need a sporting and cultural boycott of all Israeli teams, like we saw for South African teams under apartheid."@MothinAli responds to Maccabi Tel Aviv fans being banned from attending a football game against Aston Villa. pic.twitter.com/5ltHl3woUj

— The Green Party (@TheGreenParty) October 17, 2025

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I’ve been asking these questions for YEARS. It’s good to see others asking them.

What is a “community leader”? How do they get their mandate? To whom are they accountable? How can they be removed? And why are they always men?

— Paul Embery (@PaulEmbery) October 17, 2025

One more urgent question is how do we get the BBC to stop using it so relentlessly and so entirely without thought?… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Arcadia on Beneath his notice.

Malinauskas is in fact, my state Premier, so this feels personal, even though I’ve never been to jail.

I take issue with this: “ adding he would not characterise as “the number one priority” the issue of transgender women in female prisons”.

The persistent magical take on priorities. It is apparently simultaneously so low a priority that it need not be given any thought, while also such a high and urgent priority that they must turn prison policy upside down over it.

Let’s be honest, shall we? It is not a high priority to record on official documents what convicted prisoners think of their gender. It is not a high … Read the rest

Joan Smith on yet another protest against women talking:

Students at the London School of Economics (LSE) have tried to cancel a private meeting to discuss sexual violence committed by Hamas during the October 7 attacks of 2023. The event went ahead last night with a heavy police presence as pro-Palestinian protesters chanted anti-Israel slogans outside the building. Inside, an Israeli lawyer spoke about the problem of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in several countries where women have been targeted by mass rape and other kinds of sexual assault.

Notably, one of the organisations calling for the meeting to be cancelled was a feminist society at the university. In an “open letter to LSE management”, they demanded that the “egregious”

World’s hugest woman wins another prize for his womanyness.

Will Thomas won the Voice of Inspiration Award last night at the 2025 Violet Visionary Awards, an event sponsored by the LA Dodgers.

Just an absolute joke we're still doing this. pic.twitter.com/PAhr7LJI7t

— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) October 17, 2025

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The ban is not universally admired.

The decision to ban fans of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a Europa League match in Birmingham has ignited a storm of criticism, underlining deep divisions over public safety, antisemitism, and political accountability.

The ban, recommended by Birmingham City Council’s Safety Advisory Group and supported by West Midlands Police, was labelled “utterly unacceptable” by Culture Minister Ian Murray and denounced as a “national disgrace” by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer condemned the ban, calling it the “wrong decision” and emphasising that the UK must actively combat antisemitism. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch warned that barring Maccabi Tel Aviv fans risks sending a “horrendous and shameful message” that Jews

Jolyon rejoices in a win.

In a landmark decision for trans rights, the High Court has ruled that a panel acted unlawfully in denying a trans man a gender recognition certificate because he was trying to conceive.

Ooooh they never, did they?! Those fiends! Imagine telling a woman she’s not a man merely because she’s trying to do what only a woman can do?!

In February, a gender recognition panel denied the man, whose identity is protected by an anonymity order and is referred to in the judgment as W, a gender recognition certificate. This was on the basis that he had been trying to conceive a child – concluding that this meant he was not living as a