The Green Party doesn’t want women defending women’s rights.

Women’s rights campaigners have claimed they are victims of discrimination after being banned from the Green Party conference.

Invidious discrimination, they mean.

The Green Women’s Declaration (GWD), a group advocating for sex-based rights for women, were told two days before the party’s conference that their stall booking was cancelled and they would not be allowed to recruit members. The group said the move “undermines the rights of women to advocate for single-sex spaces, services, and sports — rights that are protected under UK law”.

Sometimes protected. Other times, as we see, not protected.

The ban is the latest argument between those in the party who believe in sex-based rights and

To the surprise of no one…

Dangerous thug Barbie Kardashian is facing arrest – as a prison Governor and officer are forced to take security measures amid threats she allegedly uttered.

Threats “she” uttered. The replies on TwitX all shout at the reporter for the many shes and hers in the story but it could be an editorial ruling – but either way it’s interesting that the first two words are “dangerous thug.” Women are not generally called thugs, however violent they may be; it’s a male-coded word.

Either way this lying really needs to stop. Just stop. Nobody cares that he claims to be a woman; everybody knows he isn’t one. Just stop.

Prison authorities believe Kardashian has

Bahahahahahaha I don’t think I knew this.

Gary Larson is a Seattleite, and back in the day he was friends with the herps people at the Zoo. Still is for all I know. This means I knew people who were buddies with Gary Larson, so there, ha.

Yet another reason to love Jane Goodall.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on In the face of challenges and hostility.

Alice Sullivan reported the most chilling thing I ever heard throughout the whole gender mess.

I wrote in late 2024, facetiously, that, “No doubt soon there will be newborn trans babies.” Barely a few months later, Alice Sullivan reported she’d uncovered at least one case where deranged parents brought their newborn child back to the hospital to have the paperwork changed: they were unhappy about the sex of their newborn so they decided to carry on as though the child was the other sex — the one they wanted — and to that end they simply declared that the newborn was “trans”. Then they stormed back … Read the rest

Oh god oh god oh god.

A 9-year-old girl is sold into marriage with an elderly man, keeping the grand tradition of Mohammed alive for 1400 years. pic.twitter.com/0wIs4yoNEf

— Imtiaz Mahmood (@ImtiazMadmood) October 1, 2025

Push the play button. You’ll regret it, but do it anyway.… Read the rest

Sullivan nominated for Sullivan Review.

A leading gender critical researcher has been shortlisted for the 2025 Maddox Prize for her landmark review into how sex is recorded in publicly funded research.

Alice Sullivan, professor of sociology at UCL, is the only UK-based researcher named on the six-strong shortlist for the prize, awarded by Nature Awards and the science communication charity Sense about Science, which recognises researchers with a record of “standing up for sound science and evidence in the public interest, and for showing courage and integrity in the face of challenges and hostility”.

It doesn’t get much more challenges and hostility than trans ideology. That’s probably because they are coming from inside the house.

Published in March

Oliver Brown in the Telegraph:

Lisa Nandy should surely have taken the hint when, having worn a “protect the dolls” T-shirt on a transgender rights march in August, she found herself roundly eviscerated.

Dolls, a slang term from the 1980s for men trying to pass themselves off as women, had long been viewed as misogynistic, a description that succeeded only in objectifying femininity. Except now the Culture Secretary has gone a step further, making the fatuous suggestion at this week’s Labour Party conference that biological men should still be allowed to compete in certain women’s sports.

“There are three things that we’re trying to achieve,” she said on Wednesday. “The first is inclusion, the second is fairness, and

Farewell to Jane Goodall.

The United Nations said it mourned the loss of Dr Goodall, saying that she “worked tirelessly for our planet and all its inhabitants, leaving an extraordinary legacy for humanity and nature”.

Greenpeace said it was “heartbroken” by her death, calling her “one of the true conservation giants of our time”.

Its co-executive director in the UK, Will McCallum, said: “Dr Goodall’s legacy is not only in science but in the global movement she helped spark to protect nature and give hope for a better world.”

Naturalist Chris Packham told the BBC that he counted her among his heroes, calling her “revolutionary” and “remarkable”.

“To have lost a hero at a time when we need all

Labour shows off its hostility to women yet again.

The new trans rules are “not right” and should be reviewed by MPs, one of Labour’s deputy leadership candidates has said.

Lucy Powell appeared to criticise the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guidance on transgender issues, which has advised that workplaces provide protected single-sex spaces.

So she thinks workplaces should not provide protected single-sex spaces? She thinks women should have to deal with men in women’s spaces?

Speaking at a fringe event of the party conference on Monday evening, Ms Powell was asked whether she supported the EHRC’s interim guidance on trans issues, which was issue after a ruling by the Supreme Court in April.

The guidance suggested

I hadn’t realized that Trump yammered at the trapped military brass yesterday for AN HOUR AND THIRTEEN MINUTES. Freestyle. Typical Trump brainless babbling, no script, just the endless spool of stupid soundbites and boasts and lies and gibberish.

Shawn McCreesh at the Times has some details.

Several hundred military commanders turned up at Quantico on Tuesday morning. Some had flown in for it from places as far away as Germany, Brussels, Japan and South Korea. They sat mostly in silence as Mr. Trump talked for 73 minutes about the same things he talks about almost every day, no matter where he is or to whom he is speaking.

He talked to the generals about Joseph R. Biden Jr. and

Could have been an email.

Pete Hegseth’s speech to top generals was supposed to serve as a rallying cry for military exceptionalism — but it didn’t land that way with many of the people it was targeting.

Numerous defense officials — who watched senior brass scramble to Washington and then sit through a partisan speech from President Donald Trump and a return to old-school military standards by Hegseth — were left wondering why the event had occurred at all.

“More like a press conference than briefing the generals,” said one defense official, who, like others, was granted anonymity due to fears of retribution. “Could have been an email.”

Defense officials, in the Pentagon and at bases around the world,

Awww, Owen Jones has been told to go away.

Much of Labour conference has seen MPs taking aim at Nigel Farage and his Reform party, but it would appear some left-wingers have ended up in the firing line too. Onetime Labour member and all-time general annoyance Owen Jones had been running around Liverpool vox-popping politicians and delegates with his cameraman – but he managed to get on the wrong side of the party and was rather embarrassingly informed today that his conference pass had been, er, cancelled. Yikes!

They told him it was a safeguarding issue.

After careful consideration, we’ve concluded that we cannot continue your attendance while ensuring we meet our safeguarding obligations to all attendees.

I think … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Of dust and boots.

There is a teeny-tiny pebble of a good idea under all that rubble.

Obviously, I agree that this whole thing is preposterous. But there’s at least something to be said about military dress and discipline standards slipping. I looked into this because the military is probably the most common career among crossdressing men, and the campaign to end the “trans in the military ban” represents the moment around the mid-oughts that liberal allies of gays, sensing the gay rights war was winding down to a victorious close, began shifting their focus over to transgender “rights”. They wanted to keep the momentum going, to keep their activist juices flowing.

The … Read the rest

Great headline.

A Novice Defense Secretary Lectures the Brass on What It Takes to Win

Subhead:

Senior officers, summoned from around the world, are entrusted to manage complex military operations. They got a lecture on fitness and grooming standards.

From the tv guy.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has long maintained that the U.S. military badly needed a leader with dust on his boots to shake up a force that has gone soft and “woke.”

On Tuesday, he faced a room of hundreds of generals and admirals, whom he had summoned from across the globe, and made the case that he was that leader.

Because yeah, there’s nothing like a tv talking head for leading experienced military officers into a better … Read the rest

So we’re the enemy within now.

Trump defended the use of U.S. troops in American cities and told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against the “enemy within.”

“This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room, because it’s the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control,” Trump told those gathered for the highly unusual event at Quantico, Va. “It won’t get out of control once you’re involved at all.”

Trump said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the U.S. “should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” a reference to the Democratic-run cities that he has

Trump admitted it’s a tad pricey.

Trump said there was an expense to meet with top admirals and generals in Quantico today when departing the White House this morning.

“There’s a little bit of expense, not much, but there’s a little expense to that. We don’t like to waste it. We’d rather spend it on bullets and rockets, frankly,” Trump said when departing the White House.

No, not a little. Not not much. There’s a lot of expense to “that”. It’s utterly pointless expense, too, since it’s just saying stuff. There are quick cheap easy ways of saying things these days, so there’s no need to drag everyone into the Real Presence.

The brass is aware of this.

The

Suzanne Moore wipes the Telegraph floor with Emma Watson.

Without JK Rowling, I doubt any of us would have heard of Emma Watson. If Rowling and her franchise hadn’t been such a behemoth, it would be also tough to care about the confused views of a 30-something former child star.

Without JK Rowling, Emma Watson, who played Hermione Grainger in the Harry Potter film series, would not be worth an estimated $85 million (£63 million) or still be considered worth interviewing, even though she has not acted since 2019.

It’s all but certain that without JKR Watson would be nowhere. Would she have landed a part in some other movie that made as much money and had as many … Read the rest

JKR lets rip.

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should… https://t.co/c0pz19P7jc

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 29, 2025

I’m seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I’m not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I

He’d better idennify as a trans woman pretty fast.

Retired US financier Howard Rubin was arrested Friday on sex-trafficking charges for allegedly trafficking dozens of women, including former Playboy models, to be sexually and physically assaulted during encounters in his New York City penthouse in a soundproofed room described in court papers as “The Dungeon”.

Authorities announced the arrest of Rubin and his former personal assistant, Jennifer Powers, on charges in an indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court.

…

Prosecutors said Rubin and Powers abused the women between 2009 and 2019 after recruiting them to fly to New York to engage in sex acts with Rubin in exchange for money.

They said Rubin and Powers targeted women who were

Trump has declared war on Portland; the invasion begins tomorrow.

Oregon’s Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Sunday that the state has filed a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to Portland, a day after Trump authorized federal troops to protect what he dubbed “War ravaged Portland.”

He received notice from the governor’s office at 9:32 a.m. Sunday that the U.S. Department of Defense had sent an email revealing that Trump had invoked a section of federal law to call 200 members of the Oregon National Guard into federal service in the city for 60 days, under the U.S. Northern Command.

Rayfield, appearing with Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson during a virtual news