Well I’ll be. The BBC doesn’t say a single mollifying word to excuse the vandalism.

The cost to repair an almost 300-year-old mausoleum which was graffitied with the words “trans rights” is expected to be more than £2,000. The message was sprayed on the side of Dashwood Mausoleum near West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

James Parker, the West Wycombe Estate land agent, said the Dashwood family would bear the cost of the cleaning and restoration work, which has yet to be completed. He said: “This site holds deep personal and historical significance not only to the estate, but to others with loved ones buried nearby. Many feel this as a personal violation of a sacred

Janice Turner on magic gender and snobbery:

Of all such cases — and I’ve followed many — none encapsulates the shibboleths, snobberies and magical thinking of our age so well. Day after day we heard doctors and managers of Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, relate how they unashamedly closed ranks against a working-class nurse, whose rights, feelings or even basic humanity fell beyond their #BeKind purview.

It’s true you know. “Be kind” is never ever about listening to women who want to preserve the rights we’ve worked so hard to declare and defend; “be kind” is only for men who claim to be women and the few women who cheer on their claim. The rule for non-compliant women is sit down … Read the rest

This makes no sense.

A local government press release. In London. In England. In 2025. pic.twitter.com/g57fMAAkyo

— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) August 1, 2025

The burqa and all the rest of it are not for life at home, they’re for outside. Women who are forced to cover up aren’t going to be nursing their babies in the park, are they. It’s bad enough that Tower Hamlets is apparently promoting Islamist subordination of women, but it’s even worse that they get the rules wrong.… Read the rest

But who is the real threat here?

‘Trans rage’ protesters vandalise Wes Streeting’s office

Windows at the Health Secretary’s Ilford North Office were smashed, and the words “child killer” daubed on the front in paint.

Trans Bash Back, a “trans-led direct action project”, claimed they were responsible for the vandalism in a post on the social media platform BlueSky.

Sharing an image of the front of the office shortly after it had been vandalised, they wrote: “Don’t want action? Don’t kill kids.”

Taking “kill” as hyperbole for injure, harm, damage, endanger and the like, who is really doing that? Which is the most harmful and damaging: urging interfering with people’s puberties, or advising not interfering with people’s puberties?… Read the rest

Trump and Fox News are working hard to turn immigration into a military issue.

Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a major military buildup at the border. He has maximized the use of military planes for deportations, complete with the White House pumping out imagery of migrants getting frog-marched onto souped-up military aircraft. He sent the National Guard into Los Angeles amid large-scale protests there—and then sent in the Marines.

But an internal memo circulated inside the Department of Homeland Security suggests that Trump’s use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse. The memo—obtained by The

Good title.

Universities ‘on notice’ after Kathleen Stock treatment, says minister

Name in the headline! There’s glory for you!

Universities have been put “on notice” to uphold free speech following the treatment of Kathleen Stock, a minister has said.

Baroness Smith of Malvern, the universities minister, told The Telegraph that higher education institutions must take lessons after the University of Sussex was hit with a record fine for breaching Dr Stock’s free speech.

The Office for Students (OfS), the higher education watchdog, fined the institution £585,000 in March and ruled that it had failed to protect the academic from being hounded out over her gender-critical views.

Yes, it “failed to protect” in the sense of all but applauding.

Baroness Smith

Another hon in the Mitfordian sense:

One Tuesday evening last month in his mother’s house on the Wirral, the recently ex-Harvard philosophy professor Jimmy Doyle took to X to say, at last, what he really thought about the state of free speech in American academia.

In one tweet he wrote: “For unrelated reasons I’ve resigned my position at Harvard. But I haven’t been able to speak frankly with anyone for [about] five years. And it’ll be hard to forget the spectacle of this nation’s intellectual elite enforcing moral auto-lobotomy as a condition of entry to polite society.”

In another he identified exactly what he had been unable to be frank about. He accused the trans movement of “provoking the

Several layers to this, but worth it.

Just to emphasize: Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto https://t.co/QRPznnrLtJ

— Jimmy Doyle (@jdoyleDoyle1) August 1, 2025

Professor of Political Science right there. … Read the rest

A massive crack in the dam!

We are pleased to announce that our clients, the English Blackball Pool Federation, have successfully defended the discrimination claim brought against them by the transgender player, Harriet Haynes.
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— JR Levins (@JRLevinsLaw) August 1, 2025

Our thanks to Sarah Crowther KC and Sapan Maini-Thompson of @outertemple and the expert witnesses, Dr David Alciatore and @FondOfBeetles.
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— JR Levins (@JRLevinsLaw) August 1, 2025

High fives all around.

Haynes was represented by Jane Russell KC of @EssexCourtLaw and Robin Moira White of @OldSqChambers The BBPF was represented by Sarah Crowther KC and Sapan Maini-Thompson both of @outertemple.

— Legal Feminist (@legalfeminist) August 1, 2025

Jane Russell again! And [pause to choke … Read the rest

At this point I look away from Trump a lot of the time because I can’t stand it, but this particular tidbit is especially…what it is.

Most bizarre was Trump’s explanation for why he finally banished Epstein from Mar-a-Lago more than 20 years ago.

“That’s such old history, very easy to explain, but I don’t want to waste your time by explaining it,” Trump said. “But for years, I wouldn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn’t talk because he did something that was inappropriate.”

Shockingly, Trump doesn’t mean all the sex trafficking and child rape. No, what he considers “inappropriate” and truly unforgivable is that Epstein “stole” employees from him.

“I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it

Ah good, the move from stupid deepity to even stupider deepity.

Abstract

Recently, the concept of “gender identity” has enjoyed a great deal of attention in gender metaphysics. This seems to be motivated by the goal of creating trans-inclusive theory, by explaining trans people’s genders.

Wait, slow down. There’s such a thing as “gender metaphysics”? I mean, such a solid established thing that it makes sense to talk of a great deal of attention in gender metaphysics? There really are lots of people, or at least some people, paying a great deal of attention to the concept of genner idenniny in genner metaphysics?

Not that I can find, but hey, maybe they’re all in bunkers.

In this paper, we

Trans man Freddy McConnell tells us:

The supreme court judgment on the application of the 2010 Equality Act has rendered the UK’s system of legal gender recognition entirely hollow. It has ruled that men like me who have gender recognition certificates are defined as women in equality law, which applies to organisations ranging from workplaces to public services and sporting bodies. Vice versa for trans women.

But of course trans men are women, just as trans women are men. That’s what the word “trans” is doing there.

What choice do trans people have at this point? Over the past 10 years, their rights have been chipped away in Britain, their lives made increasingly difficult by anti-trans lobbyists with more

The determination to destroy everything presses on.

The Trump administration is attempting to unmake virtually all climate US regulations in one fell swoop.

At an Indiana truck dealership on Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a proposal to rescind the 16-year-old landmark legal finding which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources.

Because they want their children and grandchildren to be doomed to worse misery faster.

…if the rollback prevails, it would leave the EPA without any authority to regulate greenhouse gas pollution amid ever-compounding evidence that a swift reduction in these emissions is needed to avert catastrophic global warming.

“The importance of the endangerment finding can’t be

Trump to Kentucky: you’re on your own.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) denied requests for three Kentucky counties affected by severe storms last spring, and deemed the state ineligible for hazard mitigation grants that would help prepare for future disasters .

Fema officials claimed the areas did not suffer enough damage to merit federal support, in a letter issued to the governor on Tuesday. But the move is just the latest in a series of denials from the agency, as the Trump administration seeks to shift the burden of responding to and recovering from disasters on to states.

Look, if Kentucky doesn’t want to be slammed by storms it should move to a part of the country where … Read the rest

Drop everything and pay attention!

Trans darts star releases emotional statement after being banned from playing against women

Let me guess – the “trans darts star” in question is actually a male darts star who pretends to be a woman? And he’s “emotional” because he’s not being allowed to play against women? It’s so interesting how even right-wing journalists carefully avoid clarity on this subject.

Dutch darts professional Noa-Lynn van Leuven has addressed the World Darts Federation’s new regulations that ban transgender women from female competitions.

Seeing as how transgender women are men, of course they should be banned from women’s competitions. Duh.

Earlier this week, the WDF decided to take action to prevent biological men from facing biological women.

Jolyon’s racket is taking a massive walloping for this.

Still telling porkies, I see.
The Court hasn't yet given you permission, and requires you to amend your claim, to clarify what you are challenging and on what basis. https://t.co/45n8Bp22R5

— Gill R KPSS (@thespiralquirk) July 31, 2025

Not “so complex that the court needs a few months to recover its breath” but “so sloppy that the court told us to deliver a decent version by November.”… Read the rest

Energy drink pratfall!

US authorities are warning consumers of Celsius energy drinks to check their cans after some were accidently filled with vodka.

Whoops! Happens all the time. You know how it is. The vodka tank and the energy drink tank are right next to each other, and the labels for both say Grape Soda, so the robot gets confused.

The US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) issued the warning for the Astro Vibe Blue Razz edition of the drink.

Best. name. ever. Astro for reach for the stars, baby. Vibe for vibe, mama, you dig it? Blue for that swimming pool in Palm Beach with all the sexy chicks in it, you know what I mean? Razz for I … Read the rest

Jonathon Van Maren writes:

UN report calls for ban on sex changes for children, declares transgenderism a threat to women

A United Nations draft report by the special rapporteur on violence against women affirmed what many critics have long warned: that there is a “concerted international push (to) erase” women and girls, and that gender dysphoria is “socially contagious.”

The report, titled “Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues: Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls,” was compiled by Reem Alsalem of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and warns that transgender ideology has become a threat to women.

He quotes her:

Recently, there

You’d think District Councils would be required to follow the law.

Months after the Supreme Court judgment and public bodies do as they please.

Rother District Council (@RotherDC):

“Should others not wish to share the 'ladies' or ‘gents' facilities with a trans person then it is they, not the trans person, who must use alternative facilities.” pic.twitter.com/AXISKmVLq5

— James Esses (@JamesEsses) July 30, 2025

That’s so remarkably pissy. “Should others not wish to share the ‘ladies’ or ‘gents’ facilities with a trans person then it is they, not the trans person, who must use alternative facilities.” Why is that then? I mean, even apart from the fact that it’s the opposite of what the Supreme Court ruled, what’s … Read the rest

A couple of things…

Dr Searle said: “I don’t agree we would have classed it as misbehaviour.”

Ms Cunningham said: “I think you’ve already confirmed that email to Isla Bumba on December 8 was prompted by a conversation about Sandie removing herself from the changing room when he was there, that’s right?

“You ask if there’s any policies around transgender staff and suggest Dr Upton might be keen to help develop some; is it fair for the tribunal to infer the possibility of developing policies to make it easier for Dr Upton to take matters further?”

Dr Searle said: “No, I don’t agree. I think there needs to be an NHS Fife policy on how everyone can feel comfortable