Oliver Brown and Craig Simpson in The Telegraph:

BBC bosses “ignored” warnings about pro-transgender bias in its sports coverage, The Telegraph can reveal.

Messages seen by The Telegraph reveal that female staff repeatedly raised concerns over several years about the nature of reporting on gender issues.

BBC Sport bosses were told almost five years ago that stories about trans athletes were often uncritical and celebratory “puff pieces”, while glossing over any potentially negative impact on women’s sports.

However, insiders claim that the BBC persisted with overwhelmingly positive coverage of otherwise controversial athletes, including Lia Thomas, the biologically male swimmer, the weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, the cyclist Austin Killips and Imane Khelif, the boxer.

BBC staff have reported feeling

Ooooooh what do you know, suddenly the Beeb is aware of the Darlington nurses.

Good time to choose accuracy. More please. pic.twitter.com/QkcUAJ1gDM

— SEEN in Journalism (@JournalismSEEN) November 11, 2025

The presenter actually says the words “a biological male who identifies as a woman.” I’m not making this up! … Read the rest

Oh gawd how they do get everything wrong.

Last week, a leaked memo to the BBC board from Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the broadcaster’s editorial standards committee, was published by The Telegraph – a British newspaper, with a rightwing editorial slant, that has long been hostile to the BBC.

In his memo, compiled this summer, Prescott laid out a long list of alleged shortcomings in the BBC’s news output, from alleged anti-Israel bias in its Arabic-language service to an overly progressive slant in its coverage of transgender people and their rights.

Wrong! Wrong wrong wrongity wrong! There’s nothing “progressive” about it – and in addition that empty bit of flattery tells the reader nothing about what … Read the rest

The Telegraph on Jolyon Maugham’s campaign to destroy women’s sports.

Almost two weeks ago the Maugham-led GLP announced it had begun legal action against the England and Wales Cricket Board over the latter’s transgender participation policy. The threatened lawsuit is the latest attention-grabbing case taken on by the GLP, which was founded by Maugham, an arch-Remainer, in January 2017 in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

Best known for defeating Boris Johnson’s government at the Supreme Court over the then prime minister’s 2019 prorogation of parliament, the group is now determined to overturn the same court’s ruling that only those born female should be deemed women under the 2010 Equality Act.

It seems such an abject tautology, doesn’t it? That … Read the rest

The corruption is not universally popular.

Donald Trump’s unprecedented pardoning spree for political and business friends since returning to the White House has prompted warnings from ex-prosecutors and legal scholars of “corrupt” pay-to-play schemes, conflicts of interest and blatant partisanship.

It has included hundreds of Maga allies, a cryptocurrency mogul with ties to a Trump family crypto firm, disgraced politicians, and others who could yield political and financial benefits.

Other than that it’s totally aboveboard.

Recently, Trump has sparked strong criticism for commutations or pardons that seem increasingly aimed at boosting political allies and some Trump family business interests, say legal experts and ex-prosecutors.

Last month, Trump commuted a seven-year sentence of expelled House member George Santos, who pleaded

Another pillar goes splat.

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.

So they finally figured that out, eh? Well done, but we already knew about those there permanent physical advantages of being born male. We knew and we said, over and over.

… Read the rest

The BBC is beginning to sound oddly like Pharyngula…

As calls for reform mount, two former BBC employees have spoken to The Telegraph on condition of anonymity, offering a rare glimpse into the culture at the corporation.

Former employee #1

“There was something of a Left-wing cabal – and if you were more centrist in your politics, your opinion wasn’t appreciated. Eventually, you just stopped speaking up. They would absolutely talk about diversity of voices, then shut down anybody who didn’t agree with them.

…

“There was also this clamouring for diversity that made a bit of a mockery of it. They had a diversity scheme, but when they couldn’t find enough external candidates they just put internal people

The fix goes on.

President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin.

The individuals listed in a proclamation, which Martin posted on X late Sunday, include high-profile figures like former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and the president’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, among dozens of others.

Filth. We’re in the filth up to our eyeballs. A filthy corrupt kleptocratic state, with no escape open.

“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation,”

Speaking of the dear darling beloved BBC…

"I do wonder why people are so offended by it… actually the word was invented by feminists, they were quite happily using these words a few years ago" – Sophie Cook tells Mark Urban.

@sophiecooktalks | @MarkUrban01 | #newsnight pic.twitter.com/okG13GsjHL

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) October 10, 2018

Two men agreeing with each other that the word “women” includes trans women, how cuddly and sweet. No need to consult women of course.… Read the rest

Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events

They never should have been allowed. Obviously.

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.

Come on. They didn’t need a science-based review. They’ve always known about the permanent physical advantages. Everyone has. Letting men who pretend to be women compete against women was always a terrible idea. Everyone knew that, but way too many people were happy about it anyway.… Read the rest

I recommend playing the clip.

On sex and gender "I don't think we suffer from institutional bias in this area," says Tim Davie to MPs back in March 2024.

This – and what follows – absolutely reeks of complacency. https://t.co/qji4GpEC72

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) November 9, 2025

At 1:04 Tim Davie gets passionate and says we have to be kind and caring in this – and in context it seems pretty clear that he means kind & caring to the men, not the women. We have to be kind & caring to the men because they struggle under the burden of being the sex that can beat up women if it chooses to. Women are just the boring bitches who … Read the rest

Not parody? Really? Are we SURE???

Good Law Project’s Xmas card that it’s promoting.

I particularly love the framed portrait of a pencil stub. It’s probably Euan’s tiny pencil, right? A profound and beautiful work of art.… Read the rest

Euan pretends he’s a journalist but he would flunk 3d grade English. The man is barely literate.

More classic commentary from the tip-top investigative jouno! Unfortunately, none of our directors were able to make the demo last weekend, so we couldn't have done this – unless we control minds from 100s of miles away! pic.twitter.com/nLIwKp2gG1

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) November 9, 2025

… Read the rest

Hadley Freeman on the witchfinders:

In 2021, when lockdown was driving people insane, Clanchy’s 2019 book about working with children, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, was suddenly derided on social media as racist, because she used physical descriptions like “chocolate-coloured skin”. The charge was led by three women: Monisha Rajesh, Sunny Singh and Chimene Suleyman, all middle-aged, middle-class writers, like Clanchy. Pan Macmillan, Clanchy’s publisher through its Picador imprint, abjectly apologised to them and parted ways with its writer…

…When The Sunday Times interviewed Clanchy in 2022, Rajesh tweeted, “Jesus f***ing Christ. Picador have just emailed to let us know that @thesundaytimes will be running an interview with Kate Clanchy this weekend.” She then

For once the police back down.

Police have apologised to one of Scotland’s most prominent gender-critical campaigners for threatening to prosecute her over claims she vandalised a trans activist’s umbrella.

Susan Smith, one of the three directors of For Women Scotland, had earlier been informed she would have to accept a formal warning or face court action over an altercation with Tom Harlow, who attempted to drown out speakers at one of the group’s rallies with amplified music.

And by doing so harassed those speakers and attempted to deprive them of their right to protest being erased by people like…him.

…following a major backlash to news that Smith was facing prosecution, the national force said it would launch a

The thing about this is the air of confident certainty and enlightenment – in short the staggering vanity. She talks the most unmitigated bilge and she carries herself as if she were Hannah Arendt and Nelson Mandela combined.

This is how nuts they are.
Get this one. pic.twitter.com/1pkT2EJNER

— Barry Wall (@HeadWarriorTWM) November 8, 2025

No, kid. All that horseshit you’re reciting is complete horseshit. You’re just repeating your generation’s chosen mythology, which happens to be a particularly stupid and fantasy-laced one. You’re not brilliant, you’re not wise, you’re not enlightened. You’re a gullible patronizing twerp. And no the beret does not make you look like a Paris intellectual. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on And producers let them.

Prescott notes an in-built censor: instead of a story on, say, the side-effects of puberty blockers being covered by health reporters, or the legislation by the political team, all gender stories were routed through an LGBT desk.

They need to find out who decided on this “routing” and fire them. It’s like giving control of editorial content to a bunch of astrology activists, who are going to present everything they cover through thei filter of their pseudoscientific world view, and who are never going to allow astrology-critical stories to see the light of day. All the while, the reputation and cerdibility of what was supposed to … Read the rest

BBC gender correspondent tried to block coverage of trans criticism

The BBC’s “gender and identity correspondent” sought to block coverage of a campaign group aiming to protect women-only spaces, The Telegraph can reveal.

Megha Mohan, who has held the specialist role since 2018, emailed a co-worker raising concerns about their plans to film a debate by the group Woman’s Place UK.

Apparently women are not part of the genner ann idenniny beat. I guess only men have genner ann idenniny?

In the email – sent months after she started her role – Ms Mohan wrote: “There’s some concern from LGBT+ about giving this group a platform, they are seen as a more extreme organisation that we would be legitimizing (sic).”

Janice Turner on The Eyeroll That Shocked a Nation:

The BBC executive complaints unit was spot on. When the newsreader Martine Croxall had to utter the words “pregnant people”, her facial expression — as she added, for clarity, the word “women” — did convey “disgust, ridicule, contempt or exasperation”. Because whose face doesn’t when confronted with the idiotic, ideological terms that dog the NHS and erase women even from motherhood?

I know the answer to that one – the faces of the people who have bought into the ridiculous destructive trans ideology and its Core Command that Everyone Must Tell the Lie. There are still lots of them, including many who work for major news media.

Back in 2019,

The current state of play in Trump’s campaign to starve us into submission:

The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to withhold about $4 billion in funding for food aid for 42 million low-income Americans this month, as the effects of the longest government shutdown in history continue to ripple across the country.

Oh good. How nice of the court to let Trump starve people.

The court’s ruling, known as an administrative stay, came after the Trump Administration appealed a federal judge’s order to fully fund the program by Friday.

The administration had previously agreed to a judge’s order to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, by about $5 billion from a