Gender identity ideology feels like vicious revenge for the social and political advances made by women over the last Century. It’s no coincidence that it appears just at the point women’s social parity with men was within sight. It’s already set us back decades.

This is such a revealing admission. But poor John doesn’t even realise it. My criticism of the BBC is that it has been captured by progressive groupthink. And, of course, if you’re part of that mindset, you’re not going to notice the problem. You’re not being made to broadcast things you fundamentally disagree with because, broadly speaking, you’re on the team. Well, I can tell you that I’ve been made to broadcast things I disagree with on many occasions. I’ve felt impotent fury at some of the news lines the BBC has carried, and continues to carry to this day - particularly on harmful gender ideology and identity politics. And don’t get me started on the BBC’s Covid coverage. Yet here is John effectively saying: “Well, I’ve never had to broadcast anything I disagreed with, so I don’t see a problem.” That is precisely the problem.

It is an absolutely grievous, unconscionable decision to allow this to go ahead on a day of profound mourning for Jews; the sorrowful remembrance of massacre, torture, rape, mutilation and abduction; the abuse of free assembly and speech. Suppose a group decided to march with swastika flags down Whitehall on Armistice Day?

I wonder how they feel about their little slogan now?

I remember my absolute shock during the Salman Rushdie affair. Naively I’d assumed that such an assault on freedom of expression would be vehemently opposed by academia, the arts, our politicians. Instead they hedged and cavilled and made excuses. I felt the first hint of dread.

If a gay white man like Tom Daley wore blackface he’d lose his sponsorship. So why is Daley’s drag womanface being celebrated by the media? Drag insults women no less than blackface does Blacks.

Unspeakable. But also, simply a vivid demonstration of the cruelty inherent in every surrogacy arrangement. Newborns want and need their mothers. Deliberately creating orphans is wicked.

A New York jury just awarded $2 MILLION to a young woman who underwent a double mastectomy at 16 and later detransitioned. The jury found her psychologist and surgeon liable for malpractice. Her case alleged that serious mental-health issues, including depression, body dysmorphia, anorexia and autism-spectrum traits, were not adequately addressed before an irreversible procedure was performed on a minor. Now watch what happens when someone like her speaks publicly. For years we were told regret was exceedingly rare. We were told these procedures were necessary care. We were told questioning the process itself was dangerous. But when a detransitioner stands up and says, “This happened to me,” suddenly she becomes the problem. That is the epistemic tell. When evidence supports the narrative, it is celebrated. When evidence contradicts the narrative, the person carrying the evidence gets attacked. A jury heard the testimony. A jury examined the evidence. A jury found malpractice. And a jury put the damages at $2 million. You don’t protect vulnerable young people by demanding silence from the ones who came back and said, “I wish someone had slowed this down.” You protect them by listening. #AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

Every mother looks at this and feels the primal pull to comfort that infant. This stranger to this child makes it a joke. Surrogacy is trafficking and it puts a child’s needs last. This must end. It will never get better. It can only get worse.

Nothing less than a total ban on ALL surrogacy arrangements will do. It is pure sadism:

Zionism is both historic and spiritual; the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel and their right to self-determination in their historic homeland. I am British by birth, belonging and love; Jewish by inheritance, memory and faith. Britain is my country. Israel is not a competing loyalty, it is the homeland of the Jewish people to which I am bound by ancestry, memory and identity. For millions of Jews, that is the heart of Zionism. Not supremacy, dispossession or the killing of Palestinians and not a colonial claim to a foreign land but the self-determination of a people with an ancient and continuous connection to it. In practice, it must mean two peoples entitled to self-determination both living in security and freedom with neither people’s future purchased with the lives, rights or humanity of the other. That is why declaring “Zionism is racism” is not merely wrong, it tells most Jews that their understanding of their own history, identity and collective freedom is itself morally suspect. The Greens should ask themselves whom they are trying to please by adopting a slogan that turns Jewish self-determination into a moral stain. If your politics of inclusion requires millions of Jews to renounce a central part of their history and identity before they qualify for your solidarity, it isn’t inclusion. You are telling Jews: you may belong here but only if you disown Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. That is not anti-racism. It is imposing a political test on Jews that no genuinely progressive movement would dream of imposing on any other minority.

This gets to the heart of the collectivist error exposed in the Nikole Hannah-Jones op-ed: treating personal love as an obstacle to progress. We don't love “humanity” in the abstract. We love in the particular. That is foundational to a humane society, not a social injustice.

Tucker Carlson asking why the UK had to fight the Nazis @TuckerCarlson @Jacob_Rees_Mogg

Letter from CdA a.i. @BogdanKlich calling on @TuckerCarlson to publicly retract his outrageous statements and apologize for insulting Poles, British citizens, and, ultimately, the memory of the victims of the Shoah and all those who died in the fight against Nazism.

This is a horror. This is an indictment on Western society. We are broken.

This was me right after top surgery. I was so happy to have a flat chest. If someone had told me that only 2 years later, I'd regret it, I wouldn't have believed them. Now it's been 9 years. My dream is to be a mom, another thing I thought I'd never want. Trans is a fad.

This case study from my Mail on Sunday piece should make every politician supporting the Conversion Practices Bill stop and think. This young woman has now said she will delay decisions about gender affirming care until she is older. Her parents went through hell for refusing simply to affirm her gender identity. But by holding boundaries and allowing other explanations to be explored, they gave her time to work things out without making irreversible changes to her body. Is that really the kind of parenting we want to risk criminalising? Link to full article below 👇

Astonishing and sickening. The world must keep asking whose side are progressives on? Fact that the regime in Iran has gone from “Death to America!” to “Vote Democrat” says so much about how disgraceful playing politics with the lives of innocent Iranians fighting for freedom is.

If you remain a Green Party member after today, or vote for the Greens, you are a Nazi. Not hyperbole. Fact.

“Even the most skilled actor cannot override biological reality.” My latest for @spikedonline on why casting a woman as Mr Palmer ruined an otherwise excellent adaptation of Sense and Sensibility - and why ‘identity casting’ is damaging the film industry. Read below 👇

Solidarity with all our Jewish friends and supporters. Today, and every day, we stand with you.