JK Rowling's sexual violence support centre demands apology from Amnesty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely guy, knowledgable and erudite, and very funny. David Willey, esteemed BBC foreign correspondent, dies aged 93 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Always good to know a random on Bluesky thinks they understand the law better than a unanimous Supreme Court.

Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than Xi www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c45ce3c...

Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Heart singer dies aged 75

UK Supreme Court to sit one day in four in the New Clarence pub in Hull

as freud once said, sometimes a pope is just a pope

Five justices of the UK Supreme Court are to spend a day thinking about beach huts. Peter Stenner owns three near the River Teign beach in Devon. Do his huts come with the right to store his boats during the winter on a nearby corner of the council car park? rozenberg.substack.com/p/beach-huts...

Saw a clip in which you downplay 'transwoman' (downgraded to 'individual') Katie Dolatowski's sexual assault of a 10-old-girl. You claim it was an isolated incident (it was his second assault) and that 'studies' show this never happens (it happens regularly). Breathtakingly glib and callous

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Payout for Muslim NHS employee over single-sex lavatory policy www.thetimes.com/article/6af5...

That's the west coast mainline for you

Snowden LJ is the latest judge to be promoted to the UK Supreme Court. He will replace Lord Richards in June supremecourt.uk/news/lord-ju...

🛌🌛Night Riviera - I'm on GWR's 21:15 Penzance-London Paddington. It's got the oldest carriages in UK, but one of the best interiors! Smart refurbished sleeper car, and a plush bar/lounge with sofas & armchairs. Even the cheap seats look good...🧵⬇️

That claw hammer looks especially “non-violent”.

Roundup of latest Exeter news from our quality news source @exeterobserver.org exeterobserver.org/2026/04/02/t...

Trans woman jailed for grooming 13-year-old girl www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c2844d7...

Fiyaz Mughal: ‘Moderate Muslims like me have been cut off by Labour in favour of extremists’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/861c5db...

Man killed himself ‘under orders from Google chatbot’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d3481bf...

Non-white voters should stay in their lane apparently🤦‍♂️ Why oh why won’t they do what their betters tell them to? It’s a mystery to anyone not a member of the metropolitan elite.

This story of a boy raised as a girl burns with a sense of injustice www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/01/2...

Claiming abortion is better than foster care is deeply insulting to those who’ve lived that reality 😧 In 2022 as a result of "choice", there were over a quarter of a million abortions in England and Wales. https://righttolife.org.uk/news/record-high-of-over-quarter-of-a-million-abortions-in-2022

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

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It was AI after all.

Minister blames 'slow' watchdog for trans guidance delay www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ICO has published its decision in a high profile FOI case, backing the EHRC's refusal to disclose internal communications about its interim guidance after the UK Supreme Court judgment last April (which ruled that the meaning of "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 is biological)

We won the Supreme Court sex ruling. The PM is subverting it www.thetimes.com/article/911f...

I went to Strasbourg to see whether reform, of the European Convention on Human Rights is possible, rather than quitting as some would prefer. Here's our tale for tonight's TV Ten. Pictures and editing by Lee Durant. My thanks to the ECHR / CoE team for accommodating my endless requests.

25 December 1942 | A cruelly beaten Polish prisoner, Stefan Muczkowski (no. 75688), a curator of the National Museum in Cracow, was brought to the infirmary Block 20 at Auschwitz I. He perished there on the same day as a result of injuries.

The English church protects us all, yet is mute www.thetimes.com/article/e389...

‘I objected to a man using my gym’s women’s changing room. Now, I’m banned by the council’ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

Chris Rea, singer of Driving Home For Christmas, dies aged 74

This is incredible www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago

Protestors who target Jews in London or Manchester by displaying or chanting slogans such as “globalise the intifada” can expect to be arrested in future, the cities’ police chiefs said in a statement yesterday. The policy doesn't seem to apply to other areas. rozenberg.substack.com/p/slogans-me...

People respond to outcomes rather than reasoning, the deputy president of the UK Supreme Court told me last week. Lord Hodge was reflecting on the reaction to the court’s ruling in the For Women Scotland case, where he gave the leading judgment. rozenberg.substack.com/p/equality-b...

‘When I tell Israelis I’m not Jewish but here to help, grown men cry’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4117e7e...

Ancestor worship - a comfort for a distressed tribe?

We are here in Birmingham today. Can't say I like the place.

Why did you get a lesbian journalist thrown out for asking questions? Homophobic, no?Why are you supporting Pride in Surrey, which was co-founded by convicted child rapist Stephen Ireland, and is now run by two of his former boyfriends? Don't you think you should support an investigation into PiS?

“Humorless, scoldy neuroticism, often rationalized by the view that one must be on “war footing” because the world is self-evidently in crisis.” www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...

www.scotsman.com/news/politic... Excellent news.

Salvaging an unused cartoon - this week's trip to #RejectionIsland goes via Alaska.