FAO the both-sides-toxic-debate people - the insults she quotes are unilateral. And the misinformation she cites as a concern, ditto.

Hilary Cass: “If you deliberately try to undermine a report that has looked at the evidence of children’s healthcare, then that’s unforgivable. You are putting children at risk…
I’m not going on public transport at the moment, following security advice..” thetimes.co.uk/article/3121a2…

The best way to understand somewhere is firsthand. I went to Israel.
 
This is the first of a few threads. Everything I post is from primary sources and independently verified wherever possible. All photos & videos my own.
 
To begin: 7 October 2023.
 
Warning: violence.

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This is the memorial at the site of the Nova festival. Hamas’ intelligence was not perfect. They didn’t expect the festival. The organisers had unexpectedly extended it by a day. There is a theory that the easy target of the festival distracted Hamas fighters from a deeper

On 7 October, Hamas crossed the Gaza border in divisional strength. I’m going to use military jargon as this was not a rag-tag rabble. The numbers of trained and organised Hamas fighters were more than double the number of personnel the British sent to retake the Falklands in

Elizabeth Liddle I like facts, not jargon. Show me where she’s got her facts wrong and spare me the fashionable slogans about confusing teleonomy and teleology.

Same. I wanted to understand what I was being asked to support. This doesn't seem particularly radical to me. So I did my homework & realized I could not support it. Others, it turns out, were quite happy to throw their support behind a cause they never bothered to understand.

Neasa Hourigan TD Would you feel confident explaining what your worries with the methodological approach taken by Cass are?

Neasa Hourigan TD The orgs and standards people refer to in their attempts to rebut Cass are ideologically biased and scientifically unsound. Gender-affirming care for eunuchs is voluntary castration. Do you agree with the author?

Of the 9,000 complaints made in the first two weeks of Scotland’s new hate crime law, which led to overtime work for 40 investigating officers a day, more than 95% were not crimes and nearly one in four of the 'hate crime victims' were ... police officers thetimes.co.uk/article/177bf2…

If it turns out you *can* hold on by visibly demonstrating independence and distance from the leadership, imagine what a Street win would do for Conservative discipline at Westminster...

“Tove Jansson’s first drawing of what became Moomintroll,” so I learn from Sam Leith 🐝, “was made after an argument with one of her brothers about the philosopher Immanuel Kant.”

Who among us has not had dental surgery and confusedly made glaring factual errors about important things in a national newspaper article? Why, I once accidentally got the wrong bus after an appointment.

Humza Yousaf take note. Maybe you were groggy & forgot what a woman was.

I went to the Sargent exhibition at the Tate yesterday. No wonder women loved being painted by him; he made them look like people with active inner lives.

Maybe because my perfectly gay son is now being sold a lie and on harmful medications that increase his risk of multiple scerosis x7, all before his first kiss. Maybe its men taking women’s places in sport. Maybe its the male rapists in female prisons. #CassReport .

Norah Neilson Gray (1882–1931) Scottish
Self-Portrait in a Cloche Hat 1910

My baby, the Royal School of Needlework Collection and Archive website, is now live! First up are 100 objects that represent the breadth and depth of our holdings. I’ve put my heart and soul into this, as have my wonderful team of volunteers. Do check it out! collections.royal-needlework.org.uk/home

Mia Tarney (British Artist, born 1973)
'Duchess Peony', 2007.
Oil on Linen, 137.2 × 152.4 cm.
Private Collection.

🚨🚨FIVE middle school female athletes in West Virginia refuse to throw shot put against male, Becky Pepper-Jackson.

This comes just 2 days after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the WV law that says you must compete in the category that matches your sex.

It's a

British model Rose Dolores was magnificent 6'1' star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917-1923. Her dramatic unsmiling face and great sense of high fashion influenced generations of models and showgirls.