Janan Ganesh is on a generational run right now

Utterly useless from the govt. There's no "political debate" to be had: the law is the law, as stated by the Supreme Court, and ministers are delaying guidance to help orgs stay within it because they're too cowardly to say whether they agree with it or want it to change it.

Been warning about online right and people overstating Reform. People didn’t listen and got carried away (and likely radicalised) because they spent too much time listening to Twitter/X. Reality is Reform makes a govt which includes Polanski more likely not less.

Hamas's weaponization of UNRWA in Gaza needs to be fully exposed and understood. A newly released video that was filmed by Hamas terrorists themselves shows how the group used an UNRWA elementary school for children in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, to hide weapons that

Two major issues from the new paper on immigration for Hong Kong BN(O) visa holders: -New B2 language requirement (not subject to consultation) -Income requirement (asked in consultation) Many HKers felt these are as bad as increasing period of living from 5 to 10 years

Pretty devastating critique here from Baroness Cass: “You cannot ask the person why they want to die. I don’t know how then you can possibly assess for coercion Unless you can hear from the person, in their own words, why…you can’t advise on symptom control let alone coercion”

In 1951, the CCP published an anti-American propaganda book titled America — A Blood-Soaked Nation of Killers, edited by Wu Pu. At the time, many Chinese citizens still believed they had been “liberated” and that the new socialist China would soon deliver its utopian promises.

Campaigners for assisted suicide are fond of telling us it has "massive public support" I disagree & in my experience as an opponent of assisted suicide, the more people learn about the subject, the less they support it Have a look at my BBC documentary: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

NEW: The UK signed off China’s new London embassy after Chinese officials offered a ‘cut-price’ rebuild of Britain’s crumbling embassy in Beijing. The Foreign Office “pressured” No 10 into the decision despite security risks, according to sources. inews.co.uk/news/astonishi…

NEW: Puberty blocker trial for children gets green light, but many questions remain. Sadly, my request to attend a media briefing & put some of them to study leads was turned down on the grounds I’m not a ‘specialist’ health/science journalist. newstatesman.com/politics/2025/…

My two paragraph summary of my ignorance about covid, and why I think we should find clever ways to test stuff more.

This is like a transcript from Chernobyl on the night of the accident

Only a relentless and dogmatic activist would parse women’s reasonable disinclination to undress, shower and change in a small communal space with any strangers with male genitals present (people who could swim in the men’s or mixed ponds - no one is excluded) as “hate”

We need to start seeing the ideological pursuit of “natural birth” in the same scathing way we see treating life threatening disease with diet & prayer. It has set maternity care back centuries. It is sometimes appropriate to have a vaginal birth & sometimes it is definitely not.