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he EHRC had ordered the board to produce an assessment, and anticipates it will be published by Sept 30.

She said the watchdog had also made clear that NHS Fife must comply with April’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not women for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010….

Lady Falkner said: “Earlier this year, we asked NHS Fife to provide us with information on the provision of single-sex changing facilities for staff and the rights of different groups in the application of these policies. At that point, NHS Fife confirmed no equality impact assessment was available.

“Undertaking an equality impact assessment of relevant policies or practices, and publishing the results, are requirements of the PSED specific duties in Scotland. We believe NHS Fife failed to meet these requirements and told them to carry one out immediately.”

Maya Forstater, the chief executive of Sex Matters, which is supporting Ms Peggie’s legal action, said: “This directive to NHS Fife is an unprecedented intervention from the EHRC and the kind of muscle that has been lacking from regulators across the board since gender ideology first took hold of public institutions.

“While long overdue, this is a clear instruction to NHS Fife – and in fact all employers – that it cannot get away with continuing to flout the Equality Act.”

Tess White, the Scottish Tories’ shadow equalities minister, said: “This damning directive from the EHRC confirms that, on top of being negligent, incompetent and biased, NHS Fife broke the law in relation to the Sandie Peggie case.

“The shameful admission from the health board confirms that Sandie Peggie was hung out to dry from the very beginning of this tawdry scandal simply for standing up for her rights as a woman.”

A bit of a star, is Baroness Falkner.

size: 11pt”>If the Victorian Education Department can't teach resilience without teaching five year olds they can change sex, then Victorian parents should think twice about trusting them with their kids.

"Immoral" is putting it mildly. It's a despicable betrayal of young children.

After JKR, here's Kathleen Stock on Nicole Sturgeon's ridiculous book:

In the 2010s it was commonplace to hear that such-and-such a prominent woman had “imposter syndrome” — meaning she went through life irrationally feeling as if she was about to be unmasked as a fraud. It seems that the disease goes all the way up to national leaders. In Nicola Sturgeon’s autobiography, Frankly, published yesterday, she describes suffering from it too. “The better I did, the more of an imposter I felt, and the greater the fear of being ‘found out’,” she writes.

Cut to the end.

But while she had diligence in spades, ultimately, she never made a dent in the most pressing national problems — rising drug deaths, falling education standards, terrible public health, violent crime in cities — and that’s partly because, in terms of her capacity to understand the bigger picture, her intellect was always too limited, tempting her towards the superficial gesture as a substitute. If Frankly is anything to go by, then, strictly speaking Sturgeon never did have imposter syndrome. To have that particular malaise, your nagging suspicion you aren’t really up to the task has to be wrong.

Ouch.

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Some residents of the building, including minors, saw him or overheard conversations, yet did not alert the police.

Investigations revealed: At least three women brought him food and participated in humiliating him. Several teenagers were seen bragging about the hostage to peers. Some neighbours claimed fear of retaliation if they spoke up; others shared the antisemitic belief that “Jews are rich” and thus thought ransom-seeking was justified.

The police later criticized this collective silence as a form of passive complicity, a “wall of indifference” that allowed the torture to continue for 24 days.

Authorities later found cigarette butts, DNA traces, and clothing in the basement.

Phone records and witness statements confirmed a constant flow of visitors to the holding site.

The investigation concluded that this was not just the act of a lone sadist but a communal crime, sustained by active cruelty from some and deliberate inaction from others.

e=”font-size: 11pt”>But then Isla Bryson burst into the news. Bryson, a convicted double rapist, had decided he was a woman and would rather be incarcerated with the sex against which he’d already committed the most male of crimes. When asked on television whether bald, blonde wig-wearing Bryson was a man or a woman, the First Minister, whose composure and articulacy under fire had, for years, been her most potent political asset, made herself look – and forgive me for employing a PR term here – a complete fuckwit.

But read it all.

Former hostage Danielle Aloni describes how Hamas terrorists told her not to worry if something happened to her, saying they would take care of her daughter, Emilia, if she died.

I can’t imagine a more terrifying proposition.

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"Former hostages like Danielle are calling to bring the remaining hostages home. It is long past time to listen."

Nicole Lampert in the Evening Standard – Why London Jews fear for their future in the capital:

Samson is 13 and has had to get used to antisemitic abuse when he leaves his north London Jewish school, but there was one incident a couple of months ago that still scars him. He was walking towards Belsize Park underground and was lagging behind his friends. “Most of my friends had crossed the road but I was on my own when I was targeted by two guys wearing balaclavas. They did a Nazi salute, they spat on the ground and said, ‘dirty Jew’,’’ says Samson.

“Then they grabbed me by my shirt collar and pushed me against a gate and demanded my phone.” The assault only ended when other people approached the attackers. “The whole episode left me feeling quite shaken up,” adds Samson. This wasn’t the first time he’d been attacked on his way home from school — he’d been spat at on the Tube and called names — just the most violent….

Schools are just one of the many areas in which antisemitism has spiked since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 heralded the start of a new war with Gaza. The Community Security Trust (CST) which monitors anti-Jewish hatred has labelled school antisemitism a particular growth problem, with 107 reported incidents in the last six months. Jewish parents find themselves in a quandary: send them to a Jewish school where they will be safe in the playground but attacked when they leave (41 of those incidents happened during a daily commute) or send them to a non-religious school and hope they don’t get bullied.

Dozens of London Jewish parents have had to remove their children from schools because of antisemitic bullying. Worst of all? It might come from the children but can be seen to be encouraged by the teachers….

A grim read.

“Death to the GHF.”

In Virginia, Free Palestine “activists” vandalized the home of GHF director John Acree, trashed his property, damaged his car, and left death threats in his driveway.

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After months of claiming Gaza is starving, how exactly does threatening the very organization feeding Gazans help them?

In 3 months, GHF has delivered over 120 million meals. Do they really want GHF to stop distributing food? And what, let Palestinians starve?

The only ones who benefit from shutting GHF down are Hamas.

Which tells you everything: this was never about helping Palestinians. It’s about supporting Hamas.

And hurting Israel. Hurting Jews.

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O Cameron Bailey has since apologised for the cancellation and said he is working to get the film back on the big screen in time for the festival.