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or western leaders. It might work with Russia too: do you think Putin — with his looted billions, young girlfriend and grotesque venality — wants to die? Not a chance. Not even the criminal Kim Jong-un wishes to perish, marinading, as he does, in the imperial harem with the monstrous privileges he steals from his impoverished people.

Religious fanatics are different. Radically different. They want to die. It’s why it is not just conceivable but probable that an ageing fundamentalist leader would launch a nuclear strike against Israel, and feel closer to Allah as the inevitable response loomed large on the radar screen. Do western commentators still not understand that this is precisely why so many sane Iranians (the majority) are thrilled by the Israeli attack? They know only too well that an Iranian nuclear weapon isn’t only an existential threat to the “Zionists” but, just as surely, to themselves. They would be incinerated in the counterstrike, their lives lost as collateral damage in another person’s sick fantasy.

Wake up, world. Every conversation I had in Israel in February, including with three former PMs, opposition leaders and security experts, circled back to the Iranian threat. Remember, too, that Iran gaining a nuclear weapon would lead instantly to proliferation across the region and the wider world. In other words, it would be the first domino that could, in time, lead to the destruction of humanity. It is why the phrase I keep hearing — that Israel is doing the world a “favour” — is so inadequate. A favour? It is facing reprisals and death for hitting the head of the snake on behalf of us all.

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"Iran fired blindly at civilian homes, and nearly killed a baby."

Israel targets military sites, while Iran targets cities. Same old…

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A transgender model has been named alongside Princess Anne as one of Vogue’s “women defining Britain”.

The magazine honoured Munroe Bergdorf, a former Labour Party LGBT adviser, who became L’Oréal’s first transgender model in 2017.

The model, who began transitioning in 2009, has been named as one of the Vogue 25, a group of women found by the magazine to be “defining Britain”, alongside the Princess Royal, the Princess of Wales and actress Keira Knightley.

The fashion magazine has claimed that there “couldn’t be a more urgent time” for Bergdorf’s work highlighting the experiences of transgender people.

The article read: “In a time when hate crimes against transgender people are frighteningly high, and anti-trans rhetoric continues to fester in the media and in the legal system… Bergdorf’s voice resonates louder than ever.”

Oh ffs. This delusion about hate crimes and anti-trans rhetoric, when trans people are lauded – worshipped is hardly too strong a word – by all these ridiculous fashion people. The only "anti-trans rhetoric" is people pointing out, politely, that trans women are men. You can't change sex.

Can they not read the writing on the wall? – or indeed the writing in the Supreme Court Equality Act ruling?

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emies before they can destroy you. Other nations might think it proper to wait until the UN, the EU and the legal professoriate give them the green light to wanly defend themselves, by which point their cities are already smouldering and endless body bags being filled from the rubble. But Israel is not one of them.

If this leads to the end of the theocracy in Tehran – a big if – the world will have even more reason to be grateful. Hezbollah gone, Hamas and the Houthis down but not yet out – and now the head of the hydra.

spokesperson, 200 planes dropped 330 munitions across a wide array of targets.

The IDF stated bluntly: Iran possessed enough enriched uranium to build several bombs within days. Israeli intelligence had concluded that Tehran was about to cross the threshold towards weaponisation. Israeli sources later revealed that the Revolutionary Guard had capabilities to assemble fifteen nuclear bombs, with Iranian scientists already at work. Israel estimates that more than ten nuclear scientists were killed in the strikes.

“This was an imminent threat,” the IDF declared. “We acted to remove it.”…

Saudi Arabia publicly condemned the Israeli strikes – but behind the scenes, Riyadh may well be quietly pleased that Israel is doing what many Sunni Arab governments view as a necessary action to contain Iran’s ambitions. Countries such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt regard Iran as the principal regional threat, particularly in light of its support for Shia militias, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and its nuclear programme. Even those without formal ties to Israel tacitly align on this issue, a shared concern that has underpinned years of covert regional cooperation. One Israeli official even told Israel Hayom the preemptive strike was “more successful than anticipated.”

Overnight, Israel has crossed a threshold. What began in the early hours with sirens and a nation moving to its shelters is now an unprecedented military and geopolitical rupture. The confrontation that long seemed a shadow war is now fully in the open. What began in October 2023 with Palestinian terrorists bursting across Israel’s border in Toyota pickup trucks, armed with RPGs, gasoline, and guns, has transformed into a systematic campaign: the near-elimination of several of Iran’s proxy forces that have threatened Israel for decades; the downfall of the Assad regime in Syria; the crumbling of Hamas in Gaza; the destruction of key military assets including the airport in Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen; the degradation of Hezbollah’s operational capabilities; the elimination of many terrorist leaders across the region – and now, this.

t”>Once the demand for self-ID took off across social media round about the middle of the last decade, a number of leading politicians who should have known better jumped aboard the bandwagon. Some senior politicians who didn’t know better, like Jeremy Corbyn, then leader of the Labour Party, followed suit. But others with less of an excuse for holding insane opinions took the same line, on the basis that (a) trans people are a minority, (b) fighting for minority rights is A Good Thing; and therefore (c) if you demand minority rights you are On The Right Side Of History.

So here we are. The genie released from the bottle in 2004 has grown to an extent that was unimaginable at the time. 

And it all started in February 2004, with a well-meaning but naive government, and a host of well-meaning, naive and ambitious MPs who probably should have known better.

Mea culpa.

caster 19 months to issue a written apology to Camera.

“We apologise for the errors and thank you for your patience in waiting for this reply/confirmation of corrections that were made in October 2023,” a BBC spokesperson said.

y waking up to all of this. In Denmark, a medical journal finally broke the taboo around the glaring overrepresentation of autistic-spectrum-disorder youth among those undergoing so-called treatment for gender dysphoria. And now, Australia is also erupting in alarm and disquiet at the wild west of gender medicine.

The majority of gay people, like Kavanagh here, a director of Gay Men’s Network, would have been happy just to get on with their lives after the triumphs of gay lib, but they reckoned without the likes of Stonewall, keen to keep the money flowing in by going all out for trans liberation. It fooled an astonishing number of people into thinking this was the next great liberation cause of an oppressed downtrodden group, instead of a profoundly homophobic and misogynistic movement led, mostly, by autogynephilic men and academics who'd lost their way down the Queer Theory rabbit hole. Well – now we know.

We’ve come a long way from the original 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day march – the event that would become Pride. That was organised by two lesbians and two gay men, Linda Rhodes, Ellen Broidy, Craig Rodwell and Fred Sargeant. It was a cultural and political phenomenon that changed the world for the better.

Lesbians and gay men certainly made history back then. It falls to us today to destroy gender ideology once and for all. Now that would be something to be proud of.