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  • Promoting a two gender ideology

    DMWOK – Don't Mess With Our Kids – “a religious group that promotes a two gender ideology.”

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    "They’re referring to biological truth as “a two gender ideology.”

    "The MEDIA is painting the biological truth of male and female as “dangerous ideology” pushed by “far-right” and “anti-trans” Christians. Let that sink in."

  • Penis removal on the NHS

    ion cannot take place until they are 18.

    It's astonishing that this kind of medical mutilation still takes place in the NHS. It's like “body integrity identity disorder” surgery, when people request healthy limbs be removed for no reason beyond the fantasy that they don't somehow "fit". But worse, surely, because of the huge complexity, the devastating impact this will have on someone's life, and the known dangers. Amputating a leg, say, is straightforward enough. Once it's done, it's done. Cutting off a penis and trying to fashion a vagina is on a whole different level, in so many ways.

    Dr Louise Irvine, the co-chairwoman of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender, said: “If this surgery is intended to relieve gender dysphoria then as far as we know there is no research to show how effective it is, but we know that there is a high level of complications such as infertility, loss of sexual function, scarring and urinary problems.

    “This is a very profound surgery with long term effects on very young men, many of whom will have comorbidities such as mental health issues or autism for which they don’t receive any assessment or care in an adult gender clinic.

    “The NHS is currently doing a review of adult gender services but not surgery. We think it is a matter of absolute urgency that they review surgery. They should look at the evidence and the demographic and ask is this the best way to help young men with gender dysphoria?

    “It is highly irresponsible for the NHS to doing this surgery without any good evidence that it is beneficial. It is negligent, unethical and there should be an urgent review.”

    Stephanie Davies-Arai, the founder of Transgender Trend, added: “This is the same cohort of young people who have been indoctrinated as children into believing that they have a gender identity and that they are trans who are now being referred into adult clinics and for these surgeries.

    “These are serious procedures on young people and the NHS is spending millions on what is really elective surgeries with no health benefits but clear health risks and harm.

    “This is not what medicine is for, it is not what a health service is for. This is irreversible and it will leave these young people with medical problems for the rest of their lives with the NHS will have to deal with.”

    Exactly. This is not what medicine is for, and it's not what a health service is for.

  • OK to mock Jews, but not Jew haters

    The case of the Jewish man collared by the Met for offending Hezbollah fans….Brendan O'Neill at the Spectator:

    If you cheer such an eliminationist group, such a vile Jew-hating outfit, then it is the duty of every good Brit to offend you. To mock you and ridicule you and say ‘beep, beep’ to piss you off. That the Met, in this case, took the opposite view and sought to ringfence Hezbollah fanboys from offence is chilling.

    Then there are the staggering double standards. I’ve seen anti-Israel agitators freely prance in the streets with the most sick-making banners. I’ve seen placards calling Jews ‘Christ killers’ and comparing the Jewish nation to the Nazis. I’ve seen the Star of David tangled with the Nazi swastika – the grossest libel that depicts Jews as the heirs to the monsters who once murdered them.

    How many of these people had their collars felt? How many were interrogated for causing offence? If London is a city in which you can mock Jews but not Jew haters, in which you can defame Israel but not make fun of its anti-Semitic enemies, then I fear our capital is even more lost than we thought.

    But worst of all, there’s the galling fact that a Jew was interrogated for mocking Jew haters. That a Jewish man was arrested for making fun of a movement that views his kind as an inferior species. To my mind this is as repulsive as arresting a black person for criticising the KKK. What was the Met thinking? This is too serious to let it blow over. Heads must roll over this humiliation of a British Jew.

    But heads won't roll. "Lessons will be learned" they'll intone, but nothing will change. The Met's main concern, as they made clear, has nothing to do with the arrest of the Jewish man, but rather that they'd offended the marchers. From the original Telegraph article yesterday:

    On Friday, with regard to the repeated references in the interview to the counter-protester having offended supporters of a proscribed terrorist organisation, the Met Police said the officer “clearly misspoke when she described those in the protest as pro-Hezbollah instead of pro-Palestinian”.

    But they were pro-Hezbollah. That's the whole point.

    A spokesman added that the man “was charged following a careful consideration of the evidence” and that the force would attempt to learn lessons from the episode.

    The spokesman said: “We will reflect on the CPS decision not to proceed with the case, applying any learning to future investigations.”

  • Post-conviction sudden-onset gender dysphoria

    eality. If this is “transphobic” then the truth is transphobic.

    As Baker, Stewart was convicted of murder in 2013 and subsequently jailed for life; Sutherley was convicted of culpable homicide and would have been eligible for parole in 2023 but for the case brought against her by Stewart. Prosecutors, however, produced no corroborating evidence against Sutherley beyond testimony offered by Stewart and his lover, Nyomi Fee, who is also serving a life sentence for murder.

    The kicker to all this is that the offences were alleged to have taken place between 2019 and 2023, when Sutherley and Stewart were housed together at Greenock prison. Stewart claimed to be “highly mortified that she had outed me as trans to those who didn’t know I was trans”. You can believe this if you wish to but if so I have a number of lightly-used ferries for you to purchase.

    This combination of personnel and circumstance suffices to make this a lurid and macabre affair of the kind even the darkest satirist might struggle to countenance. Yet it is all true and a reminder that in certain respects modern Scotland has thoroughly lost its mind.

    These men are not just indulged by allowing them to serve time in a women's prison:

    In the case of Stewart there is evidence, quite remarkably, that he and his partner Fee are granted indulgences far beyond those customarily afforded prisoners serving a life sentence. The pair appear to have been spotted openly indulging in what are coyly deemed “sex acts” with, we may only conclude, the prison authorities’ covert blessing. Some prisoners are more equal than others and those with post-conviction sudden-onset gender dysphoria (sic) are the most equal of all.

    Eventually there will be a reckoning for all this and when it comes it deserves to be a thundering one.

  • The gap between aspiration and execution

    On North Korea's unfortunate new warship launch:

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    The Daily NK view:

    North Korea’s public acknowledgment of a catastrophic destroyer launch failure this week offers a rare glimpse into both the regime’s naval ambitions and its technological limitations. When Kim Jong Un’s second 5,000-ton destroyer became unbalanced and punctured during its launch at Chongjin port, the regime made an unusual decision to broadcast the embarrassing setback rather than bury it in secrecy. This transparency, however reluctant, signals that Kim views naval modernization as such a critical priority that even public failures cannot derail the broader narrative of military advancement.

    The incident itself speaks to deeper structural problems within North Korea’s defense industrial complex. Kim’s harsh criticism of officials for “absolute carelessness” and “unscientific empiricism” suggests systemic issues beyond a simple mechanical malfunction. The rushed timeline and workers’ apparent unfamiliarity with large warship construction point to a military-industrial sector struggling to match its leader’s ambitious timeline with actual technical capabilities. This gap between aspiration and execution has plagued North Korean weapons programs for decades, though recent Russian assistance appears to be narrowing it.

    Well, yes and no. Perhaps a reliance on Russian technological prowess is not as smart a move as Kim Jong-un believes.

    More troubling for regional security is what this destroyer program represents in North Korea’s broader strategic calculus. These vessels, designed to carry nuclear-capable missiles, fundamentally alter the peninsula’s naval balance and extend Pyongyang’s strike capabilities far beyond traditional boundaries. Even accounting for construction setbacks, North Korea’s willingness to invest heavily in blue-water naval capabilities demonstrates Kim’s determination to project power beyond the Korean Peninsula and challenge U.S. military dominance in Northeast Asian waters.

    The timing of this naval push, coinciding with deepening North Korea-Russia military cooperation and escalating regional tensions, demands serious attention from policymakers in Seoul, Washington, and Tokyo. While the destroyer’s dramatic launch failure provides momentary satisfaction to critics of Kim’s military buildup, the underlying trajectory remains unchanged. North Korea’s naval modernization program, setbacks notwithstanding, represents a long-term strategic challenge that will require sustained international coordination to address effectively.

    Also, the evidence of the disaster is there on satellite photos. Perhaps Pyongyang felt it had no choice but to come clean.

  • A bubble of smug

    ugh of course Savage appears more than capable of being muddled and misleading herself). Chief among these errors: that getting a Gender Recognition Certificate requires medical reports, blood tests, and hormone prescriptions costing “thousands.” In reality, it’s a £5 admin process.

    She then went further, claiming, “Trans women without access to gender-affirming care are significantly more likely to attempt suicide — one in five will try.” She appears unaware of the peer reviewed studies showing no decrease — and in some cases, even a rise — in suicidality following surgical or hormonal interventions. Nor did she seem familiar with the high rate of mental health comorbidities among trans-identifying individuals. It wasn’t just sloppy — it was grossly irresponsible….

    Astonishing to hear that old discredited suicide canard being raised still. Yes, grossly irresponsible – but that's the Lib Dems.

    No one discussed the Cass Review, detransitioners, or the steady rise in children referred for medicalisation. Nor did anyone comment on the right of women like the Darlington Nurses not to be forced to share their private spaces with men.

    While these MPs were emoting in unison, the man once dubbed the UK’s first “openly trans MP,” Jamie Wallis — who now goes by “Katie” — was facing charges for harassing his ex-wife. This isn’t even his first scandal. In 2022, Wallis — then a serving MP — crashed his car into a telegraph pole while wearing fetish gear and fled the scene. He also previously ran a “sugar daddy” website. Politicians who lined up to salute his courage appear to have forgotten him.

    An unwelcome glimpse into the sordid reality of trans women, as opposed to the fantasy version of the most persecuted group ever.

    Most people outside Westminster assumed that when the Supreme Court clarified the law, reality would return. That institutions would begin to reintroduce sex-based policies. That women’s hospital wards, domestic abuse shelters, and changing rooms would revert to being single-sex. But in that chamber on Monday, it was clear: the cockpit crew are still filming dances, mid-dive, for their shrinking audience.

    And the rest of us? We’re still strapped in, watching the ground get nearer.

    Added: for more on disgraced former MP Jamie Wallis see this at the Glinner Update.

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  • Arrested for mocking Hezbollah

    w that. The police don't seem to though.

    The latest case prompted condemnation from senior MPs and peers on both sides of the House.

    Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said it was an example of “two-tier policing in action”.

    He told The Telegraph: “In recent times, the police have failed to act when confronted with protesters calling for jihad and intifada in London. Yet this man was apparently arrested because he might have offended supporters of a banned terrorist organisation.

    “This is two-tier policing in action. The law is rightly clear that supporting banned terrorist groups, inciting violence, inciting racial hatred or harassing people is illegal. Beyond that, free speech applies to everyone…."

    Before detaining him overnight at Islington police station, officers searched his home in a failed attempt to find the placard, which the man had already explained was not his.

    “Two police vans and six officers turned up at our house to search for ‘offensive material’, which was quite invasive. It was a horrible experience,” he said.

    “They put me in the lounge and asked my partner to go with them around the house. They weren’t very pleasant to her and even went through her knicker drawer. It was totally ridiculous.”

    Following his arrest, in police interview footage obtained by The Telegraph, an officer can be seen repeatedly asking the counter-protester: “Do you think that showing this image to persons protesting who are clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel that by doing so would stir up racial hatred further than it is already?”

    Allowing marches calling for the elimination of Israel might possibly be seen as stirring up racial hatred – but of course racial hatred against Jews doesn't count.

    He was released at 6.30am and later charged under the Public Order Act for causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing.

    On May 10 – eight months after his ordeal began – the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case, saying there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction….

    Lord Austin, a non-affiliated peer who was investigated by police for calling Hamas “Islamists” on social media, told The Telegraph: “It beggars belief that someone would be arrested, put in the cells and then charged for holding this sign because it might upset supporters of Islamist terrorists and a proscribed organisation, rather than take action against the terror supporters.

    “There is clearly a systemic problem when it comes to dealing with the hate marches and, instead of telling us they disagree with individual decisions, ministers need to get a grip and sort it out.”

  • A week at the knees

    Alex Chinneck's bendy building sculpture in Charterhouse Square – part of Clerkenwell Design Week:

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  • Chinese media in North Korea

    fluence North Korea.

    “China is pleased by signs that the U.S. is voluntarily abandoning its democracy promotion campaign. If U.S.-backed content dissemination efforts lose momentum, China will become the only significant content provider. It sees this as an ideal opportunity to spread its own culture,” the source said.

    “China is also preparing to use this program as a diplomatic tool. If North Korean officials and young people develop positive attitudes toward China, that could strengthen pro-China policies,” the source added.

    Korean reunification is looking deader by the week.