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Bookworm.
This story of a boy raised as a girl burns with a sense of injustice www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/01/2...
This story of a boy raised as a girl burns with a sense of injustice
After a secret gender reassignment as a baby, Jim Ambrose has spent his adult life undoing the damage. Now Channel 4 is telling his tale
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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Claiming abortion is better than foster care is deeply insulting to those who’ve lived that reality 😧

In 2022 as a result of "choice", there were over a quarter of a million abortions in England and Wales.
https://righttolife.org.uk/news/record-high-of-over-quarter-of-a-million-abortions-in-2022
January 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.
January 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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It was AI after all.
January 14, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Minister blames 'slow' watchdog for trans guidance delay www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Minister blames 'slow' watchdog for trans guidance delay
The EHRC has urged Bridget Phillipson to speed up her approval of the guidance, which was submitted in September.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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The ICO has published its decision in a high profile FOI case, backing the EHRC's refusal to disclose internal communications about its interim guidance after the UK Supreme Court judgment last April (which ruled that the meaning of "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 is biological)
January 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
We won the Supreme Court sex ruling. The PM is subverting it

www.thetimes.com/article/911f...
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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December 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I went to Strasbourg to see whether reform, of the European Convention on Human Rights is possible, rather than quitting as some would prefer. Here's our tale for tonight's TV Ten. Pictures and editing by Lee Durant. My thanks to the ECHR / CoE team for accommodating my endless requests.
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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25 December 1942 | A cruelly beaten Polish prisoner, Stefan Muczkowski (no. 75688), a curator of the National Museum in Cracow, was brought to the infirmary Block 20 at Auschwitz I. He perished there on the same day as a result of injuries.
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The English church protects us all, yet is mute

www.thetimes.com/article/e389...
The English church protects us all, yet is mute
Whatever our religious beliefs, we owe our freedom to an institution that has become strangely distant from its people
www.thetimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘I objected to a man using my gym’s women’s changing room. Now, I’m banned by the council’ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
Access Restricted
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Chris Rea, singer of Driving Home For Christmas, dies aged 74
Chris Rea, singer of Driving Home For Christmas, dies aged 74
Family spokesperson confirms death in statement
www.irishtimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.

And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
December 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Protestors who target Jews in London or Manchester by displaying or chanting slogans such as “globalise the intifada” can expect to be arrested in future, the cities’ police chiefs said in a statement yesterday. The policy doesn't seem to apply to other areas.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/slogans-me...
Slogans mean arrests
Although only in London and Manchester, for now
rozenberg.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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People respond to outcomes rather than reasoning, the deputy president of the UK Supreme Court told me last week. Lord Hodge was reflecting on the reaction to the court’s ruling in the For Women Scotland case, where he gave the leading judgment.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/equality-b...
Equality before the law
The UK’s second most senior judge prepares for a very busy retirement
rozenberg.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 AM
‘When I tell Israelis I’m not Jewish but here to help, grown men cry’ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4117e7e...
‘When I tell Israelis I’m not Jewish but here to help, grown men cry’
The British volunteers determined to make a difference on the ground in Israel
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Ancestor worship - a comfort for a distressed tribe?
October 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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We are here in Birmingham today. Can't say I like the place.
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Why did you get a lesbian journalist thrown out for asking questions? Homophobic, no?Why are you supporting Pride in Surrey, which was co-founded by convicted child rapist Stephen Ireland, and is now run by two of his former boyfriends? Don't you think you should support an investigation into PiS?
September 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“Humorless, scoldy neuroticism, often rationalized by the view that one must be on “war footing” because the world is self-evidently in crisis.”

www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...
What is Blueskyism?
And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?
www.natesilver.net
September 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM