'In the thick of mass psychosis, prophets are unwelcome. It rarely pays to be ahead of your time. Even as this perverse infatuation with pretending to change sex subsides, commentators who stuck their necks out and pleaded for us all to get a grip are not assured any retroactive…

Crucial for universities to keep defending the right of students to protest responsibly, while also dealing clearly and robustly with cases of real violence and unambiguously murderous speech.

Without discipline, it's impossible to protect the rights of legitimate protesters.

Please could everyone just stop adopting the utterly confusing north American usage of 'liberal'?

It really isn't the opposite of 'liberal' to be in favour of free markets, is it?

Nor is there anything 'liberal' about uncritically accepting traditional egalitarian dogma.

'Ok so we fucked up by backing the wrong side in the paedriatic medical scandal of the century but the head of MI6 is a he/him so suck it up losers' is – how to put this – a creative take on the past week's events
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Nice mini-documentary on the filming of the Sony advert in Toryglen, Glasgow, in 2006
bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-sco…

'The wretched of the earth want science and the benefits of science. To deny them this is another kind of racism.'
Needs restating today more than ever. At Cambridge in the 1980s, Fox was still prominent on reading lists even though postmodernism and relativism were on the march.

Great run & volunteers. If you’re looking for a challenge Aston Hall is definitely one to try out! Had some great conversations today positive feedback! No males should be in any female category parkrun UK! Please consider giving us the same fairness & respect you give the men!

Seascape from a bus window on a foul day, southern Iceland.

G'd'evening. Japanese cherry blossom is getting all the attention this week, but Japanese quince is very pretty too.

If only they hadn't improved the drainage on the Edinburgh Meadows.

Now the tide has turned in the UK, we won't keep on seeing people fired for airing gender-critical concerns in the workplace.

But we must keep defending free speech. Who knows what other kinds of censorious narrow-mindedness may prevail in the future.

freespeechunion.org/the-human-cost…

Note the smug 'right side of history' rhetoric and the usual false claim that transgender people are being excluded from sport.

By lying about this, they're not only trying to sabotage women's sport, they're harming the interests of transgender people.

Re Megan Rapinoe, etc, letter against NCAA:
“All of the women who achieved their dreams & earned their money through women’s sport to then try to destroy that for all the women & girls behind them, give it all back if you don’t care about the category of women’s sport.”

Over 100 Nobel laureates have strongly encouraged cultivation of Golden Rice to reduce blindness and child mortality throughout Africa and Asia.

Greenpeace think they know better. Over many years, elitist anti-science activism has blighted millions of lives in poorer countries.

Video footage just in of the moment the SNP parted company with the Green Party.

Anyone who values freedom of expression should defend it for everyone, not just those they agree with.

Everyone should also be aware that freedom can't flourish without peace and safety. So freedom lovers must be utterly intolerant of violent protesters.

More people in England are enjoying regular outdoor exercise. Good news. It's free, fun and good for us, and no-one needs to be bullied into it.
theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…

STONEWALL MUST BE EXPELLED FROM OUR SCHOOLS

I was not called today in Prime Minister’s Questions. This is what I would have said if called by Mr Speaker

Stonewall may have started out as an equality movement but it has turned into a trans activist organisation that has used its…

Another glorious morning in Edinburgh Meadows, though the temperature at 6.30 was just on zero.
I'm sure our cherry blossom has adapted to cope with this.

Harpa concert hall, Reykjavik, outside and in.

People in Iceland really do seem to love music, sculpture, and architecture.