News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
Two of the deepest shadows overhanging our culture are the psychic toll of Covid and the fact that men and women are diverging politically. What’s rarely noted, says Conor Fitzgerald, is that these things are linked.
Female pianists are to be favoured over men, according to the rules of a leading piano competition under which judges are instructed to "consider" picking a woman "in the case of a tie".
Women have more choice than ever before and no one would want to change that, says David McGrogan. But the fact that so many choose not to have children presents humanity with huge problems. Can anything change their mind?
The NHS is to declare that sex is a matter of biology in a landmark shift against gender ideology as ministers prepare to ban trans 'women' (i.e., men) from women-only wards.
A year ago, Spain introduced gender self-ID, and the results have been predictably disastrous for women, with predatory men granting themselves access to female spaces.
Leo Varadkar has resigned as Ireland's Prime Minister and leader of his Fine Gael party following his shock defeat in two 'progressive' constitutional referendums.
The NHS has come under fire for publishing a new menopause policy that claims: "Not everyone who experiences menopause is a woman."
Arbitrarily classifying every woman pushing 50 as being latently disabled due to the menopause seems perilously close to legislating that females as a whole are inherently unfit for employment, says Steven Tucker.
The ostentatious appointment of trans 'woman' Steph Richards to head a womb-disease charity may look like a publicity stunt, but there really is a growing number of men pretending to have female health conditions.
Victoria's Secret is set to ditch its 'inclusive' rebrand and return to its sexy roots following a £1.1 billion drop in revenue since 2020 – the latest victim of 'go woke, go broke'.
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