is insufficient to tell us about the long-term outcomes of putting children on a medical pathway.
Dr Louise Irvine, a GP and co-chairwoman of the clinical advisory network on sex and gender said: “A two-year follow-up will tell us nothing at all about risks or benefits of puberty blockers. I am shocked they are putting children through the known risks of puberty blockers for no gain in knowledge and I consider it totally unethical.”
"The trial is yet to pass ethical approval". We shall see.
Ca. 1910. "Sunset from the Battery — New York, N.Y."
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What the Palestinians really want. From MEMRI TV:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed in a February 20, 2025, speech at the Fatah Revolutionary Council that the Palestinian Authority would continue its payments to Palestinians who committed terrorist attacks against Israelis, also known as "pay-to-slay." He reiterated that if Palestinians had only a single penny left, it would go to the prisoners and the families of the "martyrs." Abbas stated that the prisoners and martyrs are the "most dear" to Palestinians, and he would not allow payments to them to be reduced.
It is worth noting that in the version of this speech aired on Palestinian TV and posted on Abbas's Facebook page, any reference to the continued payments to prisoners and “martyr” families was redacted.
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As you cannot know what the truth is behind the production but want it restored online for public consumption anyway – I want to clarify what seems to be your publicly stated position:
You believe it does not matter:
If it is Hamas propaganda
If the BBC did give money to Hamas
If it was scripted
If it is mistranslated
If scenes were staged
If Hamas family members were involved
If the actors support the murder of Jews
If the actors celebrated Oct 7
If scenes etc are stitched together
If a proscribed group had editorial input/p>
You still want it shown as a factual account to the British public./p>
Your position isn't just ethically unsupportable and deeply unprofessional – it also supports breaking UK law to work with and pay radical Islamic terrorists./p>
And if this gives any indication into the quality and professionalism of your own work – none of you should ever work in the industry again.
tate solution: what they really want is the destruction of Israel. They've been encouraged in this head-in-the-sand attitude to a great extent by the beneficence of UNRWA, which for 75 years or so has catered to their fantasy that they are and always will be refugees – until the time of Israel's inevitable disappearance – while pouring money into schools which teach them that their goal in life is to kill Jews. Also, the Arabs are never held to account for their violence against Israel. After each defeat they just start back again, building up for the next attack.
Will it be different this time? The Israelis are certainly at the end of their patience, but it's not clear that the Palestinians themselves are any nearer to some kind of accommodation. The great tragedy is that the world at large seems more pro-Palestinian than ever – helped along by distorted reporting from the likes of the BBC.
It's also not helped by the framing of this by western media as solely a territorial political conflict, while determinedly ignoring the clear and dominant Islamic doctrines driving Iran and Hamas.
cretariat of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, where their actions were denounced as “anti-people” crimes….
According to Daily NK’s source in Jagang province, the incident began last autumn when local officials, under pressure to fulfill the party’s mandate to “unconditionally ensure” military rice supplies, demanded that ordinary citizens make up the shortfall in quotas. When public compliance proved insufficient, the agricultural inspection organ formed teams to conduct door-to-door searches.
“These home searches weren’t unprecedented, but this time they crossed a line,” the source explained. “The inspectors didn’t just seize grain – they took livestock and household appliances, devastating people’s livelihoods.” The severity of these actions prompted residents to draw stark historical comparisons, with some telling the inspectors that “not even Japanese police during the occupation would have done something like this” and that “times are even harder than during the colonial era.”
The situation worsened when citizens attempted to report the misconduct to the county’s Ministry of Social Security branch. Rather than investigating the complaints, the branch office alerted the agricultural inspection organ about the reports. This collusion ultimately led to the public execution of the branch chief alongside the other officials.
The source noted that such practices extend beyond Usi county: “This abnormal way of doing business is widespread throughout society. Yet as usual, the state addresses these issues by punishing specific individuals rather than addressing the root causes.”
Public reaction to the executions has been mixed. Some people questioned the necessity of such severe punishment for what they viewed as routine practices, while others expressed sympathy for officials who “died a dog’s death trying to carry out the party’s orders.”
“The authorities executed officials for their methods of fulfilling party policy to ‘unconditionally ensure’ military rice stores, calling it an ‘anti-people crime,'” the source said. “But whether this will end the practice of forcing the public to make up military rice shortfalls remains to be seen. The general hope is that the authorities will stop these executions and implement fundamental reforms instead.”
In other words, the officials were carrying out routine party policy, but were over-zealous to the extent that local complaints could no longer be ignored. So, instead of changing the policies, they just execute the officials and carry on as before.
Listen to the Finnish president—this is what a real leader sounds like, unlike the nonsense Trump says. pic.twitter.com/vGX88cjUoN
— Malinda 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺🇬🇧🇬🇪🇩🇪🇸🇪 (@TreasChest) February 25, 2025
Interviewing Stephen Feinberg, nominee for deputy defense secretary. At least one Democrat is prepared to challenge the Trump Ukraine lies.
Anyone who can’t admit that Russia attacked Ukraine should not be helping make decisions about our national security. pic.twitter.com/UIdYxkOo9x
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) February 26, 2025
The BBC really has respected the preferred pronouns of a man charged with raping children as young as 3 and 5. This evil man has now committed suxcide which is what the BBC seems determined to do too. 👇 https://t.co/2PB0kjChDU
— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) February 26, 2025
ge their British counterpart, which broadcasts from Afghanistan in Dari and Pashto, while also hosting local variants of the BBC news website.
But while the Corporation clearly enjoys its unusual role, is editorial independence really maintained? For as UnHerd has discovered, BBC funds frequently end up Taliban coffers, channelled via organisations led by extremists at the very heart of government. More worrying still, these relationships seemingly shape the Corporations coverage in Afghanistan.
Read on for the details – including the inevitable censorship, as they drop programmes featuring women, or music, for fear of alienating their Taliban partners.
The conclusion:
Yet perhaps the most telling statement comes from the Taliban itself. “The BBC is a credible source of news for Afghanistan,” says its official government spokesperson. “[The Corporation] collaborates constructively with the Islamic Emirate.” With praise like that, it’s hard to see how the Corporation can truly wave the flag for journalistic impartiality.
Put this alongside the Beeb's continuing pro-Hamas reporting and, well, it's not a good look. And it's our money they're spending.