Bang on. Leave out class privilege and you are a massive hypocrite slipstreaming on genuine marginalised people.

The great Maureen Lipman is wasted, alas, in ALLEGRA @RichmondTheatre ...this woman can tiptoe through the lushest of tulips with top style, but these are not they. Rvw up, theatrecat.com

A superb piece by Sam Harris on why he won't debate critics of Israel, and a good bookend to his piece from November 7, 2023. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/…

Julie entirely right about the happiness baseline!

A grim elderly endgame played out in CARE @youngvictheatre . Zeldin clever, caring, but theatrecat.com though septuagenarian itself not convinced.

Wonderful burn of hapless Palestine obsessive William Dalrymple by @MaxJeffery_ in @spectator: “Read one interview with Dalrymple. He doesn’t even try to hide the falseness of it all. ‘As opposed to going to do the shopping, picking up kids from school,’ he told the Indian Telegraph in 2017, ‘Indian middle-class life allows you to send the driver to do one, the cook to do the other… and that means you can get a lot more done, frankly!’ In India, he said, he can lead ‘a bigger life’. It’s like being taught about the history of racism by a man dressed as a golliwog.” new-app.spectator.co.uk/arti…

11 trans people have been murdered in the United Kingdom since 2000. All of them were killed by somebody they knew. In that timeframe, 20 trans people have committed homicide in the UK, including one stranger killing. There is no trans genocide. There isn’t even any real persecution. When it comes to homicide, trans people are the safest demographic in the western world, and it’s past time that members of that community stop pretending to be the most victimy victims ever to be victimized.

Had to repost this 🤣 An oldie but one of the best!! *WHEN A FLY FALLS INTO A CUP OF COFFEE . . .* *The Italian –* throws the cup, breaks it, and walks away in a fit of rage. *The German –* carefully washes the cup, sterilizes it and makes a new cup of coffee. *The Frenchman –* takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee. *The Chinese –* eats the fly and throws away the coffee. *The Russian –* Drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge. *The Israeli –* sells the coffee to the Frenchman, sells the fly to the Chinese, sells the cup to the Italian, drinks a cup of tea, and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee. *The Palestinian –* blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, the German and the Russian are all trying to explain to the Israeli that he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian so there will be peace.

HIGH SOCIETY @BarbicanCentre shows that Helen George is a joy and that Freddie Fox must do more musicals. Please! Soon! Rvw up theatrecat.com

WAR HORSE gallops home after 19 years of triumph to @NationalTheatre . Is it still fresh and sparking wonder? Theatrecat.com assesses, and duly crumbles…

My Sikh community knew Digwa was a loose cannon and banned him from our Gurdwara. I had suspicions about him all along, just how the hell can a baptised Sikh act so recklessly with no regard to human life? RIP Henry

Hear hear. Time for this.

This is a worthwhile and cheerful idea. Read & sign. Save Christmas Cards - Urge Royal Mail to introduce a 50p seasonal Christmas stamp - Sign the Petition! c.org/6DFq2Y86j9 via @UKChange

Elderly grandmothers spreading lies about the Jewish state, demanding its boycott, and pressuring it to surrender to people who openly call for its destruction. Rarely has antisemitism dressed so sweetly. Rarely has it been so dangerous. Full story here: david-collier.com/antisemiti…

Excellent

Increasingly convinced that @RishiSunak was the best PM for decades. Not faultless, but unquestionably decent and enormously intelligent. thetimes.com/article/c6b6485…

JK Rowling mansplained, by Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum) What happened to JK Rowling? If only there were some kind of primary source that could tell us why she became interested in the clash between trans activism and women’s rights — say, a first-person essay. But alas, the archive is silent. It must be, because why else would two male podcasters have taken it upon themselves to solve this supposed mystery? This week, the ‘Origin Story’ podcast, hosted by indistinguishable journalists Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey, bravely shouldered the burden of analysing Rowling over the course of two episodes. Do they succeed? Not remotely. But they do offer a fascinating insight into what happens when a certain kind of progressive man becomes radicalised by Bluesky. Read more below ⬇️ buff.ly/fyIiwWg

This is what it is to be Jewish and go to synagogue in @MayorofLondon’s London. Coming out the tube to chants of the ‘River to the sea’ - the call to murder Jews.

Magnificent. Hope Brittin reads it. And appoints a parallel-deputy DG Editorial.