David Oldroyd-Bolt

A year before 7/7 I was stabbed, beaten and left for dead on a street in Manchester. It was a gang of Somali youths. My colleagues - I was working at a university - couldn’t bring themselves to blame the perpetrators. It was poverty, it was me, it was anything. But it wasn’t the masked thugs with stanley knives. 7/7 was the same. London Mayor Ken Livingstone urged us not to apportion blame. Even now the MSM refuses to acknowledge the Islamist nature of the crime. It’s an extraordinary state of affairs. Years later, in 2017, when twenty-two people, some of them children, were killed in the Manchester Arena attack, history repeated itself. Don’t look back in anger. One Love. Shit poetry. The stabbing I got over. But it took me years to come to terms with the pathetic reaction from the hand-wringing identitarians. That was really, really damaging. So I understand full well the harm we do to ourselves when we pretend 7/7 was some bizarre and contextless tragedy. It was Islamist terror - and there’s more to come. And you know what? We have absolutely no hope of effectively dealing with it.

I’ll be lecturing some of the themes in Sex, Gender Identity, and the Law Fridays for the next four weeks starting tomorrow: Venue: The HB Allen Lecture Theatre, HB Allen Centre, Banbury Road, Oxford Time: 17.00-18.30 Dates: 29 May; How Sex Changed 5 June: Single-Sex Spaces 12 June: Gender Critical and Gender Identity Belief 19 June: Sexual Assault by Deception

'His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed' Henry Nowak's father says the 'contrast' in the police's treatment of his son and his murderer is 'unbearable' in a statement after Nowak's killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

Good morning! As promised… posting every day until the whole of Australia has seen it. Show your friends. Share it round. Watch it again. Oh… and for the rest of the world? Have pity on us. It’s our Finance Minister.