Links you might want to read

1. "WWF has provided paramilitary forces with salaries, training, and supplies — including knives, night vision binoculars, riot gear, and batons — and funded raids on villages. In one African country, it embroiled itself in a botched arms deal to buy assault rifles from a brutal army that has paraded the streets with the severed heads of alleged “criminals.”" Yes, that's WWF the panda charity people. (But it's probably better for them to have the assault rifles than that army. Probably.)

2. Another sad one. "I had a conversation last week with a Jewish woman from a family of Holocaust survivors, and people murdered by the Nazis. She has been a Labour party member for nearly 40 years. “It feels like being in an abusive relationship,” she said. A year ago she made an official complaint to the party about what she has experienced, but aside from an acknowledgment, she has heard nothing. During debates in her constituency general committee about issues of antisemitism, she has been jeered – by as many as 30 people – for trying to point out the gravity of the issue. At one party event about hate speech, she was prevented from speaking. Some of her supposed comrades have said that claims of antisemitism have been invented to undermine Jeremy Corbyn; she knows of at least one suggestion that such accusations are the work of Israel." John Harris in the Guardian.

3. And another sad one. "Brigette’s mother is a sex worker. And Brigette knows that somewhere, far away, in a barely imaginable but often-thought-of place called England, she has a father. She knows only his given name: Matthew." Also from the Guardian, a piece about the children of Filipino sex workers.

4. Although it mentions the Aberfan disaster, this, about a psychiatrist who believed people might be able to tell the future, is much more interesting than sad.

5. Long but interesting piece on what social media is all about, why some platforms succeed and others fail, and that sort of thing.

6. "I observed a young student teacher deliver an RE class to 11-year-olds in a Catholic primary school in an isolated rural area in the west of Ireland. [...] The children stared uncomprehendingly. The Rosary meant little. Mysteries less. The Transfiguration nothing. She showed an image of Jesus dressed in a long white robe radiating light. She slowly pronounced and wrote the word “Transfiguration” on the board. A child raised a hand. “I know what that means. It’s when Jesus was trans and he changed his figure from a man to a woman.”" Actually, that's probably all you need to read of this.

7. Hormone replacement therapy for tech titans.