Mick Hartley
Politics and Culture
Category: Uncategorized
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Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph: One of the shocking things that happened when the news broke that the controversial Pathways trial assessing the effect of puberty blockers on children was to be halted was that no one had bothered to tell Dr Hilary Cass…. The Pathways trial – ignominiously dubbed the “Streeting trial” by shadow health…
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He finally got there.
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From the BBC: Four Russian soldiers have exposed the horror and brutality of conditions on their side of the front lines in Ukraine, with two men telling the BBC they saw soldiers being executed on the spot for refusing orders. One man told a documentary team he saw a soldier executed on the order of…
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“In South Africa the system of oppression implemented segregation as a form of control over Black people and People of Colour so as to uphold a patriarchal White supremacist system of power. We don’t think it is hyperbole to say that segregating women who play sport into a category of their own – Women’s Sport…
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If I lived in New York I think I’d be a little concerned: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens, NY, on the first Friday of Ramadan, February 20, 2026. Iman Dakmak-Rakka, principal of the Al-Iman School, affiliated with the Al-Khoei Center, and a representative of…
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Joan Smith at UnHerd – No feminist should defend the niqab: Over the weekend, pro-migration campaigner Zoe Gardner called out the broadcaster Colin Brazier, who had complained about seeing women wearing niqabs on Oxford Street in the centre of London. Gardner denounced his post as “racist as fuck”, and asked the aforementioned question about the niqab. “Go…
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An interesting take on the Beeb’s obsession with drag queens, from Andy Jones in the Spectator. It’s because they’re visibly gay. The BBC has reached peak drag queen. These days, turn on any celebrity quiz, cookery show or news item by the state broadcaster and you are almost certain to be confronted by a bloke…
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Yes, the women got left out. But still….