Mick Hartley
Politics and Culture
Category: Uncategorized
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Baroness Nicolson provides a perfect coda to the Science Museum heteronormative Lego saga:
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I don't have full access to The Herald Scotland, but I like the start of Kevin McKenna's article on the Sandie Peggie case – NHS trans tribunal is about much more than a nurse's fight for her job: What better way to side-track the liberal left from their main goal of relieving poverty and opposing…
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Tragic. This is Shlomo Mantzur the oldest Israeli hostage. Just announced he was murdered on Oct 7, his body is held by Hamas in Gaza. Shlomo Mantzur was a survivor of the 1941 Farhud in Iraq. A Nazi-inspired pogrom that slaughtered Jews. But other Nazis got him on Oct 7 2023. pic.twitter.com/jprEuoiXXY — David Collier…
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From MEMRI TV: In a Friday sermon delivered in the Gaza Strip, during the February 7, 2025 funeral of Hamas military commander Marwan Issa, who was reportedly killed in March 2024, the imam addressed the crowd and told them: "You […] love martyrdom for the sake of Allah. You love to kill for the sake…
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A Times report: An Albanian criminal avoided deportation from Britain because his ten-year-old son did not like the taste of chicken nuggets served in other countries, court documents show. An immigration tribunal ruled that it would be “unduly harsh” for Klevis Disha, 39, to be sent back to Albania partly because his son “will not…
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From the Daily NK: North Korea is conducting lectures for state security agents to reinforce the country’s nuclear status and sharpen surveillance for signs of ideological dissent among a public increasingly strained by economic hardship. According to a source in South Hamgyong province, the provincial state security bureau held a lecture on Feb. 1 during…
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A useful summary of the Sandie Peggie NHS Fife case at The Critic, from Michael Foran. In conclusion: The law on workplace changing rooms is clear: the Workplace (Health, Safety, and Welfare) Regulation 1992 which state that changing facilities will not be suitable “unless they include separate facilities for, or separate use of facilities by, men…
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That didn't take long (via): Let's be clear. The sequence of anti-trans measures brought in by Trump echo the antiSemitic Nuremberg laws of the Third Reich. They are also in line with express demands of the GC movement such as the Women's Declaration which most leading GCs signed.If it walks like a Nazi. — Roz…
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Meanwhile – are we surprised? – Unison is going all out with the trans agenda. From the Telegraph – Trade union accused of betraying women by pushing trans-rights agenda: A trade union has been accused of betraying women by debating a pro-trans motion while an NHS nurse fights her employer to protect single-sex spaces. The motion…
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Possible backtrack, that is: Labour shelves plan to make gender change easier. @HJoyceGender “If this news is correct, we welcome it with great relief. We’ve long argued that any change that makes it easier to obtain gender recognition certificates risks introducing self-ID through the back door." pic.twitter.com/asY8dyxOgI — Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) February 9, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js