Mick Hartley
Politics and Culture
Category: Uncategorized
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The BBC’s Nick Robinson: Tone deaf barely covers it.
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Baroness Falkner speaking out again. She oversaw the ECHR Supreme Court judgement that, for single-sex spaces, sex means biological sex, and now has to watch as the government does nothing. The former head of the equalities watchdog has said the judge in the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal was unlikely to have reached his “highly surprising”…
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Telegraph headline – Trans fencers banned from women’s competitions. No, no, no – it’s men being banned. Men who claim to be women. Headlines like this just play into the hands of gender activists complaining about “transphobia”. Still, good news. British Fencing has joined many sporting bodies worldwide in prohibiting biological males from competing against…
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You get a long way down the BBC report before you see any mention of Hanukkah or Jews: “We understand an event to mark the first day of the Jewish celebration Hanukkah was taking place on Bondi Beach.” And that’s it. Awfully bad luck for those Jews, happening to be on the beach just when…
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Story here: University of Cambridge students allegedly carved the word “Terf” into a fellow undergraduate’s door after she showed interest in gender-critical books. Thea Sewell, 20, says she was ostracised by friends at Christ’s College and condemned as a “bigot” for possessing literature which disputed gender theory – the notion that gender is changeable. The second-year…
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Wes Streeting is “deeply uncomfortable” with the puberty blockers trial. Dennis Noel Kavanagh: I don’t wish to be rude, but I’m not bloody interested in an actual member of the cabinet whining about “discomfort”. Gay teenagers are not sick and they don’t need their puberty blocked. I am less interested in the emotional state of…
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And there’s more: The judge who presided over the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal has been urged to withdraw his findings and consider his position after it emerged that his ruling was “riddled with numerous errors and inaccuracies”. First one error, then two….now it turns out it’s riddled with ’em. Oh dear. The Times has now…
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Dave Rich on this week in antisemitism: Nick Fuentes, the new star of the American far (and not so far) right, went on Piers Morgan’s show and insisted that “Hitler was very fucking cool”. Their interview has had over 4 million views on YouTube. Morgan clipped that part of the video and put it on…
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“This gut feeling that we all have should take precedence over the opinions of other humans with a fancy degree. “Follow clinical advice” they say, as they take away the fertility, sexual and cognitive function of children. “Earlier in the show Wes refused to deny that the BMA is more of a political organisation than…