Know what make me sad Daniel? Insane child castration cults or gender abattoirs like the Tavistock where staff “joked”, “soon there will be no gay people left”
Jo stood up against that, you promoted the ideology. You weak little wooden acting clown. pic.twitter.com/o5jyhADRkb
My theory about Daniel Radcliffe is that he secretly resents Rowling's influence on his life. He was heading for a decent career as a chartered accountant or estate agent when he was dragged into the Harry Potter world simply by his looks, with that stupid round face and glasses. Ever since then he's had to struggle as an actor when it's quite obvious to everyone that he's no good at it. As a result his life is a succession of public embarrassments. Without Rowling he would have settled down in Pinner by now to a nice quiet suburban life.
Khorasan Razavi TV (Iran) aired a rally of university students and professors in Mashhad, Iran in support of campus encampments and protests in the West on April 27, 2024. A speaker at the rally said that the Basij organization of university lecturers in the province of Khorasan Razavi supports the “freedom-seeking professors and students” in American and European universities. He said that the student community will demand vengeance for the blood of the innocent children of Gaza. The speaker led the crowd in chants of ‘Death to America!’ ‘Death to Israel!’ and ‘Death to the Jewish oppressors!” He said that liberal democracy and global Zionists are on a path of decline and destruction. The speaker further suggested that Western students study Iranian Supreme Leader’s message and act until the “cancerous growth that is Israel” is annihilated along with “global arrogance and heresy.”
I can see it happening. Back in the Sixties it was the Thoughts of Chairman Mao. Now, soon, it'll be the Thoughts of Supreme Leader Khamenei.
Male politicians who chose to pander to activists issuing violent threats against their own female MPs enabled and emboldened the toxic culture Keir Starmer now claims to deplore. When you're part of the cause, you've got some brass neck putting yourself forward as a cure.
One lousy apology and he'd have bought a lot of women's good will, but evidently the mob must still be appeased.
Starmer’s refusal to apologise to Duffield is bad enough. It’s part of his mulish reluctance to admit he has said any number of risible things about sex and gender, as though we all have short memories and he can rewrite the past. He wholeheartedly embraced gender ideology after he became leader and now seems to be having second thoughts, which is hardly surprising in light of the casualties it’s already claimed — Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf in Scotland, Leo Varadkar in Ireland.
A decent man would throw up his hands and admit he was wrong. Instead, Starmer takes refuge in platitudes — but they’re dangerous platitudes. He says he talks to Duffield. She says he doesn’t. He says he wants to have a discussion with her and “anybody else” about sex and gender. So why have I been waiting more than three years for a response to my letter on this very issue, which described attacks on women members of the Labour Party by trans activists? He still hasn’t replied after I spoke to him in person at a dinner in May 2022.
The question of where our likely next prime minister stands on the conflict between women’s rights and the outrageous demands of trans activists is not going to go away. And Starmer has made the situation a great deal worse by appearing to lie on TV about his dealings with one of his own MPs.
And – speaking of North Korea – here's the new song that's taking the country by storm. Well, they don't have much choice…
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According to the Daily NK, it's not going down well:
North Korea recently released a new propaganda song extolling leader Kim Jong Un titled “Friendly Father,” but North Koreans who have heard the song or seen its music video cannot suppress their bitterness, at least in secret, Daily NK has learned.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Daily NK source in North Hamgyong Province said Thursday that the song “has been played on television every day,” but people are laughing bitterly “because the lyrics and images in the video are so different from reality.”
“Friendly Father” was first released to the public on April 16 at a celebratory performance marking the completion of the second phase of housing construction in Pyongyang’s Hwasong district. The lyrics focus on the people’s unwavering faith in Kim, the “great leader” and “kind father.”…
The song praising and paying tribute to Kim has been played continuously on television and other media since its release. People who have heard it cannot criticize it openly, but they complain about it in secret.
“Watching the scenes accompanying the song, you’re reminded of a leader who cares warmly for everyone, from young children to the elderly,” the source said. “But the reality is that people are on the verge of death because they have nothing to eat.”
“Even in Hoeryong and Chongjin, more and more children and elderly people are collapsing from malnutrition, but no one is doing anything about it,” he said. “Children can’t go to nurseries, kindergartens or schools if their parents don’t have money, but the video shows children so happy they don’t know what to do with themselves, leaving people speechless.
“People feel disappointed and frustrated with the current reality, when money solves everything in the midst of continuing economic difficulties, with some even whispering that they hope the state will quickly fall into ruin. And they can’t help but frown at lyrics that say we’re headed for a better future.”
Young people are particularly critical of the song. Sensitive to the latest culture and trends, North Korean youth have little use for an anachronistic propaganda song that idolizes Kim.
According to the source, a 20-something resident of Hoeryong said, “Maybe because I’m so used to the music from the neighborhood below [South Korea], I can’t listen to it because it’s so cheesy, and I can’t watch the video because the singers’ movements are so awkward. He said he found the verse about Kim “making all wishes come true” particularly ridiculous.
He added: “Only rich parents can make wishes come true.”
People in Chongjin also find the new song nauseating. The source said that people get together and say, “I wish people could really live as happily as they do in the music video.”
“Before, people just nodded along when the songs came out, but now, perhaps because people are nervous because they are suffering extreme hardships, they are complaining about the excessive exaggerations. Young people who are unhappy with the state are laughing bitterly at the song, which they never sing. That’s the current reality.”
"Yemeni workers" ; " decolonising the Red Sea" 🤣- Stalinist lingo wondrously preserved sounds out again from the graveyard of toxic despotism, regimes that really did practice mass murder on an epic scale; knowing they could always rely on idiots like these to parrot their lies https://t.co/Bz13yWDway
Princeton student praises NORTH KOREA for never ‘establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.’
A student speaker praised Kim Jong Un’s repressive regime as the crowd cheered and thanked North Korea for providing ‘moral and material aid’ to the terror group, Palestinian… pic.twitter.com/B6C5gXpt9U
I hadn't realised this news had reached the press. I think @RosieDuffield1 will agree with me that using the word 'troll' to describe men who make explicit death threats against women minimises both the offence and the effect on the recipients.https://t.co/HjrYP26Oyp
) Most of them openly say they support Hamas, a designated terrorist organization;
2) They say 10/7 atrocities, rapes, murders, didn’t happen. The official line is “even the NYT debunked it!”;
3) 10/7 was justified. It was resistance;
4) 100% of the people we spoke to had the exact same narrative and MO, trying to recenter the conversation to 1948, without knowing any of the details when challenged;
5) They have their own security and control access to their encampment;
6) We remained very calm, but they got really aggressive and angry;
7) When you approach people who clearly are junior to others, “handlers” show up very quickly to takeover;
8) Since many of them are truly ignorant about historical and present facts, when they know they’re going to embarrass themselves, they all say “read our 5 demands to divest, now I’m going to stop talking to you.”
More organized and orchestrated than I expected. Very sad to see so many young people in a higher education setting being manipulated and brainwashed and totally devoid of critical thinking.
In that Observer interview, Billy Bragg targeted JK Rowling and Julie Bindel as women who are on the wrong side of the trans debate – "it's who they are lined up with". Some nasty right-wing men, it seems, are aware that you can't change sex. For Billy it's a clincher.
Suggesting that silly women who object to men in women’s changing rooms, hospital wards and prisons have joined forces with the hard-Right is ludicrous. Left-wing feminists, such as myself and Rowling, have led the charge against gender ideology because we campaign against rape and domestic violence. For Bragg to bleat about how abortion rights and equal marriage are at risk as a result of these imagined alliances is a bit rich considering that he, as a straight man, needs neither.
Bragg doesn’t like the powerful, Right-wing men who agree with me and Rowling on the trans issue. The inconvenient truth is that neither Donald Trump nor Viktor Orbán would be au fait with feminist politics, but are each aware that there are only two sexes. If to Bragg that means I agree with those men, so be it.
Feminists — all women — have been deeply and profoundly betrayed by Left-wing men. They have preened and postured about being such good trans allies while we have been attacked, abused, harassed, libelled and shunned for standing up for women’s rights. They turned a blind eye when lesbians were told by transactivists that we are bigots for excluding men from our dating pool. These men clapped along as we were losing our jobs and reputations, agreeing with the zealots that we just needed to be more kind….
This problem spans many decades and continents. In 1964 Stokely Carmichael, a prominent Black Power activist, was asked about the role of women in the civil rights movement. He replied: “The only position for women in the movement is ‘prone’.” It is precisely because men on both the Left and the Right displayed such misogyny that the Women’s Liberation movement was founded in the Seventies. Bragg is a modern-day Carmichael, and men like him will always put men first, whether they claim to be women or not.
It's like one of those Christo wrap-ups…but this time definitely not for art's sake:
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On the covering-up of the Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park:
The Metropolitan Police have denied involvement in the decision to cover up London’s Holocaust memorial to protect it during pro-Palestinian protests.
The memorial in Hyde Park was covered in a blue tarpaulin on Saturday, as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from Parliament Square to a rally in Hyde Park.
After the decision to cover the monument was reported, the Metropolitan Police released a statement distancing itself. It said: “The decision to cover the memorial was taken by park authorities, not the police.”…
Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, described the precaution as “sad but necessary to avoid further offence to the Jewish community”.
He said: “We could take the risk that it would get defaced with the likes of placards and cause additional offence to the Jewish and other communities. It would have been nice if the organisers [of the rally] stopped to pay their own respects at the memorial.”
Well yes, you can see his point, but it's the same approach as the Met takes on the endless anti-Israel marches: tell Jews to stay away, remove the Iranian with his "Hamas are terrorists" banner….in effect, appease the antisemites.
Yad Vashem, the global Holocaust remembrance organisation, called on individuals and organisations not to hide the memory of the atrocity.
It said: “Holocaust memorials serve as solemn reminders of the unparalleled horrors perpetrated, during one of the darkest chapters in human history. They stand as testaments to the millions of innocent lives lost and are beacons of hope so that such atrocities cannot and will never be allowed to occur once more.
“The decision to cover up Holocaust memorials and exhibitions out of fear from the scourge of global antisemitism is deeply troubling. By concealing these historical reminders, we are only addressing the symptoms while ignoring the root cause of the issue.
Yad Vashem implores authorities to address the heart of the events: hatred and antisemitism. These are the true issues that are eating away at the moral fabric of our society.”
It's an insult to the memory of the Holocaust, and an admission of what's really going on with these marches.
Mick Hartley 