Author: Mick Hartley

Baroness Nicolson provides a perfect coda to the Science Museum heteronormative Lego saga:

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 capitalism than by promoting an imaginary dogma of oppression? There’s a reason why corporate power and public sector influence has swung behind the campaign for trans rights. If you can convince sincere and well-motivated people that this is the moral crusade that defines the age then you can be left relatively undisturbed to amass your profits.

And what better way of doing this than by conjuring up an ethereal and contrived suite of slogans and declarations: trans rights are human rights; love is love?

The case of Sandie Peggie against NHS Fife is one of those cut-through moments when the general public have been afforded a glimpse behind the veil that’s been carefully drawn over the trans debate by Scotland’s political class.

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 (@mishtal) February 11, 2025

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For more on the Farhud, see here.

ove to kill for the sake of Allah.

"By Allah, the resistance fighters could not fight, and could not massacre the Jews, if it had not been for the grace of Allah."

He's not wrong. Yes, it's all for the sake of Allah. It's all about Islam.

style=”padding-left: 40px”>The unnamed father of two toddlers, who was granted anonymity by an immigration court, had been banned from living with his children since he was convicted of trying to get three “barely pubescent” girls to engage in sex and jailed for 18 months.

However, a lower tribunal judge ruled that he should not be deported back to Pakistan as it would be “unduly harsh for the children to be without their father”.

The Home Office appealed the decision and was backed by an upper tribunal judge Judith Gleeson who set aside the ruling, criticising it as “contrary to the evidence, plainly wrong and rationally insupportable”. 

The case is ongoing.

pulation, stressing the need for constant vigilance regarding public sentiment. This aligns with the regime’s long-standing strategy of justifying nuclear weapons as essential for national survival while promoting unity and suppressing ideological dissent. The approach includes restricting access to outside information and actively promoting the party’s nuclear policy as part of a decades-old system of social control.

“The lecture served two purposes: reinforcing the legitimacy of nuclear weapons to state security agents while motivating them to identify and eliminate any signs of ideological discontent that could threaten regime stability,” the source explained. However, they added, “State security agents alone can’t prevent public dissatisfaction. As living conditions worsen, many people question the value of maintaining nuclear weapons.”

le for Dr Upton to have met the requirements for obtaining a GRC because, as stated in oral evidence this week, Upton began transitioning in 2022 and therefore could not have completed the required 2 years of living in the acquired gender prior to August 2023 when the events in this case began. Therefore, as a matter of UK law, Dr Upton is a man for all legal purposes, including the Equality Act 2010 and the 1992 Regulations. 

The 1992 Regulations are strict. There is no flex in them. NHS Fife is under an obligation to provide separate male and female changing facilities for staff. Providing a changing facility labelled “female only” while engaging in a practice of allowing a man to use it is not providing separate male and female changing facilities. 

 This is clear as a matter of law. What remains to be determined is whether the failure to provide a female-only changing room and the use of purportedly female-only facilities by Dr Upton constitute unlawful harassment and discrimination against Ms Peggie. I’ve written elsewhere about those legal questions, for those who are interested.

ave helped bring about before they are more complicit in the unforgivable than they already are.

— Roz Kaveney (@RozKaveney) January 31, 2025

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hat self-ID policies could put women at risk.

“It saddens me that Unison, which has 75 per cent female membership, has as its first motion at its women’s conference one that seeks to undermine Equality Act protections for women,” the worker, who did not want to be named, said.

“Letting men who choose to identify as women have unfettered access to single sex spaces, as in the Peggie case, is a clear example of trans rights being in tension with women’s rights.

“The other issue here is attempts within Unison to shut down discussions of this issue. Women who are concerned that our rights are under threat are being silenced, forced to whisper in the shadows. It is Orwellian.”

The unions – last bastion of the old-school macho male left. Women, know your place. 

e 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

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