Author: Mick Hartley

  • Supporting trans inclusion in women’s sports

    oulton, and is even calling for the congressman to resign ahead of 2026.

    "I certainly am calling on Seth Moulton to resign and will be supporting any Democrat and LGBT ally that runs against him," Davis said.

    Moulton's original comments about the subject were rooted in his stance as a father to two daughters. In television interviews with CNN and MSNBC, the Democrat has stood firm and has not made any apologies.

  • A knock on the door

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    I was asked if I would voluntarily go into the station the following day to make a statement. I said, “absolutely not”. Why should I do that, when I have no idea what I was being accused of? I had better things to do.

    One of the officers then explained that they would have to talk it over with their senior officers and come to some decision about what to do. I said they were welcome to pop round any time and let me know exactly what I was supposed to have done that was illegal.

    The officers left looking a little bewildered. I did have a sense that they understood what a ridiculous mission they have been sent on. I advised that they could better use their time investigating rape and domestic violence.

    She was informed the next day that the investigation had been dropped. They – the police – no doubt realised that they'd picked the wrong person to intimidate.

    Nevertheless, I thought about the women who have lost jobs, been hounded out of college courses, friendship groups and university societies, as well as those who would have found it distressing to be threatened with a hate crime conviction for no good reason. A criminal record is a serious issue and can have a terrible effect on a person’s livelihood, reputation, and self-esteem.

    Police coming after those of us who do nothing more than speak the truth about gender madness and refuse to bend the knee to the crazy cultists, are doing a massive public disservice. Unless there is a very good reason not to, we must all publicly protest this terrible infringement of our human rights.

    We need the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, to come down hard on this. I don't see it happening though. 

  • Inhuman Geography

    l-9PIqEWz9tA4IL_9NnZLgii58&dib_tag=se&keywords=Kathryn+Yusoff&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1731842537&s=books&sprefix=kathryn+yusoff%2Cstripbooks%2C230&sr=1-1&ufe=INHOUSE_INSTALLMENTS%3AUK_IHI_3M_AUTOMATED”>Amazon:

    In Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices. Throughout, she outlines how the disciplines of geology and geography—and their conventions: surveying, identifying, classifying, valuing, and extracting—established and perpetuated colonial practices that ordered the world and people along a racial axis. Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. At the same time, Yusoff turns to Caribbean, Indigenous, and Black thought to chart a parallel geologic epistemology of the "earth-bound" that challenges what and who the humanities have chosen to overlook in its stories of the earth. By reconsidering the material epistemologies of the earth as an on-going geotrauma in colonial afterlives, Yusoff demonstrates that race is as much a geological formation as a biological one.

    Or you could try her earlier A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None:

    Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. Yusoff initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.

    Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

    It's received an astonishing 183 ratings, mostly 5 star, from readers – "Dense and yet precise, a really important book on challenging the racial and colonial narrative of the Anthropocene" – dazzled by the depth of scholarship on display. Or, possibly, mates.

  • South Africa and the International Court of Justice

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    In full:

    South Africa’s ANC, a party teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, suddenly received a massive financial lifeline from Iran and Qatar—two regimes notorious for their hostility toward Israel and support for Hamas—just after filing their case against the Jewish state.

    These donations were no act of goodwill; they were a calculated payment for a political attack.

    The case itself is a travesty, relying on “evidence” from anti-Israel organizations, some with documented links to terrorism.

    Yet the ICJ has willingly lent credibility to this farce, allowing its platform to be used for propaganda orchestrated by terrorist regimes.

    This isn’t justice. It’s a disgraceful mockery, proof that the ICJ can be manipulated and bought by those who prioritize hatred of Israel over truth and fairness.

    Source: Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

  • Sticking with the pronouns

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  • Non-crime hate incidents

    im a “sheep shagger” and another person was reported for asking whether a Chinese meal came “with bats”….

    Surrey police logged a hate incident after a couple were asked to leave a pub upon being accused of having sex in the establishment’s toilets. The force said one of the couple was transgender and it was alleged that the actions taken by the pub were “hate-related”. It maintained that the NCHI was correct.

    In south Wales a lesbian couple believed they were targeted with a dead rat on their doorstep. They conceded that rats were common but claimed it had looked “placed”.

    I suppose it's a lot easier to sit at a desk trawling through social media looking for nasty comments than to actually go out and deal with violent criminals. 

    The chances of a positive intervention here from Home Secretary Yvette Cooper are not looking good:

    Non-crime hate reports can ruin people’s job prospects and police should avoid using names when recording them, a former director of public prosecutions has said.

    Lord Macdonald, who was previously the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), has urged Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, not to weaken restrictions on the police use of non-crime hate reports introduced by Suella Braverman, her Tory predecessor.

    People who are reported by police for non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) can have the details passed onto a prospective employer under an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check for jobs such as teaching, social work and childcare.

    Children are among thousands of people who have been investigated by police for NCHIs. Lord Macdonald said it was “beyond belief” that they could have their names attached to NCHIs that could affect their prospects in later life.

    Police forces recorded incidents against a nine-year-old who called a primary school classmate a “retard” and against two secondary school girls who said that another pupil smelt “like fish”

    Last year, Mrs Braverman, the home secretary at the time, raised the threshold because of free speech concerns.

    It meant NCHIs should only be recorded if they were “clearly motivated by intentional hostility” and there was a “real risk of escalation causing significant harm or a criminal offence”.

    Ms Cooper is planning to reverse this for anti-Semitic and Islamophobic abuse, which she is concerned is being overlooked because of the new threshold that prevents police from recording incidents that could escalate into serious violence or crime.

  • Essex police

    and he will send your sons to die for ‘Israel’.”

    Suzanne, 41, who is Jewish, was sent the tweet by a friend and reported it to Essex Police in early October.

    Suzanne told The Telegraph: “To be honest it is pretty terrifying to be Jewish and see something like that – because while I know someone like David Miller isn’t going to go and beat up Jewish people, there are people that think that Jews deserve to be attacked.

    “We saw an example of that in Amsterdam recently – so it is pretty scary, because as Jewish people we are all being blamed for everything that Israel does.”

    The officer who responded to Suzanne noted that the “tone” of the academic’s tweets “would cause elements of concern”, citing the “extremely contentious issue which pertains to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East”.

    The officer went on to say: “Though I acknowledge this comment may offend some individuals, being offended does not make a person a victim of crime”, concluding that the comment did “not constitute a crime”.

    However, Suzanne, from Essex, went on to receive a response from Essex Police that confirmed it was closing the case.

    Well OK. Just to be clear, I don't disagree. The police have no business with people's opinions, unless they cross the threshold into inciting violence. Miller's views though, I'd have thought, come much nearer to that threshold than anything said by Allison Pearson (whatever she did say, which isn't yet clear) or Ian Austin. But then…well, Jews. Inciting violence against Jews isn't such a big deal now. We're getting quite used to it.

  • Baltimore transportation

    Marjory Collins, April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. "Transportation for war-swollen population. The yard of Washington Terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Co. From left to right: old trolley made into a smoker for employees; a work car; and an old horse car. Baltimore Trust building on the horizon."

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    [Photo: Marjory Collins, Office of War Information]

  • They keep chanting

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  • The master race in action

    e context of growing anti-Israel activism and antisemitism in Ireland: “In the past year, we have seen a troubling rise in anti-Israel discourse in Ireland, which has often mutated into antisemitism and the delegitimisation of Israel.

    “Antisemitism is being permitted to manifest openly now, largely in part due to vitriolic rhetoric against Israel which is, to an astonishing degree, based on disinformation, misinformation and deliberate distortion of facts and truth,” the spokesperson added, referring to a recent report into Irish school textbooks which were found to have demonised Israel and Jews.