Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Music festival goers 2

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  • Starmer and Duffield

    logical reality, it seemed, is acceptable when stated by a man (Blair); but not by a woman who has experienced its violent effects (Duffield).

    Gender-critical feminists have plenty of reason to worry that Starmer still doesn’t grasp their concerns. Yet what women want in Labour most of all is an acknowledgement that they have been punished for stating facts which men – like Blair, like Starmer – now freely assert. This matters, even more than clarifying Labour’s still-muddled position on how to reform the gender recognition certificate or even its refusal to accept that the Equalities Act needs clarifying. (Despite Starmer’s denials, the terms of the Act for biological sex are sufficiently unclear that there is a judicial review working its way towards the Supreme Court.)

    Women resent being ordered not to speak. This is why the actor David Tennant caused such anger this week when he said of Kemi Badenoch, the gender-critical equalities minister, “I just want her to shut up”. That is why this issue will continue to dog Starmer. He needs to apologise to Duffield, as Wes Streeting did so admirably last year, for his failures to respect her voice. That kind of apology might look like leadership.

    There's something perverse about Starmer's unwillingness to apologise to Rosie Duffield. Does he really not understand the problem? – or, as I'm beginning to suspect, has he been warned by colleagues that he mustn't go there, on pain of rejection by all the trans-friendly Labour figures who've been so rude to her.

  • At Glastonbury

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    "But go ahead – wave their flag and chant their battle cry and don’t say a fucking word about the Jewish children murdered at a music festival for peace"

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  • Making money the gender way

    natural medicine”. Testosterone, when used on people whose testicles don’t work, was the “most natural drug in the world”.

    “People are alarmed at the side effects — well, these are the natural hormones we produce every day”, she added.

    Puberty blockers as “the most natural medicine”?? They suppress the natural production of hormones in growing children. They're prescribed as treatment for prostate cancer and endometriosis. There's absolutely nothing natural about them – quite apart from the evidence that they almost invariably lead to hormone replacement therapy and invasive surgery. And girls' testicles don't work because they don't have any – which is why testosterone, for them, is not at all natural. Jesus.

    Still, the money keeps rolling in…

    Comments for the article turned off. Why do they do that? It would have been fun seeing the Times readers tearing into this appalling woman.

  • Cinicinnati incline

    Ca. 1915. "Mount Adams incline, Cincinnati, Ohio."

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  • Indifferent to her discomfort

    otland, a women’s rights group, has been alerted to four similar cases in health boards across the country. A spokeswoman said: “It’s incredibly important that female NHS staff are afforded basic privacy and dignity at work..

    “Staff often have to get changed in and out of uniforms several times a day and it only takes one man in their changing room to have a detrimental impact on multiple women.

    “All health boards need to be aware of women’s human rights and not cast them aside in a mistaken belief that a man who declares he feels like a woman takes priority.”

  • Looking down

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    “Bridge brings into the city” by Xu Zhang (China)

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    “BUCHA, CITY OF DEATH” by Carol Guzy (USA)

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    “Cranberry Harvest” by Brad Weiner (USA)

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    “Shepherd with herd” by Ivo Danchev (Bulgaria)

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    “Stay Where your Heat smiles” by Silke Hullmann (Germany)

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    “Village under snow” by Hüseyin Karahan (Turkey)

  • The Islamic Jihad doctor

    Talking of doctors in Gaza…this from Médecins Sans Frontières:

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    But it turns out the nice doctor was a key figure in Islamic Jihad's rocket program:

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    In full:

    What MSF didn’t announce is that Al-Wadiya also served as a key terrorist in the Islamic Jihad's rocket program. He was a humanitarian and Jihadist. Here’s what the IDF knows:

    ⭕️ Fadi Al-Wadiya was involved in Islamic Jihad's manufacturing operations for over 15 years, where he was recognized as an expert in electronics and chemistry.
    ⭕️ The same year Al-Wadiya joined Doctors Without Borders (MSF), he attempted to leave the Gaza Strip for #Iran with two other terrorists, aiming to undergo training.
    ⭕️ Despite Doctors Without Borders portraying Al-Wadiya as a healer, he was a significant threat. This highlights how terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip exploit international aid organizations.

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