Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Against Hamas

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  • On the tracks 1942

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    Jack Delano, December 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Locomotive over the ash pit at the roundhouse at a Chicago & North Western railyard."

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  • “Trying to silence the Jewish voice and Zionist voices”

    r chemotherapy. They have dire illnesses,” Dr. Terdiman said. “When that chant goes up and is heard in the patient care rooms, which it clearly was, it’s a violation of our professional obligations as health care providers.”

    Some Jewish doctors said they have darted into side rooms when they have seen staunch Israel critics approaching. Others said they have tried to keep their Jewish identity a secret. Matthew Smith, a doctoral student in biophysics who is Jewish and wears a skullcap, said he has been told by a lab technician that Israel deserved what happened on Oct. 7 and by another student that “Jews control the banks.”

    “It kind of staggers me honestly,” said Gil Rabinovici, an Israeli neurologist who directs the Alzheimer’s disease research center at U.C.S.F. “There is a lot of intimidation going on trying to silence the Jewish voice and Zionist voices.”

    Jess Ghannam also said he cannot believe what U.C.S.F. has become, given its well-known history as a place of diversity.

    Not just U.C.S.F. of course, but yes, you'd hope that a hospital might be spared the Intifada mob.

  • That “both sides” toxicity

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    In full:

    I try to remain reasonable in an unreasonable world. But if one more politician resorts to the "both sides… baffled at toxicity… culture war" rhetoric I may go postal. In the last few years I have:

    – fought through hostile crowd to get to Brighton meeting, been struck on back of head as I entered, with protestors kicking the windows til our ears rang
    – co-organised a research event on lesbian life (nothing to do with trans) where protestors closed the road outside, set off smoke bombs
    – spoke at Cambridge Union, where every time I spoke, protestors drummed louder to drown me out, and where a male transactivist covertly infiltrated my own debate team in order to then denounce me to audience
    – had protestor glue herself to floor in front of me at Oxford
    – had masked men come to my workplace every day making threats and harassing me til I resigned.
    – now require extra security for every public appearance I do
    – have been verbally abused in the street by total strangers several times.

    Please do tell me, with evidence, how I personally have contributed to this "toxic" state of affairs, other than not shutting up and not going away? I am deeply interested to find out the answer.

  • Streeting clarifies

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    Well, credit where it's due. 

  • Labour and conversion therapy

    r who carried out the landmark review of gender services for children, said that a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban was likely to prompt concern among medical professionals that they might find themselves in a “test case”.

    She said that although she supported banning conversion therapy, a practice she described as “dreadful”, she was concerned that it would not be possible to “bulletproof” the legislation.

    The conversion therapy Cass describes as "dreadful" is the old-style attempt to "cure" homosexuality – something which just doesn't happen here any more outside the wilder religious fringes. Including gender identity "conversion" though is a whole different ball game, since gender identity is a construct of trans ideology picked up by troubled kids on social media. If left alone to go through puberty drug-free, these kids would almost invariably be fine. We've been through this so many times. These kids, victims of a social contagion, need therapy and time to think rather than immediate affirmation of their ridiculous fantasy that they can change sex and live happily ever after.

    In a nutshell: some kids are gay, but no kids are trans. 

    If this is really what Labour is planning – and to be honest the whole article is confused – then this is a horribly misconceived path to go down.

  • Shutting down debate

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  • With Labour, women have yet again been de-prioritised

    taught in schools, after Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, had refused to make any commitment on the matter. The general tenor of the (Times) comments is that yes, he would say that – but do we trust him?

    As I've said before, Starmer has risked a lot in cutting out the Corbyn poison, in terms of alienating Labour's radical left. Is he willing to face them down again in another of their pet causes? I'm not at all sure.

    But the pressure from women like Rowling is beginning to tell. 

  • Globalising the intifada

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  • Putting women at risk

    eatening and intimidating” towards staff who had raised concerns about the hospital’s transgender policy.

    The nurses claimed that hospital bosses told them they needed “educating” to be more “inclusive” and to “broaden” their minds, according to The Mail on Sunday.

    Good luck to them.

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