Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • A win for the EHRC

    cising its decision to back new legal protections for biological women.

    However, the international body that accredits human rights organisations concluded that the EHRC had fulfilled its obligations and was independent.

    Baroness Falkner of Margravine, the chairwoman of the EHRC, said: “We always believed there were inaccuracies in the submissions made against us. I can reassure all those we work with, and the British public we serve, that we take great pride in our independence from government.

    “But it is important too, to maintain our independence from activist organisations wishing to unduly influence our legal opinions and policy. We routinely demonstrate our impartiality through our willingness to challenge both robustly.

    “We also take seriously our obligation to protect and promote equality and human rights for everyone. That includes considering, carefully and impartially and on the basis of evidence, how the rights of one person, or group, might be affected by the rights of another.

    “The role of the referee is not always appreciated, but as the human rights regulator for England and Wales, it is one we accept with steely determination.”’

    Well said.

    In May last year Stonewall and other LGBTQ+ bodies claimed that the EHRC was “actively harming” trans people. They highlighted the commission’s support of plans by Kemi Badenoch, the women and equalities minister, to introduce legal protections for biological women.

    Thereby acknowledging that trans rights are indeed in conflict with women's rights. 

  • The MI5 agent

    vestigation revealed the man – who cannot be named for legal reasons – had used his role to coercively control Beth, his ex-partner.

    He was physically and sexually abusive, and was filmed threatening to kill her and then attacking her with a machete.

    Two years ago, the government took the BBC to court to block the story being broadcast.

    It failed to do so, but succeeded in gaining him legal anonymity, having argued that the man – a right-wing extremist known publicly as X – would be in danger if publicly named. The BBC argued he should be identified so that women could be warned about such a predatory and violent man….

    The original BBC investigation exposed how X was able to leave the UK while under police investigation to work for a foreign intelligence service, and showed how MI5 had then obtained X’s belongings from the police.

    X also abused and threatened to kill another former female partner and her child, and he then used the woman’s name as a form of cover while working for MI5. He also threatened to kill and sexually abuse young girls and written down his cannibal fantasies about eating children.

    What delightful people they get to work for MI5.

  • Early morning Detroit

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    Named after the abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, the Sojourner Truth project didn't quite go according to plan:

    As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade. Created by the Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and United States Housing Authority (USHA), the proposed 200 units would alleviate housing shortages caused by the wartime climate of World War II. However, the project was met with extreme backlash from white residents and middle-class black homeowners in Conant Gardens. Violence erupted in 1942 when black families moved into the project housing. More than a thousand black supporters and white opponents crowded streets culminating in violent displays later characterized as the Sojourner Truth riot….

    The continual pressure from opposing sides influenced the federal government to switch positions on the racial profile of those occupying the project three times. Original proposals of black occupancy resulted in the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) refusal to insure mortgage loans for the Seven Mile-Fenelon because of its proximity to the public housing. The racist FHA policy instilled in white residents fears that black residence would directly result in their inability to finance new construction on vacant lots or personal improvement projects.

    Bending to white pressure, in January 1941, the DHC designated the Sojourner Truth as a project of white occupancy. After a subsequent eruption of two week long protests, city officials promised the project to black war workers. However, this resulted in opposing picketing and protesting by white residents of Seven Mile-Fenelon who demanded "Rights to Protect, Restrict and Improve [their] Neighborhood." Black families moved into the newly constructed housing on February 28, 1942.

    On February 28, 1942, as the first black families moved into their houses, black supporters and white opponents flooded the streets by the thousands. Passionate protest turned to visceral violence as 40 people were injured, 220 arrested, and 109 held for trial—all but three were black. White segregationists utilized this violent eruption as an established precedent to detrimentally affect Detroit's public housing for decades. Influenced by the riot, DHC established a viciously oppressive mandate for racial segregation in all public housing projects. Utilizing the language of the National Associate of Real Estate Boards, city officials vowed that their projects would "not change the racial pattern of a neighborhood". White community groups maliciously utilized threats of a repetition of Sojourner Truth riots as ammunition to shoot down political support of public housing. City officials strongly wanted to avoid bloodshed and therefore surrendered to their elitist demands.

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  • In Malmo

    ovision screening will no longer take place on Saturday.”

    The Brighton and Hove Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, who planned to picket the party, welcomed the cancellation.

    Would any other singer from any other country attract this level of hatred? Russia? China? Iran? Syria? Of course not. It's the new antisemitism, on full display.

    But…she got through to the finals. 

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  • Proud to be Jews, and proud to be Zionists

    style=”font-size: 11pt”>We shuddered when an “activist” held up a sign telling Jewish students they were Hamas’s next targets, and we shook our heads in disbelief when Sidechat users told us we were lying.

    We ultimately were not surprised when a leader of the CUAD encampment said publicly and proudly that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and that we’re lucky they are “not just going out and murdering Zionists.”

    We felt helpless when we watched students and faculty physically block Jewish students from entering parts of the campus we share, or even when they turned their faces away in silence. This silence is familiar. We will never forget. One thing is for sure. We will not stop standing up for ourselves. We are proud to be Jews, and we are proud to be Zionists.

  • The Girls Varsity 400m

    It's almost like he has some special magical advantage…

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  • Back in Darfur

    civilians were killed during an attack on the city of El Geneina, in west Darfur, last October, according to UN investigators. Most of the victims were from ethnic African groups….

    Nine million people have been displaced since the fighting erupted in Sudan last April, first in street battles in the capital, Khartoum, and later spreading to other urban areas and to the vast Darfur region. The death toll from a year of conflict is not known, but some estimations put it as high as 150,000. Aid agencies warn of a looming famine with 25 million people in need of aid.

    No one's interested, though. Wrong perpetrators.

    Whoever's doing the PR for Arabs is doing one hell of a job. One of the darkest imperial expansions – across northern Africa as Islam was spread by the sword: ignored or downplayed, as only Western imperialism counts. Look at all those lovely mosques they built! The brutal history of centuries of slavery – black Africans dragged, chained, in camel trains across the deserts to Arabia, and the Barbary Coast raids on northern Europe: only the Atlantic slave trade counts.

    And now, largely Arab groups slaughter black Africans and have "slave hunts", with women and girls being rounded up…it doesn't make the news apart from the odd largely ignored report on the back pages, like this. In Gaza, though, the Arabs are the biggest victims ever as the Israelis take strong action to counter the Hamas Islamic jihad against Jews, and the world explodes in protest. It's genocide, they cry.

    Nice work if you can get it.

  • NUS delegates call for expulsion of main Jewish group

    From David Rose at the JC:

    Delegates at a National Union of Students (NUS) conference voted in a breakout meeting to stop recognising their Jewish members’ main representative body because of its support for Israel, the JC can reveal.

    The non-binding vote against the continued affiliation of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) was carried overwhelmingly at the NUS conference in Blackpool last month during a session that began with calls to “dismantle” the Jewish state as a “racist project of colonialism”.

    Lord Mann, the government adviser on antisemitism, said he was appalled by the move and promised it would not succeed….

    At the NUS conference last month, swastika graffiti was discovered at the venue along with several examples of the slogan “f*** Zios”.

    A warm inclusive environment, then.

  • Meeting Starmer

    Natalie Elphicke, MP for Dover – was Conservative, is now Labour.

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  • A mad homophobic ideology

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    This insanity used to be nipped in the bud by the media and society in general. But nowadays, with genderism and other social issues, mad ideas get a foothold. In a sane world, nobody would entertain the idea that someone like Allison Bailey is far right or a Nazi. The people saying as much should be laughed at or dismissed. But today, they are encouraged – even though it’s all obvious nonsense.

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