Author: Mick Hartley

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"Simply amazing that the organization that fought for WOMENS rights now fights to allow men to subjugate them again. Just incredible."

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Progressives have walked into a trap: they got so addicted to feeling morally superior to conservatives over gay rights, they became easy marks for the cheapest scam in the books: opportunists posing as persecuted victims. Now the progressives are discovering that they were duped, and they’ve been made to look like moral cowards, so they’re panicking and doubling down, and they will keep on doing so, becoming more and more deluded and unhinged, until the entire system collapses.

This crappy sequel is a flop, and the reckoning is going to bite, hard.

Worth a read.

ook had led, and perhaps it is because of that age difference that no one commenting on the shadow chancellor’s lecture has made the points he almost certainly would have done. So I will.

Ms Reeves’s idol was this country’s most influential advocate of the economic policies and practice of Mao Zedong, not just the Great Leap Forward — the forced collectivisation of agriculture, which caused a famine that killed an estimated 50 million Chinese people — but also the Cultural Revolution. Robinson declared of the former period that “the rationing system worked”. She was — as Evan Osborne sets out in his essay “Captive of One’s Own Theory: Joan Robinson and Maoist China” — even dismissive of official toleration of desperate individual efforts to grow food during the Great Leap Forward. Robinson had written of the “many concessions [that] had to be made to individualistic sentiment among the peasants; some communes actually disintegrated into private household cultivation”. Tut-tut.

As for the barbarous Cultural Revolution, Robinson praised it at the time as “the first example of a new kind of class war” and condoned the violence by the Red Guards against the “rightists”, observing: “Perhaps they are still wondering what hit them.” She even enthused about the North Korean model, describing it as a “nation without poverty … all the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

Leave aside that Robinson had fallen abjectly for the propaganda of her hosts (she went to North Korea and was a frequent guest of Mao’s regime): it was her very “philosophical and moral approach”, eulogised by Reeves, that led her into such blindness.

From Robinson's Wiki entry:

In October 1964, Robinson also visited North Korea, which was effectively a single-party Communist state, and wrote in her report "Korean Miracle" that the country's success was due to "the intense concentration of the Koreans on national pride" under Kim Il Sung, "a messiah rather than a dictator." She also stated in reference to the division of Korea that "[o]bviously, sooner or later the country must be reunited by absorbing the South into socialism."

Hmm.

John Collier, November 1942. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Champion No. 1 coal cleaning plant. Loading cars with clean coal."

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greetings from Moscow: Declaration of holy war on the West that “has fallen into Satanism.” https://t.co/KPle0v6BSh

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It's almost two weeks now since the neighbourhood made the news, to much excitement, with our very own Banksy mural.

Things, alas, have not gone well. Someone sploshed some white paint over it a couple of days later, and now…

All fenced in, "CCTV in operation", and barely visible behind all the panels.

The tree, meanwhile, which looked so bare and brutalised two weeks back, is now showing spring shoots, and should soon be in blossom.

There's a moral in there somewhere…

h not covered by the Gender Recognition Act (2004), ONS accepts that it is good practice to treat a transgender person who does not hold a GRC in the same way as a person who does”.

Sex Matters said both points “go far beyond the law, disregarding the impact on other employees”.

It also said that leaked posts from the ONS intranet showed “an organisation that has put transgender identities and feelings before everything – including accuracy”….

Fiona McAnena, Sex Matters’ director of campaigns, said: “The ONS staff documents that have been leaked are inaccurate, ideologically driven and inflammatory. This is what institutional capture looks like.”

ul that the flag of the regime is still welcome on these anti Zionist demonstrations. pic.twitter.com/4ZukXyQyHd

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Palestine is just the veneer for something far more insidious taking place in British society right now pic.twitter.com/jCdQjUAyGU

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despite laws that forbid teachers from pushing their political views in classrooms.

Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, said the motion was “wholly inappropriate” and “completely ignore[s] the horrific terrorist attacks committed by Hamas on October 7”.

She added: “Teachers have a duty to remain politically impartial and to ensure all sides of contested views are presented fairly and without bias or prejudice.

“These proposals will cause significant hurt to members of the Jewish community and the thousands of Jewish children and parents in British schools.”

I'm not a Keegan fan, but she's absolutely right here.

The motion comes after Daniel Kebede, a militant trade unionist and pro-Palestine campaigner took over as general secretary of the union last year.

Mr Kebede, a former teacher in the North East of England, was embroiled in an anti-Semitism row last year when a clip emerged of him speaking at a rally in Newcastle, where participants were heard calling to “globalise the intifada”.