Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Sexist stereotyping

    Blimey. A Labour MP, no less.

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  • Like trying to feed a shark broccoli

    Monomaniacally deluded. Offering Chapman indisputable facts is like trying to feed a shark broccoli.

    — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 22, 2025

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  • The ruling is clear

    ecause he now has to publicly admit he knows trans women (blokes) are NOT women. He added fuel to the fire that burned so many of us. @RosieDuffield1 is a fine public servant, and should have been treated as the asset she clearly was, but instead was…

    — Julie Bindel (@bindelj) April 22, 2025

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    …"but instead was monstered by Labour blue-fringes, and Starmer did NOTHING to defend or protect her."

  • One of the greatest failures in the history of campaigning

    More on the weekend's trans protests, from Sarah Ditum in the Times:

    By distorting reality to pretend that trans women (males) are oppressed by natal women (females), the trans movement has laundered beliefs and language that in any other context would be instantly tagged as woman-hating. “Suck my dick”, as seen on placards at the weekend, is a progressive slogan so long as you claim to identify as a woman.

    In terms of achieving its political objectives, the trans rights movement is one of the greatest failures in the history of campaigning. Not only did its push for GRA reform collapse but its insistence on forcing an extreme interpretation of the Equality Act ultimately led to its defeat in the Supreme Court. And the more the public has been exposed to the reality of the trans movement, the more the public has disapproved.

    But I suspect that political objectives were never the point for many adherents. Instead, the attraction of the movement was, precisely, the opportunity for men to tear down those uppity women with the temerity to say “no”. Meanwhile, cowardly women embraced it as a signal that they were not like those nasty hags: if you join in with the hate, maybe it won’t be aimed at you.

  • Swastikas in Clissold Park

    Horrifying. This is near me. I know this playground. 

    Half a dozen swastikas were sprayed across a children’s playground in Hackney, north London, on Sunday.

    The Nazi-era symbols were daubed on rocks in the playground at Clissold Park in Stoke Newington, just a stone’s throw from two local synagogues – Adath Yisroel Synagogue and Kehillah North London, both of which border the park.

  • Ill-informed challenges to Supreme Court decision

    Akua Reindorf, a commissioner for the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, in the Times:

    Criticising a Supreme Court judgment is not a novel activity, and citizens should be involved in debate about law reform. But lawyers, politicians and journalists must be mindful that their voices carry weight. It is irresponsible to make ill-informed or lazy challenges to the carefully reasoned decision of the country’s most exceptional legal brains.

    The Supreme Court has decided what parliament intended by following established rules of statutory interpretation, which are explained in the judgment. What civil servants or politicians think they remember about what was said or intended during the drafting and passage of the Equality Act is entirely irrelevant to this exercise.

    But of course that hasn't stopped the partisan takes. 

    Undermining the legitimacy of the judgment on such misconceived grounds helps nobody, and is all the more regrettable against the backdrop of misinformation that has been disseminated about the law relating to sex and gender from ostensibly trustworthy sources over many years.

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission is working at pace to produce clear, authoritative guidance. Employers, service providers, sporting bodies and other duty-bearers under the Equality Act should urgently review their policies and practices, using reliable specialist advice that does not emanate solely from interested lobby groups. What is needed is constructive dialogue about how the law can work for everybody, based on a shared and accurate understanding of the law as it is, rather than the law as activists would prefer it to be.

    In other words – this is the law: deal with it.

  • Another Taliban

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  • Easter message

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    Well, that's the next pope sorted.

  • Demos old and new

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    Full text:

    We wanted to *smash* the BNP, to *kick out* the Tories, to *fight* Alton's bill, to *stop* various wars, and Clause 27, then Section 28, then the Poll Tax, and we marched *in solidarity* with miners, and with refugees who we wanted to *welcome*.

    You can argue with each of these causes, of course.

    I don't recall chanting to *punch* *fuck* *shit on* *piss on* or *burn* anyone, including *bitches*

    I know I'm getting old, and I may have misremembered, but there might be another explanation.

  • A tantrum disguised as a protest

    And Jo Bartosch:

    Rejoice! For the They / Thems have risen. After being legally crucified by the Supreme Court last Wednesday, the trans faithful marched from Parliament Square in London yesterday in a display of devotion and defiance. It was a tantrum disguised as a protest over the court’s heresy – that the word ‘woman’ refers to a biological category, not a personal sense of gender.

    Chanting ‘Fuck JK Rowling’ and ‘Fuck Wes Streeting’, the mob wailed over the apparent injustice of women having legally defined boundaries. Banners held included ‘The only good TERF is a dead one’; as legal commentator Dennis Kavanagh pointed out, there are currently people in prison for saying less.

    Somewhere along the route, the statue of women’s rights campaigner Millicent Fawcett was defaced with ‘Fag Rights’. Ahead of the march, former TV presenter India Willoughby urged people to engage in a synchronised #PeeForMe piss protest – because nothing says dignity and equality quite like public urination….

    Following the Supreme Court ruling, it’s baffling to recall the grip this muddled mob of dimwits and fetishists once had on public life. How did we get to a point where women were hounded from their jobs for stating biological facts – all to avoid offending these deranged people, some of whom are prepared to piss in protest? How did they hold so much sway that even the prime minister felt he could not definitively say that women don’t have penises?

    One day, we might well laugh at the collective lunacy that gripped the early 21st century. But not yet. First, we need to ask the people who indulged it: what the hell were you thinking?

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