Author: Mick Hartley

  • The Pritzkers

    Pritzkers of Illinois, who helped put Barack Obama in the White House and include among their number former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, current Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and philanthropist Jennifer Pritzker, appear to have used a family philanthropic apparatus to drive an ideology and practice of disembodiment into our medical, legal, cultural, and educational institutions….

    And Illinois became, last month, the first state in the US to require mental health screenings in its public schools.

    Abigail Shrier:

    I want to be on-the-record and crystal clear. This is a disastrous policy that will do vastly more harm than good. Watch as tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most of which will be false positives.

    Colin Wright:

    This terrible law will be used to ask every child attending a public school pseudoscientific questions about their "gender identity" that's going to confuse a lot of otherwise normal children and flag them to visit with a "gender specialist."

    Worth bearing in mind amid the Pritzker cheerleading…

     

     

     

  • The greatest mistake they could have made

    Interview with Graham Linehan in the Times:

    In surprisingly positive spirits, Linehan said: “I’ve never felt better because I’ve exposed the way British police are working in tandem with trans activists. The police, after being called institutionally racist, have done this ridiculous over-compensation, which means that now they’re literally working for a sort of Al Capone gang in fishnets.

    “When are they going to start defending the women bringing complaints instead of these clearly bad faith actors? They just don’t.

    “So I’m really glad that I exposed the police for what they are. Them arresting me at the airport was the greatest mistake they could have made.”

    A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “We completely refute any suggestion the Met is preferential in its treatment of complaints. We police without fear or favour.”

    Ah dear, they can't even put together a response that makes sense. No you idiots, "refute" doesn't work here – let alone "completely refute". Reject, perhaps…disagree with…stick our hands over our ears and say we can't hear you….

    I think "ridiculous over-compensation" is right. They were in such a hurry, the police, to forget the old racist homophobic image that they've gone right over the other way, dancing in Pride parades, swallowing all the Stonewall stuff, and enthusiastically embracing trans ideology. What remains a constant is the misogyny.

  • The Crescent-Rainbow alliance

    I noted the contradiction the other day between the Corbynite hard-left and the Islamists in the new "Your Party". Janice Turner in the Times today calls it the Crescent-Rainbow alliance:

    The left excuses conservative Muslims from observing secular norms in all areas but one. It’s not women’s rights: Afghanistan’s gender apartheid or Iran hanging feminists for refusing the hijab are never mentioned, let alone northern grooming gangs. It’s not antisemitism: duh, as if! It’s not gay rights: they overlook the homophobic violence Queers for Palestine marchers would face if they showed up in Gaza. No, it is the issue which overrides all others: trans rights.

    Corbyn now sits in parliament with four independent Muslim MPs, one of whom, Blackburn’s Adnan Hussain, posted on X that “women’s rights and safe spaces should not be encroached upon”. This modest remark brought a mighty outcry, with young Corbynistas calling on Sultana — an avid trans activist — to denounce him. Then Ali weighed in, comparing Hussain’s critics to Nigel Farage. Cue Green Rainbow rage.

    Gender politics, like asbestos, eventually destroys everyone who touches it, from Nicola Sturgeon to Kamala Harris. For the Rainbows, trans ideology is a religious belief as heartfelt as the Crescents’ Islam. If Muslims in Your Party or the Greens won’t endorse trans-identifying males entering women’s changing rooms, the alliance cannot hold….

    Trans rights vs. Islam. Hmm. It's astonishing the enthusiasm with which the hard left will embrace any ideology that opposes liberal democracy, but, as Iran showed after the fall of the shah, there's can only be one winner here.

  • UNRWA graduates

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  • Stop being stupid

    Great letter from Baroness Nicholson to the Met Police chief:

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  • Downtime

    Apologies for the non-availability yesterday. Hosting platform Typepad was down. It's closing down altogether at the end of the month – it's been unreliable for a while now. I'm in the process of setting up another site, but we're not there yet.

  • The disgraced trans police officer connection

    More on the Lynsay Watson connection to the Linehan arrest, from the Telegraph:

    A disgraced transgender police officer is believed to have reported gender-critic Father Ted creator Graham Linehan to the police over his social media posts.

    Former Pc Lynsay Watson, who was born Alex Horwood, was sacked by Leicestershire Police for gross misconduct in 2023 after allegedly harassing a free speech campaigner and critic of gender ideology.

    An anonymous social media account, believed to be linked to Watson, boasted in April this year of reporting Linehan, the Father Ted writer and gender sceptic, to the police over several social media posts he made about transgender issues. The account encouraged other transgender activists to do the same.

    Watson has a well-documented history of calling on police forces to pursue criminal investigations of campaigners who are sceptical of the belief that self-identification, and not biological sex, determines what a man or woman is….

    Watson was sacked by Leicestershire Police after being found guilty by a misconduct hearing of sending former police officer Harry Miller more than 1,200 messages over an 18-month period, branding him a “Nazi”, a “bigot” and a “wife-beater”.

    Before this messaging, Miller had been a public critic of gender ideology.

    Helen Joyce, a writer and women’s rights campaigner, said she was also reported to the authorities and now has a police investigation for “harassment” on her record….

    Joyce told The Telegraph: “The police have swallowed trans ideology hook, line and sinker, with the result that extremist trans activists have been able to deploy officers like a private militia to harass and silence anyone who stands up to them.”

    So it would seem. But why? Is it just that they're still in thrall to Stonewall? It sounds like this Lynsay Watson has the ear of senior officers in the Met…

  • The underground trans mafia

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    If this is true, what hold does this "underground trans mafia" have over the police? And why?

    JK Rowling: "Context: this trans-identified man and public fetishist has been illegally entering women's single-sex spaces, gleefully posting pictures of himself doing it and remains untroubled by police visits."

    The name Lynsay Watson – a disgraced trans former cop – keeps cropping up

    Murkier and murkier.

  • Not a genocide

    piracy theory that imputes power and evil to the Jews. The genocide accusation, brought into world—not just regional—politics by the Soviet Union and the Communist bloc in the 1960s and 1970s is the most important form of this much old antisemitic libel. The state of Israel, in defending its right to exist is a nightmare for antisemites. They believe that their lies about the Jews have become reality in the form of the state of Israel. The libel amounts to saying the Israel has no right to defend itself because it should not exist.

  • Dropped for challenging a guest who compared the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust

    Shortly after the interview was aired, the SABC released the statement: "The [SABC] is aware of the matter relating to the conduct of one of its news presenters in an interview conducted with Dr Mamphela Ramphele.

    "As such, SABC News management took immediate action in line with the SABC’s internal processes, and the presenter in question is currently not scheduled.

    "[SABC has] established policies to ensure the dissemination of diverse viewpoints aimed at building trust with the public and in ensuring that our content, in all its formats, continues to resonate with the prescripts of our public mandate."

    Eh? In other words, our content must continue to resonate with the antisemites who run this country.