Author: Mick Hartley

d identified as a transgender boy. She no longer identifies as male….

Bubb, now 27, asked the girl for nude photographs and videos. When they met in person, he sexually assaulted her in a park in west London and made her perform a sex act.

She was first raped in 2020, when she was 13 or 14.

The judge, though, is keen to protect the man's supposed dignity.

On Monday, Judge Jonathan Cooper said: “You are going to be addressed in this court, when it comes to proceedings as we are going along, as Ms Samuels and that’s because you are entitled to the proper respect for your dignity and that’s how you wish to be addressed. I will apologise in advance if that doesn’t always work.

“The matters we are concerned with relate to a period when you identified as a male, James Bubb … There are going to be witnesses who [will] speak about the case and behaviours that go back to 2018 … When they make reference to you and your actions, those witnesses will refer to the person they were engaged with at the time, and the name they and you were using.”

So at least the court will be spared talk of "her penis".

g, 522 people had been detained, the most arrests at a single event since the poll tax riots. Dozens of police officers were called upon to carry off some activists, allowing them to pose as the apotheosis of the politically oppressed martyr.

This unseemly spectacle was avoidable. It was unwise from the outset to ban Palestine Action, a disorderly group of ideological vandals, when other bona fide hostile military groupings, like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, remain unproscribed under British law. The dubious decision to elevate Palestine Action to the rank of groups such as Hamas and al-Qaeda risks lending unearned legitimacy to the perception that pro-Palestinian political speech is being curbed. It also risks playing into activists’ hands by colluding in their self-conception as middle-class freedom fighters. They are no such thing. The police officers deployed to Westminster acted properly in making hundreds of arrests. Brazenly championing a known terrorist organisation is a crime that cannot go unpunished. That Palestine Action’s supporters were handed such an opportunity to promote their agenda is the real cause for regret.

And a letter:

Sir, The home secretary proposed to ban Palestine Action on the ground of “unacceptable criminal damage” after they infiltrated RAF Brize Norton (“Palestine Action’s rise from ashes of Corbynism to public enemy No 1”, Aug 9). In the 1980s when I was UK commander of the RAF Greenham Common cruise missile base, I had a £250,000 annual budget to repair damage done by peace protesters to the perimeter fence. We had a strong Ministry of Defence police presence to stop intruders, often in a rather Benny Hill fashion. The intruders were left in no doubt that if they tried to infiltrate the secure storage area with its 96 nuclear warheads, they would be shot by US air force military police, who were a mean crowd. There were thousands of such protesters “threatening” the base, but their freedom of speech was always respected and I never heard anyone in Whitehall or the Pentagon suggest that they should be classed as terrorists.
Wg Cdr Andrew Brookes (ret’d)

, urinate on. To do things they know will hurt him.

We know what the documentary about that event would focus on: the women. “Why are you here?” we would ask, in the same, pained voice people ask Bonnie Blue why she does what she does. We would ask all the questions Blue is asked: “Were you abused as a child? Do you think doing this will give you PTSD? What does it say about women that you are here? What does feminism think about it?”

It seems counterintuitive to say this, when we all know we live in a male-dominated society, but I am continuingly astonished by how little we seem to notice men. To see what they’re doing. To ask questions about it. No — let me correct that. I am continuingly astonished by how little men notice what other men are doing, and ask questions about it.

Men! A total of 1,057 of your team just took part in the world’s most famous gangbang — and you’re asking women what we think of the one woman in the room? Bonnie Blue isn’t a question for feminism. She’s a question for men.

ll you object to the boss’s next order?

Hamas is now doing the same thing, with Western liberals in the role of the new recruits. For weeks, the terrorist group passed off photographs of people suffering from genetic disorders as evidence of Israeli cruelty; at the same time, it prevented ample aid supplies from reaching those very people by hijacking more than 90 percent of U.N. aid trucks, selling family aid packages—which enter Gaza for free—at insane markups, and shooting into crowds of people trying to access aid provided by a U.S.-backed humanitarian consortium. None of these tactics is new or in the least bit original to the current Gaza war. What’s new is how brazenly Hamas is doing it, and how avidly European presidents, editors, intellectuals, activists, and even some Jews are closing their eyes and ears and going along for the ride, parroting the Hamas propaganda line like toddlers.

Which is precisely what Hamas was counting on. The point of the starvation photographs wasn’t to prove anything; to the contrary, the evidence that the photographs did not show children suffering from a lack of food was right there in the picture frame, in the form of the well-fed-looking mothers and other relatives. It doesn’t take any special feat of research or in-depth knowledge of conditions on the ground in Gaza or acquaintance with the medical literature on starvation to know that mothers feed their children first. That’s why in pictures from actual famines—of which there are unfortunately many thousands of examples in the photo departments of every big-city newspaper and major magazine on the planet—you see skeletal mothers along with skeletal babies. Not in Gaza, though.

That’s because the point of the photographs was to provide onlookers with a fig leaf of an excuse to embrace the narrative of a terrorist organization whose aims are, in fact, openly genocidal—and which had done its best to live up to its promises by shooting, gang-raping, and stabbing thousands of Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, setting entire families on fire in their homes, and live-streaming the proceedings, before dragging off more than 250 captives to their internationally sponsored dungeons in Gaza, to be beaten, tortured, and starved. It’s no contest. Hamas makes the Mafia look like choirboys….

Worth reading in full.

BBC man Russell Davies in the Guardian:

Russell T Davies has said gay rights are “rapidly and urgently getting worse” thanks to the rise of Reform UK and the influence of the Trump presidency on British politics.

The award-winning screenwriter, who is best known for reviving Doctor Who and writing Queer As Folk, said the LGBT community should be “revolting in terror and anger and action” in response to growing support for Reform, which has pledged to “ban transgender ideology” in schools.

You see the switch there? He's ostensibly talking about gay rights, but he really means trans rights. After all this time he still hasn't noticed – or still pretends not to notice – the glaring disconnect between the two. 

Duly demolished:

1/ Where does one start with this? Russel has nothing to say when the Scottish Government argued in the Supreme Court that the protected characteristic of same sex attraction should be rendered “meaningless”. That threat to rights didn’t bother himhttps://t.co/dJPo7d5oEb

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2/ Of course had he said something, he would have incurred the wrath of his new overlords, so he unthinkingly rails against people who object to children being taught that somehow they have the wrong bodies and need chemical and surgical interventions.

3/ Russsel doesn’t seem to appreciate 80-90% of the cohort at the Tavistock were same sex attracted, if cross sex ideation is naturally occurring in any population there is no good reason for this figure to be so high, or for autism to feature in 35% of cases.

4/ This is the world turned upside down, here we have a gay man cheering on an ideology that opposed the lesbians in the Supreme Court and is visiting brutal conversion therapy on the young – and he does all this is the name of gay rights, which I find remarkable.

5/ There is no excuse for this level of ignorance or betrayal of the very people you claim to champion. This is not 2015. We have had Cass, Forstater, the Supreme Court Judgment, I could go on but I trust the point is clear. Ignorance now is a choice and it is wilful.

6/ It is profoundly dishonest to lament the recession of gay rights (which is markedly not happening) and then to bait and switch to political transvestism concerns. This is a fraud. This is ignorance wrapped in a rainbow. This is betrayal and the expected level of cowardice.

e that anyone would actually set it down in writing, let alone make it the central thesis of a whole book. Of course knowing an individual's sex doesn't tell us everything about them. Whoever thought it did? It's like saying that the definition of a chair – something you sit on – doesn't tell us whether it's made of wood or steel or has legs or runners or if it's in Norway or Tanzania, so chairs don't really exist as such and we should just stop talking about them.

Have a vagina but don’t like gossip? Sex is so very complex! Who knows what anyone is? …

Obviously I’m claiming all this having given up biology lessons at 14. Yet while I appreciate the scientists who have been brave enough to stand up to this nonsense, I can’t help feeling anyone should be able to challenge it. There is a long history of women being bullied out of asserting ourselves on the very question of what we are and why we matter.

We’re meant to feel too ill-qualified (where’s your science degree?). We’re meant to feel threatened (what to end up back in the kitchen?). We’re meant to feel behind the times (don’t you understand that no one thinks this any more?).

Ultimately, we’re meant to feel small, too irrelevant to expect more than a choice between non-existence as a sex class or existence as a conservative stereotype. That, by the way, is an age-old, harmful, socially constructed binary. If we want to reject such things, how about starting there?

It's not so much now that academics can and should be challenged by non-academics – that was always the case – but that academics are now in fact far more likely to come up with nonsense than any other demographic. Dispensers of anti-expertise. Our new bullshitters-in-chief.

The Times finally gives some coverage to Australia's Giggle v Tickle case – largely ignored by mainstream Australian media, apparently – with some useful background: 

As a 27-year-old Hollywood scriptwriter, Sall Grover was dumbstruck when a film producer offered her work and then plunged his hands down her pants.

She fled and called her manager, only to be left stunned again. “He goes, ‘This is great. He wants you to write him a script’,” Grover said.

That experience and others, such as the Hollywood landlords who offered young women free accommodation if they did not wear clothes, left Grover disillusioned upon her return to Australia after a decade away.

Encouraged by her mother, she decided to create an app exclusively for women — a space, as she describes it, where women could “just talk and connect about anything they wanted to”.

Or, as she told a court: “It would be a place without harassment, mansplaining, dick pics, stalking and aggression, and other male patterned online behaviour.”

The Giggle for Girls app was born and membership soared, until one decision landed Grover and Giggle in a court case. They were catapulted into Australian legal history when they banned Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman. Tickle was judged by Grover to be a man but is lawfully a woman under Australia’s sex discrimination code.

The banishment cost Grover a $10,000 fine (£5,600) and led to Giggle’s temporary suspension.

Grover’s appeal against the decision reignited a media furore over the case last week, centred on the question, what is a woman? Can a man who dresses as a woman and takes medical steps to become one then demand that all treat them as a woman?

The case is likely to intensify pressure for Australia to bring its laws into line with the UK after the British Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the term “woman” in the Equality Act should be interpreted as only people born female and that transgender women should be excluded from that definition.

Let's hope so. The question remains as to why trans Tickle should want to join Giggle in the first place, and the answer of course is that trans activists require that their delusion be validated by everyone else – or they get very very cross.

Last week JK Rowling came to the aid of Grover, who is planning to relaunch her women-only app in the UK.

The Harry Potter author, whose antipathy toward trans activists is well known, posted a picture of Tickle to her 14.3 million followers on X on Wednesday, telling them: “Western society is currently divided between people who know this is a man and are prepared to say so and those who know this is a man but lie out of obedience to an ideology. There is no third option. Literally nobody on earth thinks ‘Roxanne Tickle’ is actually a woman.”

Nicely put.

Rowling may have an antipathy toward trans activists, but it's nothing like the death threats and abuse that trans activists regularly throw at her.

From the Telegraph – Lisa Nandy accused of prioritising Islam over other religions. 

The Culture Secretary is facing criticism after she appointed the boss of a Muslim charity as an adviser to a new civil society project but no one from Christian, Jewish or other specific faiths.

Lisa Nandy has made Fadi Itani, the chief executive of the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF), a member of the steering committee of her Civil Society Covenant.

The 15-strong Civil Society Covenant aims to boost social cohesion with the help of “volunteers, charities, faith organisations” and others.

Ms Nandy has described the committee as “a new chapter in the relationship between this Government and the remarkable civil society organisations that form the backbone of our communities”. She describes such organisations as “the eyes, ears and voice of the people”.

Yet the MCF is the only faith-specific group to be represented on its advisory group. The only other religious organisation is Faith Action, which represents all faiths.

It gets better.

In 2015 the MCF was stripped of £138,000 of government funding after a Telegraph investigation reported alleged links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood….

The group was founded in 2008 by Dr Hany El-Banna, who was awarded an OBE in 2004 and remains a trustee of MCF.

In 2020 he posted a video on X of a lecture he gave in which he described the Yazidi people – thousands of whom were massacred by Islamic State terrorists – as “devil worshippers”.

Massacred and raped – used as sex slaves.

The appeasing of Islam by the left does not have a good history.

Attempting to change the nature of the category woman by linguistic fiat is like trying to live forever by stipulating that by “death” you will mean something that happens to other people. https://t.co/gxVY8oHzs3

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prus for over half a century. https://t.co/bDU4ivwmre

— Keith Mills (@KeithMillsD7) August 8, 2025

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Not exactly a full house. Besiktas the winners 4-1.