Author: Mick Hartley

ve faced the strongest possible disciplinary action. The fact that Upton was ever permitted to use the women’s facilities at work is a scandal.

But, among the chattering political and middle classes, the idea that one should be cheered for living “authentically” rules, even when that authenticity means expecting others to share and indulge someone’s delusion, no matter how uncomfortable that may make them.

To Nicola Sturgeon and her fellow gender militants, the consequences of their actions mean nothing. If a vulnerable woman has to share a confined changing room with a man, then she should not complain but educate herself. And then see that man as the brave woman she is.

The class aspect of this whole mess is the reason it will take so long to complete the necessary process of removing the influence of gender ideologues from public bodies.

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In its submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which is producing guidance on the implementation of the Supreme Court judgement, Scottish Trans said there was now significant uncertainty over legal protection for “breastfeeding men.”

Why are we indulging these flat-earthers, let alone funding them? Breastfeeding men are an oxymoron — a feature of an Orwellian dystopia that the Scottish National Party and the Greens have attempted to will into existence. The Equality Network, of which Scottish Trans is a part, has received £2.5 million in public money over the past five years. Its funding is ongoing.

More pertinently, why are natal men who believe they can feed babies using drug-induced lactation not being routinely investigated by social services for this grotesque and dangerous form of experimentation?

At the very least, any form of taxpayer funding for organisations making a mockery of the law, of women and the will of the electorate ought to be pulled. Scottish Trans can promote the case of “breastfeeding men” but not on the public purse.

Because this is Scotland under the SNP.

Meanwhile, NHS Fife revealed that it had spent more than £220,000 of public money defending itself in the employment tribunal brought by nurse Sandy Peggie, who was suspended after complaining about having to share a changing room with a biologically male transgender medic.

NHS Fife argues that its liability is capped at £25,000 and the rest of the costs will be reclaimed through the national clinical negligence and other risks indemnity scheme, which is funded by the Scottish Government‘s Health and Social Care Directorate, itself funded by — you’ve got it — the taxpayer.

This utter waste of public resources would be infuriating at any time, but in an administration which has imposed the highest rates of income tax in the UK, and at a time of economic uncertainty, it is verging on the criminal. It doesn’t matter how often it is called out; nothing changes.

It’s not merely that taxpayers are funding splinter groups, vanity projects and cultish ideologies at odds with the electorate’s priorities for government, it’s that the SNP has lost sight of what government is for and where its remit and boundaries lie.

Well now. A man in his late fifties decides to transition. His wife, understandably, leaves him. He then demands that the wife share the (substantial) costs of the transition – and a judge agrees.  From the Telegraph:

A divorcee has been forced by a judge to pay half for her ex-husband’s trans surgery.

The mother argued that it was unfair that she had to stump up £80,000 for the procedure when the decision to transition had led to the breakdown of her marriage.

But in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, the judge said that the surgery was a “need”, not a “whim”, and therefore it was “reasonable” for the cost to be met out of their joint funds.

The husband, 58, had said that the argument was “like saying someone who had cancer should not have the surgery” during the hearing at Brighton Family Court.

OK, yes, it's Brighton. But still. Like cancer??

But the (male) judge agrees. Yes, we men stick together.

The husband had surgery in 2024 after they had been separated for almost two years and the £160,000 bill was paid out of their joint cash.

During their separation, the husband, who has retrained as a massage therapist and Reiki practitioner, claimed he could not afford to pay the court-ordered maintenance to his wife and children but splashed £14,000 on an Amex card in one month “mainly on clothing, nails, jewellery and restaurants”, got £13,000 worth of tattoos in six months and racked up a £1,000 Milan restaurant bill.

The poor lamb – he was forced to spend all that money because of the deep suffering caused by his gender dysphoria. 

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l “filth”.

“Other posts glorify and encourage martyrdom and justify Hamas’s 7 October 2023 atrocities by reframing them as legitimate acts of resistance, omitting any mention of attacks on civilians, and likening Gaza to Nazi concentration camps. Countless posts accuse Israel of genocide and liken it to apartheid.”

Lovely.

Will Brent council be taking action here? Well, they've recently announced that they're twinning with Nablus, in the West Bank, "to reinforce and enhance our solidarity with Palestine". So…don't hold your breath.

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"Hate speech has reached such terrifying heights that a quarter of Americans see no problem with a young couple being gunned down outside a Jewish museum in DC, or a 82-year-old woman burned alive in Colorado."

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MEMRI TV again, and here's Egyptian TV host Muhammad Musa on – ah yes – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, where it states (in Article 17, apparently) that "We will drown the world in a soccer craze so that the world's nations do not deal with what is important".

More on the obsessive anti-Zionist world of the American campus, with Albany law professor Nina Farnia. From MEMRI TV:

In a June 19, 2025 episode of The Red Nation podcast on YouTube, Albany Law School assistant professor Nina Farnia said that Iran’s war with Israel is “one of the greatest examples of third world national liberation.” She framed the conflict as part of Iran’s broader struggle for national liberation, arguing that Arabs, Palestinians, and Iranians cannot be free as long as Israel exists in the region.

Ali Alizadeh, a U.K.-based Iranian political analyst, warned of “psyops” orchestrated by the IDF and Mossad to portray Iran negatively. Farnia agreed and said people should be prepared for this type of manipulation, adding that many had been effective at calling out such “psyops” following the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood. “From the pen to the sword – national liberation requires everybody,” she said.

It is worth noting that in October 2023, Alizadeh alleged that many of the Israeli victims on October 7 were killed by Israeli forces, not by Hamas or the other insurgents who entered from Gaza.

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In 2019, Stephen Ireland posted a film of himself at Surrey police HQ in Guildford beside a Jaguar patrol car customised with a swirling rainbow design and the name of the organisation he founded and controlled, Pride in Surrey (PiS). “This is what I will be riding around in today,” says an ecstatic Ireland, as the officer who will act as his chauffeur waves.

Ireland energetically cultivated Surrey police. He spoke on panels alongside officers, attended joint school visits, befriended its LGBT staff group. PiS was a “partner agency” on the force’s website. Most significantly, he was highly regarded by the then chief constable Gavin Stephens. After Surrey’s police and crime commissioner Lisa Townsend expressed gender critical views, Ireland launched a vicious campaign to have her sacked. Stephens, instead of offering her support, told her to apologise because Ireland “is a friend of Surrey police”.

Now that “friend” is serving 24 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old boy. Ireland had messaged his partner David Sutton, 27, (jailed for four and a half years) to say he’d found a “14-year-old baby” on Grindr who “wants to play with men’s bodies”. Discovering he was even younger, Ireland said: “OK, we just have to keep it a secret.” The couple smoked methamphetamine with the boy, described in court as “highly vulnerable”, filmed the rape and added it to their bank of paedophilic images.

The details of the case are shocking but to some came as no surprise. For years, whistleblowers had tried to raise their concerns about Ireland with Surrey county council, which gave PiS thousands of pounds in funding. They believe they were ignored because Ireland’s very public bond with police chiefs made him untouchable.

Chief constable Gavin Stephens is a central figure in this whole grim saga. 

Certainly Ireland weaponised the police against his enemies. In 2021, after Lisa Townsend stated that biological sex was important in matters such as crime statistics, police searches and prisons, he posted a photo of an officer sitting in a rainbow police car holding a sign saying “TERFy Townsend not fit for office”. Ireland’s message to anyone who crossed him was: come for me and you deal with the police.

Unsurprisingly, his very public vendetta against Townsend deterred potential whistleblowers (as did chief constable Stephens quickly distancing himself from her views).

So has he resigned yet, this Gavin Stephens? Of course not. He's now Chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council.

For Townsend, who attended Ireland’s sentencing, it underlines the imperative of police neutrality. Whatever individual officers’ views, they should not parade them at work, nor should forces appear to favour particular interest groups. She notes wryly that this is an urgent matter for the newish head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council — Gavin Stephens. “I don’t think there should be rainbow cars any more than International Women’s Day or autism awareness cars,” she says. “The police force does one thing no other agency can — it arrests the bad guys.”

r researchers in the lab to shun Laps,” the Brandeis Center stated. (According to the suit, Lin also tried to “frustrate, delay or inhibit” Laps’s requests for research materials and equipment, at one point referring him to a colleague recovering in the hospital from a major car accident.)

According to the Brandeis Center, she tampered with Laps’s research, “producing fraudulent results behind his back that could have ruined his career and encouraging him to discard all evidence of her tampering.” It added that when Laps found out about such sabotage, the lab’s leader and his mentor “refused to address the issue.”

The following month, Chou told Laps that Stanford would launch a Title IX investigation against him over a complaint of sexual harassment from an undergraduate student, urging him to leave the lab to avoid the investigation and to save his reputation.

No complaint had been made. It was a lie.

Laps filed a discrimination complaint with the university about his treatment in Chou’s lab, prompting the university to open an investigation. In response, Chou terminated Laps, deactivated his badge and locked him out of the lab, according to the lawsuit. His access was later restored when Stanford intervened.

Stanford concluded that Laps, who has since resigned from Stanford and left the country, did not face discrimination, nor did Chou retaliate against him. The lawsuit alleges that those conclusions were “predetermined.”

In other words it seems clear enough that this Jewish researcher was subject to the most blatant antisemitic abuse – and Stanford University tried to bury it. 

Lerman told JNS that the Brandeis Center sees “it as part of a trend that we’re seeing lately with universities very badly treating Israeli students and postdocs.”

The state of American academia…