Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Political Tippex

    itical feminists, this was accomplished some years back via the Cass review. But in America, as the New York Times puts it, “the LGBTQ movement drove itself towards a cliff — and took the Democratic Party with it”. Since US liberals doubled down, championing mastectomies for 14-year-old girls and cheering on boys stealing female track medals, it was left to the Maga movement to grab the easy popular, political win. But, of course, Trump didn’t stop at reversing extreme gender policies — he has also ripped up basic rights, such as cruelly banning trans people from serving in the military.

    Biden left an open goal. Of course Trump took advantage. 

    “Good” people need to grip harder, be braver, embrace complexity over slogans, stop Tippexing out the truth. Thoughtful Muslims, such as Baroness Warsi, should investigate the cultural and religious reasons towns such as Dewsbury, where she grew up, have produced rings of Pakistani men who pimp out poor white girls. Democrats could defend women’s sports and oppose the baseless mutilation of minors. Because when they don’t, as Baroness Casey says, the “bad” people can’t wait to do it for them.

    I'm not sure, from what I've seen of her, that I'd call Baroness Warsi "thoughtful". Still, yes…

    From a comment:

    When difficult issues – grooming gangs, uncontrolled migration – are handled with denial or euphemism a political vacuum opens up. And into that vacuum step those less concerned with nuance. Historian Tom Holland has noted that the most sensitive issue is not ethnicity, but religion: the fact that ISIS justified sexual slavery by citing early Islamic texts is deeply uncomfortable – yet undeniably part of the context. When mainstream parties sidestep such realities, they hand ready ammunition to populists. What begins as moral squeamishness ends in political forfeiture. Reform isn’t polling well because its ideas are better – it’s because too many others stopped talking.

    The story of the grooming gangs is the story of predominantly Muslim men in northern towns. Labour's answer to this? A law against "Islamophobia":

    Angela Rayner is accused of wanting to secretly drive through a definition of Islamophobia that could make it harder to discuss grooming gangs.

    The Deputy Prime Minister has appointed a working group to come up with a definition to be used across government.

    It is chaired by Dominic Grieve, the former Tory Cabinet minister, who has praised a 2019 study that called the discussion of “grooming gangs” an example of “anti-Muslim racism”.

  • Puberty is not a medical condition

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  • The US and Iran

    Niall Ferguson and Yoav Gallant – former Israeli minister of defense – at the Free Press. Should America join in against Iran? – especially given that the US is the only country with bombs powerful enough to destroy the nuclear facilities deep underground.

    Opponents of U.S. military action tell a simplified story of past interventions—in Vietnam, most obviously, but some also cite Iraq and Afghanistan—that led to “forever wars.” But isolationists have trouble arguing that the United States should never intervene abroad. Would the Cold War have gone better if Harry Truman had abandoned South Korea to Stalin’s proxies in 1950? Would the Middle East have benefited if Kuwait had been left in Saddam Hussein’s hands in 1991? Would the Balkans be stabler today if Bill Clinton had not belatedly acted to save Bosnia and then Kosovo from Slobodan Milošević’s aggression?

    There are, of course, those cases where the US declined to intervene – most notably Syria. How did that work out? It allowed Assad to stay in power for years, destroying the country, killing hundreds of thousands, and – not least – giving Russia the opportunity to reassert itself as a global power, practicing the aerial destruction since unleashed on Ukraine.

    None of these analogies is really applicable anyway, because the United States today is not being asked to send soldiers to invade or occupy Iran. The action President Trump must decide upon is clearly defined and limited in its duration and scale, since much of the work of defeating Iran has already been done by Israel.

    But one task remains.

    Much of Iran’s nuclear weapons program now lies in ruins, and many of the scientists who ran it are dead. But one key site remains at Fordow. Deep underground and heavily fortified, it holds the core of Iran’s remaining enrichment capability: eight cascades with over 3,000 centrifuges. The facility’s scale allows Iran to rapidly enrich weapons-grade uranium. It could do so in just three weeks, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Leaving it intact risks allowing the Islamic Republic to rebuild and resume its quest for the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

    Fordow is built into the mountains near Qom, encased under at least 300 feet of limestone, and protected by additional layers of reinforced concrete shielding and other structural defense measures that increase the facility’s ability to survive a heavy air attack. There is no credible way that Israel alone can destroy it.

    Only one air force has the power to finish off Fordow. The United States designed and built the GBU 57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) precisely for such a task…..

    Israel has moved and continues to move with determination and dispatch. The support of allies, first and foremost the United States, has been crucial. Now, with a single exertion of its unmatched military strength, the United States can shorten the war, prevent wider escalation, and end the principal threat to Middle Eastern stability. It can also send a signal to those other authoritarian powers who have been Iran’s enablers that American deterrence is back.

  • An ever-evolving virus

    est, Jews are once again being dehumanized—as Zionists.

    “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” said a student at Columbia University.

    And Jews are already being killed on that basis…..

  • The state of Pride

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  • The true cost of North Korea’s pandemic deception

    The North Korean Covid catastrophe. From the Daily NK:

    A damning new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies reveals the true cost of North Korea’s pandemic deception—a systematic cover-up that likely condemned thousands of its own citizens to preventable deaths.

    Based on interviews with 100 North Koreans, the study paints a devastating picture of a government that chose propaganda over public health. While Pyongyang didn’t officially acknowledge a single COVID case until May 2022, the virus had been ravaging the isolated nation since 2020, spreading unchecked through a population left defenseless by their own leadership.

    The testimonies are haunting in their simplicity. One interviewee described hospitals so overwhelmed they classified anyone with fever and cold symptoms as a COVID suspect—not because of sophisticated testing, but because they had no testing capabilities at all. An education worker recounted nursing homes running out of coffins as death tolls mounted. Of the 100 people interviewed, 92 reported that they or someone they knew had contracted the virus.

    This wasn’t mere bureaucratic incompetence; it was willful negligence. The report concludes that if North Korea had told the truth early and accepted international assistance, countless lives could have been saved. Instead, the regime chose to maintain its facade of pandemic-free perfection while its people suffered without vaccines, protective equipment, or even basic medical acknowledgment of their illness.

    The findings illuminate a cruel irony: a government that claims to put its people first abandoned them when they needed protection most. Citizens were left to fend for themselves against a virus their government pretended didn’t exist, turning what should have been a public health response into a test of individual survival.

  • Another weak lady brain destroyed by “radicalisation”

    After Stephen Fry's pompous diatribe against JK Rowling, Victoria Smith at UnHerd wonders just who's been radicalised:

    My youngest son has audio versions of all of the Harry Potter books. Given the public pronouncements of a certain artist, I’ve started to find this problematic. True, one can separate the art from the creator, but sometimes the latter’s hateful beliefs infect the former. This is the case when actor Stephen Fry reads the works of brilliant, principled writer J.K. Rowling.

    There’s something in the way he voices each female character, from Hermoine Grainger to Dolores Umbridge, which reeks of misogyny. The way to sound like a woman, in Fry’s view, is to make yourself high-pitched, whiny and annoying, no matter what you have to say. I haven’t banned my son from listening because the books are still wonderful. Nonetheless, every time I hear Fry holding forth, I’m reminded of Liz Lochhead’s poem “Men Talk”: “Women prattle / Women waffle and wiffle / Men talk.”

    And if women are going to keep talking, it seems that the least they can do is shut up about serious issues such as their own existence in law. Fry has become the latest self-appointed man of reason to express dismay at Rowling’s involvement in current debates around sex and gender. Speaking to The Show People podcast, Fry, a man who once told sexual abuse victims to “grow up” and stop being so “self-pitying”, believes that Rowling, a woman who uses her own money to help such victims, has become “cruel” and “mocking”. Then again, he suggests, perhaps she can’t help it.

    “She has been radicalised, I fear,” he told the podcast. “Perhaps by Terfs, but also by the vitriol that is thrown at her.” He added: “I’m afraid she seems to be a lost cause for us.”

    Oh no! Not another weak lady brain destroyed by “radicalisation”!

    Strong echoes of the familiar old vitriol thrown at the suffragettes. And who's this "us" for whom Rowling seems a lost cause? Presumably he's talking about virtually the entire entertainment industry, who've been united in their support of the gender cult, and who throw the most delightful dinner parties.

    The ultimate irony of the “radicalisation” slur is that no one needs to be radicalised into believing the same things everyone on the planet believed 10 years ago. It is darkly hilarious to think that feminists popping champagne corks are held up as examples of damaged, brainwashed bigots, while men who take to the streets calling for their deaths are merely considered to have taken things a bit far in the name of a just cause.

    I doubt that the Stephen Fry who recorded the Harry Potter books could have predicted that one day, he’d be on the side of those men. Still, that Fry’s low-level misogyny always made him vulnerable to radicalisation. Perhaps there’s a way back, but my feeling is he’s too far gone.

  • Breaking into a military site

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  • “Against this murderous sociopathic Zio-American global empire”

    We thought David Miller was bad – but at least Bristol University got rid of him. This guy is a professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino.

  • Men still barging into women’s toilets

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    — Biology Rules Ok (@OkayBiology) June 19, 2025

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