Mick Hartley

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  • Starting afresh

    entities.

    It raises the prospect that medics seeking to hide a chequered disciplinary history could exploit the system by choosing to change their gender identity in order to erase their past. It also means a female patient who specifically requested a female doctor would be unable to find out if their doctor was born a man.

    More evidence of institutional capture. But good for Streeting, calling this out….

  • Trump’s little helper

    Trump is bad enough, but Elon Musk is off the charts:

    Elon Musk has accused Kyiv of being a “massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers” and said President Trump was right to “ignore” President Zelensky in peace talks with Moscow.

    The tech billionaire and close Trump adviser also echoed the US president’s call for elections in Ukraine, claiming that Zelensky’s people “despise” him…

    Musk wrote on X, his social media platform: “If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election. He knows he would lose in a landslide. So he cancelled the election.”

    A nasty little Robin to Trump's Batman. 

  • The new Lysenkoism

    , but rather they would cooperate with each other in a near-sentient fashion — like humans.

    Applying the Marxist principle of materialism, in which the conditions surrounding an individual dictate its behaviors and responses, Lysenko believed that plants and animals, too, could be reshaped as needed.

    In 1927, Lysenko’s theories appeared to be proven when a crop of peas he’d planted in the winter before burst forth into green life. He thought this proved that he had taught the peas to grow even in their off-season simply by exposing them to the cold.

    Stalin backed him, Lysenkoism became officially approved Marxist-Leninist biology, opponents were jailed or sent to the gulags – and millions starved to death.

    It's the classic case of ideology trumping science – cited, often enough, as proof of the idiocy of Soviet Communism under Stalin, and the willingness of regime apparatchiks to go along with the latest approved fad for the sake of their careers.

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  • Russian war crimes

    usband or son, who are still in captivity. She is kept awake at night by the thought of them suffering in the same way she did.

    “I want to tell them that I love them. I was trapped for seven months, but to think of them there, three years later, is unbearable.”

  • Facebook vs. X

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  • UN on Hamas’ “sickening act”

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    "According to Turk: “Under international law, any transfer of remains must comply with the prohibition on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. It must ensure the dignity of the deceased and the dignity of the families.”

    "Spare us the tears. The UN has spent years funding, legitimizing, and excusing Hamas. Now it pretends to be shocked when the terror group desecrates a hostages babies’ bodies?"

     

  • The coffin handover

    in Gaza, the two Bibas children and their mother, were finally returned under the ceasefire deal.

    The two red-headed children, Ariel, four, and Kfir, ten months old, and their mother, Shiri Bibas, 32, were held by Hamas since October 7, when they were snatched from their kibbutz home in southern Israel and their plight led to an outpouring of anger and grief.

    The Telegraph:

    The bodies of Shiri Bibas, her children Ariel and Kfir, and Oded Lifshitz – pictures of whom were on the coffins – were handed over to a Red Cross convoy to be returned to Israel.

    Behind the coffins on stage was a picture of Benjamin Netanyahu, with blood dripping from his mouth and text in English accusing him of killing the hostages.

    The coffins on stage appeared to be props, as different coffins were seen being handed over to the Red Cross by masked Hamas fighters dressed in black.

    Despicable. And the Red Cross are happy to play along with this obscene ceremony – the only time we see them and their lovely ambulances is in these grotesque Hamas parades.

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  • The baby prisoner

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    Seth Mandel on The Meaning of Kfir Bibas.

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  • Un-Islamic

    region, saying it was un-Islamic.

    Fearing trouble, local police stepped in and the women's team members were asked to return to their home for their safety….

    The Islamists insist that the match they stopped was against their religious values and say that they are determined to prevent any future football games.

    "If women want to play football, they should cover their entire body, and they can play only in front of female spectators. Men cannot watch them play," Maulana Ashraf Ali, the leader of the Islami Andolan Bangladesh in the Taraganj area of Rangpur, told the BBC.

    Mr Ali also insisted that the group "definitely" want hard-line Islamic Sharia law in Bangladesh.

    It seems to be a one-way thing, this increasing hard-line Islamification. No Muslim country, as far as I can tell, is liberalising: it's all the other way, with women, as ever, the biggest victims.

    In Katje Adler's recent two-parter report from the Balkans she made some interesting comments from Kosovo, where the Muslim faith of the young used to be of the kind we saw here as Christianity declined: they paid some lip-service so as not to offend their parents, but weren't really interested. Recently, though, Saudi Arabia has been pouring billions into a program of Mosque-building, and spreading their hard-line Wahhabi teachings. Now you see young woman in black, all veiled up….

  • “All he knows how to do is read the news”

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    "all he knows how to do is read the news."

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