Mick Hartley

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  • Pandering to the bully

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  • Gender identity theory “largely a middle-class pursuit”

    padding-left: 40px”>But surely one of the greatest betrayals is a trade union whose membership is three-quarters female, ignoring the material reality of women’s lives in favour of a fanciful theory that sex can be cast off as easily as last season’s fashions.

  • Sharifeh Mohammadi

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    "…and now faces the ultimate injustice. Please share her story."

    More here:

    Sharifeh Mohammadi, a workers rights activist detained in Iran, has been resentenced to death on charges of baghy (armed rebellion).

    Mohammadi is a 45-year-old workers’ rights activist from Mianeh in Eastern Azerbaijan who resided in Rasht. She was arrested on 5 December 2023 and held in solitary confinement and denied access to phone calls and visits. According to reports, she was subjected to severe psychological and physical torture to extract forced confessions.

    The latest ruling sparked outrage as the Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) condemns Mohammadi’s death sentence, calling it "a part of the Islamic Republic’s campaign of intimidation following the nationwide “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests.

  • Nowhere to go “free from harassment or male violence”

    ing-left: 40px”>Ms Browne said when women are murdered or sexually assaulted they are portrayed as "isolated incidents" but "they've not just spawned out of nowhere".

    "It comes from a larger issue, which is behavioural and structural," she said. "They might be your friend, your brother, your family member."

    She said that while "the average day-to-day man does not hold the power to change an entire economic political system, everyday men do have the power to call each other out on their behaviour, reflect, and actually do something about it".

    Ms Browne said gender-based violence is an epidemic.

    A brave woman.

    I think – I hope – that it's better here in London. I see at least as many women running by themselves as men. But of course I don't really know. 

    No wonder so many young girls, appalled at the prospect of puberty, get seduced by the siren calls on social media to de-sex themselves.

  • An observant Muslim

    >The mother of four, who planned for her children to become martyrs for the terror group, was described in court as an “observant” Muslim.

    Before:

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    After:

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  • A Jewish boy in Toronto

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  • Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore

    Arthur Siegel, May 1943. 

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    "Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. The canteen building at night."

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    "Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland. The shipways at evening."
    [Photos: Shorpy/Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information]

    In April of 1941, the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard employed around 350, a number that grew exponentially as war production increased. By 1942, 11,000 people worked at the shipyard; in late 1943, the number was at its highest with around 47,000 employees. War production never stopped — Bethlehem-Fairfield employed three shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round.

  • Not-a-woman’s-crime revisited

    Here we go again:

    A transgender paedophile who was snared by police officers while trying to meet up with a young boy has been jailed for four years.

    Bex McCullgh, from Backwell, North Somerset, was arrested on arrival at the scene in Bristol, where officers were waiting.

    At Bristol Crown Court, the 25-year-old – who was previously called Beckham – admitted a number of offences including attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity.

    McCullgh was handed an eight-year sentence, four of which will be served in custody, followed by another four on extended licence.

    Despite court records referring to the paedophile using “he”, police have since referred to McCullgh as “she”.

    So he referred to himself as "he", but the police insisted on "she". Right.

    An investigation from the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) resulted in an arrest in October last year….

    Det Insp David Wells, from SWROCU, said: “The sentence handed down to McCullgh reflects the threat she posed to children and, together with the indefinite order, will help prevent her reoffending when she is eventually released."

    But it's not a woman posing this threat to children. It's not a "she".

  • The Islamic warrior spirit

    democracy that it seeks to absorb is the clearest manifestation yet that its animating ideology is something akin to classical fascism….

    Also, on the unlikely Dugin links with Aleister Crowley and, um, Throbbing Gristle.

  • A beacon of unity

    The Unison women's conference motion that "“trans women are women and trans men are men” has been passed without any opposition:

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    The state of the union. No one dared raise their hands to oppose. Not so much a happy democratic decision as a sign of the mindless group-think of today's unions, with any doubters keeping their thoughts to themselves.

    They're yesterday's progressives: always the last to abandon the old left shibboleths. They were banging on about class war long after Marx was dead and buried, and now they're full on board with the old gender cult just as everyone else is realising what a crock it all is. 

    Back in November the Darlington nurses, outraged that they had to share a changing room with a trans-identified male, met up with the health secretary.  Unison boss Steve North's response: it was “deeply concerning”, he tweeted, “that Wes Streeting appears to be once again pandering to anti-trans bigotry”.

    As I wrote at the time: The phrase "union dinosaurs" comes to mind. The battling trade unions of old, campaigning against the excesses of a rampant Victorian capitalism, have long since atrophied into stale depositories of a parody "working class" male entitlement.

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