tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524952032045802572024-03-19T02:48:07.235-07:00Mark Irvine - Blogger, Campaigner, OrganiserMark Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comBlogger27472125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-84928652143544561792024-03-19T02:41:00.000-07:002024-03-19T02:47:35.234-07:00Skinnymalinky Longlegs vs 'Days of Girlhood'<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTwgnu9-vcRy3y76I79xPPtaKdjGdaj3fp5ed0oLoJPzKpfDtIC56mbndCeBT-ZGtSnXYvGdG0kgGXOaRVJdwr-HpDeI2Pwygxn-Q3Yn3H8jZIOz1Ag3ySHLkXfJJw6ZwnXSSx-FQ1NVHArrj8FgGcVfLMCQUXGBRCdQ1_Kl9TEa6TCZnQ7VaefIf8TPY/w446-h640/Dylan%20Mulvaney.jpg" width="446" /></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Dylan Mulvaney's new video 'Days of Girlhood' reminded me of this nonsense rhyme kids in Glasgow used to sing years ago.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #141414; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>A Skinny Malink, by the way, is a painfully thin person.</b></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Skinny Malinky long legs</span></em></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Big banana feet </span></em></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Went to the pictures but couldnae find a seat </span></em></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the picture started </span></em></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Skinny Malinky farted </span></em></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Skinny Malinky long legs </span></em></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Big banana feet</span></em></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>'Days of Girlhood' is just as idiotic of course with a grown man like Dylan larping around, pretending to be a girl.</b></span><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The wait finally over. Days of Girlhood by Dylan Mulvaney is out now. I watched the full video and clipped the best part so you don’t have to. <a href="https://t.co/K67Xqf5DYB">https://t.co/K67Xqf5DYB</a> <a href="https://t.co/SwOCFPB9mV">pic.twitter.com/SwOCFPB9mV</a></p>— Storm (@stormrobinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/stormrobinson/status/1768003881118957629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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You’ll love it. <a href="https://t.co/V8NzJWZkNh">https://t.co/V8NzJWZkNh</a></p>— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jebadoo2/status/1770000356228948458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2024</a></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>I doubt I'll bother reading Judith Butler's new book, but I did enjoy Dennis Noel Kavanagh's pithy summary of its essential message - 'everyone I don't like is a Nazi'.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Now that made me laugh. </b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxOoe0au5V4_3xTI3mVhGaKJlDev1cVPyOFEM3jKSEukYRW5QD_BwRYUOgerTIhBZVkay0WLVUmGohDi046myFaqa7rpjwBzXYzFvcz2W9eeU2RkdF6ABrj6Rix1tqpSPSeG4y-dO8hkB0xzc1cxgQdojaVJXrOWNLzj-quKl0MQjJuqb6yDRExb50yyU/w480-h640/Judith%20Butler%20Book.jpg" width="480" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbuwIb-aSL98yQvv6EqprfRZzRrftwy1LTNMgmzG7uJPw3FYz8TvA_Jl8vQNGaL5lRTs-IXRWqf-BVnYYYFee83f4UqEGqA-jdS5rGtI0B3IEMoqKCcjpfkiz-OsNKnHla1pfziGitcXJvLa7iFqildzW7_VXuT0r_V5E0t3EFmli4VvXj-NrpFEVntec/w553-h640/Hitler.jpg" width="553" /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered" data-screen-name="Mark1957" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.450bd5fbaeab74caf9d49a3141d20693.en.html#_=1445870774984&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&preview=true&screen_name=Mark1957&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="background-color: white; 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font-size: large;"><b>I've taken a break from social media over the past few days during a trip to Madrid which culminated in a visit to the Civitas Metropolitano stadium for the match between Atlétco Madrid vs Barcelona.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Barca won a well deserved 0-3 victory after a bright star by the home team, but setting the result aside Atlético have a magnificent stadium and great transport links for getting supporters to and from the city centre.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>A stadium tour is also well worth doing - very interesting and informative as well and slick and professional.</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-Qz_QrccObmL0osFNgU4SAktt4UrpyUKl_xVkYgjj0ny059yR5kyCBf4ipZSCXw7fcviWWGu3T4WeEj-eOD-WxtahJXg6uRA_D5CnVA5-tTcETje-q1VA1z48LGH85nyVu4PqQLS9GGdun2aUfXlDhwhRJroUdE2DLPVOnzXzBnHicTFIV6z4huGYCY/w640-h480/M2.jpeg" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyVrdqsAIh8UTx4uJX6fjGEIhyiI2OCUGnyFfoOTVgE6oJknlXuWmjO4Dqh1L_IRdQkY0O6geXCZ7ysIeQ37WUM6px8hyphenhyphenbTOOtJz7Z3f3UXASxfZuTNBuhHPd9nxdAQcuYDCK1acV2aZAR7vyawVI-7ssMTG3oOwHRctrRWWBabr1_YL5y9btfjOem7c/w640-h480/M3.jpeg" width="640" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0z6lpeJbtohaS2vGJayg0oNZtL0lngt3YDb32CFvWYe-ut5xIQf9NmzrOwSS3vFvZ8pOFb1gW0m8XweGnK7n-2R95i03ayyjgQsaQxP9BO_tWwd0fjBK8kpqp3SvK217W5-hA-GUDNmCYwAe_xcVmsOdZdkzi1Cu05XGO300H2odHR-cvfA1m1kjNxU/w640-h480/M4.jpeg" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="background-color: white; 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Holyrood bosses find Michael Matheson broke rule on "improper use" of parliamentary expenses <br /><br />Michael Matheson breached MSP's code of conduct <a href="https://t.co/txO0LD93A6">https://t.co/txO0LD93A6</a></p>— Tom Gordon (@HTScotPol) <a href="https://twitter.com/HTScotPol/status/1768288789749731607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>So the smirk has been well and truly wiped from Michael Matheson's face with the news that the former SNP health secretary did indeed break the MSP's code of conduct.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Now this seemed obvious to pretty much everyone except the SNP leader Humza Yousaf who unwisely defended his colleague for months.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Surely Matheson must resign as the SNP MSP for Falkirk West - he has zero credibility after denying everything and clinging on for all this time?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Such a pity the Scottish Parliament does not have a right of recall over MSPs even though the House of Commons does have such a power over Westminster MPs.</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEue6ziKPWFX_nrDLcARziMcioIkQv52k_YgVZmxbDgquz1zxo4Omoi8q6u_fxIybz2URErbt01wUnA9RZWiJiTPfnINV-PBOX2Kd9lbFt_XYTex1uX08gzwuJPhntPBvqEjNhMb2YcVpe3_8_3rUwxFek4i9BdBdcEMJlmLFuUTvlkSZMYKoRvNZQwKA/w640-h426/Smirk.jpg" width="640" /></div><p><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered" data-screen-name="Mark1957" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.450bd5fbaeab74caf9d49a3141d20693.en.html#_=1445870774984&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&preview=true&screen_name=Mark1957&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #292f33; font-family: "gotham narrow ssm", "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 122px;" title="Twitter Follow Button"></iframe><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">The Smirk Has Gone! 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(February 08, 2024)<p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1755549656312840282" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" 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2024</a></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Janice Turner is spot on.</b></span></span></p><p><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">"In 50 years, chemically freezing the puberty of healthy children with troubled minds will be regarded with the same horrified fascination as lobotomies — which, never forget, won the Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel prize."</span></i></p><p><img alt="Look Back in Anger (1959) - IMDb" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="833.6000003814697" height="640" jsname="Q4LuWd" 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href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4dcc902e-0403-4925-aa2c-6dd3645d61a2?shareToken=43c0dbc34b653d7887e76d1ea94c31f9">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4dcc902e-0403-4925-aa2c-6dd3645d61a2?</a></i></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">One day, we’ll look back on era of puberty blockers with horror<br /></span></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In years to come, chemically freezing the sexual development of troubled children will become a topic of gruesome fascination, like lobotomies in the 20th century</span></i></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhchkj_fY8NUqMR-IH7oIippCcq6eXIeAKjQ8B-aAQpPMsLcd79pwGy81I-S0cBLxqj1y8iyZopPQptILfd7mTaoP35n0iUeTn4gGCOIJjeLzieJQo1XckCInNfBZlyyCnWXv5-QjGAx2NzbFpSa4xYVOBCEs2nt15B28ICsGYfePu_8gI2D2qrKrJMNdI/w640-h360/Janice%20Turner.jpg" width="640" /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">By <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/janice-turner">Janice Turner</a> - The Times</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In 2017 I interviewed Bernadette Wren, then head of psychology at the Tavistock Gids clinic, and asked what effect puberty blocking drugs have on the adolescent brain. Looking highly uncomfortable, she replied that the evidence so far was only anecdotal but that the clinic would study its patients “well into their adult lives so that we can see”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Even back then, before whistleblowers had exposed the rush to medically transition children, it was alarming to hear that heavy-duty GnRH agonists such as triptorelin — used to treat advanced prostate cancer and “chemically castrate” sex offenders — were being prescribed to arrest puberty in hundreds of children as young as 11.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Moreover, they were being used “off-label” before any clinical trials. And the long-term study Wren promised never materialised: Gids (the Gender Identity Development Service) routinely lost touch with patients, and the 44 it did follow reported </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/high-proportion-of-transgender-patients-found-to-suffer-from-mental-health-issues-pswzrl8sd" style="font-size: x-large;">little long-term mental health improvement</a><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This shocking chapter in medical history, where the ideological objectives of trans rights campaigners trumped the welfare of disturbed children, is coming to an end worldwide. The decision by NHS England </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/children-no-puberty-blockers-nhs-gender-identity-clinic-6tck7wm52" style="font-size: x-large;">effectively to ban the prescription of puberty blockers</a><span style="font-size: large;"> comes after the Cass review noted these drugs could “permanently disrupt” brain development, reduce bone density and lock children into a regime of cross-sex hormones requiring life-long patienthood.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">NHS England unites with other national health services including those in Finland, France, Sweden and, most notably, the Netherlands — where the “Dutch protocol”, a regime of early blockers then hormones, was devised in 1998 — in pulling back from prescribing them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Even in the United States, where a toxic combination of extreme activism and medical capitalism has pushed child gender medicine to grotesque extremes, with double mastectomies performed on 14-year-old girls, there is some retrenchment.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Leaks from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the body which formulates guidance on “trans healthcare”, reveal doctors perplexed at how they should explain to an 11-year-old child that drugs will render them infertile. Crucially, liberal media such as The New York Times are now reporting grave medical misgivings about child transition, once dismissed as a culture-war issue for the Republican right.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Yet the question remains: how was this ever allowed to happen? For years, puberty blockers were cheerily billed as a mere “pause button”. In 2014, </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-staff-take-key-roles-in-new-regional-gender-centres-03b0qqs50" style="font-size: x-large;">Dr Polly Carmichael</a><span style="font-size: large;">, the last head of Gids before the Cass review ordered its closure, went on CBBC in a show called I Am Leo, saying of blockers: “The good thing is, if you stop the injections, it’s like pressing ‘start’ and the body carries on developing as it would if you hadn’t started.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The BBC permitted her to make this unevidenced claim to an impressionable audience of six to 12-year-olds. Imagine hearing this as a developing girl, freaked out by your new breasts and periods. No wonder Gids referrals subsequently rocketed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Carmichael failed to mention that she did not know if pressing “restart” on puberty is always medically possible — it is not — and in fact, almost every child Gids put on blockers went on to irreversible cross-sex hormones.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">After years in a Peter Pan state while their peers developed, they understandably felt there was no way back and forged on with treatment. Yet if allowed to experience natural puberty, almost 85 per cent of gender dysphoria cases resolve themselves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Nor did Carmichael tell CBBC kids that the blockers-hormones combination, if taken early enough, not only results in sterility but kills the libido so that a young person will never experience an orgasm.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">At the 2020 judicial review brought by a former Tavistock clinician and </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gender-confused-teens-need-time-and-space-tbjcw6h2t" style="font-size: x-large;">Keira Bell</a><span style="font-size: large;">, the brave young detransitioner rushed onto hormones by Gids, judges expressed astonishment at Gids’s lack of an evidence base.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Reporting on this issue for seven years, I too have been struck by a complete clinical incuriosity. Not only was data not collected, but those who queried treatments or pressed for evidence faced angry condemnation. Perhaps activists knew what research might find because one long-term Finnish study, recently reported in the BMJ, destroyed the myth used to justify blockers: that a child will take their own life if denied them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The Finns found that “gender-affirming care” does not make a dysphoric child less suicidal. Rather, such children had the same suicide risk as others with severe psychiatric issues. In other words, changing bodies does not fix troubled minds.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Yet even after NHS England’s announcement, activists refuse to heed the now-overwhelming evidence. In its response, </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-is-stonewall-still-being-funded-by-the-public-purse-86c0d5cx5" style="font-size: x-large;">Stonewall</a><span style="font-size: large;"> persists with the myth that puberty blockers “give a young person extra time to evaluate their next steps”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Many questions remain unanswered: will private clinics still be permitted to prescribe puberty blockers; and is </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/waiting-lists-for-scottish-gender-clinics-increase-fivefold-since-2018-dgbz8cbzm" style="font-size: x-large;">Scotland’s Sandyford child gender clinic</a><span style="font-size: large;"> still determined to close its ears to all evidence? Plus, we have few details on how the NHS’s new “holistic” treatment for gender-questioning children will operate when it opens next month.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This repellent experiment — in which girls who like trucks or little boys who dress as princesses, and who invariably grow up to be gay, are corralled inexorably down a road towards life-changing treatments — belongs in the book of medical disgraces. As do the cheerleaders who raised money for </span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/controversial-trans-charitys-tips-in-john-lewis-magazine-6pkxnh97n" style="font-size: x-large;">Mermaids</a><span style="font-size: large;"> and those who persecuted whistleblowers or damned journalists asking questions as transphobic.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In 50 years, chemically freezing the puberty of healthy children with troubled minds will be regarded with the same horrified fascination as lobotomies — which, never forget, won the Portuguese neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel prize. </span></i></span> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div></div>Mark Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-3644908509685093172024-03-14T04:23:00.000-07:002024-03-14T04:23:20.666-07:00Dad Dancing and Hate Crimes<p> <img alt="SNP's 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width="640" /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Hello is that Police Scotland?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Good, I'd like to report a hate crime.</b></span></p><p><img alt="Saturday Fright Fever! Dad-dancing Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf channels his inner John Travolta at SNP by-election campaign launch | Daily Mail Online" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="661.5999994277954" height="640" jsname="Q4LuWd" 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Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-19368418927687573402024-03-14T04:02:00.000-07:002024-03-14T04:02:38.376-07:00Hello Possums!<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I've not watched the Dylan Mulvaney music video and I never will because I have no interest in watching a man with a eating disorder pretend to be a girl.... however I do enjoy watching him pretend to be a possum and I'm sure you will as well. <a href="https://t.co/g2FzUXMRFs">pic.twitter.com/g2FzUXMRFs</a></p>— Aja the Ultra Empress ♀️🇬🇧🇯🇲 (@Aja02537920) <a href="https://twitter.com/Aja02537920/status/1768182110274089017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2024</a></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>I've seen everything now, but I have to say Dylan Mulvaney is a better acting as a 'possum' than he is masquerading as a girl. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>And where is Barry Humphries when you need him (not her, of course)?</b></span></p><p><img alt="Andrew Gourdie on X: "@kinson88 https://t.co/I1leYYLcfM" / X" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="false" data-deferred="1" data-iml="786" height="384" jsname="Q4LuWd" 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Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-50790339343163237892024-03-14T03:52:00.000-07:002024-03-14T03:52:43.966-07:00Disagreement and Hate Crime<p> <img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIiYO7KWEAAybnd?format=jpg&name=medium" /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Euan McColm pours some much needed scorn on the Scottish Government's new hate crime act.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>"There are two obvious - and surely fatal - problems with the new law. The first is that leaving police across the country to judge whether a controversial expressed passes the threshold for prosecution is not at all good for the health of freedom of speech. 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Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-46282999002584351322024-03-14T03:20:00.000-07:002024-03-14T03:21:05.290-07:00Scottish Government - Ministers, Fall Guys and Resignations (December 18, 2020)<p><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9IXzgforZx5WfTBOgUMltzBI3PSUPnK1HULztxXJBn_RgP61H5V_iIg5GdQSXYqQi_gvNWwdcaERBtrRe3CRKea3Pq84e1JRxnIyBmzLGb7HlOqJl_pyBOb7hxQnyqfD9o80IGGNh8iU/w532-h640/Scotland+Drug+Deatns.jpeg" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: inherit; max-width: 100%;" width="532" /></p><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-3232243338820573498" style="caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; 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#2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">Health</a> Minister after facing mounting pressure over drugs deaths failings.<br /><br />He was facing a motion of no confidence from opposition MSPs but has "agreed that I should leave government".</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18956129.joe-fitzpatrick-quits-public-health-minister-drugs-deaths/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18956129.joe-fitzpatrick-quits-public-health-minister-drugs-deaths/</i></a></span></div>Mark Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-29463663375397964442024-03-14T03:10:00.000-07:002024-03-14T03:10:08.444-07:00Humza, Drug Deaths and the SNP<p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" 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width="640" /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>SNP ministers and Police Scotland are coming in for some very well deserved criticism after unveiling a new advert to 'explain' the Scottish Government's new hate crime act.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Sadly, the advert looks like one of those terrible efforts from a group of desperate wannabees auditioning for The Apprentice.</b></span></p><p><img alt="Campaigns - Police Scotland" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="false" data-deferred="1" data-iml="838.8999996185303" height="223" jsname="Q4LuWd" 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font-size: large;"><b>Humza Yousaf lives in Broughty Ferry these days, on the outskirts of Dundee, but the next time the MSP for Glasgow Pollok visits Glasgow he should have a serious discussion about drug deaths.</b><br /><br /><b>Because whatever the SNP is doing it's not working and hasn't been for years.</b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Even Nicola Sturgeon was forced to admit the SNP "took out eye off the ball" when Scotland racked up the worst drug deaths rate in Europe in 2021.</b><br /><br /><b>In 2023 there were 303 suspected drug deaths in Greater Glasgow - a rise of 41% from the figure for the year before when it was 214.</b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Glasgow's figures are far higher than the rest of Scotland - c</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ampaigners say a change is needed to focus on recovery rather than treating addiction.</span></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Annemarie Ward, from Favor UK, which advocates for people in recovery said the figures were “devastating” - she said if the Scottish Government “keep listening to addiction ‘experts’ they will get more addiction”.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So maybe it's time to start listening to the advocates of recovery - because the addiction 'experts' are getting nowhere fast.</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavKh2Ih20M5_DTFRzIfQre6hw0sdYLZWAHl8Q1-Q7tYvXmqK2dNT9Br_jydPW2NaO_NWUpw-zz6RSehpeuu8moVgQGComiifPoIhmYMoscFHKCvla0VTAaecPVGCYN0mbbNU5k2oyQ_E7CamNVR4zdscmtYSws75eKONT_wkBlXc8rKmPAcphJiDKIcU/w640-h426/Annemarie%20Ward%203.jpg" width="640" /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="background-color: white; 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font-size: large;"><b>Angus Robertson looks like an overstuffed hamster in this video, but this should detract from the fact that as an SNP minister he made a complete horses's ass of Scotland's census.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The low turnout undermines the credibility of census data and the projected cost of £140 million is a terrible waste of public money - at twice the cost of 2011 census. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Robertson's claim about 'the rest of the world catching up with Scotland' is completely laughable, of course.. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Census: Uptake in Scotland was lower as it was predominately digital - rUK was paper.<br /><br />"The rest of the world are catching up with Scotland"..............<br /><br />Airmiles Angus ladies and gents. <a href="https://t.co/EK6UJnQOGL">pic.twitter.com/EK6UJnQOGL</a></b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>— Bob's Country Bunker (@TomJohn1975) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomJohn1975/status/1767167655201440130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2024</a></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.5em 0px 2em;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Episode 5 of 'Nolan Investigates - Stonewall' focuses on a fascinating interview with Dr David Bell, a consultant psychiatrist, who blew the whistle on the reckless practices of gender ideologues at the Tavistock clinic in London.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The clinic's gender identity services are now being shut down after an independent review by Dr Hilary Cass.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDCNA7oxc6Ra5al4qp5_cQSho9mhNv9esaO_Da9TneHdZp5h7XW_7xe-zZwx84KHzaGTluMQj-hwVyk5EktJkvAq6voj6scqjXliWmqAKnhMb1dw4rMw6BsRSJpoQvOVaOWNd_INXKi8-TGswtRPB3pNgXZ4oObItcik0GjKmHFttrOUgYNR2FKbUC/w640-h384/David%20Bell.jpg" style="border: 0px; 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A sex shop in Glasgow has been designated by Police Scotland as a ‘Hate Crime Third Party Reporting Centre’. A bona fide sex shop. Is it sponsored by Creative Scotland? <a href="https://t.co/rcLYj2K11R">pic.twitter.com/rcLYj2K11R</a></p>— Susan Dalgety (@DalgetySusan) <a href="https://twitter.com/DalgetySusan/status/1767697153642688838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Is this what the SNP have in mind when they boast about Scotland 'leading the world' - a sex shop as a Third Party Reporting Centre for alleged hate crimes?</b></span></p><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIgfMIHWUAAFIZC?format=jpg&name=small" /> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIgfMIHWkAA6na9?format=jpg&name=small" /></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered" data-screen-name="Mark1957" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.450bd5fbaeab74caf9d49a3141d20693.en.html#_=1445870774984&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&preview=true&screen_name=Mark1957&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #292f33; font-family: "gotham narrow ssm", "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 122px;" title="Twitter Follow Button"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Mark Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-43121486808105026372024-03-13T02:20:00.000-07:002024-03-13T02:24:54.626-07:00Spot The Difference! - Nota La Diferencia!<p> <img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="640" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIgb6E9WYAA4X8F?format=jpg&name=small" width="640" /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Spanish equivalent of Stonewall is an organisation which goes by the acronym of FELGTB, but the FELGTB are unhappy because a group of guys in the military (TNN) changed their legal sex to female - while the rest of their lives remained completely unchanged.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>So FELGTB decided to sue TNN only for TNN to announce they are going to sue FELGTB for 'transphobia' - because under Spanish law no reason has to be given for changing your ID and the law says your decision can't be questioned.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Now that is funny!</b></span></p><p><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="640" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIgb6E6W0AAOgXL?format=jpg&name=small" width="640" /></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">From my friend, on the situation in Spain. Hilarious! <br /><br />Do you want to know something funny?<br />The Spanish equivalent to Stonewall (FELGTB) has been fuming some days because of those military guys who changed their legal sex to female without doing anything else (and keeping…</p>— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) <a href="https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1767691199794545138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote><p><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered" data-screen-name="Mark1957" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.450bd5fbaeab74caf9d49a3141d20693.en.html#_=1445870774984&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&preview=true&screen_name=Mark1957&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #292f33; font-family: "gotham narrow ssm", "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 122px;" title="Twitter Follow Button"></iframe> </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Mark Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-18142636301415428402024-03-13T01:44:00.000-07:002024-03-13T01:51:59.272-07:00Hate Crimes and April Fool's Day <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">April 1st In Scotland this year is going to be a shitshow.<br /><br />My thoughts will be with to Police Scotland who are going to receive 28,000 complaints in one day from TRA loon balls.</p>— Brian Spilei (@BrianSpanner1) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianSpanner1/status/1767534849303228747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>I suspect Brian Spanner is correct.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The SNP's Hate Crime Act is likely to descend into farce from Day One as trans zealots vent their spleen on people who reject self-ID - and refuse to believe that men can magically declare themselves to be women.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Which means the vast majority of Scots of course - with the exception of some leading figures in the SNP. </b></span></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">JKR should be charged with what?<br /><br />They’re completely mad. <a href="https://t.co/M58ak3S0NI">https://t.co/M58ak3S0NI</a> </p></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">— WritersFreedomExpression (@WritersFreeto) <a href="https://twitter.com/WritersFreeto/status/1767450917056446551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4L0B6KvaZSow0z-dK4nJK2he4CiwMar7weZlyNxIDdz3jMF1wbBr8JM2jzOHMKu3ZX19nChHkHegi85yZwsRCENTwzNFlQ9iFX0Z4IMHppDv9zVMIhVxRFfEeLv0E2aUxsRVVRPtCqXJetj2vo68SoWgP961iFykVE0xlMDc5m3VUovvJDbThS2E46g/s16000/GRCs.jpg" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered" data-screen-name="Mark1957" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.450bd5fbaeab74caf9d49a3141d20693.en.html#_=1445870774984&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&preview=true&screen_name=Mark1957&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #292f33; font-family: "gotham narrow ssm", "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 122px;" title="Twitter Follow Button"></iframe></div><br /><p> </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Mark Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-50097729478912431542024-03-12T04:52:00.000-07:002024-03-12T04:52:17.053-07:00Pushmi-Pullyu - Scotland's Hate Crime Legislation<p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq3fTg7J-AnwYv_9k4eK0EnuWkkaqWgrTlSRwXgKl7zeq8rX-pQ3WRmFEnHiTemG8Z-rdHE-4hPPqD3Z6TLKWCdo-v9rOeJPxG1CObED5tmv5sTzeZFlBoLO6sjLkap6pqzBAgS0W-WSb0ukFDYaZyU1RWL90rPhyboTanBdU7l-Gxbx4vxitrylu1DDg/w640-h640/Another%20Fine%20Mess.png" width="640" /></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Scottish government looks to be on course for another legislative mess with the implementation of its Hate Crime Act which will take effect on April 1 2024 - April Fool's Day of course.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The original bill was passed by Holyrood more than 3 years ago and was piloted through parliament by none other than Humza Yousaf, while acting as SNP justice minister.</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">But the proposed legislation has attracted lots of criticism - in a letter to Holyrood’s criminal justice committee, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, the policy analysts, said: </span></b></span><div><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: arial;">“Unless immediate action is taken, this means that officers will be required on the one hand to regard all reports of ‘hate’ as subjectively true on the perception of the complainer, and on the other, to apply what ministers described as a ‘high threshold’, for whether a ‘reasonable person’ would regard the material as ‘threatening or abusive’, and whether it is intended to ‘stir up hate’ under the 2021 Act. This is clearly contradictory, and it is unclear how officers are being guided to manage that tension.”<br /></i><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Now if you ask me this is a farce - because it's facing in two different directions at the same time.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr-5IQWy_nwFiIa7GHJs1WRaqhs_H3jKpoZETcZzxPTmF1csv8th_d0jta5FRvwIm3UmRywl6bpnqp9DGQGVP2w0GV94sooIKFeFqELX2KQYw_h2CwkeTALB1EI0mVd8cjyWdHPo8-a_zg1OtFY23lboeNdVzcHa6dOpiWy8p0qI8PghQQCJM8em0Hpeo/w497-h640/Pushmi%20Pullyu.png" width="497" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered" data-screen-name="Mark1957" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.450bd5fbaeab74caf9d49a3141d20693.en.html#_=1445870774984&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&preview=true&screen_name=Mark1957&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #292f33; font-family: "gotham narrow ssm", "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 122px;" title="Twitter Follow Button"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><b><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-scotland-will-log-hate-incidents-even-if-no-crime-is-committed-6mw6hs9hn"><i>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-scotland-will-log-hate-incidents-even-if-no-crime-is-committed-6mw6hs9hn</i></a></b><br /></span><br /><br /><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Police Scotland will log ‘hate incidents’ even if no crime is committed</span></b></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;">New legislation coming into effect on April 1 has been criticised for criminalising freedom of expression</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><img height="359" src="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F69886433-6af5-48d3-adc5-c88f6fe043d1.jpg?crop=5000%2C2813%2C0%2C260&resize=360" width="640" /></span><br /><b>The hate crime legislation will create an offence of stirring up hatred against protected characteristics, including sexual orientation and gender identity - Photo JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES</b><br /><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>By <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/kieran-andrews">Kieran Andrews</a> - The Times<br /><br />Police will keep a record of “hate incidents” against people even when they do not meet the criminal threshold after controversial new laws come into force in Scotland.<br /><br />The Scottish government has announced that the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act will take effect from April 1, more than three years after it was passed at Holyrood.<br /><br />Its passage was one of the most difficult of the SNP’s time in government with the bill heavily criticised throughout the process and Humza Yousaf, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/justice-secretary-accused-of-confusion-over-hate-crime-bill-nrvb8gvm9">then the justice secretary</a>, repeatedly forced to climb down on certain provisions, such as the potential impact on performers.<br /><br />Current police guidelines mean that even if officers do not believe a crime has been committed when “the victim perceives it to be a hate crime, the circumstances will be recorded as a hate incident (non- crime incident)”. It is understood that these are recorded on the vulnerable persons database.<br /><br />Despite guidance in England and Wales that complaints should be completely struck from the record if they are deemed “trivial, irrational, or if there is no basis to conclude that an incident was motivated by hostility” being recommended for approval north of the border, a review of how this would work will not take place until the new law is in force.<br /><br />In a letter to Holyrood’s criminal justice committee, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, the policy analysts, said: “Unless immediate action is taken, this means that officers will be required on the one hand to regard all reports of ‘hate’ as subjectively true on the perception of the complainer, and on the other, to apply what ministers described as a ‘high threshold’, for whether a ‘reasonable person’ would regard the material as ‘threatening or abusive’, and whether it is intended to ‘stir up hate’ under the 2021 Act. This is clearly contradictory, and it is unclear how officers are being guided to manage that tension.”<br /><br />Chief Superintendent Faroque Hussain, the hate crime prevention lead for Police Scotland, said: “We want everyone targeted by hate crime, or those who witness it, to have confidence to come forward. They can be assured they will be treated with dignity and respect, and that the circumstances they report will be fully investigated.”</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /><img src="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fdca5c22c-93b6-47cd-8929-2039d8225f7d.jpg?crop=3552%2C2624%2C0%2C0&resize=518" /><br />Humza Yousaf, when justice secretary, was forced into a number of climbdowns on the legislation, which was passed three years ago but is only just coming into force - Photo ANDREW COWAN/SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT/PA WIRE<br /><br />The Scottish government has previously been criticised for <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-scotland-wont-investigate-all-minor-crimes-0nqkfj5jd#:~:text=Police%20Scotland%20will%20stop%20responding,for%20non%2Demergency%20101%20calls.">failing to appreciate the knock-on effect</a> of controversial laws it enacts, including plans to give every child a “named person” which was torpedoed by the Supreme Court, and the offensive behaviour at football act, which was repealed by Holyrood six years after being passed.<br /><br />The hate crime legislation will create a new offence of stirring up hatred against protected characteristics, including age, disability, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, matching a similar offence based on race that has been on the statute book for decades.<br /><br />Some concerns remain over the <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/new-hate-crime-act-will-have-chilling-effect-on-public-life-warns-top-scottish-lawyer-2fxhkb55t">potential criminalisation of free expression</a>.<br /><br />In the final debate before its passage, Yousaf, now first minister, said no one would be found to have stirred up hatred “for solely stating their belief, even if they did so in a robust manner”.<br /><br />The announcement that the law will finally come into force comes just days after the police announced that they would <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-scotland-wont-investigate-all-minor-crimes-0nqkfj5jd#:~:text=Police%20Scotland%20will%20stop%20responding,for%20non%2Demergency%20101%20calls.">no longer investigate every crime</a> to save on officer time.<br /><br />Russell Findlay, the Scottish Conservatives justice spokesman, said: “Scotland’s police officers have been pushed to breaking point by relentless SNP cuts, so expecting them to enforce this flawed legislation should not be a priority.”<br /><br />Figures released by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service last year showed a 2 per cent drop in hate crimes in Scotland in 2022-23.<br /><br />Before the legislation takes effect, the Scottish government has launched a public awareness campaign aimed at highlighting the impact of hate crime.<br /><br />Siobhian Brown, the community safety minister, said: “While we respect everyone’s right to freedom of expression, nobody in our society should live in fear or be made to feel like they don’t belong, and the Scottish government is committed to building safer communities that live free from hatred and prejudice.”<br /><br />She said that the new law would give “greater protections to those who need it and helps to form the basis of understanding about the type of behaviour that is not acceptable in our society”.</i></span></div></div>Mark Irvinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17287951216787822726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752495203204580257.post-72931575675843934802024-03-12T04:26:00.000-07:002024-03-12T04:26:40.502-07:00Sunday Post - Campaigning Journalism<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Interesting development in the wake of our <a href="https://twitter.com/Sunday_Post?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sunday_Post</a> exclusive today… <a href="https://t.co/tWYF2OjNS4">https://t.co/tWYF2OjNS4</a> <a href="https://t.co/qNheRUUkbI">pic.twitter.com/qNheRUUkbI</a></p>— Dave Lord (@SPost_DaveLord) <a href="https://twitter.com/SPost_DaveLord/status/1766823599577403748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Well done to the Sunday Post for exposing the nonsense at Creative Scotland and the award of £85,000 to a theatre company (REIN) which stands accused of making a film project that's really just porn masquerading as art and culture.</b></span></p><p><img height="640" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIUEsa5W4AEHAFF?format=jpg&name=large" width="509" /></p><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered" data-screen-name="Mark1957" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.450bd5fbaeab74caf9d49a3141d20693.en.html#_=1445870774984&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&preview=true&screen_name=Mark1957&show_count=false&show_screen_name=true&size=m" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #292f33; font-family: "gotham narrow ssm", "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; 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font-size: large;"><b>If Lee Anderson should be thoroughly ashamed of his ugly, irresponsible attack on Labour's Sadiq Khan, Humza Yousaf should be equally ashamed of smearing other senior Labour figures as 'traitors'.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>It's no way for any politician to behave - never mind Scotland's First Minister.</b></span></p><p></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="color: #757575; display: flex; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1761031571904008583" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1761031571904008583&lang=en-gb&origin=https%3A%2F%2Faction4equalityscotland.blogspot.com%2F2024%2F02%2Fhumzas-hideous-hateful-rhetoric.html&sessionId=1b47651567c78d1acc377da75efd77ae31e85997&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="display: block; 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