The Fiamengo File returns!

Some time ago YouTube took down Steve Brule’s original channel, which included 130+ videos constituting The Fiamengo File. I’m delighted to report that following a recent conversation with Steve, he’s agreed to start uploading those videos to his new channel, the Fiamengo File playlist is here (27 videos uploaded to date, 15 May, 2024). Janice’s Substack articles are also very well worth catching, here.

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Budapest conference

We’ve just published this on the conference website.

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‘Mass mutilation campaign’: Brother K and the Bloodstained Men protest cimcumcision in Clovis and Visalia, California

A tip of the hat to Brother K and the Bloodstained Men for this.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg interviews Nigel Farage on his (Rees-Mogg’s) call for an electoral pact between the Conservatives and Reform UK (and the return of BoJo)

The Moggster, one of the most interesting and amusing presenters on GB News, recently proposed that his party (the Tories) and Reform UK form an electoral pact to contest the next general election, with a view to victory for ‘Toryism’. This would include offering Nigel Farage and Richard Tice (leader, Reform UK) and BoJo safe seats to contest at the next general election for the Tories, with a view to the following in the event of a Tory victory:

  • Farage being appointed a cabinet minister
  • BoJo being appointed Foreigh Secretary again, replacing the execrable David Cameron

The Moggster interviewed Farage last night on his GB News show, the link here, relevant sections being 1:32 – 1:56, 2:37 – 2:57 and 5:40 – 16:57. The actual interview is in the final section of the three, but the others are worth catching by way of an introduction.

The idea of Farage and his Reform UK colleagues forming an electoral pact with the Tories is too awful to contemplate. At best it would result in a less devastating defeat for the Tories at the general election, at the cost of destroying Reform UK as a potentially major and genuinely right-of-centre party post-election, after the Tories fall into the dustbin of history, where they have long belonged – since at least the selection of the ultra-progressive David Cameron as party leader in 2005.

During my assignment as a consultant for the Tories (2006-8) I developed a new conference model for the party, which delivered £11.5 million to the party over the ensuing years, during whcih time it was the leading income stream of the party. The story is here. Given the rather lower cost for donors seeking knighthoods and peerages, I really should be Baron Buchanan of Bedford by now.

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Video / audio #452 from our archives: Neil Lyndon – “The Scottish Family Party: A Ray of Hope At Last” (ICMI20)

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Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait

Interesting. I wonder if Ms Rinehart will remain a donor to the National Gallery of Australia.

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‘Accused teacher would get no sympathy if she was male’

Interesting. Extracts:

Nobody would have a “shred” of sympathy for a teacher [J4MB: Rebecca Joynes, 30] accused of having sex with two teenage pupils if she was a man, a jury has been told…

Joe Allman, prosecuting, said if Ms Joynes, 30, had been “Robert” Joynes and the complainants had been girls, it would not have been suggested to them they were “up for it” or the ones wanting sex, “because that would have been quite obscene”…

In his closing statements at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Allman said Ms Joynes was making a “naked attempt” for sympathy by having a pink bonnet – from the baby fathered by one of the underage boys she is accused of having sex with – tucked visibly into her trousers during the trial.

He asked the jury: “Is what is going on here, is: she hopes you will treat her very differently because she is a woman and not a man, and you will see this case differently because she’s a woman and not a man?” [J4MB: If only he could have omitted “Is what is going on here, is”, to remove any doubt on the matter.]

He suggested Ms Joynes would like jurors to forget she is a responsible, mature adult teacher and the boys were teenage children and school pupils.

“It has the effect of warping the picture, so she almost becomes the victim and the boys the perpetrators.”

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Breaking news: Women don’t hunt in 79% of foraging societies, bears defecate in woods, the Pope’s a Catholic

An excellent piece in the Telegraph. Long story short for non-subscribers, Cara Wall-Scheffler, a ‘professor’ at Seattle Pacific University, has claimed that women hunt in 79 per cent of foraging societies. Vivek Venkataraman, a professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of Calgary, highlighted how the daft bat had arrived at the absurdly exaggerated figure – including many of the manipulations we’ve come to expect from feminist ‘academics’. These parasitical women should all be fired and re-trained as bomb disposal experts. A couple of short YouTube videos on bomb disposal techniques should suffice.

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Video / audio #451 from our archives: Mike Stephenson (Dr Randomercam) – “The Cunning Do-Gooder Effect” (ICMI20)

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Deborah Stallard, 54, is spared jail for stabbing her husband, 51, for falling asleep while she was talking to him – after he told court it was a ‘one-off’ because ‘she is on the menopause’

Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“Interesting. Yet another knife to the chest. Drink and menopause the excuse. And the husband is forgiving. Now just think if the sexes were reversed, our system would assume he was abusive, in full control of his faculties even when drunk or receiving hormone treatment (for Prostate cancer for instance) and “coercing” his wife into taking him back. And she’d be advised there is no such thing as a “one off” and her belief in this “myth” meant the prosecution must proceed whatever she thought.

In this case the Police did the right thing, treated the case as Domestic Violence, and found their work wasted by a derisory sentence. You can see how even the good cops are reluctant to bring a case if it’s not going to result in much.”

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Video / audio #450 from our archives: Valentina Ortiz – “The practical implication of feminist discourse to the detriment of men” (ICMI20)

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Ramya Nagesh, barrister who wrote book on sleepwalking, falls asleep at inquest

Female lawyers, eh? An extract:

“The tribunal heard that Ms Nagesh fell asleep shortly after she began eating a baked potato during the inquest’s 45-minute lunch break.” 

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