In recent weeks we’ve published a number of posts on the topic of abortion and abortion law reform:
We’ve had a very positive response to our decision to draw up proposals on abortion law reform, particularly from women. At this stage we’ve added only one proposal to our public consultation document:
https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/our-public-consultation-exercise-2/
Today J4MB received a cheque for £500 from a ‘Mr D’, drawn on a bank account in the north of England. We won’t identify him further. He didn’t include a letter with his cheque, so we know nothing about him. We don’t even know his email address – if he has one – but I should like to thank him warmly for his support, and to understand his motivation behind making this generous donation. Hopefully he will read this, and I invite him to write to me at the party’s headquarters (PO Box 2220, Bath BA1 1AA) or email me at mb1957@hotmail.co.uk.
Moya Green, Canadian-born chief executive of Royal Mail, a long-running taxpayer-funded national embarrassment, received a pay and benefits package worth £1.47 million in the last financial year. Her basic salary remained unchanged at £498,ooo while her ‘benefits’ rose to £972,000.
One of her benefits was a mere trifle in the grand scheme of things, £120,000 towards the cost of buying a house. Well, how else could she have afforded to pay for a roof over her head? Vince Cable, the Anti-Business Secretary, in the first intelligent thing he’s done since the general election in May 2010 – and possibly long before that, to be fair – has advised Royal Mail’s remuneration committee that it should have secured his approval for the £120,000 payout – the remainder of the £972,000 benefits presumably being for reasonable expenses like a subscription to the Guardian.
Ms Green, it has been reported – link to a BBC piece below – has ‘voluntarily’ agreed to pay the sum back to the taxpayer. Which is good of her, I think we can all agree.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23549554
Oh, one final thing. Ms Green is a firm supporter of quotas to increase the number of women on corporate boards. What are the chances?
An excellent article by Martin Samuel in today’s Daily Mail about media coverage of women’s sports, featuring Mad Hattie and Mad Maria:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2382719/If-Harman-point-Im-rubber-chicken.html
Another gem from one of the best lady bloggers in the United States. No, let me rephrase that. One of the best bloggers – of either gender – in the world. I strongly recommend you subscribe to her blog. You’ll thank me one day.
http://judgybitch.com/2013/08/01/do-not-give-feminists-cookies-feminists-hate-cookies-no-cookies/
Cathy Young is a Russian-American columnist and author. Her recent article in the Boston Globe (link below) is well worth reading, although I disagree profoundly with her criticism of ‘A Voice for Men’ http://avoiceformen.com.
My thanks to a MHRA who’s pointed me to an interesting letter sent to Stephen Murrells Stephen.murrells@cooperative.co.uk chief executive of the Co-op, by a feminist and sexual freedom activist, Edie Lamort. I’ll email him a link to this blog post, and maybe one or two others. The letter:
Justice for Men & Boys 