It was an honour and a pleasure to meet Paul Elam and other key people from A Voice for Men at the Detroit conference. Paul launched AVfM in 2009, and under his guidance the website’s progress has been astonishing. Today AVfM is, without question, the most-visited and most influential men’s human rights advocacy website in the world. His conference presentation is here. Enjoy.

This article in the Cambridge News is simply priceless. Our thanks to Ian for pointing us to it. We look forward to the suggestion that women could compete equally with men at high jump events if only they were given the tiny concession that they could jump from a platform one metre higher than the one men jump from, and could compete equally with men at 100 metres events if given a mere 40 metre start because patriarchy.

And more women could become FTSE100 directors if the companies were threatened by the government with legislated gender quotas. No, hold on, the last initiative has been underway since the Davies Report (2011), resulting in a near doubling of female directors on FTSE100 boards – nearly all of them appointed as non-executive directors, needless to say, where no doubt they ‘pootle along’ and are rewarded handsomely for doing so.

I digress. Ms Hiller was elected a Labour MP in 2005, having been selected from an all-women shortlist, the source of so many talented female politicians – or possibly not. She’s an early contender for this month’s ‘Gormless Feminist of the Month’ award. In July Labour MPs made a clean sweep of our monthly awards:

Whiny Feminist – Harriet Harman
Lying Feminist – Gloria De Piero
Gormless Feminist – Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper – who’d have to call herself Mrs Balls in a just world – is already a strong contender for this month’s ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’. More in due course.

Enjoy.

It’s now got to the point, knowing how sensationally good Janet Bloomfield (‘JudgyBitch’) always is when interviewed, that I know you’re in for a treat. Enjoy. As always with AVfM pieces, check out the comments stream. I look forward to listening to it myself later this evening, possibly whilst savouring a large dram of Macallan whisky, a bottle of which was generously given to me recently by a valued long-term supporter / donor.

An outstanding article even by Karen Woodall’s standards.

Another day, another miscarriage of justice – here. Sophie O’Hara’s ‘punishment’ for stealing £50,000 is a jail sentence of eight months, and it’s been suggested she may be released in four. A few excerpts from the article:

Sophie O’Hara, 27, used her position in the science department at the University of East Anglia to sign fake student expenses slips which she then cashed into her own account. Over the course of 17 months O’Hara stole a total of £50,504 which she spent on trips to Egypt, Florida and Madrid as well as an afternoon tea at the Ritz with her mother…

Chris Youell, prosecuting, said O’Hara wasn’t a qualified accountant but was in a position of great trust and was authorised to sign for large sums of money. When university staff discovered O’Hara had been paying funds into her own account, Mr Youell said she admitted what she’d done. He added: ‘She was, however, somewhat surprised and upset as to how much money she had stolen.’

Chris Youell was prosecuting? Wow. He said Ms O’Hara was ‘somewhat surprised and upset’ at how much money she had stolen. You have to feel sorry for the unfortunate young lady, don’t you? Moving on:

Michael Clare, defending, said she suffered from a form of bipolar disorder but added: ‘She does not want to use her difficulties as an excuse.’

If she didn’t want to use her bipolar disorder as an excuse, why was it mentioned by her defence lawyer? Of course she wanted to use it as an excuse. I’m reminded of the 44yo woman who was recently convicted for sexually assaulting a 14yo boy. Her defence lawyer said she didn’t want to use the fact she had a history of alcohol abuse as an excuse. Ha. Moving on:

Jailing her at Norwich Crown Court today, Judge Anthony Bate said: ‘It went undiscovered for some considerable time. You appear to have spent the money on luxuries and foreign holidays and the like.’

The judge accepted O’Hara had ‘mental health issues’ but said they didn’t excuse her conduct and said he would be failing in his public duty if he did not jail her.

He’d be ‘failing in his public duty if he did not jail her.’ We keep hearing this narrative from judges – particularly male judges – when they incarcerate women. Let’s translate what he said into plain English, shall we?

‘I’m sorry I have to jail you. I wish I didn’t have to, because obviously ladies should never be incarcerated.’

Despite the fact Sophie O’Hara is a young woman – 27 – there’s no suggestion in the article that she’ll ever be required to repay so much as a penny of the £50,000 she stole, whatever her future earnings.

A predictable development. Men pay 72% of the income tax collected in the UK, so they’re paying 72% of the cost of creating intentionally fatherless ‘families’. It’s an interesting but depressing article, be sure to read some of the insightful comments beneath it.

Another insightful article from Laura Perrins, Co-Editor (along with Kathy Gyngell) of The Conservative Woman.

Our thanks to Janet Bloomfield (‘JudgyBitch’) for this short piece. In the week of the centenary of the start of the First World War, a war in which vast numbers of men (and very few women) were killed and maimed, and many boys shamed into enlisting by the White Feather campaign, Jessica Valenti sees fit to tweet a photograph of herself sporting a top with the slogan, ‘I BATHE IN MALE TEARS’, with an ocean backdrop.

Can unspeakably vile feminists like Valenti – a Guardian columnist – be so utterly hate-driven and stupid as to not understand the inexorable rise of the men’s human rights movement and #WomenAgainstFeminism?

Yes, they can.

An excellent article in today’s Daily Mail. Imogen Thompson, a stay-at-home mother of two children aged six and three, is a campaigner with Mothers at Home Matter. She robustly challenged Ed Miliband on LBC radio about stay-at-home parents (usually mothers) being penalised by the tax system. Ed Miliband’s response was predictably pathetic – he wouldn’t want to upset Harriet Harman, Yvette Cooper, or any of the other Labour harridans – so he lamely spoke of non-affordability. Perhaps if women’s ‘lifestyle option’ of becoming single mothers at the expense of long-suffering taxpayers were no longer available, affordability would cease to be an issue?
We can be very sure that if Mrs Thompson ever puts the same points to David Cameron or Nick Clegg – and we hope she will – their responses will be equally pathetic. All three of the main parties are hostile to the nuclear family, a cornerstone of a stable and civilised society.