Enjoy.

Our thanks to N for this.

Gender equality is a fine thing. With Nicky Morgan’s appointment of Susan Johnson and Lorna McGregor to its board of Commissioners, for terms of four years, the EHRC now has nine female Commissioners, and two male – meet the happy team here. The Chair and Deputy Chair are both women. One of the two token men is a Lord (Chris Holmes), the other a Professor (Swaran Singh). Both will surely be personally familiar with the state’s assaults on the human rights of British men and boys, and work diligently to reduce them. Ha.

The EHRC statement includes this gem:

Following a competitive recruitment process, with a strong field of candidates, Mrs Morgan (Nicky Morgan, Minister for Women and Equalities) today announced the appointment of Susan Johnson and Lorna McGregor and said, ‘I am delighted to welcome Susan and Lorna to the Equality and Human Rights Commission and wish them every success in contributing to the important work undertaken by the Commission. Their expertise and experience in financial and legal fields will be a valuable asset to the EHRC.’

Hmm, did the EHRC search hard for strong male candidates, we wonder?

The Chair, Baroness Onora O’Neill, had this to say:

We are very pleased to welcome Lorna McGregor and Susan Johnson as new members of the EHRC’s Board of Commissioners. Their wealth of knowledge and experience will strengthen the Board and they will play an important part in steering the Commission’s ongoing work to make Great Britain a fairer place for all. I look forward to working with them.

‘A fairer place for all’? She must have been laughing when she said that. What she should have said, if she were being honest, was:

‘An ever more privileged place for women and girls’.

A piece from the BBC. 80,000 of the 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales are men, and we know from an article by William Collins that if male criminals were sentenced as leniently as female criminals, five out of six men currently in prison in England and Wales wouldn’t be there. Simon Hughes’s incredible suggestion is to halve the number of female prisoners. There’s no end to the gynocentrism displayed by politicians and others working in public bodies.

Hughes makes excuses for female criminality, all of which apply equally well to male criminals, such as mental health issues and abusive backgrounds. And finally this:

Many more women have caring responsibilities than men do.

Two points:

1. Why should having caring responsibilities be a ‘Get out of Jail Free’ card, other than to avoid the state incurring expenditure in imprisoning the women, and also for providing substitute care while the women are in prison? Does Hughes not realise he’s giving a green light to women with caring responsibilities to commit crimes?

2. Surely sentencing should be set at an individual level, not a group level? Why should it matter that many more women than men have caring responsibilities?

What a world we live in, when your likelihood of going to prison is considerably increased if you have the ‘wrong’ genitals. If this is justice, I’m a Waldorf salad.

[Note added 29.1.15: While you’re here, why not check out why Caroline Criado-Perez has won three ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards? Details here. The latest award resulted from her recent discussion with me on the ITV programme This Morning.]

Our thanks to M for pointing us to this. Alison Saunders, the radical feminist Director of Public Prosecutions, has ensured that heterosexual men are the only cohort in society who are deemed guilty until and unless they can prove themselves innocent. She said:

We want police and prosecutors to make sure they ask in every case where consent is the issue – how did the suspect know the complainant was saying yes and doing so freely and knowingly?

What evidence of consent will suffice? A series of legal statements signed by the woman, at regular intervals during sexual activities, witnessed by a solicitor? A video recording in which the woman turns to the camera at least once a minute, and says, ‘I am consenting to sex freely and knowingly, and I haven’t consumed an alcoholic drink in the past 24 hours’?

What a truly vile woman Alison Saunders is. Along with other radical feminists, she possibly believes women can never consent to heterosexual sex. Another equally grim feminist, Andrea Dworkin, wrote the following in Right-Wing Women (1978):

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

The article contains at least one outright lie, presumably the two lazy (male) journalists couldn’t be bothered to check feminist claims. It’s the same lie which led to us awarding Laura Bates her second ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ awards:

 Around 85,000 women per year are victims of rape in the UK.

Our social media team has reported a remarkable number of downloads of an article we posted earlier today, about an estimable gentleman giving a mother £10 to go away.

People clearly enjoyed the piece, sharing it with others on social media, so we bring you a compilation of other pieces by the same remarkable publication, which we first posted in February 2014. One or two pieces may mention Harriet Harman in passing, it has to be said. Enjoy.

Our thanks to V for pointing us to a recent piece by 6oodfella, a Scotsman who’s long been one of our favourite vloggers – here. We wish we had the time to watch all of his output, he never disappoints. This piece mainly concerns the declared intention of Channel 4 to commit slow commercial suicide by creating programmes along politically correct lines. Don’t watch it if you’re offended by occasional strong language.

Five days ago I was interviewed by Lucian Valsan for his AVfM radio show ‘Voice of Europe’, reflecting on our recent mainstream media coverage, and exploring some elements of our election manifesto, starting with abortion. The interview lasted a little over 78 minutes. We provided a link to the interview in a blog piece on 24 January, and we’ve just posted it to our YouTube channel – here.

Our thanks to K for this.

Another of our FoI requests to Vera Baird’s office was to ask whether she had signed a Code of Conduct on her appointment as Police and Crime Commissioner, as it seemed to us she was in breach of a Code of Conduct signed by her opposite number in Greater Manchester. We could find no evidence online that Vera Baird had signed such a document.

We’ve just learned from her office that she did sign a Code of Conduct, in November 2012, and it’s here. It’s not the signed copy, but we expect that to be made available online shortly.

We recently publicly called for the resignation of Vera Baird QC, Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria. The letter we sent her is here.

One element in our call for her resignation was a campaign with posters featuring misleading claims about domestic violence and rape, which had been posted on Metro trains and buses in Newcastle. A member of the public complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that the posters failed to meet the ASA requirement that advertisements be ‘legal, decent, honest and truthful’ – and the complaint was upheld. The poster campaign was dropped as a result.

Following our FoI request sent to Vera Baird’s office, the cost to taxpayers of the ideologically-driven campaign has been revealed as £15,729 – here.

In the FoI response, it was claimed that no costs were incurred in designing the posters, nor were there any other up-front costs. Yeah, right…

We renew our call for Vera Baird’s resignation.