With only six weeks before polling day, we still have a considerable stock of A3-sized leaflets we wish to distribute before the end of the Easter bank holiday weekend, i.e. between 31 March and 6 April.

The earlier we can distribute these leaflets, the better. Every household in the seats we’re contesting will receive leaflets in the fortnight before polling day, and these will have an ‘appeal to voters’ which will be markedly different from that in the leaflets we’re distributing now.

If you can help – even for a few hours, or only on one or two days – please email me at mike@j4mb.org.uk. You’ll be made very welcome, you’ll be sure of meeting some remarkable MRAs who are already engaged in this important work, and we’ll treat you to a lunch and/or dinner, as appropriate, as a token of our appreciation. Thank you.

Onwards and upwards!

It was a great pleasure recently meeting with Tim Alford, a man who’s spending his free time helping with door-to-door leaflet distribution, along with Jon, David, and others. He’s also helping in other ways, so the other day we thanked him with a good pub lunch.

Tim knows more about some gender-related issues than anyone I know. We talked about FGM and MGM, and in particular the issue of why prosecutions for FGM are so rare in the UK, a regular complaint of feminists. An outrageous prosecution of a male surgeon recently failed. So, what’s the reason for the lack of prosecutions?

It’s perfectly simple, Tim explained. FGM is carried out by women at the behest of women in the UK, as in parts of Africa. Men in these communities who have an opinion on the practise, are typically horrified by it.

If the criminal justice system were to prosecute British citizens over FGM, it would have no choice but to prosecute thousands of middle-aged and elderly black women. That’s never going to happen, with the feminist-driven Crown Prosecution Service responsible for making charging decisions. So the utterly futile search for men responsible for FGM must continue, while the women responsible for FGM are not held accountable. And so FGM continues in the UK. What a victory for feminism.

Last year we were delighted to receive a £1,000 donation from a gentleman who wishes us to not disclose his identity. He uses the name ‘numbCruncher’. Two nights ago he donated £1,000 towards the £9,000 fundraiser which will pay for pre-election A3 leaflets to be delivered by the Royal Mail to every household in the constituencies we’re standing in, over the fortnight before polling day (7 May).

We thank numbCruncher warmly. We asked him if he’d like to do a second blog piece about his reasons for making the generous donation, but he said he had nothing to add to what he’d written after the first donation – here.

The fundraiser now stands at £3,065, so we still need to raise almost £6,000 in the next 10 days (deadline is 6 April). Please support this important initiative by donating here. Thank you.

Our thanks to L for pointing us towards this excellent piece by Neil Lyndon. It’s always good to read his articles.

The second of my fortnightly articles for the International Business Times is here.

Tim Samuels is the feminist who presents Men’s Hour on BBC Radio 5 Live. He’s been aware of J4MB since it’s launch, and I’ve never been invited onto the programme.

He’s penned an article for (appropriately) the Telegraph, in which he makes a few good points, and numerous daft ones. He asks:

Why is nobody in politics standing up for men?

Doh! He repeats the lie that more women on boards lead to higher company profits, so I’ve left a link to the proof (five longitudinal studies) of a causal link between increasing female representation on boards and financial decline. Let’s see if the Telegraph removes the comment, shall we?

Little more than 24 hours after we published our fundraiser to raise £9,000 to pay for 140,000 leaflets for every household in the three highly marginal seats we’re contesting near Nottingham, a £100 donation from Graham – a longstanding supporter and donor – has just taken the sum raised to £1,065.

We’re already on course to hit the target.

We thank Graham, and we ask you to do your bit in helping us hit the target. We’ve had donations of £5 and £10, and they’re all welcome. You can donate here. Thank you for your support.

I’m back in the throbbing metropolis of Bedford, my adopted home town for the past 15+ years, for a few days. A cold snap has hit the town, and I’ve just spent a most enjoyable evening at The Banker’s Draft, to my mind the better of the two JD Wetherspoon’s pubs in the town.

As I was leaving the pub – at 23:23 precisely – I noticed that four people were working outside, on the high street, digging up the road for some doubtless important reason. On a bitterly cold evening, all four were men. The odds against that being the case must be astronomical and there can only be one explanation:

Damn the Patriarchy for denying women these job opportunities!

J4MB is fortunate in having some extraordinary female supporters. Two of them are here. We should stress that their support is primarily related to specific issues. Anne O’Regan with respect to children’s access to fathers and grandparents following family breakdowns, and Sue Parker Hall with respect to victims of intimate partner violence.

Priceless.