A gem of a piece for ‘The Conservative Woman’.

My thanks to a number of people for pointing me to this piece on the ‘Biased BBC’ website.

Our thanks to Neil Lyndon for his latest piece in the Telegraph. It’s good to see a mention of J4MB, but given we’re the only party that’s standing up for men’s interests in this election – thereby answering the question posed in the title – it’s interesting to note that of all the organisations mentioned in the piece, J4MB is virtually alone in not having a hyperlink.

We have a small number of places left for count agents at both the Ashfield and Broxtowe count centres, where both the vote counting and results declarations will take place between around 22:00 (May 7) and 05:00 (May 8). These will be historic occasions for anyone with an interest in men’s and boys’ human rights, and it would be great to see a few more supporters. You’ll have the chance to make a noise (and maybe appear on live television) when the J4MB vote counts are declared, and you’ll become the proud owner of a J4MB rosette.

Time is running out. If you’re interested in attending, you’ll need to email me your name and address by 2pm tomorrow, Wednesday – mike@j4mb.org.uk. The election people will send you a letter which you’ll need to bring along to the centre to be admitted.

My thanks to David for pointing me towards a new hit piece in the Mirror – here. Anyone who reads more than a few pieces on this blog, or reads our election manifesto, will soon discover how the paper’s assertion that J4MB is a ‘far right’ party is ridiculous. We thank the ‘journalists’ at the paper for driving their readers in our donation. A few days ago one of them sent us a donation and said he’d never buy the paper again.

Our thanks to Jeff for this. We cover the two forms of paternity fraud in our election manifesto.

We wish Chris Lewis every success with his action, but historically very few payouts exceed £20,000, and they’ve been for emotional trauma. Courts have always taken the position that men cannot recover money from fraudulent ex-partners to whom they’ve given sometimes very large sums to support children who later turn out not to be theirs.

I’ve already taken up more than enough time commenting on the BBC Radio Nottingham Ashfield hustings, with an all-women audience, members of which asked questions mostly on women’s issues. But another anti-male element in the event occurred to me yesterday when watching Sunday Politics – here. There’s a lengthy discussion between the candidates in Northampton North, starting at 39:56. The order of candidates, from left to right, is UKIP, Lib Dem, Labour, Green, Conservative.

On ballot papers, the candidates are listed in the alphabetical order of the candidates. I’ll be second on the ballot paper in Ashfield.

I give you this background to point out another thing about the Ashfield hustings. A female BBC employee told me, with a smirk, that the production team had decided to place the candidates in party alphabetical order. The BBC published this image on their website:

From the left are Helen Harrison (C), myself, Gloria De Piero (L), then the Lib Dem and UKIP candidates. It occurred to me why they took this bizarre decision on the ordering sequence. It was so that I’d be challenged by a female interviewer, surrounded on my left and right by female candidates, whilst facing an (15-strong) all-female audience. It was clearly a cynical attempt – albeit ill-fated – to rattle me yet further.

I hope these are the last words I write on the matter, and I thank all those who’ve shown support, including those who’ve complained to the BBC. I wish them well, though past experience tells us that complaining about gender bias on the BBC never results in even an apology, let alone an opportunity to have airtime to provide balance.

Finn Mackay is a radical feminist ‘academic’ at the University of Bristol – one of those people who’d be quite unemployable outside academia, which along with everything else financed by the state, is 72% funded from taxes paid by men.

A particularly androgynous woman who dresses in a very manly manner (why do radical feminists do that, given how much they hate men?), I’ve heard tales of how she’s been asked to leave Ladies’ toilets by women who’ve assumed her to be a man.

A little over two years ago, I wrote an article for AVfM, Kat Banyard, Laura Bates, Finn Mackay: the noisy handful. Two months ago Ms Mackay had a book published by a leading international publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, with the catchy title Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement. The book’s entry on Amazon is here.

We note it’s a scorching #224,135 on the Amazon UK bestseller list, far below the Kindle ranking of my own Feminism: the ugly truth, published over three years ago. I obviously know how many copies of that ebook I sell, so Ms Mackay’s book must have been a thumping loss-maker for the publisher. Maybe, one day, a smart publisher will realise anti-feminist books outsell feminist books. You can but hope.

Ms Mackay’s book description on Amazon consists of the following:

Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today’s modern audience that exposes the real reasons as to why women are still oppressed [our emphasis] and what feminist activism must do to counter it through a vibrant and original account of the global Reclaim the Night March.

The first sentence is particularly forlorn. Feminism may not be dead yet, but it is dying. When it does die – not far off, now – no amount of kicking that dead horse will revive it. We look forward to Finn Mackay stacking shelves at a Poundland branch in Bristol, on the night shift. At long last, she’ll be making a useful contribution to society.

A number of people have said they’re going to complain officially to the BBC about their anti-male bias with respect to Ray Barry and myself. I thank them warmly for that. For those who don’t have the time, maybe they could add something to the comments stream on a BBC piece, here. Outrageously, the caption under the photo of the Ashfield hustings is this:

Organisers say the key to a good hustings is to get people engaged.

By ‘people’ the BBC means ‘women’, evidently.

Among the sterling people who’ve been helping with door-to-door leafleting is the gentleman who blogs as 5hadowfax. His YouTube channel is here.

He’s posted a well-argued piece about the BBC’s cynical manipulation of the Ashfield hustings last Thursday, in which questions about women’s issues were raised by an all-women audience. There are some interesting links in the transcript under the audio file. Some interesting comments, too.