Julia Hartley Brewer: ‘Alison Saunders should be sacked – for the Janner case, and for her absurd views on rape.’

I’ve always been a fan of Julia Hartley Brewer, the English broadcaster and columnist. My appreciation of her only increased after she interviewed me for her LBC radio programme in March 2013, just a month after the launch of J4MB – here. It remains my favourite media interview, although I was speaking into my mobile phone, not the easiest way to be interviewed.

Her outstanding contribution to a Question Time discussion on the Ched Evans rape case is here.

My thanks to Sean for spotting an article in yesterday’s Independent which we’re surprised to see in that relentlessly feminist-friendly paper – here. It was written by Julia Hartley Brewer, and in it she calls for Alison Saunders to be sacked. On Channel 4 News last night, at the end of a six-minute-long tortuous interview with Jon Snow, she made it clear she has no intention of resigning. Well, if your pay package (including pension contributions) last year was over £600,000, would you resign? No, Saunders must be sacked.

The sooner, the better.

Our public challenge of Richard Fuller MP concerning MGM

We plan to field 20 candidates in the 2020 general election, in the 20 most marginal Conservative seats (17 in England, two in Wales, one in Scotland). I’ll be standing in the seat of Bedford & Kempston, where I’ve lived for almost 20 years. The sitting MP is Richard Fuller, who also won the seat with a slim majority in 2010.

Today we delivered a public challenge to Richard Fuller concerning MGM. The letter is here, and the associated William Collins article here.

Tyne bridge update

A supporter of Real Fathers for Justice has now been on the Tyne bridge for nine days. Ray Barry, the leader of the organisation, has emailed us the following:

The protest has it’s own Facebook page, with up-to-date news, pictures and comment – here.

There’s also an 8-minute YouTube video of Simon being interviewed the day before he went up, combined with footage of him climbing up in the early hours of last Sunday morning – here.

We are working on another video with footage of Sunday’s gathering of supporters on the bridge and outside the law courts, which should be uploaded in a day or two. It should be very good. It includes Garry Featherstone performing, on the steps of the lawcourts yesterday, the song he composed (Bridge over the Tyne) for Simon’s bridge protests, which you can hear running through the above 8 minute video.

There will also be footage of the release of 50 balloons into the air, and the group of us marching with a big banner from the law courts to the bridge.

The professorial pay gender gap

Our thanks to Jeff for alerting us to the latest example of the power of whiny women, courtesy of The Independent – here.

Little in the article will make sense to a critical person with an IQ above that of a fruit fly, other than this paragraph:

A spokesman for Bristol University said that historically men have progressed to a higher professional level than women which means that more of them have reached a higher pay scale for the same grade, which is based on length of service as well as experience.

Simon Anderton, Real Fathers for Justice supporter, posts a review of the Tyne Bridge on Trip Advisor

Simon Anderton, 56, is a supporter of Real Fathers for Justice. Eight days ago, on Father’s Day, he scaled the Tyne Bridge, and unfurled a banner with ‘Happy Fatherless Day’ and the campaign group’s URL.

He’s planning on staying for another six days, and yesterday 50 supporters gathered at the bridge in a show of support. They included Ray Barry, leader of the campaign group.

The action has sparked some mainstream media interest, and this piece in the Mirror includes the inspired review Simon posted on Trip Advisor.