Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, and the show trials of men in the UK

The good people at A Voice for Men have published over 50 of my pieces since late 2012 – the first predated the launch of J4MB, the second announced our launch, and our reasons for forming a political party – and they’re all here.

In March 2014 AVfM published my piece on the scandalous and ideologically-driven show trials of men in the UK for alleged historical sex offences – particularly elderly, prominent men – which show no sign of slowing down.

Lucian Valsan: ‘Feminists now go after Heavy Metal. Is a #MetalGate in the making?’

A tip of the hat to the estimable Lucian Valsan, host of ‘A Voice for Europe’, for this. Feminists are attacking music festival organisers over the gender diversity of the acts they put on. Even by feminist standards, this is utterly idiotic.

I’ve been attending live music gigs for 40+ years, and it’s always been the case that there are few women in the bands doing anything other than singing. I’m a fan of Florence and the Machine, but in the course of a great seat at Glastonbury two or three nights ago, Flo picked up a tambourine and shook it for a minute or two. Give me strength.

I’ve attended many amazing gigs where women have been the headliners, usually as singer/songwriters, sometimes as players of musical instruments (I exclude the tambourine, obviously). They include Kate Rusby, Courtney Love, Pink, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Bjork, Alela Diane, Cherry Lee Mewis – a Welsh blues legend, based in the throbbing metropolis of Bedford, a town so good they named it.

Can you imagine a music festival where the acts were selected to satisfy feminist targets for gender diversity? It would require some truly woeful female bands to appear, who would appeal to nobody but deaf feminists. Here’s an idea:

Why don’t feminists put their money where their big mouths are, and organise a feminist music festival?

An obvious Mistress of Ceremonies would be the legendary Canadian feminist, ‘Big Red’. Our thanks to Steve Brule for capturing her in full flow for posterity. Enjoy. The piece has had over 64,000 hits on our YouTube channel alone. The bemused man with a splendid beard, quietly appreciating the comedy gold, is Dan Perrins, a Canadian MRA who recently went on a hunger strike in Toronto.

Male psychology conference, UCL

A conference on male psychology was held at UCL over the past two days. I was considering attending, but decided not to after learning that Jane Powell, who runs the CALM Initiative, would be a keynote speaker. She’s the most vile radical feminist I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting.

But William Collins attended, for the first day, and he’s published this. I’ve posted a short comment.

Connie St Louis – a very flawed accuser (of Sir Tim Hunt)

Another ‘academic’ nominates herself for a ‘Lying Feminist of the Month’ award. Connie St Louis is an ‘academic’ at London’s City University, where she’s been employed for over 10 years to run a postgraduate course in science journalism. Her report on remarks in a speech made by Sir Tim Hunt (72) – a Nobel prize-winning biologist – led to his resignation as an Honorary Professor at UCL. The university has made it clear it’s not prepared to reinstate him, despite a well-deserved outcry against his treatment.

Guy Adams has written an outstanding piece on Ms St Louis, which appears in today’s print version of the Daily Mail. It’s a lengthy piece, which is spread over two pages of the paper, but this excerpt should give you a flavour:

Earlier this year, she stood, successfully, in an election to become a board member of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ). As part of the election process, St Louis was required to present a detailed CV to voters.

This document, which stretches to six pages, is still on the WFSJ’s website. It contains several deeply questionable statements.

In an early passage, she for example writes: ‘I am a regular contributor to ABC News Worldview TV programme.’ Yet ABC News Worldview has not aired for roughly five years. Factiva, an online search engine which carried transcripts of it, suggests that the last recorded contribution by Connie St Louis to the show was on May 31, 2006.

In another early passage, St Louis writes that she has a second career working for quangos.

‘In November 2002, I was invited and subsequently appointed by the Minister responsible for media, sport and culture to be a board member of UK Sport (the former UK Sports Council) . . . My term of office ended last year but I continue to serve on the audit committee as an external member.’

UK Sport describes things differently. A spokesman says St Louis was appointed to the board in November 2002 but she left in 2005.

St Louis did not respond when asked by the Mail how she can, therefore, claim, in a CV published in 2015, to have been a board member of UK Sport until ‘last year’.

Elsewhere in the six-page CV is a section devoted to ‘Qualification and Training’. In it, St Louis trumpets the fact that she is ‘a member of the Royal Institution’.

Again, very prestigious. Or so it seems, until a spokesman for the Royal Institution told me: ‘Anyone can be a member. It’s simply a service you pay for which entitles you to free tickets to visit us and gives you a discount in our cafe.

‘It’s like having membership of your local cinema or gym.’
Why would someone include such a thing on their CV?

‘Actually, that’s a bit of a problem,’ the spokesman added. ‘We have heard of a few people using membership on their CV to imply that they have some sort of professional recognition or qualification. But it means nothing of the sort. It’s very, very odd to see this on a CV.’

St Louis did not respond when the Mail asked why she cited this membership as a ‘qualification’.

The anti-male bias of leading politicians and public bodies, which leads to a lack of support for male victims of domestic violence

The story on Alison Saunders’s outrageous pay package prompted a supporter to email us asking for a link to a report we published last year concerning the anti-male bias of leading politicians and public bodies, which leads to a lack of support for male victims of domestic violence.

The report was a hefty 154 pages long, and was sent to the Home Office in response to a feminist charade, a rigged ‘consultation exercise’ on extending the law on domestic violence. Researchers were not invited to contribute to the exercise.

We publicly challenged Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, over the exercise, and links to both the challenge and the report are here.