Our thanks to Ray Barry, who leads Real Fathers for Justice, for this.

AVfM recently launched a fascinating new initiative, An Ear for Men. Five pieces have so far been published – links here – and I was particularly impressed by an outstanding piece by Peter Wright, A new psychology for men?. So impressed, indeed, that I’m about to send a link to three psychologists of my acquaintance.

A few months before the general election, a (male) Conservative minister boasted that there were record numbers of women in paid employment in the UK. So women must be paying an increasing proportion of the income taxes collected by the government, right? A return to taxpayers for decades of financing social engineering exercises aimed at replacing men (who have long been the majority of unemployed people) with women in the workplace? Er, no.

In March 2013 AVfM published one of my pieces, He who pays the piper, calls the tune… or does he?. I linked to government statistics showing that in the 2010/11 tax year, men had paid 72% of the income tax collected by the government, women 28%. Men had paid more than £64 BILLION more in income tax than women that year.

In 2011/12 the differential rose to £68 billion – here.

I’ve just checked out the government statistics on 2012/13. Quelle surprise, the tax gender gap increased again, to £69 billion. The key figures:

17.7 million men paid £113 billion (average £6,531 each) – 72% of the total.
13.3 million women paid £44 billion (average £3,308 each) – 28% of the total.

Not only did 4.4 million fewer women than men pay income tax, but the average female taxpayer paid little more than half the income tax paid by the average male taxpayer (£3,308 v £6,531). Hmm, why haven’t we heard feminists whining about this gender gap?

A moving piece by Tom Golden.

In 2008 my book Two Men in a Car: a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France was published, and it’s still selling modestly to this day, earning some much-needed income. I’m considering recording it as an audio book, retailing at a modest price, and have just published an excerpt (less than five minutes long) on our YouTube channel – here. Background to the piece under the file.

Four photographs relating to the book are here. From the top:

– George and Vicky’s swimming pool (Provence)
– myself in another pool, in a villa we rented (near Cahors)
– myself near some of the most valuable Chardonnay vines in the world (Puligny Montrachet, Burgundy)
– Paul Carrington looking sinister behind the wunderwagen, a Mercedes S-class 320CDi. It was possibly worth more than the J4MB battle van is today…

Our thanks to Jeff for this. He also suggested I point to the interesting comments stream. An example, from Jim (London):

Articles like this have been along many times before and yet women are still falling for the myth that they can have it all. They can try to have it all but then everyone else has to suffer too including their husbands and kids.

In order to prove that they are real feminists they have to be even harder, even more aggressive than the men and only succeed in making the workplace even less pleasant than it needs to be, c.f. what happened to the unfortunate Professor Tim Hunt. What a ghastly shower those supposed scientists were! His words may have been ill-advised but his glittering career shouldn’t have been sacrificed on the altar of feminism. It’s simply not worth it.

Unfortunately, I have to say that women alone are to blame for their problems. Even the language that they use is intended to wound other women: the women who have it all are “strong” women and so, by implication, women who don’t are “weak”. It amuses me no end that even the vocabulary they use is vindictive.

A good final point there. It’s easy to forget that feminists use shaming tactics on women as well as on men. It’s time for more women to start publicly identifying as anti-feminists, like these wonderful women.

My thanks to Captain Nemo for posting a number of my interviews, and getting huge viewing figures, lengthy comment streams etc. I contribute to comment streams when I can, but there are only so many hours in the day.

A supporter has just informed me that my interview with a feminist presenter on Notts TV has attracted over 120,000 views on Captain Nemo’s site in just 7 weeks – here.

From time to time people ask why we don’t seek to engage with government ministers privately, rather than issuing public challenges. The fact is we have sought to engage with ministers on numerous occasions since the establishment of Campaign for Merit in Business in 2012.

More than four weeks ago I wrote to Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, requesting a private and confidential meeting in relation to the government’s continuing threats of legislated gender quotas for FTSE100 companies. I haven’t received even an acknowledgement of that letter, nor of an email I sent to his department earlier this week.

Today we shall mail a public challenge to Mr Javid, in the form of a Freedom of Information request. Under the law, responses to FoI requests have to be made within 20 working days. My original letter to Mr Javid is in the same file.

My thanks to Rod for spotting an error in one of my posts earlier today. My talk will be on 9 July, not 7 July.

JB nails it.