Our thanks to Mike for this, from The Yorkshire Post. The start of t’article:

A campaign has been launched to have Geoffrey Boycott knighted after an investigation claimed he was wrongly convicted of domestic abuse.

The former Yorkshire and England cricketer has been persistently overlooked by the honours system since he was found guilty in a French court of hitting his then girlfriend Margaret Moore in 1998.

But it was reported today by the Telegraph that Miss Moore may have slipped on a marble floor and hit her head accidentally. She reportedly stands by her claim that she was assaulted.

This has to be the most interesting article by a transgendered bisexual blind Lithuanian animator (with a Scottish surname) I’ve read in weeks.

From time to time I get contacted by organizations asking us to give them exposure. A few minutes ago I got an email from someone working for an American law firm, who might not have a bright future in targeted marketing:

Hey Mike,

My name is <name redacted> and I work with the law firm, Daryl Graves Law, PLLC.

Your page, https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/recommended-websites/ is outstanding! Thanks for providing such a nice resource. I wanted to let you know we’ve created a guide for Preventing Domestic Violence against Women [my emphasis] – it covers the types and signs of violence, resources for victims, and more. Please let me know if you are interested in adding this resource to your site! You can find it here:http://www.darylgraveslaw.com/preventing-domestic-violence-against-women/

I would love to answer any questions you may have – feel free to reach out at any time.

All the Best,

<name redacted>

I responded with this:

Thank you. Given that most domestic violence is reciprocal, it’s not a gendered phenomenon, and when it’s one-way the perpetrator is more likely to be a woman than a man – all this has been known by researchers for decades – could I please see your guide for Preventing Domestic Violence Against Men? Thank you.

Best wishes,

Mike Buchanan

Excellent. Along with a feminist student at Warwick University, I was interviewed by Nicky Campbell for BBC5 live Breakfast the other morning, which we published on our YouTube channel, and which AVfM published too – here.

The commenters on both were quick to spot numerous examples of white knighting by Campbell. He’d allowed the feminist to speak at length at the start, and at the end he interrupted me to say I was having ‘the final word’. When I’d finished, he told the feminist she could have ‘the very very very very very VERY last word!’

We thanks Paul for a link to this. It takes a Guardian headline writer living in an ideological bubble to believe no one hates the Women’s Equality party.

Gaby Hinsliff is a columnist with the paper, and a former political editor with the Observer. If you can wade through some of the predictably silly content in her piece, there are some insights into one of the reasons we welcome the advent of the Women’s Equality party, the potential fracturing of the ‘progressive’ female vote (and the ‘progressive’ male vote too, come to that). From Ms Hinsliff’s article:

I know two of the WEP’s three founders a bit and they’re smart people. And they’ve certainly spotted a juicy demographic there for the taking: broadly progressive female voters who don’t want to waste a vote other women died for [women? Even the Guardian admitted Emily Davison’s death wasn’t the result of a decision to risk her life, so which ‘women’ is Ms Hinsliff referring to?] but are profoundly depressed by what’s on offer…

There are still too few female MPs [for what, precisely?] and a million things to change. [a million?] But watching those three did not make me think that strong female candidates would be better off heroically losing their deposits for a new party than becoming MPs for old ones, and using that platform to shake things up. If anything, it was a reminder that being corralled into safe spaces, outside the rough and tumble of the mainstream where stuff actually gets decided, is dangerous for women; and that the progressive feminist vote probably doesn’t need to be split any more than it is.

Another reason we welcome the advent of the WEP is that it gives us an easy target to attack, given that they distil so many demonstrably absurd feminist narratives in one place – a supreme example being their policy document, launched earlier this week.

Over the weekend I’ll be publicly challenging Sophie Walker, the leader of the party, and I expect a week or two later to award her next month’s Lying Feminist of the Month award. Sandy Toksvig, the party’s spokeswoman from the outset, won two of the awards in the space of just three months – here and here.

Our thanks to Ray for this.

Our thanks to Francis for this.

Interesting.

At the 2014 International Conference on Men’s Issues, held in Detroit, I had the pleasure of meeting Suzanne Venker, a conservative anti-feminist author. In her new post Janet covers the issue of Suzanne having been uninvited to speak at a college. From her article:

“A university panel called Uncomfortable Learning invited Suzanne to speak in a student run series, focused on, well, uncomfortable learning. The series was designed to challenge ideas and dominant cultural narratives, and Suzanne was scheduled to give a talk called One step forward, ten steps back: why feminism fails. Here’s how one student reacted on Facebook:

When you bring a misogynistic, white supremacist men’s rights activist to campus in the name of ‘dialogue’ and ‘the other side,’ you are not only causing actual mental, social, psychological and physical harm to students, but you are also — paying — for the continued dispersal of violent ideologies that kill our black and brown (trans) femme sisters … you are dipping your hands in their blood.

My goodness! Suzanne murders transwomen with her speeches? Who knew? I guess she is a little badass.”

An insult to the writers and cast of a legendary BBC comedy series.

You couldn’t make it up. Our thanks to John for the story.

‘Brexit’ left a comment two days ago:

The obvious character should be Margaret Thatcher but somehow I doubt if it will be round here.