With all the problems there are in the world today, you’d think the United Nations would have better things to spend money on than the coach photographed earlier today in East Horsley, Surrey. Our thank to S for taking photographs of the monstrosity, here and here.

The J4MB campaign vehicle isn’t quite as large as the HeForShe coach, but at the last count – before the general election – it was worth £1.3 million. I explained the reasons for the unexpectedly high valuation in a video. Hopefully the vehicle is worth even more today.

Our thanks to Ray for this. From the article:

Drunken Amy Sundve, 30, launched the unprovoked attack outside the Elm Tree pub in Kirkdale after going on a two-day bender to celebrate her birthday. Liverpool Crown Court heard earlier his week how her victim suffered a cut artery and was left with a 7cm scar across his forehead.

Sundve, of Melling Road, Bootle, then attacked his girlfriend, scraping her left eye with the metal-tipped heel and badly injuring her shoulder in a struggle.

The court heard the single mum did not know she was already several weeks pregnant during the incident, which happened at around 2pm on May 22 this year…

She pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and assault causing actual bodily harm.

Charlotte Pringle, defending, said her client was a young mum who rarely goes out drinking and “went too far”…

Sundve was jailed for 10 months meaning she will give birth to her third child in jail.

Judge Norman Wright said: “He (the unnamed victim) will be left with a permanent scar on his forehead as a memento that will be with him for the rest of his life.

“It is the sort of thing people will look at and stare at. They will ask him ‘how did you get that?’ and he will be reminded of it.”

Judge Wright jailed Sundve for 10 months, meaning her baby will be born in prison. She shouted “oh no please, I can’t leave my kids” and broke down in tears in the dock.

We can be sure that if the perpetrator were a man, and the victim a women, he’d have served a far longer sentence than 10 months. But given that women usually get suspended sentences for violent assaults, it’s a start.

It isn’t only Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, who is struggling with our FOI requests. Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, has failed to respond within the 20 working day deadline to our FOI request concerning meetings she’s had since she took on her role, with organizations advocating for victims of domestic and/or sexual abuse. Our letter is here, and in a moment I’ll alert the Crown Prosecution Service to this blog post.

In line with our position on the failure of Theresa May to respond to our FOI request asking why the police aren’t bringing prosecutions in relation to MGM, when MGM is unquestionably illegal, we’ll post a blog piece each week on the delay by Alison Saunders, until we get a response.

Our thanks to Mary for this. She writes:

Helen Carroll concludes in this article the reason older women haven’t had sex for decades is entirely men’s fault, and not that so many women throughout their lives are nasty, selfish, materialistic, narcissistic, whiny, boring, men-hating Entitlement Princesses.

Our thanks to HEqual for this.

Very good.

A tip of the hat to New Fathers 4 Justice for this.

Kevin Vardy is a 53-year-old man living in Wigan. He has terminal prostate cancer, and is calling for screening for prostate cancer for men above 50 years of age. His petition to the Health Secretary for a national screening programme for prostate cancer – national programmes are only available currently for female-specific cancers – has already attracted over 51,000 signatures, and I encourage you to add your own. Thank you.

We called for such a programme in our election manifesto.

Excellent.

Earlier today we posted a piece linking to the initial policy document of the Women’s Equality party. With the publication of this absurd document, Sophie Walker – the party’s leader – has nominated herself for a number of our awards, including:

• Lying Feminist of the Month (already won twice in the space of just three months by Sandy Toksvig, the party’s spokeswoman from the outset)
• Gormless Feminist of the Month
• Whiny Feminist of the Month

I was pleased to see some comments by HEqual in response to the piece, and they’re reproduce here, with his permission. They take up the remainder of this blog post:

“What’s often most interesting about these documents is not so much what’s said, but what things are absent which might have been present a few years ago.

Not so long ago, feminists would go on and on about domestic violence and that would be a key term in almost any feminist document. Once the truth started to get out about dv and just how many men were victims, feminists realised they’d lost the arguments and that their lies really weren’t so effective any more. Therefore we see them increasingly abandoning the term “domestic violence” particularly in official policy documents and instead they’re now excluding men by moving the goalposts and introducing the term “violence against women”. The is essentially a completely meaningless term which has come to mean “any bad thing that ever happened or might happen to a women”.

I’m always puzzled and annoyed by this whole “violence against women because of their gender” nonsense and don’t see enough people debunking this crap. I expect you’ll come up against it in a debate before too long Mike, here’s my view, would love to hear other arguments debunking it

1. Domestic violence comes about due to living with a person. No gender is being targeted, it’s only predominantly male on female and female on male because most people are in a relationship with someone of the opposite sex.

2. The armed forces generally don’t conscript women and it’s rare for them to serve in front line and dangerous positions in war (just look at the gender breakdown of combat deaths in recent wars for proof of this). Therefore ever military conflict is essentially violence against men with men dying because they are men.

3. We have very strong social norms in our society that men should should NEVER be violent towards women, children or even animals, even in self defence. Therefore, the only violence considered acceptable by society is violence against men. If men are the only legitimate target for violence then it’s actually fairer to say that all the violence against men is “because of their gender” – the exact opposite of the feminist position.”