Our thanks to Tim for this. How can it be a human right to circumcise a male minor, when (according to UN and EU conventions, and common sense) it’s an assault on the human rights of male minors who – by definition – cannot give informed consent? This is madness.

Tim suggests we should perhaps protest outside the Danish Embassy in London.

Our thanks to Toy Soldiers for this.

At last. Another cruel attempt by the police and CPS to mount a show trial of a prominent man of a certain age has failed, but due to the lack of anonymity afforded to suspected sexual offenders, Sir Cliff Richard has been put through hell for two years. An extract from the article:

The Crown Prosecution Service said there was ‘insufficient evidence to prosecute’ Sir Cliff, 75, who admitted he was ‘thrilled’ by the decision.

Meanwhile the police force apologised ‘wholeheartedly for the additional anxiety caused by our initial handling of the media interest’, adding that the case has cost about £800,000 after it investigated nine allegations against him.

Yesterday afternoon we protested outside the HQ of the Crown Prosecution Service, and created quite a stir, handing out most of the 1,000 leaflets we’d taken along. Two CPS employees took stacks of leaflets to give to colleagues. Video footage of the protest, along with interviews of some of the protesters, will be published in the coming days. Among the placards on display were three calling for Alison Saunders, Director of Public Prosecutions, to be fired – here.

A photograph from the protest later in the afternoon, in Parliament Square:

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Good news, the $3,000 target for Steve Brule’s crowdfunder has been met, we look forward to seeing him at the conference, and watching his video footage later. Our thanks again to all the J4MB supporters who donated to the crowdfunder.

One more push will enable the talented Canadian videographer Steve Brule – the producer of Fiamengo Files – to join us at the conference, and take some great footage. Please donate what you can here. Thank you.

GWW delivers another of her impressive critiques of feminists wittering – video (41:18). She even treats us to a little singing in the final minute of the video (40:47). We’re really looking forward to meeting her again at the conference, which is now less than four weeks away. She’ll be speaking on the topic of ‘Toxic Femininity’.

Our thanks to David for pointing us to a 66-page report by three (female) academics at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. The end of the report:

The authors of this study hope that it will provide a valuable corrective to the uncritical discourse that has dominated media, political and policy-making discourse over the past 20 years – the discourse which states that victims will, almost invariably, be telling the truth. It is worth here repeating the Metropolitan Police statement on Operation Midland, ‘our starting point with allegations of child sexual abuse is to believe the victim until we identify reasonable cause to believe otherwise.’ It will be recalled that this statement was made after it had emerged that the main source of the allegations was probably a fantasist.

No doubt the intentions behind that statement were honourable: a desire to right an historic wrong, and to give victims who had been previously ignored a voice. But this study suggests that in the process, a whole new and growing class of victims is being created, whose suffering is just as intense – all the more so for having been, until now, passed unnoticed. The road to hell, it is said, is paved with good intentions. Unfortunately, that is where the victims of false allegations of abuse are likely to find themselves – in a living hell.

This information is for conference attendees.

We’ve hired a large room adjacent to the conference room, and there you’ll be able to buy tea and coffee (£2.15), a variety of soft drinks including water, fruit juices, carbonated drinks, and a range of biscuits. The daytime and evening tariffs for beverages and snacks is here. We would strongly urge you to buy your tea, coffee etc. here rather than from other outlets, so we might avoid a large bill for not reaching a minimum guaranteed expenditure.

Two mineral water stations will be maintained throughout the event, in the same room.

On the evenings of 8 July and 9 July there may be sit-down hot dinners (cost: £21.00 per meal) held in one of the conference rooms, if a minimum numbers target is met. Tickets need to be booked in advance. Alcoholic drinks will be available as well as soft drinks, see the tariff document for details.

The menu options are here, and you can make your choice when you turn up for the meals. Email Mike Buchanan (mike@j4mb.org.uk) if you wish to attend either or both of these dinners, you may be able to sit at a table with a speaker of your choice.

The $3,000 crowdfunder for Steve Brule, an important Canadian videographer, to attend the London conference, has passed $2,000 – just $990 is now required. My thanks to J4MB followers whose names I see in the list of contributors, and those who tell me they’ve donated anonymously.

I urge you to donate what you can afford towards the appeal. Thank you for your support.

Our thanks to Patrick for this.