Our thanks to a young lady who attended the recent conference for pointing us to an article in today’s Observer. It attracted 684 comments, but the comment stream is already closed.

Presentation #3 of 20. All the presentations are being published on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.

Herbert Purdy’s book Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life was published shortly before the conference, and he signed many copies there. It’s available from the usual retailers including amazon.co.uk and amazon.com. It’s also available in e-book editions. We strongly recommend the book.

Our thanks to Mike for this.

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Presentation #2 of 20. All the presentations are being published on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.

Erin Pizzey gave the keynote presentation at ICMI16. All the presentations are being published on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.

[Note added 6.10.16: this post was originally published 20.7.16.]

I spent most of today in Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Last Saturday I received a summons to appear in the court at 09:30 today – giving me just two working days to obtain legal advice – in connection with my alleged obstruction of the highway during our anti-MGM protest in Parliament Square on 1 June. A video (14:52) is here, my arrest by a (Kiwi) policeman takes place soon after 13:30.

I registered my presence with the relevant person, and it was immediately clear something was amiss. At 11:30 – two hours after my arrival – I was informed the police / CPS hadn’t submitted any papers. Responding with lightning speed, at 15:30 the papers were made available, and I duly explained I’d be pleading ‘Not Guilty’ at the trial, and went through some tedious related form-filling.

Starting at 16:00 I spent some 10 minutes with the magistrate, the CPS prosecutor, and a legal expert. It surely goes without saying that no apology was forthcoming from the CPS for wasting most of my day.

I shall be representing myself – I’ll be pleading ‘Not Guilty’ – and cross-examining the two police persons (one man, one woman) at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court. The trial will start at 10:00 on 12 October, and there will be spaces for the public to watch events. I hope to see some of you there, please email me (mike@j4mb.org.uk) if you can make it. I need to enter the court by 9:30, but it would be good to meet with supporters outside the court building from 9:00. Thank you for your support.

A small technical problem has arisen with the video of Erin Pizzey speaking at ICMI16, when it’s resolved we’ll publish it again, and do a blog piece linking to the new version.

Our thanks to Tom, the conference’s official video cameraman and video editor, for this.

Erin was the keynote speaker, the first of 20 speakers at the conference. We’ll be publishing videos in the sequence in which the presentations were given, on our YouTube channel.

Outstanding. William Collins’s blog pieces remain the gold standard in the manosphere, in my view, and in the view of many to whom I spoke at the recent conference.