Our thanks to John for this. Excerpts:

Britain’s only national charity for LGBT victims of domestic abuse collapsed amid allegations of serious financial mismanagement and a failure of oversight by both its trustees and its biggest backer, the Home Office… [the department led for the past six years by our new prime minister, Theresa May]

During interviews and in correspondence seen by BuzzFeed News, four Broken Rainbows employees separately made the same comparison between the charity’s demise and the collapse of Kids Company. The Charity Commission told BuzzFeed News that following complaints made to it against Broken Rainbow the commission has opened a case to examine “what regulatory action might be required”…

For the whistleblower, whom we will call Paul, there was one moment that crystallised his problem with the financial management of Broken Rainbow. When the charity’s CEO, Jo Harvey Barringer, got married last year, the then chair of the board, Andrew Grant, sent her and her new wife a bouquet of flowers, costing £54.99, with a box of champagne truffles at £9.99 – and put them through on expenses. With delivery charges, the gifts came to £74.97. The expense claim for the gift was then approved by its recipient. On his LinkedIn profile, Grant describes himself as a “commercially astute leader”.

But this represents a tiny fraction of the charity’s use of funds. Accounts seen by BuzzFeed News show that in 2015, while frequently leaving insufficient money in its bank account to pay staff redundancies in the event of its collapse, Broken Rainbow spent £23,446 (its entire income for 2015 was £177,565) on travel expenses, much of which was for the CEO.

“As a proportion of what they need in order to run that’s a huge amount,” said Paul. “That’s the [running costs of] the helpline for six months.” It also represents more than a quarter of the £90,000 the Home Office gave the charity last year to run the helpline. The Home Office was Broken Rainbow’s largest funder.

We didn’t have to wait long for Theresa May, our new prime minister, to play the race and gender cards. Shortly after arriving in Downing Street to take on the role of prime minister, after her visit to Buckingham Palace, she gave a short speech. I’ve highlighted two sentences in yellow:

If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.

We rarely touch on race issues, but the following would certainly have been true, though Ms May declined to state it:

If you’re male, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re female.

Then the gender card – the gender pay gap, one of the most frequently discredited feminist narratives. The reasons women on average earn less than men are well understood, and have nothing to do with anti-female discrimination:

If you’re a woman, you will earn less than a man.

We were expecting Ms May – a woman who infamously posed for photographs whilst wearing the Fawcett Society’s ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ T-shirt – to show her true colours very quickly, and she has.

Our thanks to Jeff and Martin for this. We can be sure huge numbers of grievance collectors – i.e. feminists – will be wasting a great deal of valuable police time that could be spent investigating real crimes. We think it’s safe to say Nottinghamshire Police won’t be recording misandry as a hate crime.

An extract:

Chief Constable Sue Fish claimed it will make the county a safer place for women.

“What women face, often on a daily basis, is absolutely unacceptable and can be extremely distressing,” she said.

“Nottinghamshire Police is committed to taking misogynistic hate crime seriously and encourages anyone who is affected by it to contact us without hesitation.”

Work on the idea first started with the Nottinghamshire Safer for Women Conference last year, co-hosted by the police with the Nottingham Women’s Centre.

Another:

Melanie Jeffs, centre manager at Nottingham Women’s Centre, said: “We’re pleased to see Nottinghamshire Police recognise the breadth of violence and intimidation that women experience on a daily basis in our communities.”

She added: “Recording this as a hate crime will give us a detailed picture of how often, when and where it is happening. It has been very difficult to build that picture before but we will now get detailed data to analyse.

“Showing that the police take it seriously will also give people the confidence to come forward and report offences.”

Melanie Jeffs first came to our attention when we were campaigning in the Nottingham area at the last general election. She was described to me (by a woman) as ‘a particularly vile lesbian radical feminist’. In April 2015 she won our Lying Feminist of the Month award. Links to all the award winners are here.

I first met the Canadian video producer Steve Brule – the man behind the highly successful Fiamengo File, and much else – at the Detroit conference in 2014. It was a pleasure to meet him again at the London conference, but it wasn’t until just after the event ended that we finally found the time to record an interview (13:42).

He interviewed a number of speakers, as well as well-known people who weren’t speakers, and the interviews are going to be published in due course on his video channel. Five or six interviews are already there.

As predicted by AVfM.

Hannah Wallen, an American Honey Badger, was the official photographer at ICMI16. Our thanks to her for all her hard work. AVfM have posted a number of her photographs from the first two days of the conference – here. At the end of the event she took a photo of all the people who hadn’t yet left to catch trains etc.

The conference finished yesterday, and the overwhelming consensus was that it had been a resounding success. 200 people attended, from 20 countries. All 20 presentations – five of them by women, one by Philip Davies MP (C, Shipley) – were well received, and the attendees greatly enjoyed the social side of the event as well.

Videos of the presentations are on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.

Our thanks to The London Group for filming and editing this, and adding some excellent content of their own. In the description you’ll find a link to the same video on their channel.

Our thanks to Kevin for this. How ideologically motivated or feeble-minded must some academics and students be, to be driving or supporting such a ludicrous initiative?

Impressive. William is looking forward to the conference next weekend, when we’re sure many of his admirers will enjoy meeting him.