Our thanks to Keith for this. An excerpt:

In plain clothes but on duty that night, the officer started shouting that he was a police officer and waving his baton.

CCTV footage played to the court showed Clayton running across the road “as fast as her footwear would allow” to attack the officer before striking him on the head.

Prosecutor Richard Herrmann told Teesside Crown Court today: “He said was hit with such a significant blow that he thought he had been struck with a metal bar.”

Another:

Clayton, of Harton Avenue in Billingham , had drunk two bottles of rose wine while socialising with friends that night, the court heard.

Defending, Eric Watson said she immediately told officers that she had not realised the man she attacked was a policeman.

So her defence was that she thought she’d attacked a man – by definition, a sub-human – with a glass bottle, not a policeman. Final excerpt:

Judge Howard Crowson accepted Clayton may not have realised her victim was a police officer because she was drunk when she inflicted the blow.

And he concluded she was “unlikely” to commit a similar offence, stating a prison sentence for a relatively short time “may do more harm than good”.

“This all happened because you were drunk and people often act in ways they regret when they are drunk,” he told her.

He gave the mum-to-be a 15-month prison sentence which was suspended for 18 months.

Drunkenness is evidently a mitigating circumstance, then – if you’re a woman, that is. If you’re a man, it’s an aggravating circumstance, which will lead to harsher pubishment.

A reminder that tomorrow we’ll be joining some of the fine men from The London Group at Speakers’ Corner, from 10:30 onwards. I invite you to join us. Some of us will be protesting against MGM, a crime in the UK.

A tip of the hat to the people who produced this (29:03) for Mankind Initiative, brief details on them in the ‘description’ box.

Our thanks to Stuart to pointing us to a piece in The Backbencher.

Our thanks to Chloe for this nonsense on the CIPD website, an opinion piece from the aptly named Geoff Trickey. It starts:

New research provides evidence that women consistently rate their own performance lower than men do. Employers need to do more to tackle this damaging trend.

It’s amazing how many things employers ‘need’ to do to help women – with the help of self-interested people like Mr Trickey, needless to say. A gem of a sentence, from near the end:

It is clear that more needs to be done to address the gender imbalance at the top of organisations.

It’s not clear to anyone with an IQ above that of a dim-witted wombat, who knows of the evidence of a causal link between increasing female representation on corporate boards, and financial decline – here.

Our thanks to Paul for this Twitter feed from Larry Budd of BBC Radio Leeds, which I’ve RTd and responded to. You can listen to BBC Radio Leeds live online, here.

Douglas of the Anti Misandry website clearly has a determined nature. His original petition concerning Philip Davies was taken down by the site for ‘inappropriate content’ – it’s not clear why it’s ‘inappropriate’ – while a feminist petition on the same website calling for Philip’s sacking remains ‘live’. Not one to be deterred, Douglas has just launched a new petition. I’ve signed it, and urge you to do the same. Thank you for your support for Philip, and for Douglas, for that matter.

I’m carrying out research for my forthcoming written submission to the Health Select Committee inquiry on suicide, and currently looking at suicides related to the criminal justice system, including the suicides of men falsely accused of sexual offences, the suicides of men in prison, and other issues.

I tracked down an interesting article in The Guardian from April 2016, Murders and suicides in prisons in England and Wales hit 25-year high. The article reported that in the year to March 2016, 100 ‘people’ in prison had committed suicide, and six were murdered. However, there was no gender breakdown for these numbers, and I suspected this was a reflection of the relentlessly anti-male bias of the paper.

So I tracked down the source of the data – a publication issued by the Ministry of Justice in March 2016, Safety in Custody Statistics, England and Wales. It’s an interesting read. In Table 1 (p.6) we find gender breakdowns for ‘self-harm incidents’ and ‘assault incidents’ but no gender breakdowns for suicide, or deaths by natural causes, or homicide. I cannot conceive of a legitimate reason why these gender breakdowns would not be reported. It is clearly designed to hide the disproportionate extent to which men are ending their lives in prisons.

In Fig.1 (p.9) there’s an astonishing statistic, which to the best of my knowledge has not been reported in the media. In the 12 months to December 2000, there was slightly under one death by natural causes, per 1,000 prisoners. It rose steadily in the ensuing 15 years, and in the 12 months to December 2015 it had reached almost two deaths per 1,000 prisoners, i.e. the rate had doubled in the course of 15 years. Given that the overwhelming majority of prisoners in the UK are men – around 96% – this is surely a shocking indictment of the deterioration of conditions in men’s prisons over the past 15 years.

Our thanks to Ray for this, from June 2015.

Our thanks to Ray for this. The consequences of this insane proposal are all too predictable, including legal actions which will collectively cost taxpayers millions of pounds, as well as compromised operational effectiveness and efficiency. How will this ‘boost team spirit’? It won’t. One commenter, Raflad, wrote this:

I’m a serviceman. To dilute infantry capability in the name of political correctness in this way is absolutely nuts. The advance of feminism in other fields might cost money but this is genuinely going to cost lives so that idiotic people who’ve never served a day in their lives can tick a box and feel better. Monstrous.