Our thanks to Mike for alerting us to this (video, 3:15) from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The description under the video:

Emma Wickham and Toni Jeffryes talk to Delivery Sector manager Marie Forrester about how job sharing has enabled them to fast-track their career at Royal Mail Group whilst managing their childcare commitments.

The job share was first conceived when Toni met Marie whilst she was speaking at one of Royal Mail’s Springboard events. These events aim to inspire women and help them reach their full potential.

Job sharing allows Toni and Emma the flexibility to cover their childcare needs whilst still delivering great service for Royal Mail customers. It also allows Royal Mail Group to make full use of their talent pipeline by developing more of the women already working for the organisation.

Flexible working helps to accelerate careers, eh? In breaking news, left is right, up is down, and black is white. How does the corollary look? Working full-time puts a brake on careers. Yes, this all makes perfect sense.

Royal FeMail is led by Moya Greene, a Canadian feminist who has been vocal in her support of gender quotas for corporate boards.

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We’re constantly being told that women undervalue themselves in a number of areas, most notably in the workplace, for example in seeking salary increases of an extent that men do. But is it true? Who could better critique the generally unchallenged assertion, than Professor Janice Fiamengo? Nobody, that’s who.

Janice nails it (video, 18:41). Her presentation (video, 45:06) at the July conference was eagerly anticipated, and very well received.

Steve Brule films and edits The Fiamengo File, an outstanding series of videos. Series 2 episodes are here.

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Insightful.

Our thanks to Robert for this. You can’t beat photographs of feminists in dungarees. The end of the piece:

Ultimately, the kitchenless house was never built. In Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, Francis Robert Shor writes that, due to a lack of capital and water, as well as American involvement in the First World War in 1917, the Llano Del Rio commune had all but disappeared in California by 1918. Austin’s dream of a kitchenless socialist city died with it, but she continued to write and speak about the possibilities of the design into the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on technology and the role it would play in eliminating housework for every citizen.

While Austin’s design for the kitchenless house was not the first of its kind, Hayden writes in the academic journal Signs in 1978 that Austin was the first architect to envision an end to domestic drudgery on such a large scale, and the first to expand the idea outside the confines of an individual dwelling and into an entire community. Maybe, as feminism moves firmly to mainstream pop culture in 21rst (sic) century America, we may yet see it show up in home design.

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Our thanks to Ray for this. The end of the piece:

Mr Rupert Taylor, defending, said Walpole has never been in trouble before and the attack was completely out of character.

She was anxious and depressed at the time because of a family illness and drank far more than she should have done, she added.

Her work at Bristol aquarium made her unsuitable for a curfew because she was on call at all hours and could not wear a tag because she sometimes had to dive into deep fish tanks.

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Yesterday we posted a link to piece about a 47-year-old woman with 184 previous convictions, who’d originally been given a suspended sentence after blackmailing a pensioner out of £40,000.

The leniency shown towards women as a class by the criminal justice system is so extreme, you have to wonder if the police and CPS – both highly gender-politicised institutions, and becoming ever more so – refrain from prosecuting many women on the basis of gender, and/or because they know the women won’t be punished appropriately by the courts, to the extent of providing a deterrence to future wrongdoing. So I was interested in the following comment left in response to the piece:

Although we keep hearing of females getting suspended sentences for their crimes, is it possible that a vast iceberg of female crime is being totally ignored?

I have a friend that has the misfortune to live next door to an anti-social tenant. She has caused criminal damage, hurls abuse about, threatens people, has attacked her assorted partners, fly tips, seems to fail to comply with her tenancy agreement, has had her children removed by social services, lives rent and council tax free, seemingly owes the council thousands in rent arrears, drinks heavily and has been known to have the odd puff of the waccy baccy.

Witnesses and CCTV have caught her acts of vandalism/damage and the cops have done nothing. The female cop (am I allowed to use the term Plodette?) even suggested to one householder that her attack, with a long wooden pole, on his CCTV (on his property) was her merely adusting it.

Another individual highlighted to the visiting cop that there was a smell of cannabis in the air, the cop seemingly had a cold.

So, complaints to the all female council anti-social behaviour officer, the council community safety officer, the council head of housing, and the cops have come to nothing. If a man were to carry on in such a fashion they would probably be faced with a ban from renting social housing as well as several court rulings/punishments and probably a criminal record.

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Media coverage of the Boundary Commission’s proposals for parliamentary constituency boundary charges in 2018 have focused on the fact that had the boundaries existed at the last general election, the Tories would have won a further 30 seats or so. The changes will at least remove the worst of the disparities in registered number voters per constituency, which gives far more democratic power to voters in constituencies with small voter numbers than voters in constituencies with large voter numbers.

Last December there were 105,448 registered voters in the Isle of Wight (currently one constituency, to be changed to two in 2018). Conversely, the Western Isles (one seat) had only 20,887 registered voters.

The BBC guide to the impact of the changes is here, and we’ll be carefully considering changes we might need to make to our 2020 general election strategy.

MPs will vote on the proposed changes in due course. Needless to say Jeremy Corbyn and his people are already calling the proposed changes ‘unfair’, a weasel word too often used by those on the Left.

Our thanks to Keith for this good news. Extracts:

Serial offender Sharon Mincher was given a suspended sentence in July, but this was upped at London’s Appeal Court. A callous drug addict who was spared jail after she cheated an elderly man out of £40,000 today had her “too soft” sentence upped by top judges.

Sharon Mincher blackmailed the vulnerable victim , who cannot be named, over a 15-year period, threatening to falsely accuse him of rape if he did not give in to her demands.

The 45-year-old was handed a two-year suspended sentence and a drug treatment requirement at Teesside Crown Court in July, after admitting blackmail and stalking.

But her sentence has now been replaced with a five-year jail term by judges sitting at London’s Appeal Court, who said the original punishment was “unduly lenient”. The court heard Mincher, who has 184 criminal convictions to her name, [my emphasis] targeted the victim after he paid her for sex…

In one particularly spiteful incident, she went to his house three times on the day his father had died. She made him hand over £130 – completely ignoring his pleas to be left alone because he was grieving…

Locking her up today, Lady Justice Hallett said: “The judge placed too much weight on the offender’s current efforts, which were to her own benefit, to tackle her drug addiction, and too little weight on the seriousness of the offending, its duration and its impact on the victim.

“Given the link between her offending and her addiction, her efforts weren’t irrelevant and we applaud those efforts. But they could not possibly justify both a reduction in the sentence and the suspension of it.”

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Our thanks to Francis for this. An extract:

Judge Richard Twomlow said that this incident had had a “significant effect” on Mr Jones [husband] and was “sad and distressing.”

He told Colcombe she must “suffer the consequences” of her actions.

Judge Twomlow told her that if she had not pleaded guilty she would be going “straight to prison” – and suspended the 16 month prison sentence. She must also complete 200 hours unpaid work, and Judge Twomlow added she had only avoided custody “by a hair’s breadth.”

After the hearing Mr Jones praised officers from the Dyfed Powys force for their investigation.

He said: “I am extremely disappointed with the sentence.

“This has been an extremely worrying and stressful couple of years, financial decisions have had to be put on hold and solicitors costs have rocketed.”

It’s amazing how often women escape custody “by a hair’s breadth”… while men in similar circumstances very rarely do.

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Very good.

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