Excellent. The psychology profession in the UK is equally as infected with feminist thinking as that in the US. Over 90% of psychology graduates are female, we’re still waiting for a government initiative to deal with that gender gap…

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Suicide has for many years been the leading cause of death of males between the ages of 15 and 49, but the government fails to recognize it as a highly gendered issue. £1.5 million is being spent on five studies into suicide, none of which are charged with investigating male suicide specifically. All too often health ministers speak of suicide only in mental health terms, in effect victim blaming.

We covered the issue of suicide in our 2015 general election manifesto (pp. 46-8). The male:female suicide differential more than doubled between 1983 and 2013, from 1.7:1 to 3.5:1, mainly as a result of a major fall in the female suicide rate.

Last year the International Business Times published my article on male suicide – here.

The Health Committee of the House of Commons has 11 MPs, 8 of whom are women, including the chair, Dr Sarah Wollaston (C, Totnes). The committee recently announced an inquiry on suicide prevention, our blog piece on the matter – with links to the inquiry website – is here. The terms of reference include the following:

The factors influencing the increase in suicide rates, with a focus on particularly at-risk groups.

Last month I sent a written submission to the inquiry, here.

I’ve asked to give oral evidence to the inquiry, and I should know the outcome of that request in the next week or two. My last appearance before a House of Commons Select Committee was in 2012, an inquiry into ‘Women in the Workplace’. The video (56:50) is here.

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Our thanks to Sean for this (video, 30:09). It’s had 111,000+ hits in the course of the first day. That’s more than our videos generally receive on the first day after publication, it has to be said.

[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’ – at:

Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court
181 Talgarth Road
London W6 8DN

More details here. The trial will start at 10:00 on 12 October, and there should be seats for members of the the public to witness proceedings. 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.

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We handed many of our anti-MGM leaflets to well-known journalists outside the Tory party conference. They included Andrew Pierce, a columnist with The Daily Mail, and Matthew Parris, a columnist with The Times and The Spectator. Our action-packed video (0:30) is here.

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Please support Steve. Thank you.

A woman with a microphone, accompanied by a cameraman, passed by us around lunchtime yesterday – here (video, 1:05). It was ‘Bella Sassin’, her own video is here.

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We’ll be loading short edited video pieces from our anti-MGM protest onto our YouTube channel in the next day or two. Two are already there:

– Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women & Equalities
– Michael Fabricant MP

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Our thanks to the indefatigable Stuart for this.

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Excellent news.

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