Marvellous. He uses an insightful word to describe Jeremy Corbyn towards the end of the interview, in relation to criticism he faced from Corbyn over his speech at the second International Conference on Men’s Issues.
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We’ve just published this (video, 3:04). Nine month ago A Voice for Men placed Rabbi Berkowitz in their Known Genital Mutilators Directory, their blog post is here.
On his website Berkowitz claims to have mutilated the genitals of thousands of males.
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[Note added 17.12.16: Dr Joseph Spitzer has today been placed on the ‘Known Genital Mutilators’ directory by the good people at A Voice for Men. Details here.]
Next year we shall be holding more protests against Male Genital Mutilation, and they will have a bigger impact, leading to more media coverage.
I had a little time to kill in London yesterday, between meetings, and I used it to take some video footage of two Male Genital Mutilators in Stamford Hill. The first was Dr Joseph Spitzer, a leading mohel (Jewish traditional circumciser). The video (3:00) is here. From the description under the video when it was first published on YouTube:
Dr Joseph Spitzer is a Male Genital Mutilator who works in a clinic in Stamford Hill:
Cranwich Road Surgery
62 Cranwich Road
London N16 5JFI worked my way through the clinic’s multi-level high-technology security system, in a scene reminiscent of the film, Mission Impossible.
Dr Spitzer is the Medical Officer of the Initiation Society, and the author of a paper on Jewish circumcision in the UK.
In 2013 he offered – through a piece in The Jewish Chronicle – to circumcise the newborn Prince George.
This clinic is one of a number in the area, where we plan to protest regularly in the future.
On the British Film Institute website, in relation to a Channel 4 programme:
Asks whether it is right to alter the body. Dr Joseph Spitzer is a Mohel who performs circumcision on Jewish boys. He says that circumcision is carried out for one reason only: that God commanded that Abraham and all his male descendants should be circumcised.
At least Spitzer doesn’t go in for any nonsense about there being medical benefits from MGM. As a mohel for over 35 years, he must know as well as anyone that there are medical disbenefits from MGM. And yet he continues to ply his evil trade…
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Our thanks to E for processing this, broadcast at 11pm two days ago.
A few seconds into the programme, when Olly Mann is reviewing feedback for the first edition, he says this:
“Even worse than I was expecting,” wrote Mike Buchanan on his blog. “A mangina presenter, two mangina studio guests, and a feminist ‘comedian’. BBC ideological balance at its finest.”
Is this the first use of the word “mangina” on the BBC? I’d like to think so.
In common with the first episode, in which the Smurfwit prattled pointlessly, this episode too had a pointless feminist – Abi Wilkinson, Guardian ‘journalist’ – but following a HEqual tweet read out at 12:44, Martin Daubney mentioning the illegality of MGM, to his credit. The host promptly disputed the point, then repeated the tired myth that FGM is more damaging than MGM (it rarely is, and is almost always less damaging).
The final episode will be broadcast next Monday, 19 December. We’ll be publishing that too, a day or two after transmission.
Our thanks to HEqual for his forensic analysis of the BBC’s announcement of Philip Davies’s election to the Women and Equalities Committee. Not only did the BBC mis-title ICMI16, in an effort to make it seem significant than it was, they claimed it was held ‘last year’, when it was held just five months ago.
Wonderful news, reported in recent hours by the Daily Mail, The Guardian, BBC, Independent, Mirror, Metro. Doubtless more publications and outlets will be picking up the story shortly, including the Times and Telegraph.
With Philip Davies on the committee advocating for true gender equality, and consideration of issues disproportionately affecting men and boys, the ‘Women and Equalities’ committee name looks even more absurd than it already did. We look forward to seeing how Maria Miller (C) will chair the committee from now on.
It’s time for Education Secretary Justine Greening’s second job title – ‘Minister for Women and Equalities’ – to disappear, or a ‘Minister for Men’ appointed. Philip Davies would fit that role admirably.
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Lengthy, but worth the effort to digest.
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A few weeks ago I sent a written submission to the DBIS inquiry into corporate governance, in relation to gender diversity on corporate boards. Followers of this blog and that of the associated Campaign for Merit in Business will need no reminding of the evidence of a causal link between increasing female representation on boards, and corporate financial decline.
That evidence has never been refuted by anyone to whom we’ve presented it, whether in government, business, academia, journalism, or elsewhere. Equally, nobody has ever provided us with evidence of a causal link between increasing female representation on boards, and corporate financial improvement (the alleged ‘business case’ for this ideologically-driven initiative).
Not having been invited by the DBIS inquiry to give oral evidence, during which I would have shown the government’s policy (since 2011) to be damaging to companies – bullying them into appointing more women onto their boards, with the threat of legislated gender quotas if they don’t do so ‘voluntarily’ – as I did at a previous DBIS inquiry, in November 2012, video here (56:50).
I wrote to Richard Fuller, who sits on the committee, asking to be given the opportunity. He didn’t respond. I wasn’t surprised. When I last met him, I explained that evidence (from longitudinal studies) showed a causal link between increasing female representation on corporate boards, and corporate financial decline. He stated (whilst glancing nervously at a young female apparatchik, who was taking notes) that the assertion was ‘impossible’. It took some time to persuade him to accept the hard copies of the evidence, which I’d brought with me. I assume he threw it in the bin after my departure.
My thanks to the indefatigable Jeff for emailing me the following today:
HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter: a pledge for gender balance across financial services
Women in Finance Charter list of signatories (100+ signatories)
Quotes from Women in Finance Charter signatories (59 signatories)
A typical statement from one of the 59 organisations:
Lynne Atkin, HR Director, Barclays UK and Barclaycard, said:
Barclays is proud to support the launch of the Women in Finance Charter, and will continue to play a leading role in supporting greater progress for senior women in our industry.
Every part of our business is contributing to this agenda, we’ve supported the Davies commission and set out own targets for senior female representation at Managing Director. (sic)
A turgid report by three women:
HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter – Leading the Way
The start of the report’s Introduction:
What this report is about
Gender balance in UK financial services has leapt up the agenda since the government asked Jayne-Anne Gadha, Chief Executive of Virgin Money, to lead a review of women in senior management, and launched the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter in March 2016.
On the front page the Charter is described as being run ‘in collaboration with HM Treasury’ and is ‘supported by Virgin Money’.
I no longer feel inclined to devote any more time and energy to this battle, in which I’ve been engaged for almost five years, when there are so many other more worthwhile battles to be fought. Senior business people (mostly men) have over recent years proved themselves mind-numbingly stupid in accepting the arguments for increasing the proportion of women in their companies’ senior levels, and I see no evidence of that stupidity lessening. Indeed, their public pronouncements become ever more absurd with each passing year.
At some point these blithering idiots will be faced with the stark truth that they’ve made a big mistake, but it will be difficult and costly to return to the principle of promoting people solely on merit. They’ll need to sack or demote the women who were promoted on ideological grounds, and give their jobs to the men who were better qualified.
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Our thanks to Martin for this. The start of the article in the New York Post:
The FDNY is taking one more step toward diversifying its ranks: the completion of women’s bathrooms and locker rooms in all city firehouses, at a cost of about $77 million over 14 years.
FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro plans to announce the last leg of the effort — a three-year, $47 million construction program in 47 firehouses — when he swears in a 317 new probationary firefighters, including nine women, on Monday.
“Our current women firefighters, and the many more we are actively recruiting to join the department, deserve this,” Nigro said. “It could not have been possible without the city’s commitment of capital funds three years ago to complete the most difficult construction projects.”
Of more than 10,000 uniformed firefighters, the FDNY now employs 58 female firefighters and officers.
I cannot believe that the good citizens of New York ever voted in any election to fund this insane feminist-inspired expenditure. Similarly, I can’t recall ever voting for modifications to be made to Britain’s nuclear submarines, to accommodate women – at £5+ million apiece, possibly the most expensive publicly-funded pregnancy programme in the world.
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I’m almost halfway through the The Spectator Christmas Special (130 pages, £6.50, I strongly recommend a subscription) and there’s a gem by Quentin Letts. My personal favourites from his ‘naughty list’, as the title in the print edition calls it:
– First Minister Nicola Sturrrgeon
– Three out of five Newsnight discussions
– Nicky Morgan (Blithering idiot)
– Caitlin Moran
– Diane Abbott, particularly when she closes her eyes while speaking
– Mumsnet
– Emily Tornberry QC MP (Whiny Feminist of the Month)
– You probably won’t have heard of her and I wish I never had – Scots Nat MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (Toxic Feminist of the Month)
– Sandi Toksvig (twice a Lying Feminist of the Month)
– Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders (Toxic Feminist of the Month)
– Eagle twins Angela and Maria
– Gender-bending on stage
– Tim Farron
– Alex Salmond
– Mariella Frostbite
– Janet Street-Porter CBE (The most vile woman in Britain?)
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