Our thanks to Jeff for this. The start of the piece:
Shami Chakrabarti was accused of hypocrisy last night after launching a women-only degree fund – despite girls doing better than boys at university.
The baroness, who was handed a peerage by Jeremy Corbyn last year, established the £500,000 bursary at Essex University, where she is chancellor – and where there are already more female students than male.
She claimed the initiative would close the ‘education gender gap’ and help end ‘gender injustice’ in society.
But official figures show teenage girls are 35 per cent more likely to go to university than boys, with white working-class boys the most disadvantaged group.
Tory MP Philip Davies, a member of the Commons women and equalities committee, said Lady Chakrabarti’s claim about what the fund would achieve was a ‘sham’.
‘If she was properly committed to closing the education gap – which is a noble aim – this fund would focus almost entirely on helping white working-class boys,’ he added. ‘The fact it is not raises the question about whether she is genuinely interested in closing the gap or just wants to hand out another politically correct dollop of money.
‘If she wants to have a fund dedicated to helping promote females, then she’s within her rights to do so, but she should be honest about it … don’t pretend it’s about closing some imaginary gap.
‘If Shami Chakrabarti is really interested in increasing equality in education then she needs to go and do some proper research to find out what the problem is and then focus her efforts on helping white working-class boys.’
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Justice for Men & Boys 
As ever, Mr Davies is quite right. Alternatively she could help disabled folk.
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Britain needs another Donald Trump. Someone who tells women how it really is, never mind traditions or ‘good manners’. We are now past that point.
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‘‘If she wants to have a fund dedicated to helping promote females, then she’s within her rights to do so … ‘
If I’m not mistaken such discrimination was illegal until Batty Hattie’s laughably misnamed ‘Equality Act’ was enacted in 2010. That aside, it’s not a good idea to concede to one’s enemies the right to oppress one. However, we know what he meant.
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BARONESS (no less!) Chakrabati is a high flying Labour politition who tops the Telegraph’s list of ‘most powerful Asian Women’, is the shadow Attorney General, who used to be the director of ‘Liberty’ (which supposedly promotes ‘human rights’) she cannot be too hard up for a bob or two, and sends her son to the exclusive green and pleasant Dulwich College.
Oh, and is also a regular guest and interviewee on bbc programes.
Somehow, I’m not suprised.
Yet here she is campaigning to alledgedly CLOSE the ‘education gap’ – which only exists to the detriment of boys & yet how is she doing this?
By attempting to further OPEN it to the continuing advantage of girls!
I do believe I catch a whiff of of lying hypocrisy in the air.
Chakrabarti proceeds to advance her own status by deceit and culpable misrepresentation in jumping onto a bandwagon that is at one and the same time a gravy train as well.
Impressive!
What a good example of the biggest turds floating to the top she is.
And if you think you detect a hint of anger in this comment, it’s because you’re right – you do.
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