Our thanks to Jeff for this. The ill-fated Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) is currently £490 million over budget. The Wikipedia content on RHI:

In December 2016, Foster faced criticism and controversy after a whistleblower revealed that the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme overspent by £400m, a failure which has been nicknamed the Cash for Ash scandal.^[17]

The scheme was originally set up by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI, now Department for the Economy) when she was Minister of the department and the scheme offered incentives to businesses if they installed renewable heating systems, such as burning wooden pellets.

She faced strong criticism after it was claimed that she personally campaigned to keep the scheme open, even when senior civil servants warned of the overspend and the Minister responsible, Jonathan Bell, planned on closing it. It remained open for an extra two weeks before it was finally closed.

It was also revealed that the Northern Ireland budget would lose £400m over the next 20 years as a result of the failure of the scheme. An independent audit investigated 300 sites and found there were issues at half of them, including 14 cases where there were suspicions of ‘serious fraud’.

When senior civil servants suggested the closure of the scheme in September 2015, the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (now the Executive Office) pressured the department to keep the scheme open, which is when there was a spike in applications.^[18] There were calls for Foster to resign as First Minister after the scandal broke.^[19][20]

So how has Arlene Foster responded to calls for her reignation? By lamely reaching for the feminist trump card, misogyny. From the (BBC) article by Gareth Gordon, the BBC News Northern Ireland political correspondent (obviously a misogynist himself):

Arlene Foster and the DUP have come out fighting in characteristic form. I think some people will find the misogyny line hard to take. Among those, as late as yesterday, calling for her to go, is the Alliance leader Naomi Long.

And it’s not just Sinn Féin who have been calling for her to go, with virtually every other party in the assembly [also doing so].

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8.7 million embryos and foetuses have been killed since the passing of the Abortion Act 1967 – around the time of the introduction of almost fail-safe contraception, the ‘Pill’ – and this year is the 50th anniversary. We hope that pro-lifers in churches and elsewhere will take the opportunity to publicly demonstrate their opposition to elective abortion, and we will join them.

We covered the issue of abortion in our 2015 general election manifesto (pp. 5-6).

Our thanks to Joan for pointing us to a piece on the website of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC). Written by Paul Tully, it’s titled, ‘If abortion is not a crime, what is it?’ He starts:

Abortion providers in Britain have long recognised that they skate on thin ice. Abortion in Britain is illegal, except when the Abortion Act exceptions apply. In practice, doctors can get away with invoking the exceptions in practically any situation (even sex-selection abortion it seems).

But although the way the law is framed means that doctors escape prosecution, the practice of abortion-for-all-comers, often termed “abortion on demand”, is unlawful. And the abortion providers (and their legal advisers) know this, and this is a key reason why they are asking for what they call “decriminalisation” of abortion.

The article was prompted by a call from the Women’s Equality party for the decriminalisation of abortion. Sophie Walker, leader of the Women’s Equality party, said at her party’s conference in November:

Any denial of reproductive rights is a form of violence against women.

By ‘denial of reproductive rights’ Ms Walker means, among other things, limiting women’s ‘choice’ to kill their unborn for any reason they deem fit. If that isn’t the ultimate gynocentric position, born of feminism – an ideology with no moral compass – I don’t know what is.

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Our thanks to Toy Soldiers for a tragic case from California. An extract:

Gabriel Fernandez was an 8-year-old boy who was tortured to death by his parents. His abuse was reported multiple times by his teacher and others who witnessed his horrifying injuries.

However, the system that is ostensibly in place to prevent such abuse ultimately failed. Not one, but nine police officers tasked with investigating Gabriel’s abuse, refused to write so much as a single report that could’ve saved his life.

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Our thanks to Toy Soldiers for this. An extract:

The article contains a statement from David Jamieson, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner – formerly a Labour MP – and this from his office:

“The PCC is committed to tackling domestic abuse in all its forms. [Other than female-on-male domestic abuse, evidently.] This particular pilot scheme is one of many initiatives the PCC finances.

He has a £3million Victims Fund, which supports people of all genders, races, religions and sexual orientations in the West Midlands. For example, the PCC also funds a scheme in Dudley specifically designed for older men [the cohort of men least likely to be victims of domestic abuse] and women who are victims of domestic abuse.

Yes, the pilot Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programme works with male abusers and female victims, [so it doesn’t work with female abusers and male victims] but the PCC will not apologise for this as the sad fact remains that one woman every three days is killed by their male partners.”

What David Jamieson should apologise for is excluding female perpetrators from his new programme. What has the number of women killed by male partners to do with excluding women from the programme? Absolutely nothing. And what message does this exclusion send to male victims? The same damnable message they always get from state institutions:

We don’t care about your suffering.

It’s long been known that most domestic violence is mutual, and when the violence is uni-directional, the perpetrator is more likely to be a woman than a man. Which leads me to an inevitable conclusion:

David Jamieson is a blithering idiot.

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Excellent. Helena Cronin is a Co-Director of LSE’s Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, and authoress of The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today.

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Our thanks to a supporter for letting us know about this. What a world we live in. One in which Caroline Criado-Bloody-Perez has an OBE, Special Snowflake (Laura Bates) a CBE.

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As expected, the first screening of The Red Pill in Norwich on 18 January has already sold out. Barry Wright is laying on a screening the following evening, details here. Why not express your appreciation to Barry for his work and considerable financial outlay, by donating what you can afford to mitigate his costs? Thanks.

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Our thanks to Mike P for this. In response to the headline, he wrote, ‘No, really?’ An extract:

Winning the right to have combat roles in the elite unit was celebrated as a triumph for equality. [By Britian’s enemies, presumably.]

Top brass offered volunteers a personalised training programme [my emphasis] to ensure they were fully equipped to cope with the famous Green Beret endurance tests they would have to pass to take up arms alongside men in the Royal Marines.

So, no women passed the ‘gruelling course’. Never mind, there’s a nice photo in the piece of women pretending to be commandos, which is almost the same thing.

In the interest of equality, should men have been offered ‘personalised training programmes’? If not, why the double standard?

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An insightful and timely new piece from Herbert Purdy, the important British anti-feminist blogger. His well-received talk at the London conference is here, and you can order his book Their Angry Creed: The shocking history of feminism, and how it is destroying our way of life here.

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Enjoy (video, 25:12).

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