Carl Gregory death: Man guilty of social media row murder

Our thanks to Stu for this. An excerpt:

After the hearing, police said a friend of Mr Gregory’s had fallen out with him over a social media post and she asked another man to speak to him about it.

He arranged to meet Mr Gregory at the shopping centre and took Dickson with him, and a fight led to Dickson becoming involved and placing Mr Gregory in a choke hold, officers said.

‘… she asked another man to speak to him about it.’ Oh, right.

Far more men than women are assaulted and murdered in the UK, and you have to wonder how many of these attacks are at the behest of women i.e. violence by proxy. A few weeks ago the BBC ran a short piece in which they interviewed former Mods and Rockers on the beachfront at Brighton, where they’d fought in the early 1960s. One woman, now a pensioner, said cheerily, ‘It was great to have men fight over you!’

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Thought for the day: How to eliminate brain cancer

A few months before the London conference last year, Paul Elam and I had a Google Hangout (audio, 35:24). John Smith has just left the following comment, presumably prompted by the claim that circumcision reduced the incidence of penile cancer, a very rare cancer. He writes:

If you remove your brain, it eliminates your risk of brain cancer.

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Will Styles, 21, third year architecture student at Plymouth University, we salute you

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Our thanks to Greg for this. An extract:

He applied to set up such a platform (a men’s forum, there’s already a women’s forum), but the University of Plymouth Students’ Union (UPSU) said equal opportunities legislation only applies to groups which have suffered “historic and ongoing discrimination”, adding “those groups do not include men”.

We wish this courageous young man every success in establishing a men’s forum. If the Student’s Union forbids it, he should set one up anyway, off-campus if necessary. Who’d want to be told what groups they can and cannot establish by a bunch of left-wing spotty herberts and feminists running a Student’s Union? The idea is appalling.

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Ulster: Linda Green, 59, had never taken driving lessons, nor sat a driving test, but drove a car for 13 years. Responsible for an accident following which her 75-year-old friend, a passenger in her car, died. Judge Sandra Crawford awards Green a suspended sentence.

Our thanks to Bryn for this.

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The landlord of the Fox & Hounds public house in Westerham (Kent) “takes down ‘sexist’ sign calling for women to ‘stamp on’ men”

Yesterday we posted a piece about two sexist signs in the Ladies’ toilets at the Fox & Hounds public house in Westerham, Kent.

A local media outlet, KentLive, has just published this. It’s a partial victory at this stage. The signs are down, and the landlord emailed me to apologise, but there are no indications yet of a forthcoming donation to Mankind Initiative.

At the lady journalist’s request, I sent her a portrait photo. To be more accurate, not knowing whether the photo would be used online or in the printed edition, I sent her two images, RGB for the former, CMYK for the latter:

It would appear the paper has used the latter version in the main body of the piece, maybe in an effort to make me look like ‘Mr Angry’. (Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.) I raised the point with the journalist, she expressed bafflement, and said she’d look into the matter. I won’t hold my breath.

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Everyday Feminism: Would you prefer not to date someone who’s fat or transgendered? Then you’re prejudiced.

Another piece for the overflowing ‘You couldn’t make this s*** up!’ file. It’s clearly inspired by all the fat feminists who nobody (other than fat lesbian feminists) would date. But frankly, even if they shifted their lard, nobody would want to date them anyway, given their vile personalities.

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Good news about our legal case over an alleged obstruction of the highway during an anti-MGM protest

Last June I allegedly obstructed the highway in Parliament Square, during a wider protest against the crime of MGM. My legal defence rested on a number of issues including the reasonableness of my short protest, given that I was protesting about the CPS/police not prosecuting the people carrying out MGM. I wasn’t charged with obstruction on the day, but a couple of weeks later, obviously the CPS wished to serve me a lesson. Hmm, how might that be working out?

I was initially found guilty at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court, and appealed to Isleworth Crown Court, where my appeal against the conviction was dismissed. In both trials the CPS barristers and the judges failed, in our view, to engage substantively with my defence, and both declined to comment on the key issue of the illegality of MGM.

After the Isleworth trial Ian, our legal advisor, developed the legal arguments (I added one or two of my own) for seeking a leave to appeal to the High Court in The Strand, London:

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I am delighted to report that leave to appeal to the High Court has just been granted by the (male) judge at Isleworth Crown Court, so the case will be heard at some point. We’ll obviously report the date when we have it. There won’t be a jury at the trial, but there will be three judges, so we’re optimistic that our legal defence will receive more thorough consideration. If that appeal is dismissed, we plan to appeal to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.

We will win this battle, a key battle in the war to end MGM in the UK.

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