An excellent piece in the current edition of The Spectator. The start of the piece below, it’s good to see the mention of Professor Jordan Peterson:

I’ve had it with the Conservatives. For me, and I know I’m not the only one, the final straw was the announcement at the weekend that the Equalities Minister Justine Greening wants to change the law so that people are free to specify their gender on their birth certificate regardless of medical opinion. What were they thinking, Greening and the various senior party bods who supported this decision, including, apparently, the Prime Minister? Actually, I think we can guess. They were thinking: ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn. His young followers seem to like this LBGBLT — how do the initials go again? — malarkey so perhaps we’d better get with it too.’ And: ‘Nasty party detox. Just like gay marriage did, this will help rid us of all those ghastly reactionary grassroots supporters who are ruining our image.’ And: ‘Compassion. We need to show compassion to oppressed minorities because that’s the kind thing to do.’

If you want to see the ‘kindness’ fallacy kicked into touch, I recommend you google Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor at the University of Toronto who has become the voice of the resistance to the extreme political end of the trans-gender movement. Have a look, for example, at the debate he had with a fellow Toronto professor, A.W. Peet, over his uncompromising stance on ‘non-binary’ pronouns.

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Insightful.

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In January Barry Wright funded two remarkable events, screenings in Norwich of The Red Pill. Barry funded the travel and accommodation costs of Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Erin Pizzey, Dr Randomercam and myself. Three Norwich venues cancelled screenings after feminist protests, after which we got our heads together and ensured the fourth venue wasn’t disrupted.

On each night the screening was followed by a Q&A. Our thanks to a supporter for informing us that Cassie Jaye has posted video files of the Q&A from one of the nights – here (video, 58:46) and here (video, 12:26).

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Enjoy (video, 7:35).

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Katherine Ryan, a Canadian, is in my view the funniest stand-up comedienne in the world, and improves with every passing year. She’s never the ‘token’ woman on panel games or in the excellent Taskmaster. Indeed she’s often the funniest person on such shows. She’s touring England between 21 September and 25 November, details here. Sadly her gig in London, the most accessible for me – I live in the throbbing metropolis of Bedford – has already sold out. Damn.

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A tip of the hat to Joe for spotting this, one of four assaults by Philip Cross on the J4MB Wikipedia page today. Long story short, in January 2015 I was interviewed on the popular ITV show This Morning along with Caroline Criado-Perez, who won her third Lying Feminist of the Month award in recognition of a claim she made on the show. When asked why she’d won the award previously, she did a ‘jazz hands’ thing, laughed, and said, ‘Because I lied!’ The interviewers didn’t challenge her further, because vagina. Our Wikipedia page link to the show has been removed by Philip Cross with the following justification:

No reason to include this link; unsurprising IMHO, Buchanan is not as good a communicator as Caroline Criado Perez or the other participants.

You can catch the exchanges with CC-P here. ITV titled the piece, Britain’s most controversial politician?

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A piece in yesterday’s Evening Standard.

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[Note added 29.7.17: Videos of conference materials, including presentations, are in a dedicated playlist on our YouTube channel, here.]

A Voice for Men have just published this, be sure to catch Paul Elam’s video (4:13).

ICMI17 will be held in the city of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 9-11 June. I hope many of you can join us. I shall be sharing MC duties with Robert Brockway of AVfM Australia, and giving a talk on the final day, ‘Let’s Get Visible: Beyond Keyboard Activism’.

The ICMI17 website is still being fleshed out in one or two areas, but one already confirmed talk title is that of Mark Latham, ‘The Myth of White Male Privilege’. The start of his Wikipedia entry:

Mark William Latham (born 28 February 1961) is a former Australian politician who was the leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005. He led the party at the 2004 federal election.

Latham left politics in 2005 after  the incumbent prime minister, John Howard, was re-elected to a fourth term. Latham has since become a prominent political commentator.

A senior person at AVfM yesterday described Latham to me as, ‘the Marmite man of Australian politics – half the country loves him, the other half hates him.’ He sounds like a perfect choice to speak at ICMI17.

Note added 21.4.17: With seven weeks to go before the conference, the following design has been added to the shirt print options at the J4MB store. Delivery available worldwide.

The 2016 conference was hosted by J4MB at Excel London, the premier conference venue in the capital, in association with A Voice for Men. It was a resounding success. People travelled from 20 countries to the event. The 20 speakers included five women and Philip Davies MP (C, Shipley). Details here.

Videos of all the talks are in a collection on our Vimeo channel, as well as on our YouTube channel (scroll down to 8-10 July, 2016).