A piece in yesterday’s Evening Standard.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Not a Londoner I don’t read the ES. Though I gather it is generally very PC like our own M.E.N. I don’t feel sorry for Sir Philip as he’s just another “white knight” falling foul of the feminists’ outrage setting and illogicality. He may well feel aggrieved as all the mainstream feminist organisations led by the Fawcettes have spent decades telling us women have a “confidence gap” which needs to be filled by all sorts of positive discrimination to overcome their lack of “push”. I glanced at a Daily Mail article by a “white knight” theatrical agent who had been the Agent for a number of the BBC female stars. In this he said exactly the same, that his female clients were far more reticent to allow him to negotiate aggressively, although the thrust of his piece was to accuse the BBC of sexism as many commenters pointed out he argued against his main point and in support of Sir Philip’s observation.
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I am completely unmoved by what the women quoted in this article were saying. It should be in an employer’s sole remit to decide what his employees get paid, whether they ask for a pay rise or not. Any interference with this is in effect interference with a voluntary transaction,
In democracies it is usually said that the chief danger is that of the tyranny of the majority over the minority (or minorities). That can certainly be true, and can be seen in certain democracies like Pakistan, for example. It is probably the main reason why classical liberal luminaries in the 19th century, such as Lord Acton, Alexis de Tocqueville, Walter Bagehot, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Macaulay, were so opposed to democracy. We could all learn from their example, frankly.
But there is another danger in a democracy – exemplified in the case of Britain, and other countries in Western Europe. It is the danger of being held hostage by unrepresentative pressure groups. Feminists are the best example of this. They don’t want ‘equality’ (whatever that means). As H.L. Mencken said, “What men value in this world is not rights but privileges”. So feminists now demand what are in effect quotas, and anti-discrimination laws that limit free speech. Feminists and other groups have found that if you shout the loudest, are the most aggressive, and are full of passionate intensity, authorities (who no longer believe in anything) will just cave in to your demands. It’s noticeable that smokers, who are for the most part meek and acquiescent, have had their rights trampled all over.
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I was told not long ago that so few now read the Evening Standard it is a free sheet. Is that true?
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Yes, it’s been free for at least a couple of years. Sarah Sands, former feminist editor, now editor on BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme. George Osborne now the editor of the paper of course.
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