A tip of the hat to Jordan for this (video, 20:43).

Our thanks to Stu for this sad story. Extracts:

A-dad-of-four is homeless and sleeping down mineshafts after he ‘lost everything’ when his marriage ended.

Craig Sheehan, 35, is sleeping rough, having to bed down on the beach and in the woods.

A year ago he had his family, a home and a job but says things fell apart when he suffered a breakdown because his relationship collapsed.

And the devastated dad no longer sees his children, he told the Daily Post.…

Craig said: “Until my relationship broke up I had everything, I had a family and worked in a well-known hotel in Conwy.

“But everything unravelled and I ended up on the streets. If it carries on like this I can’t imagine surviving the winter as it’s just too hard.

“I cough up blood and have had three chest x-rays in Colwyn Bay hospital in the last couple of months.

“I’ve also been mugged, lost a tent to a storm and have had two teeth knocked out since I became homeless.”…

A Conwy County Council spokeswoman said: “Mr Sheehan’s case was assessed by Conwy Housing Solutions in May 2017.

“He was not eligible for interim accommodation as he was not considered to be in priority need. [J4MB: On account of being male, no doubt]

Nonetheless, Conwy Housing Solutions offered to help him find accommodation.

“Attempts to contact him were unsuccessful and he was subsequently informed that the Council’s duty to try and help had ended.

“We have offered Mr Sheehan a further assessment and assistance and will continue to do so.”

Would Craig Sheehan be eligible for interim accommodation if he self-identified as a woman, despite having fathered four children?

Our thanks to Alan for this. The start of the piece:

Three jockeys questioned by police on suspicion of the rape of an 18-year-old woman in Wiltshire last year will not face any action.

Brendan Powell Jr, Richard Condon and Sean Mooney are no longer under investigation by police.

The men had denied any wrongdoing following an alleged incident at a house in Swindon on 3 November 2016.

They had been released on police bail and were allowed to carry on riding competitively.

“Following a detailed investigation by Wiltshire Police, the Crown Prosecution Service has reviewed this case and has decided to close it as no further action,” a police spokesperson said.

We can but hope this is the beginning of the end for the CPS making charging decisions against men when evidence against them is non-existent, or close to it. The next stage would be to bring back anonymity for men (and women) accused of sexual offences, until and unless convicted. Then Alison Saunders should be fired.

Our thanks to Sean for this. Surely the answer to women’s ‘shameful’ short prison sentences would be longer prison sentences? The idea that women with caring responsibilities shouldn’t face the same prison sentences as anyone else is preposterous. Did they forget their caring responsibilities when they committed their crimes, or did they (not unreasonably) assume those responsibilities gave them a ‘Get out of jail FREE’ card? Either way, they’re unfit mothers, and deserve no sympathy (unlike their children). An extract:

One in four women sent to prison last year – more than 1,500 – were sentenced to 30 days or less, with almost 300 of them put behind bars for under two weeks.

Sentencing rules mean non-violent prisoners are typically released after half of that time, which means hundreds of women are in prison for one week or even less. [J4MB emphasis]

Campaigners said women were hit the hardest because they are more likely to be carers. They said that even short sentences put them at risk of losing their children.

“Women are still being sent to prison for not paying TV licence or council tax,” said Kate Paradine, the chief executive of Women in Prison, which is campaigning to halve the number of women behind bars by 2020. [J4MB emphasis]

Our thanks to Mike P for another piece for our “You couldn’t make this s*** up!” filing cabinet.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. Barbara Kay, a Canadian columnist, was a speaker at the first ICMI, held in Detroit in 2014. A year of two ago she made supportive comments about MGM which make it very doubtful she’ll speak at another ICMI.

Our thanks to Stu for an embarrassing piece by Robert Webb in New Statesman, Male feminists are the turkeys who voted for… a long and fulfilling life. An extract should give you a flavour of the piece:

In fact, the point of International Men’s Day on 19 November is to highlight those areas where men disproportionately need help rather than disproportionately cause trouble. It will be pointed out to me that it is “no laughing matter” that three out of four suicides are male. It is also true that the overwhelming majority of murders are perpetrated by men and I can’t say my sides are splitting about that either. The two things are linked, [J4MB: How, precisely?] but the problem with IMD is that these serious issues attract the attention of some deeply unserious people. [J4MB: Cue smug self-satisfaction among the ‘serious’ feminists who read this trashy publication.]

Webb than takes two statements by Paul Elam which made perfect sense in the context of the pieces in which they appeared, and no sense out of that context, before attacking The Red Pill, which I doubt he’s even watched:

Which brings us to the second category. Who wrote this? “You see, I find you, as a feminist, to be a loathsome, vile piece of human garbage. I find you so pernicious and repugnant that the idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection.” Yikes! And this: “Should I be called to sit on a jury for a rape trial, I vow publicly to vote not guilty, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that the charges are true.” Ooh.

These are the public musings of Paul Elam, generally considered to be the “father” of the modern men’s rights movement and founder of one of its more respectable websites. Paul shows up in The Red Pill, Cassie Jaye’s cack-handed and helplessly partial documentary about people like Paul which claims to be entirely objective despite being part-funded by its subjects.

At next year’s conference Paul Elam will be giving the keynote speech, “Female privilege: Why women should be ashamed of themselves”. Webb’s article is a reminder that plenty of men, too, should be ashamed of themselves.

The equivalent publication on the other side of the political divide is The Spectator. Feminism is rarely criticised, often lauded, and from time to time it features articles by the likes of Julie Burchill and Julie Bindel.

Our thanks to Martin for this. At next year’s conference the Rev. Jules Gomes (‘The Rebel Priest’) will give a presentation titled, “Singing in the ruins: How feminists have destroyed the Church of England beyond repair”. You can order your ticket(s) for the conference here.

It’s what men – even homeless men – do. An extract:

That’s when a homeless man named Raymond Ahlstrom took it upon himself to find the bauble, Gajek said.

“He totally took on my cause. He did not need to do that,” she said. “He made it his mission to go out into his community and get my ring back.”

Gajek said Ahlstrom spoke to a number of people living on the street and eventually tracked down the young man she had given the money to. She said he found that the young man had placed the ring in his water bottle for safe keeping and was happy to return it.

Our thanks to Martin for a piece in the International Business Times four days ago, Women-only climbing clubs take participation to new heights. Written by a female journalist – what are the chances? – it’s firmly set within the ‘women are as strong as men!’ genre. Extracts:

She [J4MB: Wing-Sum Wong, didn’t Benny Hill do a sketch about someone with a similar name?] is hoping for a better understanding of equality [J4MB emphasis] between male and female climbers: the 34-year-old frequently finds herself as the only woman in the training area.

“Quite often I will come into the training area and train and I get told ‘Oh, you’re really strong’ and that’s great, it’s a compliment, but at the same time it’s almost like it’s not expected of me to be strong,” Wong says.

“It’s an unconscious bias that people have adopted through being part of a society [where there’s] the expectation that women aren’t strong and they’re very surprised when a woman is strong,” she adds. [J4MB: Hmm, might that ‘unconscious bias’ be linked to her comment that she frequently finds herself as the only woman in the training area… so CONSCIOUS bias would be perfectly reasonable?]…

“Some of the best female climbers can outclimb male climbers [J4MB: the worst ones?] on the competition circuit,” says Wong. “We just have to take a different approach to climbing something because we’re different sizes, different heights, but we get there. We all get there.”

A string of female achievements in climbing has followed the sport being included in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games for the first time. World bouldering champion Shauna Coxsey, [J4MB: you wouldn’t know from the article, but there are men’s and women’s events, including bouldering – here] who recently confirmed her bid to compete at the Tokyo games, received an MBE in the Queen’s 90th birthday honours in 2016. [J4MB: Jenni Murray and three-times winner of our Lying Feminist of the Month award, Caroline Criado-Perez, received OBEs, your point would be…?]

And in October, Austrian climber Angela Eiter became the first woman to complete one of the world’s hardest climbs, the La Planta de Shiva near Malaga, Spain. [J4MB: She’s a strong climber for a woman, we get it. But why the relentless pretence that women’s sporting prowess comes anywhere near men’s? The emotional neediness is off the scale.]