Excellent news. We wish Damore every success.

A piece in today’s Guardian.

We had a very productive day at Speakers’ Corner two days ago, with Mike P and men from The London Group (Rod, Ewan, Lynton, Richard, Haydn, George…). It was freezing, but sunny. The members of The London Group stood on their stepladders and spoke impressively as always, and some helped distribute our MGM leaflets and engage people in conversation (particular thanks to Mike P, the best leaflet distributor we’ve ever had). We’ve just published a video (37:14) here. Please read the description under the video first, if only to understand why the red mist came down when I was engaging with one of the two women at the start of the video.

Enjoy. Greening gone. Good.

An interesting piece on Mail Online. Extracts:

A third of stalking victims are men, according to new police figures.

The latest data has shown that 41 out of 46 police forces across the UK dealt with 1,800 stalking cases against men between 2014 and 2017.

But it is believed that in reality the figure is much higher as around 85 per cent of stalking victims do not report the incident to the police.

According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, more than 1.2million people were stalked in the year ending March 2016, with 759,000 being women while the other 450,000 were men…

Sharon Stratton, from the College of Policing, told the BBC: ‘I understand stalking is under-reported generally, and men report less than women.

‘We must ensure that we encourage people to come forward.’

A piece by Richard Ford in today’s Times:

A former senior legal adviser to the director of public prosecutions has been accused by a teacher cleared of sexual assault of being a hypocrite over her views on rape.

Alison Levitt, QC, recently raised concerns over what she termed a police policy of automatically believing rape complainants after the collapse of two high-profile cases last month.

Her comments prompted Kato Harris, who was cleared in 2016 of raping a pupil, to call Ms Levitt “completely hypocritical”. Ms Levitt was said by a judge to have put enormous pressure on the police and CPS over the investigation that led to his prosecution. Judge Martin Edmunds, QC, said that there was nothing to suggest that those acting for the pupil’s parents had acted improperly or that their actions had prevented the police and CPS from conducting a proper inquiry. Mishcon de Reya, where Ms Levitt is a partner, declined to comment on Mr Harris’s remarks.

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

Women’s right groups have criticised Theresa May’s decision to appoint an MP who opposed the decriminalisation of abortion to a role representing women.

Maria Caulfield, new Conservative vice chair for women, said decriminalisation would lead to “abortion on demand”. [J4MB: We’ve had “abortion on demand” in the UK since 1967, and everyone knows it.]

Abortion provider BPAS said the PM’s decision to appoint Ms Caulfield to the role was incredibly disappointing.

Sophie Walker, Women’s Equality Party (WEP) leader, said Ms Caulfield could “never advocate effectively” for women.

An excellent piece published by spiked about 20 days ago, but which has only just come to our attention. I’ve posted a comment and invite you to do likewise.

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

Labour MP Jess Phillips has come to the defence of singer Lily Allen, after she claimed grooming gang victims would have been “raped or abused by somebody else at some point” if Muslim groomers were not present in the United Kingdom.

Asked if the victims, who were overwhelmingly white working class, would have been groomed if their abusers were not present in the country, Allen claimed that, “Actually, there’s a strong possibility they would have been raped and abused by somebody else at some point. That’s kind of the issue.”

The celebrity then tried to divert attention from the subject of grooming gangs by saying people should be concerned with another type of abuser — “men that have sex with their stepdaughters twice a week for years at a time … neighbours, uncles, gardeners, priests, fast food restaurant managers that do it over and over again” — who she characterised as 100 per cent “British white males”. [J4MB: Racist and sexist. It’s a good thing no women commit sexual offences against minors and adults, isn’t it?]

Enter the deranged Yardley Gob:

Allen’s comments prompted a substantial backlash on social media which saw her lock her Twitter account — but Jess Phillips said her “stand” was “inspiring”.

“Watching Lily Allen and Stella Creasy stand their ground for [the] last few days is inspiring for those who need resilience,” she tweeted, referring to the singer and one of her parliamentary colleagues.

“Oh for the days of reasonable discourse where issues could be explored,” she complained.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. What is the proportion of rich men handing over half their fortunes to their ex-wives, to the number of rich women handing over half their fortunes to their ex-husbands? It must be enormous, because of women’s hypergamy. Tellingly, in this case the woman made her fortune over the course of the marriage – she wouldn’t have married a man with so much less money than her (most demand for prenup contracts comes from well-off women). Money must never flow from women to men, regardless of the circumstances. That’s totally the wrong sort of equality.