Month: January 2018

Michelle Skeer, police officer criticised by police watchdog over Poppi Worthington case, set to be promoted to Chief Constable

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Our thanks to Mike P for this. Another incompetent woman about to be shoehorned into a senior position at taxpayers’ expense. An extract:

Mrs Skeer, who has served with Cumbria Constabulary since 1990 and took her first senior leadership position as an assistant chief constable in 2009, has been named by Peter McCall, Cumbria’s PCC, as his preferred candidate for Chief Constable.

Mrs Skeer, who was not involved in the initial bungled investigation, first became aware of Poppi’s case after Mr Justice Peter Jackson’s first damning High Court judgement in 2014.

She took more than a month to call a meeting to address the criticisms, which lasted only 30 minutes meaning that she and her officers could not go through all of the points raised by the judge, according to an IPCC investigation in the case.

Mrs Skeer was also criticised for telling another officer to carry out an internal assessment of the Poppi Worthington investigation rather than referring her concerns straight to the Professional Standards Department.

She had previously been head of professional standards and should have known a referral was the “most appropriate action”, the report says.

Crying rooms for menopause police

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A piece by an unnamed journalist on p.24 of Today’s Times (we can’t find it in the online edition):

A police force will open “crying rooms” and provide extra desk fans for female officers going through the menopause. Nottinghamshire police has introduced the policy after Sue Fish (pictured, above), a former chief constable, found women were leaving the force after suffering menopausal symptoms. Davies Davies, a Tory MP, called the plan “insulting to women officers” who “confront very tough situations daily”. [J4MB: From what I’ve seen, female officers hold back from “very tough situations”, letting their male colleagues – on the same pay – sort them out. Likewise prison officers. Whenever a group of them runs towards a riot, the men are at the front, the women trail behind them.]

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Christian Today: “Is Jordan Peterson the new Messiah?”

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

Peterson is a superb communicator who speaks about sin, hope, and the Bible and espouses what many would regard as common sense Christian values. The left-behinds and the frustrated seem particularly drawn to his message of hope and healing. Some secularists think he is a Christian preacher who is seeking to smuggle in Christianity through the back door. But when asked in an interview in The National Post, ‘Are you a Christian? Do you believe in God?’ he responded, ‘I think the proper response to that is No, but I’m afraid he might exist.’ He is not a Christian but that does not mean that the Lord cannot use him to speak his truth into our culture.

Jordan Peterson is a sincere, intelligent, compassionate, human being who in his search for the truth sometimes gets closer than many professing Christians. Anyone who can write: ‘I knew that the cross was simultaneously, the point of greatest suffering, the point of death and transformation, and the symbolic centre of the world’ is not far from the Kingdom. But he is not the Messiah. He is not even a follower of the Messiah. He just needs the Messiah.

Speakers’ Corner – next Sunday, 4 February

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We’re planning to step up our anti-MGM campaigning in Speakers’ Corner this year, and I invite you to join us.

Next Sunday we’ll again be campaigning with some of the estimable members of The London Group at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park. Rod will certainly be there, along with a number of others from the group. They mainly go in for speaking on their stepladders, and do a fine job of it. I generally spend my time at Speakers’ Corner campaigning on MGM, engaging primarily with the people whose religions and cultures condone MGM. As always, I’ll be bringing placards and leaflets, as well as bodycams to record anything of interest.

At a recent Speakers’ Corner meeting I engaged with a number of people and later posted this (video, 37:15) on our YouTube channel. It’s attracted over 1,300 views so far, along with 46 upvotes and three downvotes.

If you can come along and support us, you’ll be made very welcome. The weather may be poor and there’s little cover from the weather, so dress accordingly.

We tend to arrive around 10:40, stopping for lunch at around 13:30, then return and press on until maybe 16:30 or 17:00. Afterwards we usually go somewhere nearby for a beer or two.

If you’re known to us, and want to join us beforehand at a nearby cafe (09:30 – 10:30), please email us (mail@j4mb.org.uk) to ask where the place is. A warming tea or coffee might be a good way to start the day!

Walking the Tightrope Between Chaos and Order – An Interview with Jordan B Peterson

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A lengthy and interesting interview on the Quilette website. Good to see Janice Fiamengo get a mention:

So it becomes a circular argument on Wikipedia because when you want to introduce criticism, say, by a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, and they say, “Well he isn’t a professor of critical race theory…” 

Exactly, they say, “He’s not qualified”. That’s what they keep telling me. They say: “You’re not qualified to comment on that’ and I say, “Well, you’re not qualified to comment on anything!’” This is part of the reason why I am unpopular in Canada: because I keep saying that these are pseudodisciplines. They bear no resemblance whatsoever to a [scholarly] discipline. And that would be all of the “Critical Studies” areas. They have no intellectual credibility whatsoever. They do far more harm than good.

This is what Janice Fiamengo keeps saying, and she deserves more attention because she is quite the character. She is Professor of English Literature at the University of Ottawa and she was deep into Women’s Studies for a long period of time and then learned that it was fraudulent from top to bottom. She has been making videos and going around campuses ever since, to quite vicious opposition. But she is a tough cookie, man.

Yeah, so, Sociology? It’s done. Social work? It’s corrupt. Faculties of education? They are so done they are not salvageable, as far as I can tell. Anthropology, history, literature, the humanities, generally speaking, they are done [Tammy: law!]. Law is the worst of the bunch.

The Independent: “MPs launch campaign to stop sexual history being used unfairly against rape complainants in court”

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Our thanks to Sean for this piece by a female journalist in The Independent. The inclusion of the word ‘unfairly’ in the headline is, of course, a lie. The only people quoted in the piece are vile feminists – Harriet Harman MP, Vera Baird QC and the Fawcett Society. An extract:

The Government reviewed Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 last year, finding that there is no questioning on sexual history in 92 per cent of cases and so the law does not need amending.