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Month: March 2018
Helen Pankhurst is a blithering idiot, as was her grandmother Sylvia Pankhurst, and her great-grandmother Emmeline Pankhurst
Our thanks to Sean for pointing us to this truly woeful piece in the Independent. For intelligent thinking, skip the article, and check out the comments section.
The suffragettes, heroines of the feminist movement to this day, delayed female emancipation.
Time’s up for Dizzy Blonde: ‘Sexist’ craft beer names and images of scantily clad pin-ups are to be banned from Britain’s beer pumps and bottles
Our thanks to Mike P for this. The end of the piece:
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and the backlash against sexual harassment and abuse, the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) is drawing up a new code of practice to outlaw marketing which is considered sexist and offensive. [J4MB: Hmm, considered sexist and offensive by hatchet-faced feminists, as usual?]
The campaign against these beer labels and promotions is being led by Jaega Wise, recently elected as the south east director for SIBA. Miss Wise said: ‘The issue of sexist and discriminatory beer marketing has been raised at board level.
‘Members may wish to consider their current branding and make plans to change any which might be considered inappropriate [J4MB: the adjective of choice for passive-aggressive women, determined to stamp out anything that might be found amusing by men] by consumers.’ [J4MB: Hopefully the members will tell her to take a long walk off a short pier.]
The Campaign for Real Ale’s national executive said it ‘abhorred’ sexism and would take action against members being ‘disrespectful’ because of a person’s gender. [J4MB: Women being disrespectful of men will remain okey-dokey, as always.]
Jaega Wise is the passive-aggressive head brewer at Wild Card Brewery. I invite you to join me in vowing never to drink their beers while she remains head brewer.
The prostate revolution: NHS launches a revolutionary ‘one-stop’ service which will slash diagnosis times for one of the most common types of cancer in Britain from weeks to days
Our thanks to Mike P for some good news.
Controversial figures on the number of British FGM victims are being ‘falsely inflated’ by inclusion of newborn BABIES whose mothers have undergone practice
Our thanks to Mike P for this. An extract, emphases ours:
Last night former health visitor Brid Hehir, who has written about the ‘evangelism’ of anti-FGM campaigners, said: ‘After all the training and awareness-raising and data collection, there is nothing to suggest that we have an FGM problem in this country, let alone an epidemic.’
The latest news comes after The Mail on Sunday disclosed that almost all FGM cases performed in this country were actually legal piercings carried out on adults.
Between April 2015 and September 2017, a total of 14,250 individual patients were recorded with FGM. But detailed analysis shows that just 57 victims had the practice performed in the UK. [J4MB: 0.4% of the total.] And of those, 84 per cent were legal genital piercings. [J4MB: So why describe these 48 women as ‘victims’?]
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The great HPV vaccine cop out: Health chiefs say costs are too high to extend life-saving jabs to boys as well as girls
Women’s Equality Party sacks senior official after she ‘raised concerns about adults labelling children as transgender’
Our thanks to Mike P for this.
Maajid Nawaz: It’s Time For A Debate On Circumcision
Our thanks to Tim for this remarkable piece (video, 2:34) from LBC, where Maajid Nawaz is a radio host. The start of his Wikipedia page:
Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist, author, columnist, radio host and politician. He was the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn in the 2015 general election. He is also the founding chairman of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank that seeks to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists.
Eight million mothers from 150 countries sign Declaration: ‘The Era of Radical Feminism Is Over’
Our thanks to Julian for this piece on Breitbart.
DPP chief Alison Saunders embroiled in row over ‘plot to frame’ man
Alison Saunders, Toxic Feminist of the Month (February 2016)
A piece from The Times of last Wednesday, 28 February, by Tom Harper, Home Affairs Correspondent. Emphases ours:
The embattled director of public prosecutions (DPP) is under fresh pressure over an alleged police plot to frame an innocent man for beating his wife.
Alison Saunders is embroiled in the fallout from the failed prosecution of Ade Samuel, who was wrongly accused of domestic violence.
After the collapse of the case, Saunders wrote a letter in support of the decision to charge Samuel with common assault, soon after he had complained about police treatment of his ill wife at their home in north London.
Samuel, 41, claims his protest angered a detective constable at the Metropolitan police, who then allegedly tried to frame him for beating his wife, Jo, whom he cares for 24 hours a day. He has the support of his local MP, Iain Duncan Smith, who raised the case with David Gauke, the justice secretary, in the Commons last week.
“In 2009 my constituent Mr Samuel was acquitted of common assault after an unsuccessful prosecution centred on a fabricated witness statement by the police,” the former Tory leader told parliament on Tuesday. “Since then, his efforts to seek redress through the courts have been frustrated by a cover-up that reaches right to the top of the Crown Prosecution Service.”
Nazir Afzal, a former chief crown prosecutor, said the alleged behaviour of the police “stinks” and some of the decision-making by prosecutors “beggars belief”.
Samuel is suing the Metropolitan police and the CPS for misfeasance in public office, conspiracy and malicious prosecution. His claims have been struck out, but he is preparing to appeal.
The news is potentially serious for Saunders, who was criticised last week for saying some rape victims who stayed silent during an attack could give the impression they were consenting.
In 2008 Samuel complained to police officers about their treatment of Jo, who suffers from sickle cell anaemia. Officers and ambulance staff had been called to the family home to deal with Jo’s “vaso-occlusive crisis”, which can cause organ damage.
Samuel became infuriated when detectives arrested his pregnant wife on suspicion of attacking him. He claims the police action prevented her from obtaining immediate medical treatment.
Two months later his wife was cleared — but Samuel found himself charged with common assault after the same Met police officer claimed Jo had made a statement alleging her husband had beaten her. Samuel and his wife deny she made such a statement, deny having seen a statement and are amazed the police claim they took it from her when she was on strong painkillers.
Internal police logs seen by The Sunday Times also reveal that on the day Jo was said to have given the statement, the police officer in attendance said she was “distressed” and that “information was very difficult to extract from her”. The day after the police say Jo gave the statement, the log records an officer in the case saying investigators needed to “obtain” a statement.
“It was forged. I never made a statement,” Jo said. “This case is really murky. They tried to frame Ade. Most people wouldn’t believe what went on.” The CPS charged Samuel despite Jo’s repeated complaint that she had been “misrepresented” by police, internal CPS files show.
He says he was not served with the witness statement before his trial at Waltham Forest magistrates’ court, at which he was acquitted. Afzal said omissions by junior prosecutors were “completely bizarre and require a full explanation”.
After his acquittal, Samuel launched a series of complaints to Scotland Yard and the CPS backed by Stella Creasy, his then constituency MP. Saunders, who was the chief crown prosecutor in London at the time, replied to Creasy in August 2010 on behalf of the CPS.
Saunders backed the prosecution and described Jo’s statement as “clear and detailed”, despite, it seems, not having seen it herself. The DPP also said there was “no suggestion of the allegations having been fabricated by her [Jo]”. However, Jo had told the CPS that the “only true statement” she made retracted all allegations against her husband, who she described as “not guilty”.
Saunders told Creasy that inquiries had been hampered because the statements were “missing”. However, her letter did not say that, by this stage, the CPS had a note on file that the officer in charge of the original investigation had taken them from Scotland Yard’s archive. They have never been found.
A statement from Saunders said there was no reason to believe there were “any material inaccuracies” in the briefing used to prepare the letter. She and the CPS “absolutely refute any suggestion that any actions were carried out in bad faith”. They deny there had been any conspiracy, falsification or cover-up and and say there was no credible reason for such claims. The Met said Samuel’s complaints were not upheld and it could not comment further because of the litigation.
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