Our thanks to Mike P for this gem (video, 34:45). Tips of the hat to Paul Elam and Tom Golden for their critique of the fiasco. I’m very pressed for time, and have watched only the first 10 minutes, but you know it’s all going to be good.

You could scour the mainstream media and not find an explanation for how Desi Linden, a woman, could have “won” the race, although 142 men recorded faster times. We thank Tom Golden for the answer, via this page on the race start times, published before the marathon took place, on the website of the Boston Athletic Association. Tom writes:

Here’s a link to the start times. Notice that the start time for the elite women is 9:32 am and for the elite men it is 10:00 am. Linden, the female winner, averaged about 5:45 min per mile in the first 10k and that works out to about a five mile head start.

Our thanks to James for this.

Very good (audio, 11:47).

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Our thanks to Dougie for this piece in today’s Mail on Sunday. An extract:

However, the change will be fiercely opposed by some campaigners [J4MB: Hmm, what ideology might they follow?] who say it will deter genuine rape victims from coming forward, for fear they will be disbelieved or ignored.

This ridiculous feminist narrative always goes unchallenged, and does here. No woman need fear she’ll be disbelieved or ignored, unless the evidence (or lack of it) points the police to disbelieving or ignoring them. Of course the rape industry – which employs huge numbers of radical feminists – wants to deter genuine rape victims from coming forward, to make women feel aggrieved and angry, to return to the status quo that (regardless of possible new guidelines) women are to be believed, men disbelieved – in a bid to increase the number of men in prison, regardless of their guilt or innocence. To feminists, all men are rapists, all are guilty on the word of a woman.

Mr Sosa found out that his wife Maria ‘Lulu’ Sosa (pictured together) wanted to have him killed

The 50-year-old boxing coach released dramatic photographs of his ‘blood-stained corpse’

Next week we’ll be posting details of Ramon Sosa, an American, the 20th and final speaker at the July conference. Ramon was a survivor of attempted partner murder by proxy, his wife offering a hitman $12,000 to kill him. The story is related well in a Daily Mail piece published last November – although it mistakenly says the hitman was offered £2,000.

A few conference tickets remain on sale, but the venue has a strict limit on numbers, so when the last ticket has gone, that’s it. Tickets for all previous ICMIs have sold out before the events. You can order your ticket(s) here. We look forward to meeting you at the conference. We’re sure it’s going to be another great one. The speaker list is here.

Many followers of this blog will be familiar with some details of the story of Emily Davison, the Suffragette “heroine” who died from her injuries after walking into the path of the King’s horse, Anmer, during the 1913 Epsom Derby.

Five years ago The Guardian admitted her death was not the result of suicide – here. There was one possibly linked suicide, that of Herbert Jones, the jockey on the King’s horse, who suffered concussion, and was full of remorse over Davison’s death – despite not being personally responsible.

38 years later after the incident, in a bout of depression following his wife’s death, he committed suicide by putting his head in a gas oven. The Guardian article doesn’t mention his wife’s death, and relegates the suicide to the final two sentences of the article. Such is the value of a good man’s life to the female journalist who penned the piece.

I cannot find a reference to Herbert Jones’s suicide on Emily Davison’s Wikipedia page, the first link in this blog piece. Hardly surprising, given that feminists crawl over all Wikipedia entries concerned with gender politics.

I asked William Collins if he knew more about Emily Davison than is popularly understood, and I thank him for his permission to publish his response:

Whatever Emily Davidson’s intentions that day, she was culpable for recklessly endangering the horses’ and the riders’ lives. The King’s horse, Anmar, somersaulted and landed on top of poor Herbert Jones, causing him concussion and a dislocated shoulder. 

It is little known that there was a copycat event at the Ascot Gold Cup just two weeks later, the suffragette sympathiser in that case being a man, Harry Hewitt, who was not killed but was seriously injured with bone being driven into his brain. The irony is that Herbert Jones was attending the Gold Cup as a spectator and so was witness to another jockey getting concussion the same way he had.

Emily Davidson tends to be described as a ‘young women’, but that is to enhance the sympathy. She was 41. Her death has rather eclipsed the fact that she was the first of the suffragettes to escalate their militancy from vandalism like window smashing to arson and bombing.

The year before (1912) she had physically assaulted an elderly clergyman on a lonely station platform, thinking that he was Lloyd George in disguise. [J4MB emphasis] Quite apart from the Chancellor of the Exchequer being unlikely to travel alone, the idea that he might be disguised as a vicar is something that only made sense, I guess, in Davidson’s deluded mind. In court for the offence, she attempted to use an assumed name but was caught out by the fact she was already known to the police. It’s fair to say that Emily Davidson did not enjoy full mental health.

Before that she had been in and out of prison for the previous four years, for a string of vandalism offences and at least five arson attacks, mostly on postal services. Davidson was one of those who planted the bomb in [J4MB: Chancellor of the Exchequer] Lloyd George’s house. [J4MB emphasis] (This was not known whilst she was alive, but was stated by Sylvia Pankhurst many years later). Whilst no one was hurt, this appears to have been sheer good fortune – a gang of workmen turned up to start work just 20 minutes after the bomb exploded. 

Emily Davidson attended Oxford for a time and had a degree from the University of London. She worked as a teacher and governess. Not exactly oppressed, then. However, her exploits and prison career made her unemployable and she ended up sponging on friends and relatives. Her family, if not she herself, were aggrieved that after her dedication to their cause, the WSPU would not give her a paid position or assist her financially. (Recall that Christabel Pankhurst, after fleeing British justice, was to live for years in the most expensive part of Paris at WSPU expense). 

Davidson has now been elevated to the sainthood. This was helped by the Pankhursts turning her funeral virtually into a State occasion, throwing lots of money at a parade through London (against her mother’s wishes). Cynical manipulation of public sympathy. The mythology surrounding the suffragettes has obliterated the truth of the history of universal suffrage, and Davidson is just another example. In truth she was a volatile, unpredictable women who was a danger to herself and others. 

Our thanks to Femafedupwithfeminism for this tweet. Over decades few female sixth form students have wanted to become engineers, despite tend of millions of pounds having been spent to “encourage” (in plain English, bribe with grants not available to male sixth form students) so feminists have come up with a creative “solution” to the intractable “problem”.

Women will shortly be able to get a pretend degree in engineering, and become pretend engineers. Presumably taxpayers will fund a pretend engineering workplace, where the women will design pretend buildings, bridges, planes etc. They’ll be asked to hand it their work at the end of each day, they’ll be told their work is amazing, and the papers can then be shredded, lest anyone actually start to build their nightmares – bridges made of ice cream, planes made of leaves, that sort of thing.

A piece by Nicola Woolcock, Education Correspondent of The Times, in yesterday’s edition – honestly, not April 1, April Fools’ Day – emphases ours:

Britain’s first specialist engineering university will take school-leavers without A-level maths or physics to boost the number of female students.

The first provost of the New Model in Technology and Engineering (NMITE), which is due to open in Hereford in 2020, said that she was determined to increase the number of women taking the subject.

Britain has the lowest percentage of female engineers in Europe, according to the Women’s Engineering Society. Last year only 15 per cent of engineering undergraduates were women and they formed 11 per cent of engineers in work.

Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, 46, the university’s provost and chief academic officer, said that she would welcome students with three arts A levels. [J4MB: She’s set the bar way too high. Why not one GCSEs in anything?] She said that Britain was the only country to insist that engineering students had maths and physics qualifications. School-leavers with strong GCSEs in maths and science and A levels in any subject could apply to NMITE. [J4MB: Why, in the name of all that is holy, might they want to do that?]

Many tips of the hat to Chris Leyman-Nicholls for this (video, 1:11:08). I’ve just left the following comments, and urge you too to post comments, to show your appreciation of a new talented video maker on the scene:

Congratulations on an outstanding video, it must have taken forever to edit. So good to see and hear young British MRAs (both men and women) talk at some length. Most will be attending the conference in July http://icmi18.wordpress.com, Belinda Brown and Jordan Holbrook will both be giving presentations.The British MRM surely has a bright future ahead of it. I look forward to your future productions.

Our thanks to David for this piece by Philip Sharp – we’re not sure if his middle initial is A, B, C, D, E or F – and published in The Spectator 9 April. If you’re not a subscriber, you can register through the link, and get three articles a week at no cost.