Our thanks to AVfM for this. We wish young Max every success. I’ve left a comment, and invite you to do likewise.

Have a good weekend, y’all!

Last August I was in the studios of TRT World in London for a round table discussion (with three feminists, one of them a mangina) on the gender pay gap. It was a rare opportunity to explore the subject at length (about 25 minutes). The presenter, David Foster, was very even-handed under difficult circumstances.

I was delighted to be invited back to discuss the same subject last Tuesday, the result is here (video, 26:12). One of the other panelists was Madeline Grant, Digital Officer and colleague of Kate Andrews, News Editor at the Institute of Economic Affairs, an important London thinktank (reputedly Margaret Thatcher’s favourite thinktank). Madeline was very impressive on this programme, and we hope to see more of her.

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu put in an assertive, confident, but otherwise woeful performance. She seemed uninformed about the subject matter, and haughtily dismissed papers by William Collins, saying she didn’t believe them. Her “shtick” throughout the discussion was Argument by Assertion. At one point – possibly off-air – I said she was denying the facts. Her response was this gem:

There are facts… and there are academic facts.

Her “facts” were, as usual with feminists, what women “feel” and claim. Statistics fall off them like water off a duck’s back.

In the video description box there are links to the August 2017 video, as well as links to William Collins’s two pieces on the gender pay gap.

Niall McCrae is a Lecturer in Mental Health at King’s College, London. He’s just penned an interesting piece for The Conversation, somehow managing to omit that a British political party has for the past three years had the ending of MGM in the UK as its #1 campaigning objective. He writes:

I’m not suggesting draconian intervention, but let the law treat children fairly and squarely, irrespective of gender. Perhaps a specific prohibition of male genital mutilation is needed, but this would not be necessary if the longstanding statute of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 is applied.

Surely a simpler solution would be to make the Female Circumcision Act 1985, along with subsequent amendments, gender-neutral?

Our thanks to Sean for this (video, 17:53). The first section (5:10) consists of Peterson’s criticisms of Theresa May’s (and others’) claims about the GPG, we haven’t checked out the remainder of the file. Only so many hours in the day, and all that. Do let us know if you think we should write a few words about the remainder of the file, and modify this blog piece. Thanks.

Our thanks to a number of people for this.

Our thanks to Dick for this piece published by the Washington Examiner in January.

An uplifting piece by Frances Gibb, Legal Editor, in today’s Times. Emphases ours:

A wife handed £9.76 million when she split from her wealthy husband has had her maintenance stopped by senior judges in a blow to the principle that divorcees have a “meal ticket for life”.

Kim Waggott, 49, will not suffer “undue hardship” and can get a job if she needs more money, judges at the Court of Appeal ruled.

William Waggott, 54, an accountant, was ordered to give his ex-wife a £9.76 million settlement in cash and assets, allowing her to buy a £2 million home in Cheshire and a holiday home in Majorca after they split up in 2012. On top of that, Mr Waggott, the finance director of TUI travel, was told to pay her £175,000 a year in personal maintenance for the rest of their lives.

A tip of the hat to Elizabeth for this excellent piece. Our positions on abortion are in our 2015 general election manifesto (pp.5,6).

Our thanks to James for this.

Our thanks to Mike P for this.