Mail on Sunday caption: A waterway in Bradford polluted by the popular yellow curry ingredient turmeric. The city has been dubbed the curry capital of Britain because of the changing colour of its waterways.

Our thanks to James for this.

A piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph.

The second sentence in the headline was inspired by the late, great, Ronnie Barker. He was born in my adopted home town for the past 20 years, the throbbing metropolis of Bedford. Likewise John Le Mesurier. Al Murray, “The Pub Landlord”, went to Bedford School, where he ended up as Head Boy.

Bedford. It’s my kinda town.

[Correction: The joke was related not by Ronnie Barker (though I suspect it was written by him), but by Ronnie Corbett, in The Two Ronnies (1971-87). Our thanks to the Evening Standard for Corbett’s ten best jokes published after his death. #4 is this:

A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston by-pass. Motorists are asked to be on the look-out for 16 hardened criminals.

We can but hope the BBC one day returns to making funny comedy shows and sitcoms, as long-suffering licence fee payers have a right to expect.]

Enjoy (video, 58:59). The piece will be on iPlayer, accessible to BBC licence fee payers only, for 29 days.

A rare tip of the hat to the BBC for hosting the debate, regardless of the bias shown. We hope to see more of the like – hopefully with less bias – in future.

Our thanks to Sean for this.

Followers of this blog will be aware that many ISPs block sites which cover men’s issues sympathetically, and/or are anti-feminist, while they don’t block even the most misandrous feminist sites. Users of those ISPs have to contact them to remove the blocks on a site-by-site basis. Followers will also be aware of William Collins’s outstanding blog, The Illustrated Empathy Gap. Earlier this morning I tried to access it through a TalkTalk link, and was blocked. The key text:

KidsSafe has blocked this site.
The site you tried to access was detected to contain content that falls into the category Violence & Weapons, which your KidsSafe settings won’t allow.

If you still want to, you’ll need to remove the relevant block in My Account. Please remember, any site no longer blocked can then be seen on any device using your home broadband.

A screensave of the message is here.

Feminist manipulation of the internet goes much further. Wikipedia is rigorously policed by feminist editors, and it’s a highly unreliable source of information on the Men’s Rights / Gender Equality Movement, and individual activists.

Yesterday we posted a blog piece about the appearance of Mike Buchanan, Professor Eric Anderson, and Martin Daubney on an hour-long special titled, “Is Masculinity in Crisis?” – here.

We invite supporters to post comments on the programme’s Facebook page. You can send a message to the programme’s makers via Twitter, here.

For anyone who’s checking out this website for the first time, after seeing Mike on the programme, the following links may be of particular interest:

2015 general election manifesto.
Fourth International Conference on Men’s Issues – July 20-22, London.
William Collins’s blog, The Illustrated Empathy Gap.
J4MB YouTube channel.
Our YouTube playlist of video and audio pieces relating to Male Genital Mutilation (MGM). Carrying out MGM is a crime in the UK, being at least ABH with Intent, and almost certainly GBH with Intent, under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.

Times caption: Harvey Proctor was exonerated in 2016 after being falsely accused of sexual abuse

A piece by Fiona Hamilton, Crime Editor, in yesterday’s Times:

Harvey Proctor, the former Tory MP, is suing Scotland Yard and the man who falsely accused him of sexual abuse for more than £1 million.

Mr Proctor’s legal team has lodged the damages claim in the High Court after he was targeted by Operation Midland, the Metropolitan Police’s disastrous £2.5 million inquiry into false allegations of a VIP paedophile ring.

The documents reveal how police told a couple lodging with Mr Proctor that their daughter would be taken into care unless they moved out.

Mr Proctor, 71, was one of a string of high-profile figures accused of historical abuse by a man using the pseudonym Nick and was interviewed under caution during the 18-month inquiry. Mr Proctor was exonerated in 2016. A report by a retired judge criticised the investigation and debunked each of Nick’s allegations.

We wish Mr Proctor every success with his legal actions.

You can subscribe to The Times here.

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

Health Minister Steve Brine has given the first clear sign that the Government wants to end the HPV ‘vaccine apartheid’, which The Mail on Sunday has been campaigning against.

The MP, whose brief includes include public health policy, admitted that arguments claiming that it is not cost-effective to vaccinate teenage boys against the cancer- causing virus ‘do not feel right’.

As this newspaper has repeatedly reported, HPV, which is spread by sexual contact and kissing, causes not only cervical cancer in women but thousands of cancers every year in men.

However, the NHS vaccinates only girls, calculating it is cheaper to treat the tumours HPV causes than to fund the £22 million a year needed to vaccinate boys. [J4MB emphasis – it is inconceivable that such a calculation would be used to deny girls vaccinations.]

Our thanks to Martin for this.

I had an invigorating afternoon in Salford last Sunday, as one of nine key guests (all men) on an hour-long special of The Big Questions, “Is Masculinity in Crisis?” The show will be broadcast (unedited, I understand) tomorrow morning on BBC1, starting at 10am. The guests are presented on the programme’s social media channels as follows:

JORDAN STEPHENS
Writer & performer