Times caption: Thomas J Mace-Archer-Mills, 38, appeared on several BBC radio stations as well as an ITV documentary series

A piece in today’s Times, by Nadeem Badshah:

A royal wedding commentator who posed as an upper class Englishman to broadcasters from across the world has been outed as an Italian-American from upstate New York.

Thomas J Mace-Archer-Mills, head of the British Monarchist Foundation, was interviewed by several overseas TV channels during the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding last month. Wearing a bow tie, flat cap and tweed jacket, he advised the duchess not to upstage the royal family “especially when you’re coming in the way you are”.

He later tweeted an article describing him as “the most interviewed man” on the subject of the royal wedding.

In one clip, recorded outside Buckingham Palace before the ceremony, he said: “She is loud, she is American, she fights for her cause. We don’t do that here. We do things quietly, with dignity.

A couple of comments online:

The teeth are a dead giveaway.

If men can decide to be women, white self identify as black, then why not an American improving themselves by becoming British! ???

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Our thanks to Jeff for this piece in today’s Daily Mail:

Gender gap that’s unfair to MEN…

It was only a matter of time before the gender pay gap furore hit my profession. Cue the announcement this week by the Health Secretary that there is to be a review of an apparent 15 per cent pay gap among doctors.

Let’s be sensible here. The pay scales for doctors are very clear. They are agreed nationally and are dependent on the number of years a doctor has spent in the NHS, irrespective of the speciality.

So an NHS consultant plastic surgeon earns the same pro rata as a consultant community paediatrician.

Nor is gender a factor. It’s an entirely transparent and equitable system.

That’s not to say there isn’t a pay gap. On average, women are paid less than men — but they are not being paid less for doing the same job. That’s illegal. The reality is that, on average, male doctors work longer than women and so take home a higher salary. It’s not sexism — it’s just life.

A 15-year follow-up of doctors after graduation showed that, after career breaks and part-time working are taken into account, women on average, usually because of family commitments, work 25 per cent less than their male counterparts. [J4MB: We believe the figure of 25 per cent excludes medical graduates who never pursue medicine as a career – the majority of whom are women, many of them having found life partners at medical school, an upmarket dating agency for women.] Put starkly, the average male medical graduate will work full-time, while the average female won’t.

There is a gender issue in the health service, but it’s not the one that’s being discussed.

More female students are accepted at medical school than male students, with a ratio of 60:40. A few institutions boast a 70 per cent female intake.

So shouldn’t we be looking at why boys are being out-performed by girls in the education system, why fewer young men are applying to, or being accepted at, medical school?

Why aren’t we trying to address the clear gender inequality that is emerging in schools?

We are letting down an entire generation of young men because of a politically loaded agenda that is entirely deaf to their needs.

This is, in truth, an old story. In the 1970s – 40+ years ago – Dr Vernon Coleman (bestselling author, and the first British “TV doctor”) – was writing about the likely impact of preferencing women over men in medical school admissions. He predicted that the work rate differentials between men and women would lead to an NHS in crisis, with female doctors (regardless of whether they have children or not) preferring to work part-time rather than full-time, refusing to work unsocial hours and weekends, and avoiding tough disciplines (e.g. A&E). All this has come to pass, and not one MP (out of 650) is willing to speak the truth on the matter.

Dr Pemberton asks:

So shouldn’t we be looking at why boys are being out-performed by girls in the education system, why fewer young men are applying to, or being accepted at, medical school? [J4MB: Yes, but the DfE doesn’t even recognize it as a problem, because males are underperforming.]

Why aren’t we trying to address the clear gender inequality that is emerging in schools? [J4MB: It’s not “emerging”, it emerged in 1987/8, with the replacement of O Levels by GCSEs, and has been with us ever since.] Because non-feminist politicians wave the white flag at feminist politicians at every opportunity.]

Our thanks to Sean for this.

I’ve just been on Dan Wootton’s show on TalkRadio, and had an exchange with Natalie Collins. I thought the name rang a bell, it turns out she’s the silly woman who appeared with me on an edition of The Big Questions in 2015. Her Gormless Feminist of the Month award is here.

We hope to get the audio file of the discussion on our YouTube channel within the next day or two.

My appearance on TalkRadio’s The Dan Wootton Show has been brought forward from 18:05 to 16:00, i.e. in 40 minutes’ time. It’s a lengthy phone-in show, I invite you to call in (0344 499 1000). Thanks.

At about 16:00 today I’ll be on The Dan Wootton Show on TalkRadio, commenting on remarks made by Jilly Cooper at The Hay Festival yesterday. You can call in to the show on 0344 499 1000.

A piece in today’s Times by David Sanderson, Arts Correspondent:

Jilly Cooper bemoans the state of modern men. They are, according to the novelist, always crying, growing beards and, if married, frequent visitors to gay dating sites.

Cooper, whose most famous male character is the roguish showjumper and lothario Rupert Campbell-Black, said yesterday that she thought men were now scared of the opposite sex.

“I think the men are so terrified of women it is easier to go with their own sex,” she told the Hay Festival. “Men are crying all the time, they are growing beards — and if you read Shakespeare, nobody cried.”

Cooper, 81, also said that men now had to restrain their behaviour. “You can’t flirt any more, it is so sad,” she said. She was married to her late husband Leo for 52 years and has admitted that the marriage survived affairs on both sides.

Great video from Antifeminist Praxis’ Nick Reading on The Marxist/Neo-Marxist/Feminist Scapegoating Triangle, based on The Karpman Triangle.

Our thanks to James for this (video, 3:27).