Our thanks to Len for this. The end of the piece:

After more than 208 hours of police time, it became clear the allegations were untrue. Cheeseman was arrested and charged with the offence of causing wasteful employment of police.

She pleaded guilty at Maidstone Magistrates Court and has now been given a 12-month conditional discharge as well as being ordered to pay a surcharge of £20.

Detective Inspector Glenn Kelly of Scarborough Serious Crime Team, said: “The time and resources dedicated to this extremely serious allegation reflected the gravitas with which we regard all such reports.

“It is very frustrating for everyone involved in such an intensive investigation to find that the report was made up. Particularly when there are genuine victims of crime who need our help.” [J4MB: Not a word of sympathy for the falsely accused men.]

He added: “We may never know what motivated Cheeseman to make such claims, [J4MB: Maybe a combination of a rape fantasy, narcissism, and the knowledge she wouldn’t face adequate punishment?] but what is of concern is that false reports undermine genuine victims of serious sexual crime.” [J4MB: This claim is invariably trotted out parrot-fashion in such cases, but it is never explained HOW false reports undermine genuine victims of serious sexual crime. They don’t.]

The story of the teaching assistant harassed by Human Relations authoritarians at Laurier University (after playing footage of Jordan Peterson to her class) thickens. After winning the intellectual battle, and securing an apology from the university, Shepherd has launched a lawsuit that could go a long way towards protecting freedom of speech in Canadian higher education.

Read more at the Toronto Sun.

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Bizarre and hilarious rules of conduct for staff have been established by Netflix. The response from the bewildered cast and crew on the first film set to be affected, Black Mirror in London, was irreverent humour – with people reportedly looking at each other, counting to five, then diverting their eyes. I imagine they may have felt like they were living in an episode of the dystopian series!

An extreme example of the kind of environments #MeToo is spawning, and surely an over-dramatic death throe of intrusive, authoritarian, bloated Human Relations departments in the workplace.

Humans are a sexually reproducing species and, when you put them into close contact in places of work, flirting is a virtually inevitable consequence. Sometimes it will be welcomed and can even lead to serious relationships, sometimes it is ill-judged with comic, tragic or simply uncomfortable results (possibly depending on your perspective). But, in the vast majority of cases, individuals are able to manage such situations quite well on their own.

As part of Sadiq Khan’s #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign, today “Schoolgirls from across the city will be joining forces with Wikipedia’s experts and women in the tech industry to create a surge in new pages about women, and to add more detail to existing ones.”

According to Sadiq, writing in The Telegraph, the facts that 83% of Wikipedia biographies are about men and that 87% of editors are men is a “woefully inaccurate reflection of women’s achievements” that “has to change” in order to “level the playing field”…

As Sadiq acknowledges, there are no barriers to women editing Wikipedia pages – it would simply appear that more men are more interested in contributing.

I look forward to Sadiq’s battle against Instagram’s 58% female user skew and Pinterest’s 71% female user skew.

Our thanks to Ray for the link to the Tweet and the Telegraph article.

This coming Sunday 17th is the Prostate Cancer UK’s Bristol March for Men – to support Jordan Holbrook’s fundraising campaign, please click here.

A tip of the hat to Ewan Jones for filming and editing this (video, 28:58). Rod was speaking two days ago. I’m full of admiration for people like Ewan and Rod who stand up and tell the truth on gender issues at Speakers’ Corner. I don’t have the patience to deal with the inevitable hecklers, so I campaign on MGM instead, meeting with many Muslims and a smaller number of Jews each time.

Our thanks to Alexander for notifying us that today is the 20th Anniversary of Emma Humphreys’ suicide and providing us with this interesting series of posts discussing the murderess herself, the successful feminist campaign to have her sentencing quashed and her subsequent ‘canonisation’.

Rev Jules Gomes will be among the speakers at the coming conference. His talk title will be, “Singing in the ruins: How feminists have destroyed the Church of England beyond repair”.

A piece in today’s Times by Oliver Moody, Science Correspondent:

The first woman to become a senior Anglican bishop has questioned whether people can really have love or hope if they do not believe in God.

The Right Rev Rachel Treweek shattered the so-called “stained-glass ceiling” when she was made Bishop of Gloucester in 2015, less than a year after the Church of England had voted to allow women to join its House of Bishops.

At the time, she said that she would encourage British Christians to “speak out with confidence about their faith” after years of reticence over mounting robust public defences of Anglican belief.

Last weekend the bishop, 55, made good on that pledge with an unusually muscular account of her Christian values. At a Cheltenham science festival event on the role of communities in an increasingly secular age, she argued that the church still occupied a crucial position in British society.

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Nursing has always been a female-dominated profession, and the proportion of doctors who are female has been rising for over years. A majority of GPs today are female. So we shouldn’t be too surprised that the government plans to extend unaccountability to doctors and nurses who kill patients through “honest mistakes”, presumably a combination in most cases of incompetence, laziness, lack of concern for patients, and other factors. When a large majority of doctors were men, such a proposal would have been unthinkable.

A piece in today’s Times, by Lucy Bannerman and Kat Lay:

Doctors and nurses who make “honest mistakes” while treating patients should not fear criminal prosecution, Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, will say today, under rules that will make it more difficult for the regulator to strike off staff convicted of manslaughter.

Mr Hunt has accepted the main findings of a review into the use of gross negligence manslaughter in healthcare, which said that criminal proceedings should apply only in extreme cases of “very poor performance”.

He ordered the inquiry by Professor Sir Norman Williams, former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, after the case of Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a trainee paediatrician found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter over the death of Jack Adcock, six, who developed sepsis at Leicester Royal Infirmary. The General Medical Council (GMC) and the boy’s family wanted her struck off but doctors said that criminalising clinical errors would create a “chilling effect” that could lead to mistakes being repeated.

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It was always inevitable that reversing the decades-long trend of grade inflation would cause unhappiness for pupils, as many would not get the inflated grades they were expecting under the anti-meritocratic “all shall have prizes” education philosophy. A piece in yesterday’s Sunday Times by Sian Griffiths, Education Editor:

She has spent months cramming for her A-levels and her revision tips are watched by millions of pupils, but last week the vlogger known as UnJaded Jadewas in tears after sitting her biology paper.

Jade Bowler, 18, from Berkshire, who has a place to read biology at Bristol University if she scores AAB in her exams, said: “The paper had 42 pages. It was so hard. I didn’t even finish it. Everyone in the exam room burst into tears, including me. My heart has never beat so quickly.”

Bowler is not alone. Pupil panic over the hardest GCSEs and A-levels yet set in England has exploded in schools and across the internet, with teenagers posting angst-ridden messages — and expletives — about their experiences.

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