Cosmo Landesman is a British-based American-born journalist and editor, who once had the great misfortune to be married to Julie Burchill. His latest piece for The Spectator is here.
Month: August 2018
Janice Fiamengo – “The demonization of young men: Campus sexual misconduct tribunals” (ICMI18)
Enjoy (44:09).
50.50 “Feminism is Cancer” hit piece – latest screensave of comments stream
Enjoy. Our thanks to everyone who’s left comments, including those who’ve had their comments deleted, such as Jeff Ketland. Paul Elam’s latest comments highlighted in yellow, they bear some resemblance to his earlier comments, deleted by 50.50. It would appear that while the MRM works 24/7/365, 50.50 works to UK office hours. So feel free to post comments that would normally be deleted speedily by 50.50, knowing they’ll probably be deleted tomorrow morning. Be sure to take a screensave, for posterity.
Ron (89) goes to a lecture…
Our thanks to Sean for this:
Sir Cliff Richard privacy case: BBC will not go to Court of Appeal
About damned time. Heads should roll at the BBC over this case, but of course they won’t.
Third 50.50 hit piece on the conference and attendees – comment deletions underway
We’re screen saving the comments stream on the latest 50.50 hit piece, comment deletions have started, including deletions of my comments and those of Jeff Ketland, a speaker at the conference. With The Guardian pieces online you can at least see where comments have been deleted. 50.50 doesn’t even do that, the comments simply disappear. How is it possible to be even worse than The Guardian ethically? The mind boggles.
Janice Fiamengo: Let’s imitate Hungary and make a bonfire of Women’s and Gender Studies
Nandini Archer (50.50) – ‘Feminism is cancer’: the angry backlash against our reporting on the men’s rights movement
Here we go again. The third hit piece on 50:50, by Nandini Archer this time. Tellingly, the piece lacks a line which was at the end of the previous 50.50 hit piece:
50.50 is an independent feminist media platform
Ms Archer’s bio on the site:
Nandini Archer is a human rights activist, writer and policy researcher who specialises in gender and women’s rights. She is an active member of the feminist direct action group Sisters Uncut. She works with the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion and Overseas Development Institute in London. Follow her on Twitter @nandi_naira.
The start of the piece:
50.50’s recent dispatch on this movement received hundreds of comments and messages on social media. We read them so you don’t have to.
Men’s rights activists (MRAs) met in London last month at one of the largest gatherings of anti-feminists in the world. 50.50’s dispatch from the conference aroused an angry backlash, as MRAs mobilised their supporters to try to discredit our report and drown out any positive response to it.
They left hundreds of comments under the article and on social media – which run from the misguided but sincere, through foolish and provocative to misleading, abusive, and hateful. They show what we’re up against, and reflect the abuse that women journalists so often face online.
The article then goes from bad to worse. I invite you to post comments. Thanks.
Steven Svoboda: “Genital autonomy, gender equity, and the world” (ICMI18)
Enjoy (40:19).
Woman who ‘used fiancée as cash cow’ wins half of £1.7m home
Times caption: Beverley Chapman and Shree Ladwa
A piece by Kathryn Carlson in today’s Times:
An unemployed law graduate who was accused of having used her fiancée as a cash cow has won a legal fight over their £1.7 million home.
Shree Ladwa, 43, was entitled to half of the value of the property bought by Beverley Chapman, 46, a judge ruled yesterday. Ms Ladwa was supported by Ms Chapman during their 16-year relationship and was given jewellery and hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash, Central London county court was told. The couple never married, and their split in 2016 ended in a legal fight over their shared possessions.
Ms Chapman said she had been used as a “cash cow” by Ms Ladwa and had been pressured into putting their house in Chingford, Essex, under both of their names. They bought the property for £1.4 million in 2007, and added Ms Ladwa’s name within a year.
Ms Ladwa denied having put pressure on Ms Chapman and argued that, as in a conventional divorce, [J4MB emphasis] she was entitled to half of their property. [J4MB: But they never married!] Judge Stephen Murch said: “I cannot accept that Ms Ladwa was the kind of person who could make [Ms Chapman] act against her will. Ms Chapman has convinced herself that her version of events is to be preferred, regretting what she now perceives to have been undue generosity.”
The couple moved in together shortly after their relationship started in 2000 and Ms Chapman, who worked for her family’s building business, gave Ms Ladwa gifts such as shoes, bags, designer jewellery and an Aston Martin. She proposed at least twice.
Ms Ladwa did not have permanent employment during the relationship. She had an allowance of £25,000 per year from her mother, as well as cash from Ms Chapman that she used to trade on the stock market.
After they separated, Ms Chapman sued for the value of the house and for the return of “loans” and gifts.
The judge said that Ms Chapman had had the “economic strength” in the relationship. The gifts and money had not been intended as loans, he said, ruling that Ms Ladwa should keep them. “Ms Chapman knew that Ms Ladwa had no income from a job,” he said. “It can never have been envisaged that Ms Ladwa would pay them back.”
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