BBC caption: The marble plaque on the imposing sculpture’s base has been attacked, seemingly with a hammer (FRIENDS OF HIGHGATE CEMETERY TRUST)

Our thanks to C for this. From the BBC piece:

Who is Karl Marx?
Marx is considered the father of communism, a type of government and philosophy where everything is shared equally. [J4MB emphasis]

Seriously, that’s what it says. No mention of the 100m+ deaths and appalling suffering directly attributable to the “type of government and philosophy”. Maybe the attack wasn’t “mindless”, but “mindful”? Has anyone in the history of the world ever been responsible for as much suffering as Karl Marx? I doubt it. And our next government might be led by a Marxist.

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Enjoy (video, 46:03).

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Our thanks to John for this woeful licence fee funded feminist propaganda. It’s little wonder so many people are tearing up their TV licences. Just one paragraph comes close to explaining why so many young women don’t call themselves feminists:

Having interviewed a diverse group of young German and British women for my research, I found associations of the term “feminism” with man-hating, lesbianism or lack of femininity was a key factor in rejections of the label “feminist”.

The majority said they did not want to call themselves feminist because they feared they would be associated with these traits. This was despite many stressing they were not homophobic and some identifying as lesbian or bisexual. [J4MB: No denial of the truth of the “man-hating” point, then.]

Scharff’s profile page on the Kings College, London, website is here. An extract:

Christina explores gender, media and culture from an international perspective, through theoretically informed empirical research, and collaboration with colleagues and students. Before joining CMCI in 2010, Christina was Fellow in Contemporary Social Thought at the Sociology Department, London School of Economics.

Ah, yes. “Theoretically informed empirical research”. We all know what that means, don’t we?

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Our thanks to Steve for this.

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A piece in yesterday’s Times. Melanie Phillips is a British Jewish journalist, author, and public commentator. I am an admirer of much of her work, but she remains a supporter of the illegal “un-British practice” of Male Genital Mutilation, and I’m about to tweet her accordingly (@MelanieLatest), if I’m not banned from sending her tweets.

Why might I be banned? Three years ago I offered her a complimentary ticket to the 2016 conference. My blog piece on the matter is here. She replied:

Your campaign against circumcision for Jewish boys at eight days old not only displays utter ignorance, since this causes no harm or suffering whatsoever, but it targets the fundamental rite of Jewish identity. It is thus profoundly anti-Jew.

Do not contact me again.

I commented:

An irony will not be lost on followers of this blog, of course, the claim that circumcision of Jewish boys at eight days old ’causes no harm or suffering whatsoever’ itself ‘displays utter ignorance’. Sometimes the cleverest people can be wilfully blind to matters which they should research before expressing a view on them.

Melanie Phillips should watch this video of Eric Clopper, a young American Jewish academic, fired by Harvard for revealing the truth about MGM. I’ll include a link in my tweet to her.

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Our thanks to hequal for this piece in the American Edition of New Statesman. Eleanor Margolis is a Jewish freelance journalist. Extracts:

American Circumcision, it turns out, is as ham fisted in its approach as the botched circumcisions it cites as an argument against the practice. It’s 100 minutes of clumsily edited talking heads, one of which is emerging from a torso bearing an “I love my foreskin” t-shirt. The film is also recommended on the website of Justice for Men and Boys, which is – for those who have forgotten – that political party that cropped up in the UK a few years ago, in response to the dangers of feminism. If this isn’t a red flag, I’m not sure what is.

Despite these remarks, Ms Margolis ends her article with this:

Retrospectively, it bothers me that I never really thought to question the idea of messing with the genitals of someone who can’t even give consent.

It destroys me to say this, but I appear to have become “woke” to the single issue on which MRAs have a point.

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Our thanks to Sean for this. He writes:

Of course no such encouragement for boys, who of course, don’t even have the boys scouts anymore. 2 levels of discrimination against boys in favour of girls. Boycott, pardon the pun, aer lingus.

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Our thanks to Ian for this. An extract from the email from Girton’s Senior Tutor, Sandra Fulton, sent to students, emphasising the College’s support of the JCR’s scheme:

Regardless of how many people use it, it provides a space for a community that is consistently structurally oppressed [J4MB: That will be women, who make up only 60%+ of university students] and may not feel comfortable exercising outside of this environment.

This is not a sanction against men. [J4MB: Exclusion from a facility is not a sanction. OK. Let’s exclude women from facilities, and explain they aren’t sanctions.] This is to serve a community that is marginalised…

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

The number of people ditching their TV licences in favour of streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Now TV.

More than 860,000 TV licences were cancelled in 2017-18, compared to 798,000 in 2016-17.

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Our thanks to John for this.

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