Last Monday I received a call from a female researcher on the ITV show Good Morning Britain, asking if I could appear on the show the next morning, for a discussion with Sophie Walker, Lying Feminist of the Month, former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, about the killing of 50 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand. In the wake of the murders, she tweeted this:

Please let there come a time when male violence is recognized as the single biggest threat to peace and tackled accordingly. My heart goes out to the victims and families and everyone affected by the disgusting act of Islamophobic terrorism in #Christchurch.

I was out of the country and suggested she contact Elizabeth with a view to appearing on the programme – she had written this piece on the matter – but the researcher declined to do so. Instead she approached Toby Young, a columnist with The Spectator. He agreed to appear, but Sophie Walker declined to debate with him. He then wrote an insightful article for CapX.

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Enjoy (video, 30:53).

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Our thanks to Sue for this. She writes:

Just one of countless media reports that make me ashamed to be a woman in Britain today.

An extract:

She was told she would have to make some adjustments – including wearing plain clothes and reducing the number of night shifts to ‘assist with tiredness’.

The officer was happy to do so and made it clear she wished to remain on front-line duties, an employment tribunal heard.

But instead, senior managers forced her into an office role they thought was ‘safe and suitable for a pregnant woman’.

They said there was a ‘business need’ for her to work in the Crime Management Hub (CMH), where desk-bound staff do jobs such as taking statements from victims of crime.

PC Town was later signed off sick with depression, anxiety and migraines – which she said had been brought on by her forced job change.

The tribunal found Devon and Cornwall Police risked injury to her mental health by preventing her from doing the front-line role she loved.

They ruled she was discriminated against due both to her sex and pregnancy.

As always, women’s wishes trump operational efficiency and common sense. Just one of the reasons why, when professions become feminised, they invariably and inevitably become less effective and efficient. Who bears the burden here? The public, in the form of poorer policing – a pregnant policewoman on the front line, what could possibly go wrong? – and taxpayers (men pay 72% of income tax in the UK). Men are always the losers in the provision of female privilege.

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The Honey Badger Brigade is offering an Early Bird discount on tickets for the Chicago conference, reducing the price from over $400 to $339.99, until St Patrick’s Day (tomorrow). You can order your ticket(s) here.

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The events in New Zealand yesterday were profoundly disturbing and deeply sad. My thoughts are with the victims and their families.

A number of commentators have pleaded with their audiences to not read the terrorists evil manifesto. It’s now been scrubbed from all respectable corners of the Internet in fact. I, however, think that to fight evil we need to understand it and the manifesto is a window into his psyche – so I did read (some of) it. What I found was an ethno-nationalist nihilist intent on fanning flames of division which he hopes will cause our society to burn to the ground. In the aftermath, he imagines that an ‘eco-fascist’ state will be established.

With his inentions in mind, I scrolled through Twitter, watching with dismay, as accusatory fingers were pointed at all kinds of innocent people. And who do feminists blame? Men.

This is a gross insult to the many men – first responders, hero/victims and passers by who intervened to stop the massacre or deal with the aftermath. Men like 71 year old Afghan Daoud (Omar) Nabi who reportedly threw himself in front of another worshipper to save their life.

Men like Naheem Rashid who tried to wrestle the gun from the terrorist Al Masjid al Noor Mosque.

Men like Carl Pomare who stopped his car and got out, with his colleagues, to help the wounded.

For every single devil like the terrorist; there are thousands of good, courageous, self sacrificing men like those mentioned – it’s they who are representative of men. Let’s deny the terrorist his wicked aim and stand together as men and women, in love and gratitude for the fact that he is a terrible aberration bearing nothing in common with the vast majority of men.

Our thanks to Mike P for this. Of course, the majority of murder victims are men. The number of them who are victims of partner murder by proxy is surely far higher than is generally supposed. Do the police routinely and seriously investigate the possibility of partner murder by proxy, when men are murdered by unknown people? I doubt it. A murdered man, nothing to see here, move along…

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Our thanks to Ian for this.

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Terrence Popp, a former American Airborne Ranger and Green Beret, gave one of the more memorable presentations at the first ICMI, in Detroit, in 2014. I’m delighted to report he’ll be joining us at the Chicago conference in August. He’s just released this (video, 1:49). I look forward to buying him a beer or three.

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A grotesque double standard.

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Our thanks to Ian for this. An extract:

The Investment Association has 250 members which manage £7.7tn in assets. Its boss Chris Cummings said that it is “unacceptable” that one in five of the UK’s biggest companies are falling short on gender diversity.

“Companies must do more than take the tokenistic step of appointing just one woman to their board and consider that job done.

“There is also compelling evidence that boards with greater gender balance outperform their less diverse peers,” he said.

In the final sentence Cummings is, of course, confusing correlation with causation – whether knowingly or unknowingly. Better-performing firms can more easily afford to engage in social engineering exercises such as increasing the proportion of women on their boards. As every follower of this blog, and that of Campaign for Merit in Business knows, the “compelling evidence” is of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards, and financial performance decline. The evidence is here. Nobody has challenged the evidence since we published it in 2012, and presented it to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries the same year.

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