Messages 4 Men 3, London, Sunday 17th November 2019

The Messages 4 Men mini-conference is returning for its third successive year. Tickets (£20.00) can be ordered from Eventbrite – here.

Speakers will celebrate the contributions that men have made and do make to our society, and discuss the issues currently facing men & boys.

The keynote address wil be delivered by William Collins, author of the critically important book The Empathy Gap, recently released.

The event will be introduced by Elizabeth Hobson and, in no particular order, other speakers will be:

John Waters,

Mike Buchanan,

Jon Wong,

Mike ‘Dr Randomercam’ Stevenson,

Richard,

Carl ‘Sargon of Akaad’ Benjamin,

Sonja Shaljean,

Natty Kadifa,

John Cooper,

Swayne O’Pie,

& Alexander Adams.

More details on speakers and talk titles to be announced, soon!


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Helena Morrissey, mother of nine children, whose husband is a Buddhist monk, is tipped to be the first female Governor of the Bank of England in its 325-year history

A piece in The Daily Mail, updated today. Wikipedia’s details on the career of Helena Morrissey:

Morrissey began her career at the New York and London bond desks at Schroders. Finding her career path blocked there, she moved to Newton Investment Management in the early 1990s as a fixed income fund manager.

Morrissey became Newton’s chief executive; as of 2015, it manages £47 billion of assets.

She is Head of Personal Investing at Legal & General Investment Management, which has over £1 trillion of assets under management (2019).

Morrissey has no more experience in banking than the vast majority of people reading this blog piece. So what, precisely, puts her in strong contention to become the next Governor of the Bank of England? Nothing, if you exclude ideologically-motivated reasons.

People familiar with our associated Campaign for Merit in Business (C4MB) will be aware of the longstanding pro-feminist bias of the Bank of England, including under the present Governor, Mark Carney. Morrissey was the founder of The 30% Club, an organization which has relentlessly implied that the observed correlation between boardroom gender diversity and financial performance indicates a causal link, a cynical lie to suggest there’s a business case for appointing more women on boards. In fact, as followers of this website know very well, the evidence from longitudinal studies all points to one conclusion – there’s a clear causal link between appointing more women on boards, and corporate financial DECLINE. If anything, the business case is to appoint fewer female directors, not more.

Our many blog pieces on Morrissey are here. C4MB was publicly challenging her as early as 2012 – an example here.

So, the next Governer of the Bank of England could be a lying feminist (but I repeat myself). What could possibly go wrong?


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Digital subsciption to The Times

A short plug for The Times, to which I’ve long subscribed. Their digital subscription is currently available for £1.00 per month for three months, then £26.00 per month. It’s a saving of one-third off the print edition subscription of £39.00 per month.

You can subscribe to The Times here.


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The Glass Blind Spot – interview of Mike Buchanan at ICMI19

My thanks to the talented videomaker behind The Glass Blind Spot for interviewing me in Chicago. He’s just published the interview in two parts, Mike Buchanan on Cambridge Feminists & Community Orders (video, 10:14), and Mike Buchanan on ICMI19, Philip Davies & Sophie Walker (video, 15:32).


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Speakers’ Corner, London – where Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) and other anti-feminists meet. Join us there, Sunday, 6 October.

27 January, 2019, left to right:

Nostradormouse, Lynton, Jack, Richard, Rod, Ewan, Big Nose, Mike

Along with other Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) and anti-feminists I visit Speakers’ Corner, London, on alternate Sundays, from approximately 10:30 onwards, staying for at least three hours, sometimes more. The next meeting will be on 6 October, when a number of us will wear the white attire as worn by Brother K, Bloodstained Men & Their Friends in the United States.

We’ll be taking a new approach on our anti-MGM campaigning, seeking to persuade parents not to circumcise their sons. We’ll be handing out new leaflets, and displaying new placards. One of the new placard designs is here.

I urge you to attend and support the speakers and other MRAs and anti-feminists who campaign there. We always have a great time, spreading the word on men’s issues, feminism, MGM…

We campaign for men and women to have equal rights, because women and girls have rights denied to men and boys in many areas. 20 such areas were explored in  our 2015 general election manifesto. One of our “equal rights” placard designs is here.

We campaign against Male Genital Mutilation (MGM), a crime under the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861, being at least ABH, and almost certainly GBH. The party’s playlist of 100+ video and audio pieces relating to MGM is here. It includes footage taken at Speakers’ Corner.

If you’d like to know if Mike and others are planning to attend Speakers’ Corner on a particular Sunday, please contact us (info@j4mb.org.uk).

Members of The London Group are invariably present at Speakers’ Corner on the same days, some of them speaking on stepladders about men’s issues, feminism etc. Four of them joined us today:

Lynton

Lynton, understandably exasperated by a young woman (you had to be there)

Rod

Rod

Richard

Richard

Nostradormouse

Nostradormouse


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ICMI19: Ewan Jones’s interview of Mike Buchanan

Enjoy (video, 16:55). I’m currently on a low-carb alcohol-free diet, and plan to be a shadow of my current self at ICMI20 in Sydney next year.

All Ewan’s ICMI19 interviews are on his own channel, here.


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If everyone who read this gave us £5.00 – or even better, £5.00 or more, monthly – we could change the world. £5.00 monthly would entitle you to Bronze party membership, details here. Benefits include a dedicated and signed book by Mike Buchanan. Click below to make a difference. Thanks.