[Update 4.12.19: A TV production company will be joining us on 15 December, details here.]
I invite you to join me (and others) on 15 December, when Elizabeth Hobson and Wonder Natty will again be speaking at Speakers’ Corner. They both had rapt audiences last time. I’ve updated the blog piece I posted when Natty last spoke, it has links to the videos of both Elizabeth and Natty speaking, and still images of Natty – here.

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From the Wikipedia Page of Charles Moore:

Charles Hilary Moore (born 31 October 1956) is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph; he still writes for the first two.
Moore is best known globally for his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, published in three volumes (2013, 2016, and 2019).

Moore, 63, is almost the archetype of a prominent chivalrous Conservative figure who would sooner chew off his own feet without the benefit of anaesthetic, than criticise women. In all the years I’ve been subscribing to The Spectator, I cannot recall him criticising groups of women, including feminists. (Fraser Nelson, the paper’s editor, is in a similar mould). So I was surprised to read the following in Moore’s column in the current edition of The Spectator:

At last, however, my wife will gain compensation under a Labour government. She is one of those ‘WASPIs’ born in the 1950s whose expected pension age is rising from 60 to 66 by the time she retires. Mr Corbyn is promising her and hundreds of thousands of others, most of whom are experiencing no hardship at all, a cheque for several thousand pounds. The reason for the pension age increase was equality between the sexes, so it is hard to see that any wrong was done. For a very long time, men got a state pension at 65, women at 60. Can the wrong committed by equalising them with men really merit an unbudgeted £58 billion compensation? Mr Corbyn could surely court even more votes by inventing a figure for the pensions foregone by the millions of men currently alive who were not allowed, unlike their wives, to retire at 60. [J4MB emphasis]

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Enjoy (video, 1:14:49). There’s a link in the video description to the short blog piece Elizabeth published before this discussion.

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Enjoy (video, 17:30).

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Our thanks to Mike P for this, concerning a documentary which was broadcast last night. Extracts:

A murderer who beat a hitchhiker to death exhibits a string of psychological and physical factors that could have influenced his decision to kill, experts reveal.

Paul Aldridge, now 43, from London, served 22 years in prison for violently beating hitchhiker Tommy McLauglin, 60, to death in a 1996… 

Desperate to learn more about the reasons why he committed his crime, Aldridge agreed to submit himself to physiological and psychological testing as part of a three-week examination for Channel 4’s What Makes a Murderer, which airs tonight at 9pm. 

His mother also drank while pregnant with Aldridge, impacting his brain development, and caused lasting damage when she struck him over the head with a rolling pin.

How much criminality is caused in part by brain damage resulting from women drinking alcohol, smoking, or taking other drugs, during pregnancy? We know that Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is the leading cause of preventable mental incapacitation in the Western world. In oue last manifesto we covered FAS (pp.7,8) and made this proposal:

The government should introduce legislation to prosecute women who have given birth to babies with FAS with inflicting GBH, and if found guilty, give them custodial sentences in line with CPS guidance, 9 – 16 years.

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Our thanks to Sean for this gem (video, 1:35) from 2015.

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Enjoy (video, 25:41).

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Our thanks to Mike P for this.
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Just received:

Hi Everyone,
Red letter day! Our Education Minister Dan Tehan will today tell TEQSA, the university regulator, that universities need to stop adjudicating rape on campuses.
He’s set to speak at  the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency annual conference in Melbourne where he will announce that the criminal justice system, not a university discipline process, is the right place to deal with ­alleged crimes that take place on campus or in the student commun­ity.
“Universities have a duty of care to their students and that ­includes ensuring processes around the enforcement of any codes of conduct are legal, fair and transparent,” he will tell the conference.
“If a student alleges they are the victim of a crime then our criminal justice system is the ­appropriate authority to deal with it,” Mr Tehan says.
Tim Dodd, the Higher Education editor for The Australian who has been given access to Tehan’s planned TEQSA speech, writes today that Tehan’s speech follows a decision by a Queensland Supreme Court judge last week that barred the University of Queensland from holding a discip­linary hearing into allegations that a final-year male ­medical student sexually ­assault­ed a female student last year.
Dodd summarised that ruling as follows: “Justice Ann Lyons ruled last week that the university was ­restrained from going ahead with the hearing on the basis that the allegations against the ­student “were in fact allegations of crim­inal offences of a sexual nature”. “This is not just an action by the university about breaches of its rules, policies and procedures,’’ Justice Lyons said. “It would indeed­ be a startling result if a committee comprised of academics and students who are not required to have any legal training could decide allegations of a most serious kind without any of the protections of the criminal law.”
Dan Tehan will announce that education providers “need to take great care when considering disciplinary action in relation to allegations of criminal conduct, to ensure that the protections afforded to indiv­iduals responding to those allegations are not infringed. These are complex matters and there is substantia­l legislation, case law and legal precedent available to anyone accused of a crime.”
Isn’t this wonderful? Finally we have an education minister willing to take on the small but noisy group of activists who managed to bully the entire higher education sector into pursuing this path, which has had such disastrous consequences for colleges in America, with over 200 successful legal cases of young men suing over the universities’ failure to protect their legal rights, and thousands of accused young men being thrown out of colleges after biased, “believe-the victim” judgements by college tribunals.
Let’s see if university administrators will now come to their senses. Not much sign  of that from USyd’s Vice Chancellor Michael Spence. He wrote a letter which was published in The Australian yesterday:

How does this man, who received a salary package of 1.53 million last year, get away with being so blinkered and inept?  Why are the University’s academic lawyers silent about this dangerous nonsense?
We need to put pressure on universities to get real and realise feminist activists need to relinquish control of the sector and allow universities to get on with providing education rather than controlling people’s private lives. Please talk to any academics and administrators you know, or write letters to your local university. The activists are bound to be fighting fiercely against this advice from Tehan. Universities need to know the silent majority demands they get their act together. And Tehan needs your support.
That’s  it for now. I’m off on two weeks’ holiday so I would be grateful if you saved up any correspondence until I return mid-December. I’ll check emails occasionally but will only deal with urgent matters.
Cheers, Tina

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Enjoy (video, 15:15).

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