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Our thanks to Stu for this. It would be good to think the woman will be charged with wasting police time but doubtless she won’t be. Check out the BBC’s earlier report. Her allegation is treated as a fact. The piece starts:

She was walking on a path through a wooded area near Newbattle Golf Club, Dalkeith, on Sunday afternoon when a man attacked her.

Police want to speak to any potential witnesses who were in the area at the time, including a dog walker who may have disturbed the attacker.

The suspect is described as having a beard, short brown hair and pale skin.

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A ludicrous piece of BS in Teh Grauniad.

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Our thanks to Kate for this, and a tip of the hat to Professor Marian FitzGerald. Neeless to say the two female journalists solicited opinions only from women who didn’t support the good professor’s well-made points – including Julie Bindel!

A criminology professor who urged women not to become hysterical after Sarah Everard’s disappearance has been criticised for missing the point of the outrage over male violence.

Marian FitzGerald, from the University of Kent, said statistics show that men are “far more likely” than women to be murdered. They are also more likely to be killed in a public space, and by someone they did not know.

Since Everard disappeared, apparently abducted from a busy south London road, women have been sharing their own frightening experiences of trying to make it home without being attacked or accosted by strangers.

FitzGerald told Today on BBC Radio 4: “I think I’m entitled to say, as a woman, we shouldn’t pander to stereotypes and get hysterical. Let’s not get this out of proportion and let’s not wind each other up to be unduly fearful.” Referring to the murder of Milly Dowler, she said: “The reason why we remember these cases is precisely because they are so rare. We should hold on to that.”

Her comments prompted a backlash from critics, who argued that while the exact circumstances of Everard’s disappearance may be unusual, the broader fear of male violence was infuriatingly familiar and well justified.

“If it’s rare, please explain to me why two women are killed a week,” said Carole Gould, whose 17-year-old daughter Ellie was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend, Thomas Griffiths, in the family kitchen in Calne, Wiltshire, in 2019.

The writer Julie Bindel took issue with the argument that “not all men” are predators. She told Times Radio: “Yes all men, all men, actually. There are huge numbers of men who are a part of this problem.”

A woman is killed by a man every three days, on average, in Britain. Gould, who has successfully campaigned for tougher sentences for teenage killers, said that the rarity of the circumstances in the south London case should not determine how seriously we take violence against women. “Whether it’s in the home or outside, it doesn’t matter. Murder is murder,” she added.

Despite assurances from Dame Cressida Dick, Britain’s most senior police officer, that “it is thankfully incredibly rare for a woman to be abducted from our streets”, at least five women and one girl were killed in the UK during the week Everard went missing. Campaigners said whether or not they were abducted first missed the point.

Andrew Innes, 50, has been charged with the murder of Bennylyn Burke, 25, and her two-year-old daughter Jellica, who were reported missing on March 1. Their bodies have not been found.

On March 2, Samantha Heap, 45, was found dead at a house in Congleton, Cheshire, allegedly murdered by David Mottram, 47. Two more women were murdered on March 4: Geetika Goyal, 29, who was found dying in a cul-de-sac in Leicester, and Imogen “Immy” Bohajczuk, 29, whose body was found at a property in Oldham. A man has been charged with murder in each case.

In south Wales, Chun Xu, 31, is accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl, Wenjing Lin, who died following an incident at her family’s Chinese restaurant on March 5.

“This attitude of ‘let’s not get hysterical, it’s very rare’” is part of the problem, said Ellie Welling, 19, a school friend of Ellie Gould, who has launched a campaign in her memory to make self-defence classes part of the school PE curriculum for girls and boys. She and her friends Harriet Adams and Tilda Offen started the campaign because “at the back of our minds is that feeling that if Ellie had only had some way to get away . . . there’s the possibility she could still be here”.

Welling said it was a contradiction to tell women that they shouldn’t worry because a particular type of crime is uncommon while, at the same time, women were being routinely killed by men they knew: “Why do we have to wait for it to become more and more common for action to be taken? It already happens weekly.”

Last night organisers of the Clapham Common “Reclaim These Streets” vigil, set to be held tomorrow, claimed that the Met had told them the event was unlawful. Crowdfunding for a legal case to challenge the decision hit its £30,000 target by 10.30pm last night, with donations continuing to pour in.

Tips for considerate men

Advice offered by women online on how men can avoid scaring someone when they are alone

Cross the street to avoid walking behind a woman. Give all women space. Never run close to them when jogging, especially in the dark — I’m endlessly astonished at how many men do this.
Offer to walk female friends home.

I was attacked from behind once and even though it was decades ago I still get freaked out if anyone walks too closely behind me.

Speed up and overtake her. Making noise if possible — “hi, sorry I’m just passing you” sort of comment. If I’m being followed I slow down to let people overtake. Or cross the road.

Talk to other men about it, as many are oblivious. If you witness even low-key harassment, call it out. Everyone pretends not to notice the creeps making women uncomfortable. It only emboldens them & normalises the behaviour.

One of my male friends told me that if he feels that he might be walking near a scared woman, he pretends to be, or gets himself, on the phone having a normal conversation. Silent people are more frightening than hearing someone talking.

This sounds silly but I’d say don’t get offended if someone seems scared. I was once being followed, probably innocently, down my road at night and I started running and the man behind me chased me to insist he wasn’t interested in me. It didn’t help.

If a woman is walking towards you, let her stay in her path and get out of her way rather than making her move. I walk in the safest part of the path with access to light/exits and so many times a man has forced me to walk between him and a wall.

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Our thanks to Steve for this. He writes:

Hi Mike

Today we go to Milton Keynes.

The Judge said: “You have young children you are responsible for. You are going to lose your children unless you smarten up. You do not need me to tell you that.”

Searching her name on the newspaper’s website, she was just in court back in Oct 2020 for heroin and cocaine possession, was previously in court for dealing Class A drugs in 2019, homeless, and she still has her kids?

The kids would be better off being adopted by responsible parents and ‘cancel’ her out of their lives.

Best

Steve

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Our thanks to Nigel for this BBC article. He writes:

Mike, I know you’ve covered this story, but this BBC article follows what I’ve come to realise is the BBC standard format. Opens with “click bait” idea all women are under threat. Has a middle bit to give feminist friends of the BBC space to pile on the “horror”. And then ends with a paragraph or two pointing out that the truth is the reverse of all the rest of the very same article. In this case that more men are murdered and assaulted and this is much more likely to occur in a public place.

My point being this clever approach means the articles do in fact contain the truth, facts, but its headlines and early paragraphs have already done the dirty work. No doubt only geeks like me thoroughly read their output. So they can claim to have been “fair” and factual, but only if you read right to the end. I doubt many do.

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Our thanks to Danuta for this. Some idiotic comments from the Labour leader, which could have been written by Laura Bates or any other feminist idiot:

And Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said ‘the scale of violence, intimidation and misogyny that women and girls suffer on a daily basis’ must be recognised. [J4MB: Recognized as being rare, possibly.]

At the beginning of his local election campaign launch, the Labour leader said: ‘I want to start by expressing my deepest sympathies to Sarah Everard’s family and friends, who will be experiencing unspeakable grief this morning.

‘This awful news has shaken us all. I’d like to say these incidents are rare, but the truth is that violence against women and girls is far too common. [J4MB: What level of violence wouldn’t be “too common”?]

‘No woman should walk home with fear or threat. [J4MB: Utterly absurd, as it would be if “woman” was replaced by “man”. Men are far more likely than women to suffer violence in public places.]

‘And we have to be clear: It’s only by recognising the scale of violence, intimidation and misogyny that women and girls suffer on a daily basis that we can ever start to confront this.’ [J4MB: I have coffee mugs with a higher IQ than Keir Starmer.]

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World to end, women will suffer more than men. Enjoy this piece by Alexandra Topping, the same lying ratbag Guardian “journalist” we posted a piece about two or three hours ago.

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Mark Littlewood is the director general of the libertarian free market think-tank,the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). In 2012, the year before I launched J4MB, I gave a talk at their headquarters near Westminster about the causal link between “improving” gender diversity on corporate boards and financial decline. The large audience included Katie Hopkins and Dr Catherine Hakim, and the talk went down very well. Earlier in the year, I launched Campaign for Merit in Business.

I much enjoyed the latest edition of “Live with Littlewood”, here, livestreamed a few hours ago. Philip Davies MP is interesting on gambling and COVID (15:12 – 35:20 on gambling, he exits the discussion on COVID at 47:50, it goes on until 1:07:40 with others) but sadly he wasn’t present for the discussion about International Women’s Day, from 54:39, where the strongest contributor by far was Ella Whelan.

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