Long overdue.

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Murray nails the publishing industry. That said, he writes a column for The Spectator which relentlessly publishes feminist propaganda – and ONLY feminist propaganda – about domestic violence by feminists such as Julie Bindel, Sarah Ditum and Isabel Hardman, the assistant editor. The (female) managing editor of the UK edition continues to refuse to publish out full-page advert on domestic violence and men’s issues.

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Dear Mike Buchanan,

Welcome to the Free Speech Union’s weekly newsletter. This newsletter is a brief round-up of the free speech news of the week.

Edinburgh University is becoming “an embarrassment to Scotland”

Transgender people “do not need to be treated with such reverence that we cannot be questioned or challenged”, writes Debbie Hayton in UnHerd, following the publication by Edinburgh University of a list of banned words – microinsults – that are deemed offensive. The University is “becoming an embarrassment to Scotland”, writes Stuart Waiton in the Herald. Dr Neil Thin, also of Edinburgh University, has been suspended from teaching duties and is under investigation after a student mob targeted him for challenging woke orthodoxy. The students in question have been described as “entitled, but not very bright, lecture-hall fillers”. We are supporting him in full.

“If this government is serious about restoring free speech in our country, it should start by doing away with legislation that is actively curtailing freedom of expression”, writes Emily Carver in ConservativeHome.

Blasphemy and religious hatred

The Government has been urged to step in to the investigation at Batley Grammar School amid concerns that local imams may be able to influence the process, all but guaranteeing a guilty verdict for the teacher that showed his class one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of Mohammed. Readers will know that we wrote to the headteacher of the school criticising his decision to suspend the teacher, who is still in hiding with his wife and young children, and to the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, urging the Government to introduce a duty on schools to promote freedom of speech.

Ivan Hare QC warned of the dangers of the new hate crime laws that have been proposed in Northern Ireland, England and Wales in this fascinating lecture, explaining that the law against ‘stirring up’ hatred – which would be significantly expanded under the proposed changes, just as it has been in Scotland – has become a de facto law against blasphemy. His lecture can also be read here.

Ever-expanding hate crime

The public are being pushed-aside by special interest groups, the Telegraph warns, as reform of hate crime heads in one direction: towards eroding free speech. We’re campaigning against some of the anti-free speech proposals of the Law Commission of England and Wales, but we’re anticipating more chilling recommendations from them after they’ve concluded their consultation about these reforms. Charles Wide, a former judge at the Old Bailey, has warned that left-wing lobby groups have too much influence over the Law Commission.

Among the most sinister aspect of hate crime policing in the UK is the recording of non-crime hate incidents against innocent people. Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd joined calls for police to scrap this practice. We are backing ex-policeman Harry Miller, who is trying to persuade the Court of Appeal to declare this practice unlawful. You can contribute to our fundraiser, which we’ll be using to help him pay his court costs if he’s unsuccessful, here.

Former Labour MP Ruth Smeeth, now the Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, took up the case of Maya Forstater in the Times, rejecting the notion that gender critical views are in any way comparable to racism. Maya Forstater is the ex-employee of a think tank who was fired after saying on Twitter that she didn’t think transwomen were women. She took her employer to an Employment Tribunal, but the panel ruled against her, with the judge saying that her views weren’t deserving of respect in a democratic society. Maya has appealed that verdict and is awaiting the outcome of her appeal. You can read about her ongoing case here and contribute to her fundraiser here.

The Times gave a pre-election overview of recent free speech battles fought in Scotland, including the unsuccessful battle against the new Hate Crime and Public Order Act. The paper also reports on Nicola Sturgeon’s failure to understand the tension between women’s rights and trans rights, and the attempt by trans activists to silence gender critical feminists. We cannot win the gender wars by relying on evidence and reason, writes Mary Harrington in UnHerd, as the intellectual foundations of the Enlightenment have been demolished.

The Welsh Government wants to stamp out micro-aggressions with a set of ‘anti-racist’ proposals that risk making normal workplace interactions a minefield, warns Professor Andrew Tettenborn of our Legal Advisory Council in Conservative Home. He also wrote to First Minister Mark Drakeford about these proposals on our behalf last week. You can read that letter here.

Christian Today reports on Pastor John Sherwood, arrested in Uxbridge for a sermon deemed to be homophobic. We are writing to the Metropolitan Police to protest about his arrest. Happily, Sherwood is now preaching again.

Trump ban to continue – for now

Facebook’s Oversight Board has ordered the company to justify its ban on Donald Trump within the next six months, finding that the decision to suspend him was “indeterminate and standardless” and that the platform’s rules must be apply to all users in a consistent way. The former president has launched a new platform of his own. Florida is ready to enact legislation that would impose severe fines on social media companies that permanently remove the accounts of political candidates.

Speech online

A judicial review has begun to make the Government enforce age verification checks on pornographic websites, a measure introduced in the Digital Economy Act but never acted on.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration is considering using private firms to monitor extremist chatter online, reports CNN – censorship by algorithm.

India’s continued suppression of online criticism of its government has attracted fresh criticism.

Harry Potter quiz cancelled

A Harry Potter quiz was cancelled by a book festival in New Zealand because of J.K. Rowling’s views on trans issues. Our General Secretary Toby Young told the Mail on Sunday: “J.K. Rowling is one of Britain’s most influential and respectable contemporary writers. This is why the decision by the Wairarapa book festival to cancel a children’s Harry Potter quiz because of comments J.K. Rowling made during an important debate on women’s only spaces is chilling. If the creator of our most successful export since James Bond can be declared persona non grata, anyone can.” Our affiliate in New Zealand launched this week – the first of many, we hope.

Hong Kong clampdown

Former Green Party leader Baroness Bennett has written a piece in the Independent about the clampdown on free speech in Hong Kong, reporting that journalists are living in fear and feel compelled to self-censor.

Political speech should never be compelled

Freedom to speak your mind is essential in a democracy, but free speech also means “the right not to be legally forced to engage in political speech”, argues Spencer Case in Arc Digital. In universities, corporations and organisations of all types, people now feel compelled to sign petitions they don’t agree with, and, in some cases, sign loyalty oaths that are far more draconian than the ones people were forced to sign during the McCarthy era.

The roots of cancel culture

Historian Tom Holland argues that Christian ideals remain at the heart of modern culture war battles, while journalist Malcolm Gladwell says a failure to understand and offer forgiveness is at the heart of modern cancel culture: “Cancel culture is what happens when you have a generation of people who are not raised with a Christian ethic of forgiveness.” Christopher Schelin compares the phenomenon to “old-fashioned church discipline”. It’s certainly not new, writes Raymond Keene in the Article, comparing modern woke witch-hunts to purges carried out by the Romans and ancient Chinese.

Wherever it comes from, cancel culture sucks, says Suzanne Harrington in the Irish Examiner. Musician Glenn Danzig warns that it will stop another “punk explosion”. He told NME, “There won’t be any new bands coming out like that. Now, they will immediately get cancelled.”

Petition: Protect employees’ free speech

A petition calling on the Government to amend the law to protect the rights of employees to speak freely outside of the workplace has been launched. We flagged it up a few weeks ago, but we thought we’d give it another plug. You can sign it here. This is something the FSU will be campaigning about in due course.

Free Speech Champions Drop-in event with ex-New York Times journalist Bari Weiss

FSU members are welcome to register for the next Free Speech Champions online ‘Drop-In’ event, “Can Truth Survive the New Journalism?” A panel of four eminent speakers will consider the current state of journalism and its implications for democracy and the pursuit of truth: Bari Weiss, Helen Lewis, Mick Hume and Katie Herzog. The evening will be chaired by Inaya Folarin Iman, one of the founding directors of the FSU. You can register for a free ticket via Eventbrite here.

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Benjamin Jones

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Enjoy (video, 49:58).

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Hi Everyone,

It was encouraging to see the extensive media coverage of the recent shaming of boys in two Victorian schools, where boys were required to apologise for men’s violence and denounced as male oppressors.

We’ve decided to capitalize on this rare interest in male welfare to run a big campaign using Mothers of Sons to gather stories of boy shaming in schools across Australia and bring them to the attention of the media.

Shaming of boys as toxic, violent and dangerous has been happening for years in Australia and is part of school curriculum in many states. I’ve made a number of videos exposing this – one with a teacher denouncing Victoria’s Respectful Relationships programs, another showing the systematic denigration of males in South Australian school child protection courses. And then there’s White Ribbon which runs programs across the country denying women’s role in family violence and labelling men as the sole aggressors.

I’ve frequently had parents contact me who are alarmed by their sons being subjected to this poison but fearful of speaking out for fear their boys might be targeted.

That’s where Mothers of Sons comes in. We’ll be putting the call out to parents to contact the MOS team who will help them compile evidence of the shaming which MOS can then present to local media.  The big launch is planned for Tues May 18, on a live event on MOS Facebook.

I’ll give you more information next week. But we need more people to come on board to help with this exciting campaign, preparing for the possibility this might really take off. Men and women are welcome to volunteer, particularly people with project management, journalism/copywriting, social media or admin experience. We’ll need financial support for advertising/social media if you’d like to contribute.

What happened to the missing million?

Now I have a funny story for you. I was recently sitting in a gynaecologist’s waiting room (monitoring which part of my body will fall apart next is one of the most irritating aspects of ageing). I’d forgotten my phone and the only reading material available due to Covid fear-mongering was a lone copy of the St Vincent Clinic Foundation research report.

Flicking through it I discovered this fascinating graph showing the gender split of research grant recipients:

It tells quite a story. Take a good look and you’ll discover male scientists receiving the bulk of the grants right through to 2020 when, miraculously, the males lost $1 million in funding to end up exactly on par with the female researchers.

I sent a series of questions to the Foundation asking how this was possible, given the document states that only the best projects were supported and gender was not mentioned as a criterion for determining the funding.

Here’s the fatuous response from media director David Faktor on behalf of St Vincent’s, “I can confirm that the selection of research grant recipients by the St Vincent’s Clinic Scientific Committee is based purely on merit,” he wrote, claiming the shift was simply due to an increase in senior female researchers. Phooey!

What’s alarming is these people see no need to come up with any proper story to cover their shameless social engineering. It’s now a badge of honour to be seen as blatantly promoting women ahead of men.

Grattan Institute boondoggle

Take a look at the recent report produced by The Grattan Institute, which claims the Covid crisis had a far more adverse impact on employment of women than men.  Their report was naturally lapped up by much of the media, which reveled in talk of a “pink recession”, claiming women’s economic progress had stalled in the shadow of Covid, that women were more likely to lose their jobs, and working hours than men.

One of my correspondents has done an excellent job exposing the shameful deception of the Institute, revealing their duplicitous distorting of the data and cherry-picking of results, whilst ignoring readily available ABS data which contradicts all their major conclusions. Read his detailed analysis here.

The key finding from the Institute was at peak Covid in April, almost 8 per cent of Australian women had lost their jobs whilst the figure for men was 4 per cent.

My learned correspondent explains this massaged result was achieved using an apples versus oranges comparison, comparing women at the bottom of the recession to figures for men from an earlier period. The data misleadingly included only employed women, not all women and people who resigned jobs as well as those who lost them. It’s a classic example of the point well made in the book, How to lie with Statistics: “If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend they are the same thing.” That’s just what the Grattan Institute has done.

In fact, all the major claims made by the Institute in this paper are wrong. It is not true that more women than men lost jobs and lost hours of work during this period. The true figures are readily available from ABS data and show it was mostly men not women who lost their jobs in this period: 2.6 % of women lost their job in the quarter ending May 2020 versus 2.9 % of men.

Look at this graph showing change in underemployment, which includes all employed workers who aren’t getting as much work as they would like:

It’s very clear that it is mainly men who are missing out on employment. Since November women have been better off in terms of underemployment than they were pre-Covid whereas men are only now back to pre-Covid levels.

All the details are there in my correspondent’s report,  information readily available to those in the know. But naturally the false narrative promoted by Grattan has rarely been publicly challenged.

I’d welcome more exposés of this sort. It’s wonderful having a growing team of nerds to help throw a few spanners in the relentless feminist machine misrepresenting the true picture of men and women’s lives in this country.

National disgrace to die soon. 

My mailbox attracts a steady stream of bile from my detractors. This week saw a typical example:

Message: You are a national disgrace and a truly disgusting, delusional human being. You think you’re ‘supporting men’ but you’re actually an embarrassment to humanity. Do the world a favour and shut up. The only comfort is that your archaic views will die with you soon and you will leave ZERO LEGACY.

What sort of person would send such vitriol in the middle of the night? Well, amazingly this time the author was not anonymous but proudly used her own name. She’s Amanda Stevens, a “consumer futurist” and apparently a renowned speaker and marketer. Amusingly, on twitter she describes herself as a “happy vegemite.” Clearly not so happy last Wednesday morning at 1.13 am.

Woke women and their poisonous friends.

Finally, on a lighter note, here’s the video of my chat on thinkspot.com earlier this week with American marriage coach Suzanne Venker – all about woke women and their poisonous friends.

We had a long, lively discussion about how dangerous women’s friends can be in undermining their relationships. Friends often contribute to women’s sense of entitlement and inflated expectations regarding the men in their lives, creating instability and destroying new relationships.

Men need to be warned about this risk to their relationships. Please help me circulate the video – https://youtu.be/bTJPtYB6Y5o

Until next time, Tina

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Video #29 is a presentation by Hannah Wallen, details about her in the video description. Enjoy (33:16).

ICMI20 was very ambitious in scale – 126 speakers and interviewees – and many people haven’t caught all of the videos. To help remedy that, we’re publishing one video per day from early April until mid-August, so people have a reasonable chance of catching all, or most, of the material. Think of the videos as a daily Red Pill.

The videos will be published in the order in which they were originally published on our YouTube conference playlist. Paul Elam’s YouTube channel has 103,000+ subscribers – a few more than our own channel – and also features the playlist.

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An interesting piece published yesterday by The Jewish Chronicle.

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So there’s no need for X-ray machines in British women’s prisons, huh? Our thanks to Steve for this.

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Our thanks to Rick for this piece by Peter Mullen, a CofE clergyman, in today’s TCW. We can, of course, see the double standards everywhere. Feminists can bring Parliament Square to a halt with impunity, and do so, while I was arrested and convicted for halting traffic there for seconds during my protest against the police and the wider criminal justice system doing nothing about the crime of MGM.

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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.

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Video #28 is a presentation by Philip W Cook and Sean Kullman, details about them in the video description. Enjoy (25:43).

ICMI20 was very ambitious in scale – 126 speakers and interviewees – and many people haven’t caught all of the videos. To help remedy that, we’re publishing one video per day from early April until mid-August, so people have a reasonable chance of catching all, or most, of the material. Think of the videos as a daily Red Pill.

The videos will be published in the order in which they were originally published on our YouTube conference playlist. Paul Elam’s YouTube channel has 103,000+ subscribers – a few more than our own channel – and also features the playlist.

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Our last general election manifesto is here.

Our YouTube channel is here, our Facebook channel here, our Twitter channel here. Mike Buchanan is on Instagram, @mike.buchanan.9066.

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.

Nobody connected with J4MB has ever drawn any personal income from the party’s income streams. If you’d like to support Mike Buchanan financially, you can do so via his Patreon account or through Bitcoin, his account address is 1EfWxqDAtgJDCR3tVpvVj4fXSuUu4S9WJf . Thank you.