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Month: August 2023
Sussex bell-ringer Julie McDonnell who revealed her terminal cancer on Songs of Praise has her story questioned by police, judges and former friends after bells from the Vatican to the North Pole were rung in her name
Outrageous. Extracts from the lengthy piece:
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Regular viewers of Songs Of Praise might remember ‘inspirational bell-ringer’ Julie McDonnell. She appeared on the BBC show on Easter Sunday, 2016, when she spoke movingly about undergoing a stem cell transplant to overcome terminal blood cancer which had inspired her to launch a campaign to help others with the life-threatening condition.
A special peal devised by fellow ringers — the ‘Julie McDonnell Doubles — was rung at her local church, historic St George’s in Brede, East Sussex, with members of the congregation asked to make a donation to raise public awareness about leukaemia…
What happened next sent shockwaves through the bell-ringing community. Julie McDonnell was arrested and later charged with the theft of £5,840 from the JustGiving platform, money donated via the fundraising site, which should have gone to cancer charities.
How much her campaign, which received local and national Press coverage, raised in total is not known but the indictment referred solely to donations, typically £5, £10 or £20, from scores of decent people around the country who just wanted to contribute something to a worthwhile cause…
On March 20, 2019, Julie McDonnell entered a plea of not guilty at Hastings Magistrates’ Court. A seemingly straightforward prosecution, however, has dragged on interminably, with the defendant sometimes unable to attend court because she claimed she was suffering from multiple conditions including muscle weakness, PTSD, neurological problems, an eating disorder, and failing mental health which has, most recently, rendered her apparently mute. Now, four years on, there have been two sensational twists in this already extraordinary story.Last week, after at least 20 hearings, seven different judges and two sets of solicitors, with the taxpayer footing the bill, the theft charge against McDonnell was dropped at Lewes Crown Court and a formal verdict of ‘not guilty’ entered because it was decided there was little prospect, in the circumstances, of the case ever going to trial — even though a succession of the aforementioned judges suspected McDonnell was malingering, ‘playing the system’, to quote one.
The bell-ringing campaign, it can also be revealed, was also based on a lie. Police discovered that Julie McDonnell had never undergone a stem cell transplant and could not, therefore, have been ‘matched’ with a compatible donor by the Anthony Nolan charity, as she had claimed.
That revelation emerged at a previous hearing but went unreported.
On Friday of last week, just hours after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) withdrew from the case, Julie McDonnell posted a picture of herself on Facebook grinning like a Cheshire cat. You couldn’t make it up, could you? A CPS spokesperson said the service had been ‘trial-ready’ since late 2019 but ‘given that these allegations date back to 2016 and it has so far not been possible to bring the case to trial, we were asked by the judge to review the case and decide whether it was in the public interest to continue. Following that review and having applied that legal test, we reluctantly decided it was no longer in the public interest to continue with the prosecution.’
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Julie Bindel: I’ve had it with awful dinner parties
Wonders never cease. A new piece by Ms Bindel in The Spectator, which mentions neither transgenderism nor men’s violence towards women and children. I now know what to do and not do if and when I should ever invite Ms Bindel and Ms Wistrich to one of my dinner parties at Buchanan Castle. I’ll get a bottle or two of Tesco branded Liebfraumilch for them alone, and ‘forget’ to chill it.
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Alice Cooper dropped by Vampyre Cosmetics who market goth-themed makeup- after opposing trans surgeries for kids and claiming it was a ‘fad’
Interesting.
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Audio / video #227 from our archives: Mike Buchanan debates ‘Toxic Masculinity’ with a feminist on BBC Radio Foyle (2017)
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NEW ZEALAND: ‘Aggressive’ circumcisions ruined the lives of these men
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Recognition of Male Genital Mutilation in Spanish parliament
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SARAH VINE: World Cup ‘abuse’? It wasn’t that foul.
Our thanks to Jeff for this piece from Sarah Vine’s column in the Mail on Sunday. At last, a voice of reasonfrom a mainstream media journalist on this feminist-confected storm in a teacup. The piece is some way down Sarah’s column, so here’s the content (below a fetching photo of Jennifer Hermoso in a bikini on a yacht):
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I’ve watched the footage of Spanish football president Luis Rubiales kissing Jennifer Hermoso square on the lips after the World Cup Final a few times now, and I must confess I’m mystified by all the fuss. Sure, it was misjudged; sure, it was inappropriate – but ‘abuse’? I really don’t think so. Anyone watching can see it’s far from sexual – he’s just beside himself with excitement. Fair enough, she didn’t like it, but is she really, as she claims, the ‘victim of an impulse-driven, sexist act’? And she seemed to have swiftly recovered, if the pictures of her on a yacht in Ibiza during the week were anything to go by. Maybe there’s more to this than meets the eye, but it seems to have been blown way out of proportion.
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Audio / video #226 from our archives: Mike Buchanan discusses the gender pay gap with three feminists (2017)
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Luis Rubiales suspended by Fifa over Hermoso kiss
Predictable but regrettable. Rubiales will not return to his post. An extract from the BBC piece, perfectly illustrating how women collaborate to destroy men:
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At least 81 female players had said they would not play for the national team whilst Rubiales was still in the job. [J4MB: A strong argument right there for keeping Rubiales in the job.]Doubtless one of the consequences of this absurd episode will be that more money is syphoned out of the Spanish men’s game to be given to the women.
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Justice for Men & Boys 