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Month: December 2024
The J4MB Files #658: Gender Parity UK, “A Year in the Life of a Campaigning Group” (ICMI21)
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Chris Mason (BBC political editor): “The challenge of disruptors with deep pockets.”
Our thanks to a supporter for this. Good to see the relentlessly left-wing BBC troubled at the prospect of Elon Musk donating a large sum to Reform UK. An extract:
“The Reform UK leader, now back from Florida, told me the suggestion Musk might give his party $100m (£78m) was wildly over the top. But a number much smaller than that could still be very big, and game-changing for Reform’s prospects. The question is whether it would be legal [J4MB: Nonsense. It would be perfectly legal if paid through the British wing of X.] – and whether it would be seen as legitimate.
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Elections says it wouldn’t and wants the law changed.
Downing Street says the government has committed to strengthening the rules, which currently allow donations from UK registered companies. The danger for the government is any change in the law might look like self-interest and changing the rules of the game half way through. [J4MB: No shit, Sherlock.]
But never before have we seen a man as rich, with a megaphone as large, so enthused about strutting the political stage – abroad as well as at home. That poses profound questions about how much influence and from where is judged to be too much influence from too far away.” [J4MB: In contrast to the BBC wielding too much influence from the UK.]
The APPG has nothing to say about the ridiculous consequences of the “first past the post” electoral system. At the last election Reform UK secured 4+ million votes and five MPs. None are on select committees. The Lib Dems secured fewer than 3 million votes and 72 MPs, and Lib Dem MPs are on every select committee. The APPG has four members and is chaired by a Labour MP. Of course it’s hostile to the idea of a large donation by Elon Musk to Reform UK. Hopefully Musk will make that donation shortly.
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Mike Buchanan interviewed by Sean BW Parker
Just published (video, 56:29). Links to Sean BW Parker’s YouTube channel Empowering the Innocent TV and this same video file on it, in the video description.
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Italian caver Ottavia Piana rescued after 75 hours trapped underground. Second time she’s been rescued from the same cave…
Our thanks to Paolo for this. Extracts:
“An injured explorer trapped underground in a cave in northern Italy for four days was carried to safety on Wednesday.
Ottavia Piana, 32, fell while attempting to map an unexplored branch of the Bueno Fonteno cave in the province of Bergamo.
Piana suffered multiple fractures, including to her face, ribs and knee, when she fell 5 meters (13 feet) while exploring an uncharted part of the cave on Saturday, doctors said…
Nearly 160 technicians from 13 Italian regions assisted in the round-the-clock rescue launched at midnight on Saturday, after being alerted by members of Piana’s team that she was injured and trapped deep inside the tunnel.
Piana’s rescuers said that the explorer herself encouraged the team…
Once Piana was rescued from the cave, a helicopter transported her to Bergamo hospital. Despite her various injuries, she is in stable condition, according to authorities.
Wednesday’s rescue marked the second time in 17 months that Piana had to be rescued from the cave near Lago d’Iseo northeast of Bergamo.” [J4MB emphasis. Doubtless she’ll also be rescued on her future expeditions, at huge cost and risk to the rescuers, almost all of whom will (inevitably) be men. Maybe it’s time she accepted she’s not very good at caving?]
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The J4MB Files #657: James Mackie, “My Experience of Domestic Abuse”, interview w/ Mike Buchanan
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Nigel Farage and Nick Candy hold ‘historic’ meeting with Elon Musk at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home just weeks after X owner tipped to hand millions in funding
Dominic Frisby: “Right Wing Woman”
Good news. Fury as women hit by pension age rise denied payouts.
At last, some good news from the government. The demand for “compensation” from the WASPI (“Women Against State Pension Inequality”) women was always ludicrous as well as ironic, given that what they were protesting was the introduction (and implications) of state pension equality. A stronger case could be made for men to receive compensation after having had to wait five more years than women for their state pensions – at 65 rather than 60 – and despite men collectively paying around three times as much income tax as women.
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Sir Andrew McFarlane and Rachel Frost-Smith are blithering idiots.
Our thanks to Pete for a piece in the “Commentary and Opinion” section of The Law Society Gazette by Rachel Frost-Smith, legal director in the Birketts family team, The rise and fall of ‘parental alienation’. The first three paragraphs should suffice to persuade you that Sir Andrew McFarlane and Rachel Frost-Smith are feminists and blithering idiots (I repeat myself). They take up the remainder of this blog piece:
“The Family Justice Council last week published ‘Guidance on responding to a child’s unexplained reluctance, resistance or refusal to spend time with a parent and allegations of alienating behaviour’.
Rachel Frost-Smith
‘For the avoidance of doubt, the Family Justice Council (FJC) recognises that “parental alienation syndrome” has no evidential basis and is considered a harmful pseudo-science’.
There is a helpful foreword to the document from Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division and chair of the Family Justice Council. The president says: ‘The issue of parental alienation/alienating behaviours is a polarising one which has taken up much court time and public debate’. He goes on to say: ‘In my view this guidance is required to ensure greater consistency of approach across the courts and to improve outcomes for children and to protect children and victims from litigation abuse’.”
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Justice for Men & Boys 