Ed Miliband sacks Dame Mary Archer from net zero adviser role

Interesting (Telegraph, £). I predict Miliband himself will be sacked before this month is out. His messianic zeal for impossible Net Zero targets is a growing political problem for Keir Starmer, as Tony Blair pointed out a few days ago.

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Reform has dealt a body blow to the two-party system

An interesting piece by Tom Slater for Spiked. An extract:

“As pollster Peter Kellner notes: ‘The tipping point for a party such as Reform is no longer 30 per cent. It’s probably around 25 per cent.’ Which just so happens to be where Reform UK is already.”

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Promotional video for the sixth International Conference on Men’s Issues (2020). LAUGHING AT FEMINISTS comedy channel video #81 of 173.

Today’s video is the work of the creative genius Tom Caulfield, our Technical Director. Enjoy (20:11).

Over a period of almost six months we’re posting links to one video daily from the comedy channel of our associated award-winning website, Laughing at Feminists. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

You might also be interested in the 700+ videos on our YouTube channel, which includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ), from the other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

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Reform UK – Happy Days Are Here Again

Some numbers from the local council elections held two days ago, in which the Tories lost control of every council they had formerly controlled. Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats with whom the Tories had a coalition (2010-15), has started to echo Nigel Farage’s line that the Tories are out of power permanently. The parties’ shares of the council election votes:

Reform UK – 30%

Labour – 20%

Lib Dems – 17%

Tories – 15%

If the swing in Runcorn – where Reform UK’s candidate was elected by a majority of six votes, the smallest margin in any general election in the UK – were repeated at the next general election, Reform UK would have 420 MPs. The minimum number of MPs of a single party needed to form a government is 326.

From a BBC report:

He (Farage) warned civil servants working on climate change or diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, or anyone who “thinks they can go on working from home, I think you better all be seeking alternative careers very, very quickly”.

(end of BBC clip.)

There is talk of Reform UK councils bringing in auditors to examine contracts and efficiency programmes being started. If Reform UK can show major achievements in their running of councils before the next general election (2029 at the latest) the likelihood of them forming the next government will increase markedly.

All together now, Happy days are here again (1929) which ends with this:

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So, let’s sing a song of cheer again
Happy times
Happy nights
Happy days
Are here again!

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Reform take Durham as Farage warns council workers

Good news. One of the new Reform UK councillors is ‘openly gay’ Darren Grimes, who interviewed me twice for GB News in 2022 – Mike Buchanan v feminist Jean Hatchet, “Is it time for a Minister for Men?” (2022) and Has feminism gone too far? (2022) with Kellie-Jaye Keen (aka Posie Parker).

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Prince Harry loses legal challenge over security he receives when in UK

In the immortal words of Battery Sergeant Williams (the sadly mortal Windsor Davies) in the BBC series It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1974-81), Oh dear, how sad, never mind. Of course the BBC never broadcasts repeats of the show, while it broadcasts endless repeats of Dad’s Army (1968-77), because it shows older white men as complete buffoons.

Prince Harry and Meghanzilla are rich as a result of their attacks on the Royal Family. Why the hell should British taxpayers pay for their security, when they can easily afford to pay for it themselves, for the few days they come to the UK every year?

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Southern Poverty Law Centre: “Male supremacists entrench their ideas in the Trump administration, policy.”

More BS from the SPLC. It starts with this:

“Far-right extremists celebrated President Donald Trump’s 2024 election as an opportunity to further entrench a male supremacist culture that is permissive to violence against women. And within his first 100 days, Trump has validated their optimism.

Through his appointments of white men dogged by allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and violence, Trump has publicly affirmed his hostility for feminism to his male supporters and fed the male supremacist belief that white men are victims threatened by a changing social order, whose privilege must be restored and protected.

There are serious consequences to selecting male supremacists and potential perpetrators of violence against women [J4MB emphasis: Er… isn’t that everyone?] to top government positions, both for the women working in these agencies and for the rest of the country. His actions will strengthen hierarchies of both gender and race, disproportionately harming women of color.”

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Donald Trump’s latest Executive Order: “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.”

Our thanks to Steve for this. Go, Donald!!! The Executive Order starts with this:

“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Purpose.  National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) receive taxpayer funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).  Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options.  Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence. 

At the very least, Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage.  No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize.  The CPB’s governing statute reflects principles of impartiality:  the CPB may not “contribute to or otherwise support any political party.”  47 U.S.C. 396(f)(3); see also id. 396(e)(2). 

The CPB fails to abide by these principles to the extent it subsidizes NPR and PBS.  Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter.  What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens. 

I therefore instruct the CPB Board of Directors (CPB Board) and all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS.”

We look forward to Nigel Farage doing the same in relation to the BBC and Channel 4 when he becomes prime minister at the head of a Reform UK government in 2029 (or earlier). Now isn’t that something to really look forward to?

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