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Justice for Men & Boys 
Absolutely spot on. One can see it in the “stalled” UK whose increase in “wealth” has been masked by importing people. In fact per person and in productivity we’ve not advanced for 15 years and if one looks at ballooning debt (public and private) one can see that even that steady state may be an illusion. Liz Truss did us a huge favour, her dash for growth was kyboshed by “the markets” because no one seriously believed Gov. spending or more importantly the British were able to make any serious increases in productivity. It showed clearly how low others estimate of our ability to generate growth powered by innovation and productivity. Labour came in promising growth, but of course simply proved the markets right! And seeping in is the concern at young men “NEETs” because somewhere in our collective minds we know that young men now matching the levels female NEETs (which never seemed to bother successive Gov.s or media) is bad for us. Just as in Ukraine they don’t draft under 25 young men because the under 25s males are who they expect to rebuild the nation, an explicit policy decision. But unlike Ukraine we can’t say it out loud. While we can’t we will still continue to be a consumer society out paced by more dynamic societies that don’t believe “stuff” is made by magic and money can be “printed” by fairies. (aka QE and the BoE)
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The original of a story that appears in the Telegraph and Daily Star (100) I did no work for a year and no one noticed The interesting thing is the jobs listed as particularly useless. No prizes for guessing they are mainly female workforces. Now the other thing to note is that these are laptop/PC jobs. Which of course means that such workers have plenty of time for engaging in all sorts of “on line” shenanigans. So at the very least those with time to sign petitions, complain, respond to questionnaires and generally get their whining out there, will generally be women. Hence their influence on political life will be the greater now it is so influenced by on line traffic. Men are typically in a far wider range of occupations and of course more likely to be doing something rather than being sat in an office or WFH. So less likely to have the opportunity or time to “be heard”.
And it reveals the real problem of bloated administrative lavers and made up jobs to achieve DEI targets or look good in so many sectors where there isn’t really a “product” (as well as social administration and government) add it all together and you get what we have a sclerotic economy carrying a awful lot of such jobs. Maybe AI will do away with many……. but really can you imagine corporations making loads of women redundant ? Think of the politics.
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Meanwhile the info on asking men about work. Are you paid enough? Inside the working lives of British men in 2026 A rare occasion men have been asked. It seems Catherine Hakim was right. Men expect to work. Work to live and live to work. Are realistic about what it takes to be successful and realise what is expected rather than what the ideologues say. Like the supposed “right wing” nature of men what is displayed is generally what you’d expect people who know no one owes you a living and in reality working hard to get on is a price paid to give to others and provide for yourself. Generally good news.
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