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Mike Buchanan

Mike Buchanan (1957-) is a British anti-feminist Men’s Rights Activist, writer and publisher. He was the founder and former leader (2013-20) of this political party. He handed over leadership of the party to Elizabeth Hobson, formerly the party’s Director of Communications, on 26 May, 2020. He recently launched the website Laughing at Feminists (it’s a civic duty).

After obtaining a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry in 1979 at one of the three most prestigious universities in the UK – Oxford, Cambridge, Reading – Mike started a career with the Beecham corporation. He was a business executive and later a consultant. One of his consulting clients was the Conservative party (2006-8). Along with many other party members, he cancelled his membership in 2009 after David Cameron announced his intention to employ all-women shortlists for the selection of prospective parliamentary candidates for the next general election.

In 2010, at the age of 52, he took early retirement, after deciding to devote the rest of his life to challenging the toxic ideology of feminism. He has never regretted that decision.

Mike launched two campaigns in 2012, The Anti-Feminism League and Campaign for Merit in Business.

The world’s first International Conference on Men’s Issues was hosted by A Voice for Men (AVfM) near Detroit in June 2014. It was a huge success, and Mike was one of the speakers (these two facts may possibly be unrelated). A video of his speech, and the associated transcript, can be accessed here.

J4MB hosted the second International Conference on Men’s Issues at Excel London in July 2016, in association with A Voice for Men. The event had 20 speakers (including five women and a Conservative MP, Philip Davies) and drew attendees from 20 countries. It was a resounding success. A video of Mike’s speech ‘The Political War on Men and Boys’ is here, a video of Philip Davies’s speech ‘The Justice Gender Gap’ here.

J4MB supported A Voice for Men and a number of other organizations in organizing the third International Conference on Men’s Issues, held in Gold Coast, Australia, in June 2017. The conference website is here, a playlist of the presentations and related materials here. The video of Mike’s presentation, ‘Lets Get Physical – Beyond Keyboard Activism’, is here.

J4MB hosted the fourth International Conference on Men’s Issues at Excel London in July 2018, again in association with A Voice for Men.

Along with Elizabeth Hobson, Mike was a key organizer of ICMI20, a virtual conference with 120 videos from individual speakers over November 14-19, 2020, ending on International Men’s Day.

Videos of the 250+ presentations at the 2014/16/17/18/19/20 ICMIs are in individual event playlists, here.

Mike is the Conference Director for ICMI21, another virtual event with many speakers, which is planned to be a very interactive event for attendees and speakers.

J4MB seeks to raise public consciousness about the disadvantages and discriminations faced by men and boys in modern Britain, which are primarily the consequence of the state’s actions and inactions. The proposed name of the party, and some of the thinking behind launching a political party, were exclusively revealed in Mike’s article published by A Voice for Men in 2013. By October 2015 AVfM had published over 60 of Mike’s articles, they’re available here.

Mike’s 10 books are available to order worldwide through online retailers and traditional bookstores. He runs LPS publishing, which offers a service to writers wanting to see their books published as paperbacks, hardbacks, or ebooks. A number of his books can be ordered directly from him, signed and dedicated, if you wish. Details on the website.

Mike’s last three books have been concerned with gender-related matters:

David and Goliatha: David Cameron – heir to Harman? (2010)

The Glass Ceiling Delusion: the REAL reasons more women don’t reach senior positions (2011)

Feminism: the ugly truth (2016)

The Glass Ceiling Delusion has received numerous testimonials including the following:

Equality of opportunity is a fine thing but equality of outcome is another matter entirely. There is little doubt that men and women have, on average, different talents and interests that make gender quotas in the workplace unfair and impractical. The Glass Ceiling Delusion is a welcome, well-argued addition to the debate about whether women should be pushed up the social ladder just because they are women, and thus at a presumed disadvantage. This is rather an insult to women and Margaret Thatcher, for one, would not have agreed. Individuals should be treated as individuals, not as members of a particular race, class or gender. Whatever the historic injustices, this is the only way that social structures can evolve naturally.

Glenn Wilson Visiting Professor of Psychology, Gresham College, London

The Glass Ceiling Delusion attacks head-on the militant feminist myth that men and women have the same interests and capabilities. Reviewing a wide range of evidence, Mike Buchanan shows that the under-representation of women in senior positions in business has nothing to do with discrimination and ‘glass ceilings’, and that attempts to impose quotas are therefore fundamentally flawed. A polemical book with an important message.

Peter Saunders Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Sussex University

The Glass Ceiling Delusion makes a significant counter-argument to the debate about women in boardrooms, and for this reason alone it deserves to be read. Whilst I’m personally too old to enter the fray, I’d nonetheless like to add that every scholarly study I’ve read about women in management during the past fifteen years indicates that successful women have exactly the same characteristics as successful men. All my life I’ve admired successful women as much as successful men and have had the privilege of working for and with many of them. A typical example is the brilliant Diane Thompson of the Camelot Group. Another is Professor Lynette Ryals, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of my own University. Women like this get to the top on sheer talent; they have no need of a ‘gender agenda’.

In this debate, however, we also need to be aware that we need pressure groups to ameliorate deep-seated prejudices in society, but a point is inevitably reached beyond which we must let meritocracy in a free society take over, otherwise we enter the dangerous domain of social engineering. The irony is that Mike Buchanan’s own movement, Campaign for Merit in Business, is also a pressure group. So, whilst I don’t agree with everything he says and does, I believe his book at least deserves to be read and seriously considered, preferably dispassionately.

Malcolm McDonald Emeritus Professor, Cranfield School of Management

The Glass Ceiling Delusion demythologizes each of thirty elements the author has identified of the now generally accepted claim that women are discriminated against in the world of white-collar work. Much has been accomplished recently in disclosing the half-truths about women and domestic violence, for example, but Buchanan illuminates an area that other critics of ideological feminism have not considered. Buchanan’s analysis is based partly on his experience of working as an executive for major British and American multinational corporations for over 30 years until 2010. His book should inspire research on settings of corporate power everywhere. Always witty and sometimes even biting in style, Buchanan’s text is grounded in important texts in psychobiology, sociology, history and politics. It is an impassioned yet not angry argument that deserves the careful attention of policy-makers and a general readership.

Professor Miles Groth PhD Editor, New Male Studies: An International Journal

The Glass Ceiling Delusion is an important and brave book, the best book on social economics and society in general published for decades. It’s irresistibly compelling, cogently argues and superbly put together. It should be in all school and college libraries. It should be compulsory reading for social science, economics and politics students. It should be force-fed to male and female politicians. This is definitely a five-star book. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.

Dr Vernon Coleman bestselling English author

Mike operates a number of blogs in addition to this one.

Campaign for Merit in Business was launched in 2012, and is concerned with the need for merit to be the sole basis for recruitment and promotion in the workplace, in opposition to the initiatives which seek to ‘improve’ gender diversity in senior executive positions, including in boardrooms, regardless of individual women’s merit compared with their male peers, and regardless of the evidence which clearly demonstrates a causal link between increasing gender diversity on corporate boards, and corporate financial DECLINE. Mike presented that evidence to the House of Commons inquiry ‘Women in the Workplace’ in 2012, the video of the session is here.

The initiatives are anti-meritocratic, they’re inspired and sustained by radical feminist ideology, yet they were supported and largely financed by the Conservative-led coalition (2010-15) and are continuing to this day, with a Conservative government (2017-). It’s known that one of the government’s longer-term targets is gender-balanced boards at FTSE350 companies.

Another blog, that of The Anti-Feminism League, isn’t being updated (as of September 2013) as all new posts will be on this website and/or that of Campaign for Merit in Business.

His third blog is Men Shouldn’t Marry.

Mike lives in the throbbing metropolis of Bedford, England. His email address is [email protected], his phone number 07967 026163.


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  • ManWomanMyth: Feminism is the pursuit of female supremacy
  • Professor Janice Fiamengo: Why I am an anti-feminist
  • Professor Janice Fiamengo: Feminism is a religion
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  • Real Sexism Project
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Recent Posts

  • Italian woman, 43, wins the right to use embryos against father’s wishes
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  • Free Speech Union: Monthly Newsletter
  • Judicial College: The Equal Treatment Bench Book
  • William Collins: The discrediting of hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment for Covid-19 – a crime against humanity?
  • Douglas Murray: Why has masculinity become a dirty word?
  • Female staff ‘conditioned’ to feel less entitled than men, loopy feminist report warns
  • Jimmy Page: How “Stairway to Heaven” was written – BBC News (2014)
  • John Otway: The House of the Rising Sun
  • Men applying for female-dominated jobs face ‘significant’ discrimination, study finds

RSS Campaign for Merit in Business

  • Mike Buchanan’s challenge of Kate Grussing, the founder of Sapphire Partners
  • Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund demands more gender diversity
  • Cynthia Carroll, disastrous former CEO of FTSE100 company Anglo-American, joins the board of rival FTSE100 mining company Glencore. Doh!
  • Women on Boards – censorship of comments by “The Times”
  • Dame Helena Morrissey is a LIAR
  • Our public challenge of 38 people at “The Pipeline”
  • Adrienne Liebenberg, businesswoman who sued DS Smith, FTSE 100 company, after she was sacked from £200K-a-year job ‘because she did not want to talk about football and go out drinking with ‘the lads”, LOSES sexism claim
  • Card Factory greets new era by ousting rare female chief (Karen Hubbard). Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
  • Entertainment Daily: Viewers appalled by opinions of “sexist caveman” (Mike Buchanan) who BLAMES women for not having equal pay with men (Karren Brady interview)
  • Josie Cox, a contributor to Forbes, is a blithering idiot

RSS William Collins

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  • Comment on Marriage is Dead by Matt B.
  • Comment on The Fountainhead – A Review by Joshx45
  • Comment on The Empathy Gap by Joshx45
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  • Comment on Response to Law Commission Consultation on Hate Crime Laws by Mike Bell
  • Comment on Gender Income Propaganda by Nick
  • Comment on Vetting? What Vetting? by Yorseol90
  • Comment on Domestic Abuse, Family Justice and Hate Laws 2020: A Summary by Logan

RSS Professor Janice Fiamengo (at Studio Brule)

  • The End Is Near, Says Prophet Bill Gates – Coffee with Steve
  • White Ribbon Founder Charged With Domestic Violence - TFF Episode 126
  • "Journalist" Decca Aitkenhead diagnoses Jordan Peterson – Coffee with Steve and Janice
  • Bill and Greta – Coffee with Steve
  • Cancel This: The Great Reset - Coffee with Steve
  • Tsunami of Hate, A Tyrant's Best Friend – Coffee with Steve
  • Stakeholder Fascism: The Real Pandemic – Coffee with Steve
  • First Days Of Darkness Continued – Coffee with Steve
  • The First Days Of Darkness: Tightening The Noose - Coffee with Steve
  • The Thousand Years Of Darkness Begins - Coffee with Steve

RSS HEqual (John Kimble)

  • BBC claims it’s not “in the public interest” to report on fatal false rape accusation case
  • False rape accusations take yet another life – national media silent
  • After a 20 year cover-up, the BBC finally acknowledges how false rape accusations cause suicides
  • Remembering Dr Peter Jepson – the man who defeated Labour’s sexist all-women shortlists
  • BBC still refuses to report any cases of false rape accusations causing suicides in the UK
  • Labour’s Feminist Love Island superfans mourn their favourite abuser Caroline Flack yet ignore the suicide of male colleague
  • Liberal Democrat support of Layla Moran – politicians seven times more likely to support female perpetrators of domestic violence than to criticise them
  • Feminist MP Layla Moran admits to being the latest female perpetrator of domestic violence in Parliament
  • The Guardian & Julie Bindel lie about the Eleanor de Freitas false rape case yet again
  • BBC’s Katty Kay repeatedly lies about rape in an article about how women don’t lie about rape

RSS The Conservative Woman

  • Heil the vaccine apartheid!
  • The verdict on Johnson’s Covid battle? Fail, fail, fail
  • Diary of a sleepless mother in lockdown
  • The BBC’s fascism mania, Part 2
  • If it’s broke, don’t bother fixing it
  • You’ve had your chips, Mr Potato Head
  • There is no vaccine to protect us from Lord Deben
  • Off the Beaten Tracks – Incredibles but true
  • Today’s talking point
  • Daily News Digest

RSS A Voice for Men

  • Woman, 43, wins the right to use embryos against father’s wishes
  • Vernon Meigs: The Humanity Gap (or, The ‘Value’ of Valuelessness)
  • Watch “The Circumcision Movie”
  • Masculine Identity: The Irony of Identity Politics
  • My son doesn’t want to be a man
  • FULL TEXT: ‘A Clinical Guide to Discussing Prejudice Against Men’
  • “The One True Masculinity”
  • Rare Photo of Robert Briffault Just Moments Before his ‘Briffault’s Law’ Occurred to Him
  • Warren Farrell on FOX Primetime: “Gender” Policy Council Ignores Boys in time of COVID
  • Landmark Circumcision Legal Action Explored in First Episode of The Brendon Marotta Show

RSS Laughing at Feminists

RSS Anti-Feminism League

  • ‘Feminism v Facts’ – Diana Davison
  • Gormless Feminists of the Month
  • Campaign for Merit in Business
  • This is what gender feminists look like
  • The Alternative Sexism Project
  • The Whine Club
  • EU aims to ban anti-feminist speech
  • Janet Bloomfield: ‘Where feminism went wrong? Oh, I don’t know. Maybe with that whole men suck and let’s tell young women a giant pack of lies strategy? Just a thought.’
  • Patrick Hayes: ‘The Feminists Trolling the Trolls’
  • Ellamay Russell: ‘Feminists – what a bunch of twerks!’

RSS Karen Woodall

  • What do we mean by alienation of children in divorce and separation?
  • Therapeutic Parenting for alienated children: A Zoom seminar with karen woodall
  • Constrain, protect and then treat: Child protection in intervention with alienated children and families
  • the asymmetrical power balance in families where children reject a parent
  • Containing the uncontainable
  • online harassment
  • The Plight of the parentified child
  • Perspective and the ‘penny drop’ moment in parental alienation
  • The Anxiety of the alienated child
  • Living On the Borders: Psychopathology and Alienated Children

RSS The Alternative Sexism Project

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  • Gloria De Piero shopped for leaflet expenses
  • Laura Bates’s fiance should say this to her
  • Owen Davies publicly challenges Laura Bates
  • Laura Bates’s apologists – Gormless Women of the Month
  • Laura Bates’s book signing in Hampstead
  • Laura Bates lies AGAIN!!!
  • Why are some men violent? Could it be the same reason some women are?
  • Elena Rybolovlev earned an average of £321,600 per day for 24 years… for being married
  • ‘Gormless Women of the Month’ – the ‘Clean Break’ theatre company

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