Welsh First Minister, Carwyn Jones, wants to create a feminist government and make Wales “the safest place to be a woman in the whole of Europe”.

Jones sees Sweden as the example he wants to emulate “and move even further forward”. He is particularly concerned about abuse and harassment inflicted on women online, the gender pay gap, 50/50 representation in the public sector and the potential for Brexit to “turn the clock back”. He is also concerned about the “hidden” nature of modern sexism (against women) because it’s “much more difficult to detect.” and worries that it will be difficult to convince the Welsh people that the problems he sees require action (or if they exist at all? – EH).

Carwyn insists that feminism “is for all of us”, I hope that the Welsh disagree – and show feminism the door, with Carwyn, as he steps down in December.

Read more: here.

A student from another school has filed the complaint in response to Yale’s privileging of women, with various benefits, despite falling male enrolment.

Read more: here.

He has also published a Guide to Abolishing Affirmative Action for Women in hopes that others will take action.

Hidden in this gem of an article, in which The Who’s Daltrey also attacks Jeremy Corbyn’s radical politics and discusses the idiosyncratic success of a marriage on unusual terms, are the following (utterly correct) comments on #MeToo:

“Why would any rock star need to push themselves on women?” he said. “Usually, it’s the other way around. I’d like to have £1 for every woman that screws my ass. Mick Jagger would be a billionaire out of it.

“If it was going to be in the rock business, it would’ve been out by now. It would’ve been out a long time ago,” he added. “I find this whole thing so obnoxious. It’s always allegations and it’s just salacious crap.”

Cheers, sir!

National Biographers Day commemorates the anniversary of the first meeting of Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell in London, England on May 16, 1763, and honors all biographers.

This National Biographers Day, I will be reading Boris Johnson’s excellent The Churchill Factor, which paints a vibrant picture of the idiosyncratic and far larger than life personality and argues that the world could look very different today, where it not for his having lived.

Let us know about your favourite biographies, and/or take some inspiration from this list of ‘Biographies Every Man Should Read’.

Paramedic Paul Judd has undergone three operations and still can’t work after two women violently attacked him in response to being asked to stand back as he worked.

Originally sentenced to eight and four months, both women appealed their sentences and we’re let off with slapped wrists after a judge applied mitigating factors to their cases (“appalling” childhoods, problems with substances and poor mental health). A teenage boy who was also charged with 8 months in a youth detention centre for the incident made no appeal.

Article here.

In the U.K. where women receive significantly more lenient sentences than men, mitigating factors are far more likely to be taken into account.

I wrote a message of support to Lebow, when his transgression, the ISA’s subsequent decision to take a hardline against his harmless joke – and then his refusal to grovel, hit the news.

Today, in The Spectator he writes: “increasingly on campuses where feminists and leftists have come to wield influence, they are abusing their power and behaving exactly like those they have long condemned.”

How refreshing to see a man take a stand against authoritarian feminist aggression, I hope to see many more!

Full article here.

If you would like to contact him, his email address is:

richard.lebow@kcl.ac.uk