Author Archives: Mike Buchanan

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has arrived. Wishing to create TV adverts with gender stereotyping will soon be Thoughtcrime. The start of the piece in the Telegraph: Adverts which encourage gender stereotypes like women cleaning up after their family, or men failing … Continue reading →

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My thanks to Katie for this. She suggests the alternative book title, ‘Me! Me!! Me!!!’ She tells me she reached the link through another claiming Maggie O’Farrell is one of Britain’s greatest living writers. By the same token, I could reasonably … Continue reading →

Our thanks to Mike P for this piece in the Telegraph. Firing men from their shows is an inevitable element in achieving the absurd objective of ending the non-existent problem of the gender pay gap at the BBC by 2020. … Continue reading →

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Our thanks to Ray for this, in a Twitter stream with a comment by Laurie Penny: Most of the interesting women you know are far, far angrier than you’d imagine. If everyone who read this gave us just £1 – … Continue reading →

Appalling. Excerpts: Tory tensions with the BBC boiled over on June 6 after Husain was accused of acting like a ‘spokesman for Jeremy Corbyn’ in an interview with the Foreign Secretary. The pair were embroiled in a bad-natured exchange that … Continue reading →

Our thanks to a number of people for this piece in The Guardian. The headline is in the subject line of this piece, with the addition of the words ‘female’ and ‘male’, clearly unacceptable to the thought police at the … Continue reading →

Giles Coren is a columnist with the Times, and to say the quality of his output is variable would be a gross under-statement. He recently argued that the female players at Wimbledon should get more prize money than the male … Continue reading →

From time to time I’m asked which Conservative MP would be my favorite to replace Theresa May, whose time as leader is limited. My first choice would of course be the redoubtable Philip Davies, but he’s always made clear his … Continue reading →