The Atlantic’s June cover: Helen Lewis on “The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote”

Interesting. The Atlantic is a left-leaning American magazine and multi-platform publisher. One of their staff writers is Helen Lewis, former deputy editrix of the New Statesman. The first link will take you to Lewis’s cover article for the June edition of The Atlantic, The Men Who Want Women to be Quiet. You’ll be able to read the first four paragraphs of the piece but the remainder is behind a paywall (although a free trial is on offer).

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‘They took £20,000 I didn’t owe’: Parents hit by child maintenance errors.

Our thanks to Dougie for this. For many years the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) routinely made bogus claims of arrears, always from fathers rather than mothers, in order to generate revenue. Many suicides of men have been attributed to the scam, often after being asked for sums which were quite impossible for them to pay in the time required.

Many years ago I had the same experience with the now-defunct Child Support Agency (CSA), the precursor to the CMS. I was called out of the blue by a woman working for them, who claimed I owed a large sum (from memory, £15,000 – £20,000) in respect to arrears for child maintenance owed to my ex-wife for my two daughters, many years earlier. She explained that if I failed to pay speedily, I could be forced to sell my house to raise the sum, and the next day I had a letter from the CSA to that effect.

I told her there were no arrears, I’d paid every penny I was required to (and more), and asked what evidence she had of arrears. She admitted she had no evidence, but the computer record stated that the arrears existed, and that was that.

I told her she should contact my ex-wife to confirm there had been no arrears. The CSA woman said they had no contact details for her, so I gave her my ex-wife’s phone number. The next day she called to tell me my ex-wife had confirmed I owed nothing but I recall thinking at the time, what if the CSA woman had told my ex-wife that computer records shows a sum in arrears of £x, and my relationship with my ex-wife had been a poor one at that time? I could imagine many women saying, in order to get the money, “Oh yes, the arrears. About time he paid up!”, or words to that effect.

Bastards.

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Craig Sandiford’s speech at the Messages 4 Men mini-conference (London, 2018). Video #292 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (12:36).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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Trump DEI crackdown has hit the boardroom. Now there are fewer women.

Good news. Our allied website Campaign for Merit in Business has been campaigning against increasing gender diversity in boardrooms since 2012, due to the well-established causal link with corporate financial decline, which I presented to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012. My appearance at the House of Commons inquiry (with Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim) is here (video, 56:49).

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Andy Burnham risks everything by battling Reform UK but it could secure him keys to No10

Interesting. Long story short, if Andy Burnham wins the coming by-election in Makerfield, he’ll surely replace Starmer as Labour party leader and therefore PM. The by-election result could be very close. Reform UK will go to great lengths to win the seat.

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