Interesting. An extract:

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Our thanks to Tom for this gem (video, 1:42) from Dirty Harry (1971).

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A piece in the Guardian, Miscarriage of justice watchdog had ‘hole at its heart’, committee chair says. The organisation is the Criminal Cases Review Commission, led by Karen Kneller. The start of the piece:

“Senior management at the miscarriage of justice watchdog were told there was a “hole at the heart” of the organisation as MPs criticised its working from home policy and asked executives if they felt they were the right people to continue leading it.

In an evidence session on Tuesday, the chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), Karen Kneller, was questioned by the cross-party Commons’ justice committee over its failings in the Andrew Malkinson case, her expensive French business courses, and the organisation’s remote working policy, under which, she told them, she worked just one to two days in its Birmingham head office each month.” [J4MB emphasis. An organisation led by a woman with a “working policy” designed to minimise the hours worked by (mainly) women.]

The most notorious recent long-term failing of the CCRC was the Andrew Malkinson case. From the Wikipedia page on the CCRC, it takes up the remainder of this blog piece:

“The CCRC has been criticised for its handling of the wrongful conviction of Andrew Malkinson. [J4MB: He spent 17 in prison years after his wrongful convicion for rape.] The Commission was warned in 2013, as a result of a review in another case, that it should check DNA evidence, but failed to do so. As a result of the failure, Malkinson’s conviction was not quashed until 2023.^[31] In July 2024, an independent review of the case concluded that the Commission had failed in the Malkinson case. The Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said she was seeking the removal of Helen Pitcher from her position as chair of the Commission.^[32] In January 2025, Pitcher resigned. She said she had been made a scapegoat. Malkinson described this comment as “shameless”, and said “I know what it truly is like to be a scapegoat.”^[33] After Pitcher’s resignation, Malkinson said action was needed on the Commission to “refresh the whole thing, call it something else, completely dissolve it”.

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Tina on fine form.

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Interesting. Hopefully Sarah Pochin will win the seat tomorrow for Reform UK.

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Troubling (video, 21:17).

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The Women & Equalities Committee of the House of Commons consists of 10 women and a gay black Labour MP, David Burton-Sampson, who is married to Mark.

Our thanks to K for providing us with the link (video, 2:17:00) to yesterday’s meeting of the committee with Jack Thorne, Creator, Writer and Executive Producer of Adolescence, and Emily Feller, Executive Producer of Adolescence. The witnesses (who we can confidently assume agree that there is a major problem with misogyny among young men and boys) are Matt Pinkett, English teacher, Misogyny and Gender Equity Specialist, Engendering Change; Dr Daniel Guinness, Co-founder and Managing Director, Beyond Equality; Darren Northcott, National Official for Education, NASUWT.

What dark times we live in…

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An interesting new piece in TCW.

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Today’s video is here (0:32).

Over a period of almost six months we’re posting links to one video daily from the comedy channel of our associated award-winning website, Laughing at Feminists. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

You might also be interested in the 700+ videos on our YouTube channel, which includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ), from the other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

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Our thanks to Paul Elam for this. It should be another great Jamboree, I’m sorry I can’t attend personally. If you can make it, GO. It will surely be a memorable experience.

One of my strongest memories from the wonderful 2022 Jamboree is going with Paul and others to a gun store and firing range in Virginia. I hadn’t thought about bringing ID (such as a passport) but Paul was of the view that they might allow me onto the firing range if I simply told them I was British, and didn’t know ID would be required. It seemed wildly optimistic, but he turned out to be correct.

We were allowed to use one firearm from the store’s stock, and I opted for a .44 Magnum, the weapon of Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in one of my favourite films, Dirty Harry (1971). In one of the most famous scenes in film history, after an exchange of fire after a bank robbery, in which he kills one bank robber and the getaway driver, Harry looms menacingly over a black robber on the ground, pointing the Magnum at his head. He speaks:

“I know what you’re thinking: ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do you, punk?”

Despite surrendering, the robber insists on knowing, and Harry jovially pulls the trigger, revealing the gun is empty.

Another four films in the series were made, ending with The Dead Pool (1988).

Among the other weapons I fired that day was Paul’s semi-automatic AR-15 style rifle, also his 9mm pistol. We had been given a perfunctory safety talk beforehand, and the man hadn’t mentioned a key feature of such pistols, that the slide (at the top of the weapon) flies back at considerable speed due to recoil. I was about to fire the weapon with my thumb behind the slide – the most natural position, it seemed to me – when Paul stopped me. Which explains why I still have a right thumb today.

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