Author: Mike Buchanan

Keir Starmer expected to appoint a straight man as head of the civil service

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Please excuse the spoof headline. All three of the ‘great offices of state’ are held by women – Rachel from Accounts at the Treasury, Yvette Balls at the Foreign Office (has there ever been such a low-profile holder of the post?) and Shabana Mahmood at the Home Office.

The government is clearly in need of more women in senior positions. Antonia Romeo is expected to be appointed as head of the civil service shortly, and thereby become the Cabinet Secretary. From her Wiki page:

“As the Civil Service’s Gender Champion, one of Romeo’s first roles was to set up the Gender Equality Leadership Group, a group of director general level gender champions from all departments.”

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Total arsehole has excellent mental health / Wuthering Heights, and other classics that wouldn’t work if the characters were vaguely sensible

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A couple of pieces from The Daily Mash.

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Philip Davies MP and Sophie Walker (Women’s Equality Party) on BBC Radio ‘Today’ (2017). File #198 of 800+ files on the J4MB YouTube channel.

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Today’s file is here (7:00).

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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Nigel Farage puts Reform on ‘general election war footing’ as Keir Starmer’s premiership on the brink

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Interesting. At the top of the piece is a link to an interview (video, 9:31) of Robert Jenrick MP (Reform UK, formerly Conservatives) in Westminster Square early this morning.

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IRELAND: Female firefighter Terezia Foott, 43, wins ‘bleep test’ discrimination case, awarded 8,000 Euros

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Interesting. Extracts:

“The “beep test”, a standard aerobic fitness test for prospective firefighters for the last 40 years, discriminates against women and advantages younger candidates, a tribunal has found, following a legal challenge by a prospective recruit.

Cork Fire Brigade has been ordered to pay €8,000 in compensation to Terézia Foott, a part-time firefighter aged in her 40s who failed to advance in a November 2023 recruitment competition for a full-time post because she did not make the cut…

Cork City’s Chief Fire Officer David Spillet said the beep test had been used in Cork since the 1980s.

“There is no separate standard for males and females; the same fitness requirements apply to all candidates to ensure they are capable, fit, and healthy for operational duties,” he told the Workplace Relations Commission…

Ms Foott was told she could retake the test on another day with another fire service, an option the complainant turned down, the tribunal heard…

Adjudication officer Úna Glazier-Farmer upheld Ms Foott’s complaint under the Employment Equality Act 1998.

She ruled that the use of the timed shuttle and other standards for as a run as a “one-size-fits-all” standard without grading on a normative curve to consider age and gender was indirectly discriminatory.

“The respondent openly acknowledged in its evidence that there was no separate standard for males and females, and that the same fitness requirements applied to all candidates,” she noted.

In Ms Foott’s case, the beep test used by Cork Fire Brigade “was both directly discriminatory towards the complainant and indirectly discriminatory against women, while giving younger candidates a distinct advantage”, Ms Glazier-Farmer wrote.

She directed payment of €4,000 for gender discrimination and a further €4,000 for age discrimination.”

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