Our thanks to Stephen Baskerville for recommending this.
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Nigel’s gone on strike. A brilliant move by a brilliant man.
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On Wednesdays and Saturdays I attend a Zoom meeting, in which Gerry (an Irishman) plays musical requests from the attendees. Tonight, as usual, there were 40+ attendees. The theme for tonight’s meeting was songs from the 60s.
I chose Yesterday (1965). In the course of reading about the song, a riddle popped into my head. That’s never happened before. The riddle is this:
“Everyone believes Yesterday was performed by The Beatles. Everyone is wrong. How can that be?”
Pleasingly, nobody solved the riddle. I now cast it before all of you to solve. If nobody does, I’ll give it 24 hours then publish the answer.
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Today’s video is here (11:36).
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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Our thanks to Ed Bartlett for this piece in the Guardian. He writes:
“Of course, it is a well-proven fact that mothers are more likely than fathers to engage in child abuse: See Victims by Relationship to Their Perpetrators. Tables 3-9.”
Extracts from the Guardian piece take up the remainder of this blog post:
“The family courts will no longer work on the presumption that having contact with both parents is in the best interests of a child, in a landmark change that domestic abuse campaigners have said “will save so many children’s lives”. [J4MB emphasis.]
The move has been heralded as “groundbreaking” by family lawyers and campaigners who have long argued that the “pro-contact culture” in the family courts places the rights of abusive fathers over the safety and wellbeing of children.
Currently, under the Children Act 1989, courts in England and Wales are guided to work on the principle that children should have contact with both parents unless there is evidence that a parent could put the child at risk of harm.
The government confirmed on Tuesday that it would repeal the presumption of parental involvement from the act “when parliamentary time allows”….
Dr Charlotte Proudman, [J4MB emphases.] a family law barrister, and co-director of Right to Equality, described the move as “a victory for children’s rights, for survivors and for justice” and “a vital step in dismantling the pro-contact culture that has dominated family courts for too long”.
“It sends a clear message: children’s welfare will always be the priority and parents who undermine their welfare cannot use the system to continue to perpetrate harm,” she said.
The change comes after decades of campaigning from the domestic abuse sector, with experts describing the issue of the family courts as the biggest area of concern for domestic abuse victims and survivors.
“It’s incredibly significant because it absolutely reorientates the way that these courts work,” Farah Nazeer, CEO of Women’s Aid, said.
Abusers have long used the family courts as a way of retaining control over their ex-partners, while women who raise domestic abuse in the courts have often been subject to counter allegations that they are attempting to “alienate” the child from the father.
“This is the policy area and area of concern that the vast majority of survivors and children want us to work on, because it’s the one that really touches the core of their safety,” Nazeer added.”
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Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts take up the remainder of this blog piece:
“Alicia Novas, 19, [J4MB emphasis. Need I point out the insanity of recruiting a teenage girl as a prison officer?!!!] and Declan Winkless, 30, appeared separately at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with committing misconduct in public office at HMP Five Wells between August and December last year… [BBC: Sloppy journalism. The inmate wouldn’t have been charged with that offence.]
Ms Novas, acting as a prison custody officer, is accused of “wilfully” misconducting “herself in a way which amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust”.
The charges, detailed in court documents, state that Mr Winkless is alleged to have encouraged and assisted both offences. [J4MB emphasis. I am reminded of the episode of Porridge in which inmate Lennie Godber complains to a warden, Mr Mackay, that someone has stole something from his cell. Mr Mackay replies with some relish something along the lines of, “You need to be more careful, Mr Godber. There are some dishonest types around here!”]
The court heard that Ms Novas provided her telephone number to Mr Winkless, failed to report his possession of a telephone and cannabis, and entered “into a sexual relationship” with him.
A second joint charge of misconduct is said to have been committed by the pair on 23 November, when Ms Novas provided information about whether Mr Winkless was suspected of wrongdoing by prison authorities.
Both defendants face further charges of making an illegal electronic transmission from a prison, one of bringing, throwing or conveying cannabis into a prison [J4MB emphasis. Hmm, I wonder where she hid it on her person?] and one of conveying two mobile phones into a jail, [J4MB emphasis. The same question occurs to me.] all relating to HMP Five Wells, near Wellingborough…
Ms Novas, wearing a white top and black trousers, appeared in court in person while Mr Winkless appeared before magistrates via a prison video-link. [J4MB emphasis. The female BBC ‘journalist’ fails to tell us what the inmate was wearing. Presumably the regulation black trousers and a shirt with arrows pointing upwards.]
The female defendant, of Raunds, Northamptonshire, was granted bail with conditions not to contact Mr Winkless, not to contact any serving HMP prisoner by any means and not to attend any prison except by prior arrangement.”
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