Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“There is rightly concern that this “diagnosing” results in the diagnosed becoming the young men on disability benefits once they leave school. However in recent years the diagnosing of ADHD and ASD in girls has rocketed so in a few years we’ll see similar leap up of young women living a life on benefits.

I saw the drivers for this when I was working. Having a child with SEN not only has benefits in school (teaching assistants, free Tech. and being able to get rid of boys to specialist “units” or schools) but also for the parents who can claim benefits based on the care needs of their child. So you end up with families with all their children SEN. What really started off as a means to deal with failures in classroom and behavioural management of boys has become a huge machine. I suppose it spreading to girls is some form of “equality”.

The start of the article in the Express:

“Former health secretary Sir Jeremy Hunt has backed a new study that warns huge numbers of children are being wrongly diagnosed with mental illness or special needs when many are simply feeling sad or misbehaving. One in five school pupils is now classed as having special educational needs (SEND).

Half of all schools’ spending since 2015 has gone on SEND, with costs hitting £11billion a year in 2024-25. More than £1.1billion will be spent on taxis alone for SEND students by 2030. Sir Jeremy said: “As a society, we seem to have lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process.

“Our laudable desire to ensure young people are happy and well-supported is at times manifesting in excessive impulses to medicalise and diagnose the routine, in a manner that can undercut grit and resilience.”

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Scandalous (Times, £). The drug is Abiraterone, which is freely available in Scotland and Wales. A trial in 2022 showed it would save 672 lives a year if the NHS made it available for a cohort of 8,400 men [J4MB: those with aggressive prostate cancer that had not yet spread] each year. Research also suggests Abiraterone would save the NHS £5,000 a year per patient [J4MB: more than 5x the cost of the drug.] by reducing treatment costs associated with the cancer spreading.

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Today’s video is here (10:51).

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 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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Interesting (video, 29:30).

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Our thanks to Ken for this. An extract:

“The court heard she could have faced up to two years in jail under sentencing guidelines. She broke down in tears as the judge told her she would walk free.

Judge Nicholas Clarke KC told her: ‘I am sure you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself to be in the dock at that age. But I do not want you to remain in the anxious state that I can see you are in so I want you to know you are not going to prison today. [J4MB emphasis. Words never said by a judge to a male criminal facing prison.] But you will need to make arrangements to pay the compensation.’ [J4MB: It appears from the article that the woman will pay back the money from her savings, but not face any punishment for her crime.]

He added: ‘In my judgment that should be sufficient to let her start again… The thing is, at 58, she has lost her good name. She admitted the matter as soon as she could before the courts.’ “

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Our thanks to Douglas for this.

In our election manifestos we covered the issue of abortion and the claimed mentally protective value of the procedure. 98%+ of elective abortions in the UK since the Abortion Act 1967 have been on the grounds of protecting the mental health of the women involved. It was always a lie as well as being a money maker for medics prepared to kill the unborn for money. Details on pp.23-7 of our last manifesto.

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs), the leading avoidable cause of intellectual disability in the Western world, is covered on pp.28-30.

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Our thanks to E for this. An extract:

Exploring Lesbian Communities: How do we make community?

Lesbian visibility and the importance of a culture that is our own! Discussing the history of UK lesbian communities in London and Hebden Bridge and lesbians supporting one another in getting pregnant and motherhood. [J4MB emphasis.] Being Black and a lesbian within other identities and hearing about older lesbians and the meaning of community throughout our lives from the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s to lesbian solidarity now.

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Interesting.

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Today’s video is here (6:05). The start of the video description:

“Eddie Mair presented a piece on the BBC Radio 4 news addressing the question, ‘How should the cosmetic surgery industry be regulated?’ His first interviewee was the president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (‘BAPS’, appropriately) and the second was Laura Bates of The Everyday Whining Project.”

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 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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