Give me strength (Times, £). The start of the piece:

“Dame Emma Thompson is adapting a feminist retelling of Homer’s Iliad for the big screen.

The actress, known for her roles in Love Actually, Howards End, and more recently the romcom Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, revealed that she is trying to get her adaptation of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls made into a film.

Barker’s 2018 novel reimagined the mythical events of the Iliad — which tells the story of the Trojan war — from the point of view of Briseis, a woman enslaved in a Greek camp.

“If you have survived that, you are heroic. And it requires a great deal of strength of character and mind and spirit. So we actually do have to address this.”

Thompson said the idea that a woman’s “honour has been sullied” by sexual assault frames the attack as something to be “ashamed of instead of something to fight, to overcome and to try to prevent”. 

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Our thanks to Tom for this (video, 1:35). A BBC piece here.

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Today’s video is here (27:13).

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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We’re posting videos every day from the Comedy Channel of our award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. Today’s video is here (17:30).

Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty. 

A former problem drinker, I have been abstinent since September, 2025. If you’re a problem drinker and would like to become abstinent, you should check out my initiative Men Stop Drinking.

There are many routes from problem drinking to sobriety. The fastest and most effective option – the option I used myself – is disulfiram (Antabuse), a drug licensed by the FDA in 1951 (75 years ago). Paul Elam and I recently co-wrote a short book, ANTABUSE: The one-stage program for alcohol abstinence.

I host Zoom video meetings daily (Monday – Saturday) for men who are problem drinkers. The meetings start at 7:00pm (19:00) GMT/UTC and last at least an hour. Details of the philosophy behind the meetings, and guidelines for them, can be found here. You can join the meetings by clicking here.

The meeting time has been chosen to give convenient access to people living in the UK and other European countries, and as far west as the Pacific coast of the United States.

Our thanks to Sean for this (video, 1:10:26).

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