Interesting, although the article employs the feminist term (and myth) “gender-based violence”.

The false rape allegation was made by the man’s ex-wife. It’s an opportune time to point again to Janet Bloomfield’s 2014 piece for A Voice for Men, 13 reasons women lie about being raped. It’s not a full list of the reasons.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Interesting.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

An interesting piece in yesterday’s Telegraph (£). The paper is campaigning for ‘targeted screening’, more below. An extract:

“The report – to be released in the Commons on Tuesday – shows that screening all men aged 50 to 69 would be significantly cheaper than the current breast screening programme.

The research shows that first targeting checks at the groups most at risk – those who are black, have a family history of the disease or genes linked to it, and are aged between 45 and 69 – would cost 0.01 per cent of the NHS budget.” [J4MB: Note that women are eligible for breast cancer screening between the agres of 50 and 71. Other than age, there is no ‘targeting’ for breast cancer testing on the grounds of race.]

In addition to those with a history of prostate cancer or genes linked to prostate cancer, all black men will be tested, and no white men. Those black men’s lives will be deemed by the state to be worth £18, the white men’s lives will be deemed to be worth nothing. There are 20x more white men than black men in the UK.

The findings suggest around £20,000 would be spent for every year of life saved – well within the thresholds typically considered cost-effective for the NHS.”

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Interesting.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Today’s file is here (7:17).

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.  

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Interesting.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Interesting.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

Our thanks to Tom for this (video, 0:55). Please don’t open the file in front of children, or if you’re easily offended by ranting Irishmen. Thank you.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

As you’re hopefully aware, The World Conkers Championship took place yesterday in Southwick (pron. “Suth-ick”), Northamptonshire. In these dark times, the annual championship makes me proud to be British.

The BBC reported live on the event, here. As always in sport, men triumphed over women. Extracts from the BBC report:

“The new World Conkers Champion is Matt Cross from Lincolnshire.

Cross, 37 from Bourne, in Lincolnshire, is now King Conker and the World Conkers Champion.

Queen Conker is Margaret Blake from Corby, Northamptonshire.

Matt is now the world champion, beating Mags Blake in a short battle [J4MB emphasis. By “short battle” the BBC lady reporter means “Matt Cross’s conker and/or his technique was (or were) much better than Mags Blake’s”. To be fair, that’s a bit long-winded, but you get the point.] after they took the respective King Conker and Queen Conker titles.” [J4MB: Whoa, hold it right there! So men and women have their own conkers competitions? I think that tells us all we need to know about male v female performance in general.]

Men’s prowess in sports remains unchallenged. It makes me proud to be a man.

My late father lived most of his adult life in Northamptonshire, a little-visited but quite beautiful county, other than the town of Corby, obviously. The only good thing ever associated with Corby was the trouser press, invented by Peter Corby. The presses were first manufactured in Windsor, later in Andover (from 1986), then Peterlee (from 2005). For the avoidance of doubt, never in Corby.

To drive into Northamptonshire, one good way is to turn west off the M1. Ah, I hear you ask, but at which junctions? I applied the full might of AI technology to the question, a Google search revealing:

“Here are the M1 junctions that are east of Northamptonshire, starting with the nearest: 

• Junction 19 (Catthorpe Interchange): This is the easternmost junction directly bordering Northamptonshire. It’s a major intersection with the M6 and M1, and the A14.
• Junction 20: This junction lies further east than Junction 19 and serves the A426 and M69.
• Junction 21: This junction is located east of Junction 20 and serves the A46.
• Junction 22: This junction serves the A50 and is located east of Junction 21.”

Northamptonshire has a curious tradition of place names being pronounced quite differently to what you might expect. Somewhere I have a photograph of a friend, Christine, and myself, looking downcast, holding empty wine glasses near our lips by a sign on the approach road to the small hamlet of Nobottle (pron “Nottle”). It borders the Althorp estate, which owns much of the property in the hamlet. Also a photograph of my beloved young daughters (looking somewhat put upon, for some unknown reason) standing next to a street sign in the village of Silverstone, where you will find the Silverstone Circuit which hosts the British Grand Prix. The sign reads, “Silverstone: Please drive carefully”.

In the early 90s Nigel Mansell won a British Grand Prix – I forget which, having little interest in motor racing – after gaining a few seconds every lap over several laps before overtaking the race leader (possibly Ayrton Senna or Nikki Lauda or Alain Prost, some foreigh chap, anyway) and going on to win the race. The overtaking took place right in front of me – and not in the view of 99% of the fans that day, one of the joys of motor racing as a sport – and was surely the most exciting sporting moment I’ve ever witnessed in person. My main memory of the day, however, is taking three or four hours to leave the muddy quagmire of a field laughingly described as the “car park”.

The World Conker Championships, the pronunciation of Northamptonshire place names, amusing road signs, and Formula 1 motor racing… be honest, how many other websites explore these important issues in a single blog piece? None, that’s how many.

Have a good week.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.

A piece in today’s Sunday Mirror. As usual with mainstream media claims, the word “alleged” and its variants are employed to avoid possible legal ramifications if the claims are later found to be untrue (or it proving impossible to substantiate the claims).

I have never believed that the image (reproduced in the article) allegedly (I’ll use the word, too) showing Prince Andrew with his arm around Virginia Giuffre’s waist – the woman committed suicide earlier this year – is genuine. I base this view on three issues:

• the absence of any metadata for the image
• the unbelievability that the second-in-line to the throne would happily be photographed with his arm around the waist of a known young prostitute
• the unbelievability that Ghislaine Maxwell would happily be photographed in the same image

There are other issues that inform my view, but these will hopefully suffice so far as this blog piece is concerned. Of course even if Prince Andrew did have sex with the woman when she was 17, he’d have been committing no criminal offence in the UK. He paid her millions of pounds to settle the case, and continues to deny any guilt, understandably. Doubtless his lawyers would have told him that to risk a court case in the febrile court systems of either the UK or the US could have led to a prison sentence, regardless of the evidence (or lack of it) presented.

An extract from the article:

“On November 16 2019, during his BBC interview, Andrew claimed he has “no recollection of ever meeting” Ms Giuffre, denying the allegations against him.” “

In my view, Andrew’s lack of recollection genuinely stems from never having met the woman. I know of no evidence that proves otherwise.

—————————-

If you’d like email notifications of our new blog pieces, please enter your email address in the box near the top of the right-hand column and click ‘Subscribe’.

We shall shortly be posting this piece on our X channel.

Our YouTube channel is here.