BBC Radio 4: John Humphrys challenges Alison Saunders over ‘Violence Against Women & Girls’ report (2015). File #99 of 800+ files on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s file is here (4:54).

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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Remote working London GP Dr Jane Lim pretended she was working to get paid ‘while 100 patients waited for call’

Our thanks to Jeff for this. An extract:

“Dr Lim refuted that her actions were dishonest though did accept she was unreliable in regards to submitting and invoicing accurate hours.

According to the tribunal’s report Alan Taylor, legal counsel for the General Medical Council, claimed otherwise. He told the hearing that Dr Lim had been “receiving taxpayers’ money from the NHS for work she knew she had not done”. He further stated that the dishonesty was of a repeated and sustained nature covering 57 shifts over 41 days in a 15-month period.

Mr Taylor also stated that Dr Lim demonstrated a pattern of persistent, dishonest conduct over a significant period of time and that her actions plainly fell significantly short of what would be expected of a registered medical practitioner. He submitted that each act of dishonesty on its own would amount to serious professional misconduct but when taken together clearly amounted to serious professional misconduct.”

There’s no indication that the woman will be prosecuted for embezzling the NHS (and by extension the taxpayer).

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TheTinMen: “Erin Pizzey and the future that was stolen.”

Our thanks to Gerry for this (video, 2:18), a brief interview with Erin, posted about an hour ago.

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10 Psychology Facts About Men Who Choose To Stay Single | Psycho Shift

Excellent (video, 21:25). For an increasing number of men, “No wife, happy life” is a motto to live by.

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The Times of Israel: “U.S. Circumcision Lawsuit Advances as Doctors Behind Policy Backtrack.”

An excellent piece in a blog published by The Times of Israel, well worth reading in full. The short bio on the site of the writer, Rebecca Wald:

“Rebecca Wald, J.D. is the executive director of Bruchim, a nonprofit that supports non-circumcising Jewish families as they navigate the often complex terrain of Jewish institutional acceptance and the family dynamics surrounding their unusual choice. She is also the co-author of Celebrating Brit Shalom, a guide to alternative Jewish covenant ceremonies for families welcoming a new child. Rebecca graduated with honors in English from The George Washington University, and received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she served on the editorial board of the Brooklyn Law Review.”

I posted these comments:

“Rebecca, thank you for this very balanced piece, to which I’ll link now. The AAP’s 2012 policy statement was an utter scandal, explored in the film “American Circumcision”. To the best of my knowledge no other medical body in the world came to the same conclusion, and all that have reached a conclusion have been firmly against the circumcision of children other than on medical grounds.

We have campaigned against circumcision on non-medical grounds since 2013. In the UK carry out such circumcision is implicitly illegal under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, being at least ABH and almost certainly GBH. I tried to take out a private prosecution of a Sikh doctor but wasn’t given leave to do so.

Mike Buchanan

JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS (UK)”

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BBC Radio Ulster: Mike Buchanan and Fionola Meredith discuss media coverage of celebrity alcoholics (2015). File #98 of 800+ files on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s file is here (7:04).

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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Ed Miliband, Energy Secretary, must be fired. NOW.

A piece in yesterday’s Telegraph (£) Miliband admits wind power less reliable than expected. An extract:

“The changes were blamed on new modelling showing that wind turbines generated less power at various wind speeds than previously thought, as well as updated assumptions on what can cause turbines to lose power. [J4MB emphasis. A lack of wind, maybe? I’m no expert, though. I know almost nothing about wind energy, the only thing I have in common with Ed Miliband, it seems. The idiot must be fired. The whole Net Zero initiative is clearly based on magical thinking.]

A spokesman for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) did not address why the Government had revised its estimates down so drastically.”

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ICMI25 was held earlier this month in Canberra, Australia.

I’ve just had an email from a well-known MRA, asking if he can speak at ICMI25. I had to tell him that Anil Kumar took over responsibility for ICMIs earlier this year, so I was no longer involved. But it turns out he’d need a time machine to attend the event, as it took place earlier this month (13-17 October).

I knew nothing about the event, and I’ve never heard of any of the keynote speakers. I shall be having a strong word with Anil when we meet next week during the XY Crew Jamboree in Thailand.

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