Farage cast out ‘contemptible’ Rupert Lowe. Now, his party is raining on Reform’s parade.

Interesting (Telegraph, £). An extract:

“A constituency poll published last week found that Restore is on 7 per cent of the vote there, which would be enough to deny Reform victory and put Burnham in the Commons. Much of that support is thought to be down to a highly effective social media operation reaching millions of voters.”

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Britain begins ‘death spiral’ as welfare bill exceeds income tax revenue

Our thanks to Gerry for this (video, 5:56). A Full Fact report includes this:

“According to Full Fact’s research with historic OBR documents, welfare spending—which includes state pensions as well as universal credit and other benefits—has been higher than income tax receipts every year for at least the last 13 years. [J4MB emphasis] Indeed the gap narrowed significantly in 2025/26, and the positions are set to reverse in 2026/27—meaning 2025/26 is expected to be the last for the foreseeable future that welfare is higher than income tax in the UK, not the first.”

In the discussion Patrick Christys claims the UK imports Russian gas. A quick Google search reveals this:

“The UK does not directly import Russian gas, having officially banned the import of Russian Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in December 2022 as part of its sanctions following the invasion of Ukraine.

The UK is largely self-sufficient in gas production and relies on stable, domestic supplies from the UK Continental Shelf, alongside pipeline imports from Norway and other reliable LNG partners like the US and Qatar.”

A government publication from 2023, UK ban on Russian oil and oil products.

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Mike Buchanan on Prince Harry, feminist, and more (Patrick Christys, Love Sport Radio, 2018). File #307 of 800+ files on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s file is here (10:07).

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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MEN STOP DRINKING – daily Zoom video meetings (reminder)

I haven’t drunk alcohol since September, 2025. If you’re a man with a drinking problem 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.