William Collins’s presentation, “Domestic Abuse is a Men’s Issue, Too” conference (2020). Video #421 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (48:58).

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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Missouri mother Mariah Thomas, 28, who put newborn in oven instead of crib, learns fate as murder charge dropped.

Tragic. An extract:

“A Missouri mother who said she accidentally put her 1-month-old baby in an oven instead of a crib will spend more than a decade behind bars after reaching a deal that wiped away a first-degree murder charge.

Mariah Thomas, 28, pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death and was ordered to serve 13 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, according to Jackson County court records…

Police arrived to find the 1-month-old child with apparent burns across her body. Kansas City Fire Department personnel pronounced her dead at the scene.

Investigators were told Thomas had gone to put her daughter down for a nap but “accidentally placed her in the oven instead of the crib,” the documents state.”

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A steal at only £108.95 – a used copy of Mike Buchanan’s international bestseller “Two Men in a Car (A Businessman, a Chauffeur, and Their Holidays in France)” (2008)

I’ve just started a new project, creating a free audio edition of Two Men in a Car (A Businessman, a Chauffeur, and Their Holidays in France). The book has long been out of print, but used copies sometimes turn up for sale on Amazon and elsewhere. At the moment only one copy is available, here, a steal at only £108.95. The Kindle edition costs a paltry £5.94.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the book, which was published in 2008. It covers a period of time when I had much more money than after I decided to become a full-time MRA, a couple of years after the book’s publication. From the back cover:

‘Mike Buchanan is the best kind of opinionated, middle-aged, middle-class Englishman abroad: the funny kind.’ Andy Heslop

‘If you have a sense of humour, this book will put a big smile on your face. I laughed out loud many times. A refreshing absence of political correctness.’ The lovely Maureen Padley

Political correctness is a curse of the modern era. This book is not politically correct. And it celebrates la belle France: the beautiful ladies, the fine food and wine, the glorious scenery and weather, and more besides. If you’re offended by the book’s contents, kindly moan about it to someone else, not the author. He’s had more than his fill of being moaned at over the years.

Mike Buchanan is a 50-year-old overweight diabetic short-sighted businessman and published author, who lives in Bedford. He’s been a Francophile for as long as he can remember, and is rarely happier than when holidaying in France. In August 2007, following the breakdown of his second marriage, he took a holiday in France with his chauffeur, the (equally) politically-incorrect Thunderin’ Paul Carrington. The two men enjoyed themselves so much that they took a second holiday in France in July 2008. This book relates the story of both holidays, in chapters with the following titles:

1 Our first week with Anne and Mark Phillips

2 Why my dinner cost 40 times more than Paul’s

3 Hobnobbing with Ivana Trump in Monte Carlo

4 ‘Would you like to have sex with my wife?’

5 We witness a miracle in Lourdes

6 In defence of pâte de foie gras

7 Paul worries about becoming a gay icon

8 Nuits-St-Georges is twinned with Hitchin

9 ‘It’s always better if you have a big one!’

Epilogue

Apx 1 Packing list for France

Apx 2 Keith Floyd’s Boeuf a la Bourguignonne

Apx 3 Raymond Blanc’s Coq au Vin

Apx 4 Mike Buchanan’s Coq au Vin

Apx 5 The Fat Duck: Tasting Menu and Wine

Apx 6 Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons: Notre Menu Decouverte

Apx 7 Extract from the autobiographical chapter of (Thunderin’) Paul Carrington, from Guitar Gods in Beds. (Bedfordshire: A Heavenly County)

Both the paperback and ebook editions of the book contain the following plate section: