Today’s video is here (5:17).

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 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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Interesting (video, 1:02:17).

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Interesting (video, 15:25).

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Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“This a classic of how women are “married to the state”. From knowing people working for the DWP the cases that go to court are the tip of a very large iceberg indeed. This article gives the figures illustrating the huge perverse incentive for couples to pretend they aren’t. “Prosecutor Katy Appleton outlined that the total sum reached £75,000, comprising more than £42,420 in Universal Credit, £9,500 in income support, £8,097 in housing benefit, £12,850 in tax credits, and a £2,207 council tax reduction.” There is every reason for the partner to collude with this given he’s unlikely to earn this sort of money ! So tax payers are funding 10,000s (probably much more)of families where the man/father may well be in a glass cellar job or with contracts rather than steady employment. There are huge incentives that drive the ballooning “single parent” numbers and the fragile families where to be frank the husband/father/partner may be a financial liability compared to the money handed out if he is or appears to be absent. We are literally paying people not to be married and form stable families.”

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Today’s video is here (41:17).

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 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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Our thanks to Graham for this. He writes:

“A Daily Star masterclass in narrative framing.

Apparently the central antagonist isn’t the repeat offender with a growing list of convictions, it’s the “taxman.”  

Curious branding, in an era where most workplaces nudge staff toward gender-neutral language; “tax authority” or simply HM Revenue and Customs, would seem the more appropriate terminology.

The details are more interesting than the headline spin:

26 years old, six convictions, 11 offences (over half for theft/attempted theft); On police bail at the time (for something conveniently “undisclosed”); Initial denial only revised when CCTV said otherwise. All indicators of personal responsibility. 

We’re also told the “financial pressure” comes from tax debts tied to a former business — which would, presumably have been her own responsibility. And yet the headline framing leans toward “driven to it,” with a vaguely personified “taxman”. 

The result is an inventive piece of storytelling. It shows how wording alone can tilt where readers place responsibility, framing accountability into a fictionalised, top-hatted, Dickensian antagonist, drafted in from the Victorian era to take the blame.

Outcome: £162 fine + costs + compensation — no jail time.”

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Today’s video is here (43:14).

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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).

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In the summer of 2004 I went with ill-fated wife #2 to Hyde Park in London for two gigs. One was Simon & Garfunkel in their possibly ironically named Old Friends tour, the Everly Brothers were the warm-up act. Simon & Garfunkel stood far apart on the stage and from memory didn’t speak to one another once. All the songs sounded exactly as they did on the original albums – something I always found with Eagles gigs, too – but of course the crowd knew every word to every song and still enjoyed the gig.

By far the more enjoyable of the two gigs was Red Hot Chili Peppers. The warm-up act was James Brown. The band played three sell-out gigs over the course of a week, and an album was made of it, Live in Hyde Park, which I can’t find on Spotify. However, I DID find it on YouTube, here, and it’s a little over two hours long. I’ll post a link to that in the chat in a moment. I listened to the whole album this afternoon and the time flew by. Used CDs (double album) available from £2.00 on Amazon, here.

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Interesting (video, 1:05:24).

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Our thanks to Tony for this.

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