Today’s file is here (27:20).

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 Nigel for this (video, 17:46).

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Our thanks to Nigel for this. An extract:

She [J4MB: Bateman] also coined the phrase “cognitive cis-connance” – a play on cognitive dissonance – and mocked the idea “that every time someone says men are not women, a person with fairy pronouns literally dies.”

The disciplinary committee wasn’t impressed, noting she’d read out party policy on trans identities “in a clearly overtly sarcastic fashion” that drew boos from the crowd. [J4MB: At Speakers’ Corner in 2022.]

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Our thanks to Graham for this. He writes:

“As a taxpayer I have growing concerns about how council tax money is being used, particularly in large local authorities, and how little scrutiny there seems to be around senior public-sector pay and accountability.

Birmingham City Council is a case that continues to trouble me. This is the same council that declared itself bankrupt following very large equal-pay settlements, funded by the taxpayer. 

Press reports have stated that a highly paid executive director (with a salary reported at up to £233,915) was “away from work for a period of time,” while the role itself continued to be carried out by another individual. 

The council declined to comment further, citing personal circumstances. While personal privacy matters, this raises reasonable questions about governance, value for money, and whether taxpayers are receiving appropriate accountability for senior salaries funded by compulsory taxation.

What frustrates me most is that these issues rarely seem to result in consequences for those at the top, while ordinary residents face ever-rising council tax bills and reduced services. There appears to be an entrenched culture in local government where financial mismanagement is absorbed by the taxpayer rather than corrected at source.

I believe these examples reflect a broader issue: a lack of accountability in public bodies, where ideology, bureaucracy, and weak oversight combine to produce outcomes that are unfair to the people footing the bill.”

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Our thanks to Warren for this. The start of the piece:

“Every police officer in England and Wales will be required to hold a licence to be able to continue working, the Home Office has said.

They will have to prove they have the right skills in issues such as tackling violence against women and girls [J4MB emphasis: Hmm, who will train them in ‘the right skills’?] or face being removed from their job, under the terms of a phased scheme similar to ones for lawyers or doctors.”

Warren writes:

“Had to get in touch with you about this one. According to the BBC article, Shabana Mahmood’s concerns about police mishandling of Tel Aviv football fans appears to have rapidly morphed into police being required to hold ‘licences’ in having the ‘right skills’ to tackle violence against women and girls (and the lies therein every CPS report on VAWG). That should tie in nicely with the upcoming ‘no jury’ kangaroo courts.”

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Enjoy (video, 12:01).

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Today’s file is here (12:21). A predictably hostile and scornful BBC feminist’s interview of a wonderful women, the director of The Red Pill, Cassie’s Wiki page here. The film has been availle to watch for free on YouTube for some time, here (1:57:46)

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 Gerry for this (video, 17:09).

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Interesting (Times, £). The start of the piece:

“Thousands of men with incurable prostate cancer have been offered a “lifeline” as the NHS was given the go-ahead for a daily pill that slows the spread of the disease.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has reversed a decision to reject talazoparib, a drug made by Pfizer, which it said last summer was not cost-effective. It has now recommended the drug for about 2,400 men a year in England with advanced prostate cancer, and talazoparib will be available on the NHS from Friday.”

This follows the recent good news we reported about another life-extending prostate cancer drug (abiraterone) which will be offered to thousands in England, details here.

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Our thanks to Jeff for this. It’s an intriguing case. The start of the piece:

“A woman who was missing for 15 years was killed by her partner and buried in the back garden of their home, a court has heard.

Anna Podedworna, 40, denies the murder of Izabela Zablocka, who was 30 when she was reported missing in 2010, after moving from her native Poland to Derby.

Prosecutor Gordon Aspden KC told Derby Crown Court the two women had moved to the UK together and lived in Normanton.

Zablocka’s body was discovered on 1 June 2025, buried in the garden of a house in Princes Street, where the pair had been living, after Podedworna emailed Derbyshire Police to tell them her body could be found there, the jury heard.”

A later extract:

“Aspden said shortly after this call, Zablocka was murdered by Podedworna, who “dismembered Izabela’s body by cutting it in half with a large knife”.

He said police discovered the defendant had previously been employed as a skilled butcher and her work involved “deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife”.

The court heard the body was buried in the back garden, before concrete hardstanding was then laid over the top.”

So Zablocka disappeared and it didn’t occur to the police to check the possibility that she may have been killed and her body might have been buried in the garden, possibly under some new concrete. Give me strength. The killing would have remained unsolved to this day if Podedworna hadn’t confessed to it.

Back to the article, this extract takes to the end of this blog piece:

“The court heard Podedworna, now of Boyer Street in Derby, emailed police on 21 May 2025 saying she wished to provide evidence.

The exchange culminated in her telling officers three days later that they would find Zablocka’s body buried in the garden in Princes Street, the jury heard.

Aspden said: “Now and for the first time, the defendant admitted that she had killed Izabela.

“However, now and for the very first time, she claimed that Izabela had died by ‘accident’ during a violent confrontation between them, and that during this violent incident she had done nothing more than defend herself.

“The crown’s case is that this new and freshly-created claim of self-defence was yet another lie by this defendant to try to conceal her guilt.”

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