Our thanks to Gerry for this (Mail, £). He writes:

“Does the obvious question even need asking? What about all those poor men who were driven to suicide by their controlling and abusive wives?”

In the same vein, what about all those poor men who commit suicide as a result of denial of access to their beloved children following false allegations made by their controlling and abusive ex-partners in family courts (often in order to obtain Legal Aid, denied to those same men.)

We don’t know from the article what the substance of the allegations is, but how can they be anything other than statements she made to others before her suicide? And how can the defence lawyer challenge the trustworthiness of a dead woman (and the trustworthiness of those to whom she allegedly commmunicated), in order to properly defend the man? It will be a kangaroo court.

The controlling and coercive behaviour is alleged to have taken place between December 2015 and November 2017, when the man’s partner committed suicide. An extract from the article:

“The controlling and coercive behaviour is alleged to have taken place between December 2015 and the date of Ms Baird’s death. The company director is also accused of raping Ms Baird between October and November 2016.”

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Interesting.

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Our thanks to a supporter for this from Oz. A strange case, not least because the man was found dead in his car “near Mount Disappointment”. Did the wife have a knife to hand in the car, and with what purpose? And what are we to make of this (Serdar Caliskan was the husband)?

“At a directions hearing in January, prosecutors said they were seeking the views of Serdar Caliskan’s relatives in Turkey before they could make a decision on the case.”

Of what earthly relevance do the views of the killed man have to this case?

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Our thanks to Elizabeth for this. She writes:

“Mike, thought you might have time to watch this. I want to understand why police like CC Simon Bailey don’t seem to realise a need to protect innocent accused. Never so much as mentioned once, whilst convictions source of pride.”

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Our thanks to Nigel for this.

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Our thanks to Geoff for this. We are mystified as to why she wasn’t told she was being given a suspended sentence, and was very lucky to not receive an immediate custodial sentence. Maybe because her victim was a girl, not a boy?

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Our thanks to Gerry for this (Mail, £).

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Remarkable.

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Matthew Syed is a Times journalist. Two days ago his article on the Washington DC collision Trump’s scapegoating threatens the entire basis of aviation safety (£) was published, excoriating The Donald’s comments on DEI initiatives at the FAA, and casting serious doubt on the possibility that those initiatives could have been responsible for the collision.

People who don’t read The Times tend to assume it’s a right-leaning paper. They couldn’t be more wrong. The best description I’ve ever heard of it is that it’s “achingly liberal”, as are many (most?) of its readers, and the comments sections reliably reflect that. The paper has employed for many years the odious feminist (I repeat myself) Caitlin Moran – affectionately nicknamed “Moron” by colleagues, I’ve been told – as a twice-weekly columnist. She and her partner have two daughters. In her book How to be a Woman she revealed that she became pregnant during a holiday in Cyprus, not having used any contraception. She had an abortion and revealed the child she’d killed was male.

Comments on the article were almost all supportive and predictably anti-Trump for voicing his opinion that DEI initiatives were probably the cause of the accident. I pitched in with some comments of my own, supporting Trump’s opinion, and for my troubles got some flak and a little support.

I understand that journalists frequently read the comments on their pieces, one that comes to mind is Julie Burchill when she writes for The Spectator, using a pseudonym but everyone knows it’s her. But few journalists do this, so I was surprised that Matthew Syed had replied to a commenter, and I replied to his comment (below). I’ve had no response from him, what are the chances?

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