The J4MB Files #704: Elizabeth Hobson – “The Last Of The Human Freedoms” (ICMI24)

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Didcot school ‘shocked’ after former teacher Catherine Pearl jailed for two counts of sexual activity with a girl as an adult abusing a position of trust, on no fewer than 10 occasions. 

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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Freya Webster: “My middle-class mother beat me, my siblings and even my father to within an inch of our lives… she once walloped me with a walking stick, but despite everything I still love her.”

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

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Matthew Syed’s article for The Times about the Washington DC collision

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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The J4MB Files #703: Professor Stephen Baskerville – “The Men’s Marriage Strike Threatens the Political Class” (ICMI24)

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Newsweek: “Who Is Rebecca Lobach? Third Soldier Named in DC Black Hawk Crash.”

Our thanks to Nigel for this. Check out the still image at the top of the piece. It was taken during a statement by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, behind him are five “persons of colour” and a white woman. Check out the short video (0:54) which Newsweek have posted so as to only show Jeffries. Extracts from the article:

Lobach, a 28-year-old Army aviation officer from Durham, North Carolina, was assigned to the 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. She had served since 2019.

She had no deployments, [J4MB emphasis] the Army said, but had received several commendations, including the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal and Army Service Ribbon…

“Rebecca earned her place in that aircraft,” said Lieutenant Samantha Brown, also a friend of Lobach.

“She was outstanding, and she deserved to be there.”

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William Collins: “Old Dogs, Old Tricks”

Interesting. Elizabeth Hobson has left some comments, and William in his reply to her references a Hope Not Hate report, State of Hate 2020: Far Right Terror Goes Global. On pp.102/3 the report references Elizabeth, Philip Davies MP (sadly no longer an MP, having lost his seat at the last general election) and myself.

In the same vein as William’s article, last week Prof. Matt Goodwin wrote a Substack piece which we’ve already linked to, We’re all “extremists” now.

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