A piece on the BBC, the headline Teenage skaters, a young pilot and a professor – the victims of DC plane crash. It’s an unusually long piece, and you need to get to very near the end to read this:

“Rebecca Lobach, an aviation officer from Durham, North Carolina, was also on board the helicopter.”

She was more than “on board”. She is known to have been piloting the helicopter at the time of the collision which claimed 67 lives – not that you’d learn this from the BBC, obviously.

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Earlier today we published a piece titled AUSTRALIA: England suffer innings defeat to lose Women’s Ashes 16-0. We were pleased to receive the following comments from generouslydaze96ff7faf83 – honestly, the names some parents give their kids!

“I went to one of the One Day Internationals at Bellerive Oval in Hobart along with about 2,000 other souls. It was entertaining for all the right and wrong reasons, including a brilliant juggled catch on the boundary and a farcical moment where two fielders, either of whom could have easily caught the ball, decided to let the other one go for the catch. In the end both of them stood and watched passively for what seemed like eternity as the ball landed on the ground between them. The oddest thing was that everyone, including their team mates and the crowd, acted like it was something perfectly natural that happens all the time. I’ve never seen anything like it in men’s cricket, at any level. A real ‘WTF’ moment for the ages.

England threatened to be competitive on a few occasions, but none of those occasions lasted more than a minute. The key difference between the two sides was that the Australians looked like they might have practiced batting, bowling and fielding at some stage before the game, which was obviously quite unsporting. However, England had impeccable manners and looked just as nice as Australia in their uniforms, which I think is what secretly matters in women’s cricket. It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, it’s how stylish you look playing the game.”

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Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. An extract:

England captain Heather Knight to ABC Radio: “We’ll be judged on the scoreline.

“We haven’t played our best cricket and we’ve got some brilliant players. [J4MB translation: “We played our best cricket, but because almost all our players are crap, we lost 16-0.”] We haven’t been able to compete for long enough.

“When they had the advantage, they really hammered it down and I think we can learn from that as players and see how we can come back from this.”

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Our thanks to Eli for this (video, 9:34). It includes (7:32 – 8:20) newly-obtained video of the collision. It beggars belief that the helicopter didn’t change course at least in the final seconds, so as to avoid the collision.

The “she” of the video title is a “journalist” from the left-leaning news organisation CNN, quizzing The Don about his prescient theory that DEI programmes were a cause of the Washington DC collision. Very unusually, the FAA acceded to the woman’s family’s request that she not be named. Because women mustn’t be held accountable even after they’ve died and (it seems) been responsible for a major tragedy (60+ people died, there were no survivors).

Psychologists have long known that women have inferior spatial awareness than men, and tend to be more anxious. Did the woman maybe “freeze” when faced with the situation? If this happens in peacetime, what might we expect in the heat of battle?

Women have no place on the front line and are a danger to colleagues and themselves. We hope The Don will order the end of initiatives to put women into roles that, in wartime, would put them on the front line, and redeploy women already in such positions to be redeployed to other roles away from the front line.

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An interesting video (22:00) published a month ago by Quillette.

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Our thanks to Eli for this (Count Dankula video, 8:51). The story in The Sun.

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Our thanks to Nigel for this (Sun, no paywall). He writes:

“It is remarkable the way we indulge women. At first glance this seemed a silly story https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/31/barrister-white-witch-of-rye-harassed-elderly-wizard-court/ And of course there is the usual suspended sentence. However once one realises the man was 80 and read the story about what she did, well it’s clear had the sexes been reversed a man would be imprisoned. It really is remarkable sometimes the difference in how the same behaviours are treated. And the underlying assumption that a male victim will be quick to recover.”

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Good news.

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