At last, some good news from the government. The demand for “compensation” from the WASPI (“Women Against State Pension Inequality”) women was always ludicrous as well as ironic, given that what they were protesting was the introduction (and implications) of state pension equality. A stronger case could be made for men to receive compensation after having had to wait five more years than women for their state pensions – at 65 rather than 60 – and despite men collectively paying around three times as much income tax as women.

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Our thanks to Pete for a piece in the “Commentary and Opinion” section of The Law Society Gazette by Rachel Frost-Smith, legal director in the Birketts family team, The rise and fall of ‘parental alienation’. The first three paragraphs should suffice to persuade you that Sir Andrew McFarlane and Rachel Frost-Smith are feminists and blithering idiots (I repeat myself). They take up the remainder of this blog piece:

“The Family Justice Council last week published ‘Guidance on responding to a child’s unexplained reluctance, resistance or refusal to spend time with a parent and allegations of alienating behaviour’.

Rachel Frost-Smith

‘For the avoidance of doubt, the Family Justice Council (FJC) recognises that “parental alienation syndrome” has no evidential basis and is considered a harmful pseudo-science’.

There is a helpful foreword to the document from Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the Family Division and chair of the Family Justice Council. The president says: ‘The issue of parental alienation/alienating behaviours is a polarising one which has taken up much court time and public debate’. He goes on to say: ‘In my view this guidance is required to ensure greater consistency of approach across the courts and to improve outcomes for children and to protect children and victims from litigation abuse’.”

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Our thanks to Paolo for this (video, 11:35).

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Our thanks to Eli for this. An extract:

“A purported ‘sneak peek’ of her manifesto was posted on her Discord account, where she discussed a desire to kill all males [J4MB emphasis] in a rant inspired by fringe extremist online culture.”

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An interesting piece in Chronicles.

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Our thanks to Jeff for this predictable news. Her “punishment” will be no deterrent to people tempted to do the same in future to our next prime minister.

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I’m one of many millions of people who consider Margaret Thatcher to have been the finest peacetime prime minister of the UK (1979-1990), at least since WW2. Somewhat belatedly, I’ve started reading her autobiography, published shortly after her death in 2013. I’m reading it on Kindle (£4.99), hardbacks and paperbacks are available, as well as an Audible audiobook (£7.99) read by Mrs T herself.

The book bring together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years: The compelling autobiography from a political icon (1993) and The Path to Power (1995).

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Enjoy. A “problem” created by allowing a woman to hold the position of chancellor, but hopefully not for long. The economy has been tanking under her watch, what are the chances? From her Wikipedia page:

“In October 2023, Reeves’ book The Women Who Made Modern Economics was published. The Guardian said the book contained “something much more like the outlines of a coherent political project … than Labour is sometimes credited with”. The Financial Times reported that the book “lifted” content from Wikipedia, The Guardian and other sources, identifying over twenty examples of apparent plagiarism [J4MB translation – plagiarism] in the book, including entire paragraphs. Reeves told BBC News that some sentences “were not properly referenced” and this would be corrected in future reprints.”

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