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Audio / video #291 from our archives: Second day of our anti-MGM protest, Conservative party conference, Birmingham (2018)
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Peter Hitchens: “Meet the only woman to be jailed for ‘fiddling the lecky’ “
Our thanks to Ken for this:
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From an opinion piece by the great Peter Hitchens (scroll down a little): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12711197/PETER-HITCHENS-disdain-brave-scientist-tells-great-Covid-19-whitewash.html Hitchens writes: There is a collective swoon, among reviewers, about the BBC’s new prison drama Time, in which former Doctor Who actress Jodie Whittaker plays Orla, a single mother of three small children, and so automatically a national heroine of the Blairite state. She is cruelly thrust into prison for ‘fiddling the lecky’ – that is to say stealing electricity to keep her brood warm – so let’s all sympathise. Before she is incarcerated, she is seen in a neat flat, and the children are plainly well-cared for and well-dressed. As far as I can tell she has no previous convictions. As a result of her harsh treatment, there is nobody to look after the children except her mother, who drinks too much. Well, I looked this up. Google could come up with no such case. The Ministry of Justice in London could find no records of any women imprisoned for this offence since 2018. In fact, since 2018 hardly any women have even been charged or tried for that crime, let alone locked up. I also checked the Sentencing Council’s guidelines for the offence of ‘abstracting electricity’. They actually say: ‘For offenders on the cusp of custody, imprisonment should not be imposed where there would be an impact on dependants which would make a custodial sentence disproportionate to achieving the aims of sentencing.’ Which seems to me to mean that the offence would have to be extra serious for the bench even to consider sending a mother of three young children straight to prison. So the whole thing is propaganda designed to give the entirely false impression that we have a stern and unbending criminal justice system. I asked the BBC to explain why they had done this misleading thing. They said, ‘This is a fictional drama series’, to which I say, ‘So what?’ TV fiction is incredibly influential, often more so than documentaries. They added: There are aggravating factors to Orla’s case which led her to receive a short custodial sentence. Legal experts were consulted on this storyline and it highlights the wider issue of how short sentencing, which disproportionately affects women, can have a catastrophic impact on families and children.’ Oh, yeah? This defence is fascinating. Blink and you’ll miss it, but at one point in the drama, Jodie Whittaker does say her crime was ‘aggravated’. From this the ordinary viewer is somehow supposed to deduce facts not revealed to him or her (but perhaps sent out to professional reviewers). I am told by BBC sources that Orla’s ‘backstory’ is that she has been caught stealing electricity from next door, for a long time, and that she recruited a friend who is an electrician to help her fiddle the meter. So she is not the scatty victim of circumstances we see on TV, who supposedly had no idea she might go to prison that day. She is a calculating and well-organised thief who has stolen a great deal of money over a long period, with the help of an accomplice. Britain is bad in many ways, and plenty of people get into trouble who deserve our sympathy. But this is propaganda, not drama, and neither you nor TV reviewers should be fooled by it.
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Britain’s loneliest sheep stranded on a rocky beach for two years is finally rescued and taken to a Scottish farm park
Men rescue another female who got into trouble. It’s what we do.
The alarm was raised by a kayaker of the female persuasion, Jillian Turner, in 2021. From the article:
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Ms Turner, of Brora, Sutherland, said she assumed it would manage to make its way up the rocky cliff.Sheep are, of course, well-known for making their ways up rocky cliffs. The assumption led to the poor animal spending another year on the beach.
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Home Secretary Suella Braverman wants to restrict use of tents by homeless
Outrageous. The vast majority of the street homeless stopped from using tents will, of course, be men. If it were otherwise, the proposal wouldn’t have been made. An extract from the BBC piece:
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The home secretary is proposing new laws to restrict the use of tents by homeless people, arguing that many of them see it as a “lifestyle choice”.
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Croatia’s foreign minister’s awkward EU summit kiss – will another man bite the dust?
Our thanks to Steve for this. A few questions naturally arise:
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- Will the minister be hounded out of office, like Luis Rubiales was recently?
- Will handshakes be regarded as sexual assaults before long?
- Who’s the 8′ tall man behind the minister?
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Audio / video #290 from our archives: First day of our anti-MGM protest, Conservative party conference, Birmingham (2018)
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Audio / video #289 from our archives: Lord Finkelstein tells Mike Buchanan to “f*** off, again!” (Tory party conference, 2018)
We’re linking daily to selected audio / video files from our YouTube channel. Today’s file is here (video, 13 seconds). Baron Finkelstein is a former executive director of The Times and remains a columnist, so you’d expect him to have a way with words. A Jewish Tory peer, he was displeased at every Tory party conference we attended to see our protest against MGM,
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Julie Bindel interviews Sarah Ditum: “Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties”
A new podcast on Ms Bindel’s SubStack channel. I’ve posted this:
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Ah, yes. Sarah Ditum. Our blog pieces including references to Ms Ditum, which go back over more than a decade: https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/?s=Sarah+Ditum Our pieces including references to Ms Bindel: https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com/?s=Julie+Bindel Have a nice day, ladies. Mike Buchanan JUSTICE FOR MEN & BOYS https://j4mbdotorgdotuk.wordpress.com LAUGHING AT FEMINISTS http://laughingatfeminists.com CAMPAIGN FOR MERIT IN BUSINESS http://c4mb.uk
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, GB News: “It is anti-semitism dressed up as anti-zionism” | Former PM, Tony Abbott on Palestine protests
An interesting interview (video, 11:40) broadcast yesterday by GB News.
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Justice for Men & Boys 