Jess Phillips loses it

A woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown (video, 0:46). For her own sake, and the sakes of countless others, she should resign or be fired. But Two-Tier Keir is always loathe to fire women, especially feminists.

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BBC Radio Nottingham has an all-women audience at their Ashfield hustings (2015). File #91 of 800+ files on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Ray Barry and I stood for J4MB at the 2015 general election. The full description of today’s file on YouTube:

“On Friday 17 April 2015 Mike Buchanan received a call from Ray Barry, the J4MB candidate in the Broxtowe constituency. He was understandably angry, having just learned that not only had he not been invited onto the BBC Radio Nottingham hustings for Broxtowe, the programme had been recorded the previous evening, and broadcast live. Ray then informed Mike Buchanan that he’d been told the BBC Radio Nottingham hustings for Ashfield, due to be held six days later, was to have as one of its themes what more political parties could do to attract women’s votes. And the presenter was to be a feminist, Sarah Julian.

Mike Buchanan then contacted the (male) producer of the show to be informed that what Ray Barry had said was correct, but in addition the audience members for the Ashfield programme would all be women, and ‘vetted’ by a woman at the BBC. Incensed by this, he made his thoughts on the matter known during his one-minute-long opening statement – it starts at 2:09 – and later took the opportunity to criticise Gloria De Piero MP, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, who was sat next to him (on the other side was Helen Harrison, the Conservative candidate).

At times Mike took opportunities to raise men’s issues including genital mutilation, unemployment, preferencing of women for medical school places over the past 40 years (and the disastrous impact that’s had on the NHS), suicide… the presenter generally withdrew the microphone from him at these points.

John Kimble penned an impressive article about this BBC-engineered fiasco for Breitbart, BBC Bans Men’s Political Party From Talking About Men (Or Even Talking To Them).”

Today’s file is here (55:39).


Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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A riddle

On Wednesdays and Saturdays I attend a Zoom meeting, in which Gerry (an Irishman) plays musical requests from the attendees. Tonight, as usual, there were 40+ attendees. The theme for tonight’s meeting was songs from the 60s.

I chose Yesterday (1965). In the course of reading about the song, a riddle popped into my head. That’s never happened before. The riddle is this:

“Everyone believes Yesterday was performed by The Beatles. Everyone is wrong. How can that be?”

Pleasingly, nobody solved the riddle. I now cast it before all of you to solve. If nobody does, I’ll give it 24 hours then publish the answer.

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Gloria De Piero MP and Anna Soubry MP on ‘The Andrew Marr Show’ (BBC) (2015). Video #90 of 800+ videos on the J4MB YouTube channel.

Today’s video is here (11:36).

Over a period of more than two years we’re posting links to one video daily from the J4MB YouTube channel. The channel includes our media appearances since 2012, 300+ videos of talks and other materials from the International Conferences on Men’s Issues (2014 – ) and other men’s issues conferences we’ve been involved with, and so much more. The individual conference playlists are here.

Our website Campaign for Merit in Business was created in the light of the considerable evidence of a causal link between increasing gender diversity on boards and corporate financial decline. Mike Buchanan, Steve Moxon and Dr Catherine Hakim (the originator of Preference Theory) presented evidence to House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries in 2012, the video of their House of Commons evidence session is here (56:50).

Finally, we run the award-winning website Laughing at Feminists. The related comedy channel (170+ videos) is here. Remember, it’s more than important to laugh at feminists, it’s a civic duty.  

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Family law shift (repealing the presumption of parental involvement in the Children Act 1989) hailed as victory by feminists.

Our thanks to Ed Bartlett for this piece in the Guardian. He writes:

“Of course, it is a well-proven fact that mothers are more likely than fathers to engage in child abuse: See Victims by Relationship to Their Perpetrators. Tables 3-9.”

Extracts from the Guardian piece take up the remainder of this blog post:

“The family courts will no longer work on the presumption that having contact with both parents is in the best interests of a child, in a landmark change that domestic abuse campaigners have said “will save so many children’s lives”. [J4MB emphasis.]

The move has been heralded as “groundbreaking” by family lawyers and campaigners who have long argued that the “pro-contact culture” in the family courts places the rights of abusive fathers over the safety and wellbeing of children.

Currently, under the Children Act 1989, courts in England and Wales are guided to work on the principle that children should have contact with both parents unless there is evidence that a parent could put the child at risk of harm.

The government confirmed on Tuesday that it would repeal the presumption of parental involvement from the act “when parliamentary time allows”….

Dr Charlotte Proudman, [J4MB emphases.] a family law barrister, and co-director of Right to Equality, described the move as “a victory for children’s rights, for survivors and for justice” and “a vital step in dismantling the pro-contact culture that has dominated family courts for too long”.

“It sends a clear message: children’s welfare will always be the priority and parents who undermine their welfare cannot use the system to continue to perpetrate harm,” she said.

The change comes after decades of campaigning from the domestic abuse sector, with experts describing the issue of the family courts as the biggest area of concern for domestic abuse victims and survivors.

“It’s incredibly significant because it absolutely reorientates the way that these courts work,” Farah Nazeer, CEO of Women’s Aid, said.

Abusers have long used the family courts as a way of retaining control over their ex-partners, while women who raise domestic abuse in the courts have often been subject to counter allegations that they are attempting to “alienate” the child from the father.

“This is the policy area and area of concern that the vast majority of survivors and children want us to work on, because it’s the one that really touches the core of their safety,” Nazeer added.”

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