A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

On 24 February, some 10 weeks before the general election, I was interviewed by Emma Pearce, a feminist student, in the impressive Student Radio studio in Nottingham University. My thanks to John for informing me that the interview has won Emma the Gold Award for Best Interview at the Student Radio Awards – here. We congratulate Emma on her award.

On our YouTube channel, the piece has attracted over 5,000 hits, and 179 comments.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

I’ve just started a subscription to The Spectator, and the hard copy arrived this morning. I opened it at random, and was aghast to find this on p.11. Excerpts:

Mornings are transformed now that I am no longer acting leader. I lie in bed listening to Today — hoping Labour’s argument will triumph, but glad not to be the one to make it. Instead of sweating over preparation for Prime Minister’s Questions, I tweet pictures of my kittens…

Off to the Southwark remembrance service in Borough High Street. Like most MPs I go to our local ceremony every year and value highly the moment of reflection and contemplation. But one particularly freezing November when we were standing there before the silence, with an icy wind whipping round, I moaned to Tessa Jowell, my fellow Southwark MP, that my feet and hands were numb with the cold. ‘But think,’ she said, ‘how much colder it was for the soldiers in the trenches.’ [No comment from Harman on Jowell’s statement. She can’t even bring herself to write one sentence expressing sympathy for those courageous men.]

She left the Commons in May and this Sunday was the first time in over 20 years that we didn’t stand next to each other during the silence. I really miss her. People still muddle us up, but I’m happy to have well-wishers come up and congratulate me on bringing the Olympics to London. [Typical of Harman – when she’s not accepting responsibility for her mistakes, she’s happy to take credit for others’ work.]

After the service, there is a meeting of Camberwell and Peckham Labour party women members. [We can safely assume there’s no equivalent meeting of ‘men members’, even on Remembrance Day]. Nationally, there’s a clean sweep of men in the top positions now: Labour leader, deputy leader, general secretary, NEC chair, London mayoral candidate… Once again, time to step up our efforts to insist women get an equal say. [Yes, because all-women shortlists aren’t enough of an assault on meritocracy. Surprisingly, the daft bat isn’t complaining about all the parties in Scotland being led by women today. A ‘clean sweep of women’ is perfectly acceptable, clearly…].

On p.45 we find Julie Burchill’s contribution to the ‘Books of the Year’ section.

Why is Fraser Nelson, the Editor, assaulting a new subscriber in this manner? Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

Woeful.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

Pathetic. The writer is a female ‘expert in personal branding and marketing’, and she writes:

Don’t get me wrong, I still fully believe in the value of women working with one another, through mentorship and sponsorship, to help build one another up and advance their careers. There are a number of companies that do great work helping women in business to grow professionally, take on new challenges, and shatter the so-called glass ceiling. [Note: why do women, and women alone, need ‘helping’, decade after decade? When will companies start to treat them equally, not preferentially?]

But I think more senior leaders – which today are largely men – can play a more active role. My question back to the gentleman at my talk was ‘when was the last time you nominated a high performing female executive for an award? Advocated on her behalf at the senior leadership meeting?’ It must always be based on merit and performance, [don’t you just love that weaselly rider?] but sometimes women need an active sponsor to help reinforce they are worthy of that kind of recognition.

Nominating high performing female executives for an award. Why do women always need celebrating for what a man will do without needing such recognition? It’s a sign of emotional neediness, along with women’s need for role models (and who will be the role models’ role models, anyway?). We return, as always, to Dr Catherine Hakim’s Preference Theory (2000). Four out of seven British men are ‘work-centred’, only one in seven British women is.

My experience over 30 years in business was that of the people who were not keen on self-promotion, the women were more likely to be promoted than the men. The writer of the article is arguing for yet more female privileging, because women’s appetite for privilege is insatiable.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

Our thanks to James for this – a Yale University student nominating herself for an Entitlement Princess of the Month award. The (male) academic is a saint, putting up with her behaviour as well as he did.

What’s with the students clicking their fingers, for heaven’s sake? Is that to pander to feminists’ sensibilities? Are the harridans ‘triggered’ by hand clapping? What dysfunctional people they all are. I’d have liked to see another student – male or female – telling ‘Shrieking Girl’ she’s a blithering idiot. Someone needed to.

When you pander to difficult people, they only get worse, and ever more demanding. Isn’t that what we’ve seen with feminists, decade after decade? Their appetite for power and control is insatiable.

I can understand now why Professor Janice Fiamengo has chosen for her talk title at ICMI16, in London:

How Feminism is Destroying Higher Education.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

We have a very strong contender for the next Gormless Feminist of the Month award.

Are all Labour MPs selected from all-women shortlists, gender-obsessed blithering idiots? We think inevitably of Jess Phillips, who sought to deny Philip Davies MP a debate on men’s issues in parliament, and now we turn to Kerry McCarthy, who was selected from an AWS, and elected by the vvoters in Bristol East in 2005… and 2010… and 2015!!!

Her ‘Early life’ section on Wikipedia, covering until the age of 40, when she was elected:

McCarthy was born in Luton, where she attended Denbigh High School, followed by Luton Sixth Form College. McCarthy studied at the University of Liverpool reading Russian Studies, before studying law at City of London Polytechnic. McCarthy began a doctorate on Labour links with the City of London at Goldsmith’s College, but did not complete it. She was a councillor in Luton and for a short period of time volunteered in the Legal Department of the Labour Party. She was also a member of Labour’s National Policy Forum.

Ms McCarthy is unmarried, and seemingly has no children. Judging by what she had achieved by the age of 40, what on earth qualified her to be a prospective parliamentary candidate, other than her sex? I shudder to think of the qualifications of the women who were judged inferior prospective candidates.

From her ‘Personal life’ section on Wikipedia:

… in a 2015 interview she claimed that she ‘studied Russian at university because Dostoevsky was mentioned in a Joy Division tune’.

Yes, that would be an intelligent reason to start studying a language at university. Give me strength. Does she manage to put on matching shoes most days, I wonder?

The following piece is in today’s print edition of the Daily Mail, but hasn’t yet appeared online.

When Labour’s vegan frontbencher turned to the internet to trawl for a ‘gender-neutral’ term for ‘fishermen’, she was given a battering. Kerry McCarthy, the party’s environment, food and rural affairs spokesman, took to social media to ask for a less ‘sexist’ word. [Note: In all the programmes I’ve watched about deep sea fishing, a highly dangerous line of work, I’ve never see a female deckhand. What point is the daft trout trying to make?]

She said she was meeting some fishermen then tweeted: ‘Shouldn’t say fishermen, but “fishers” sounds wrong as a gender neutral alternative?’ [I wonder how the fishermen felt about her using her time doing this? Maybe she could have spent the time more productively?]

Her missive attracted instant criticism. Some denounded her for carping about gender neutrality instead of tackling the crisis facing farmers.

A former aide to Andy Burnham, Gabriel Scally, suggested ‘fisher folk’ but this was rejected as too ‘twee’. Miss McCarthy – who previously called for meat to be given tobacco-style health warnings – was reminded by one tweeter that the term has biblical origins. It comes from Matthew 4:19: ‘And he saith [not ‘saithe’ sadly] unto them, follow me and I will make you fishers of men.’ Miss McCarthy queries, ‘I wonder if there is a modern version that says fishers of people?’

She also pointed out that firefighter was gender neutral [by the standards of MPs selected from all-woman shortlists, the women’s a genius] which led one Twitter user to tell her to use ‘fishfighters’. Another suggested ‘codbotherer’.

One respondent tweeted: ‘Given your somewhat niche views on food and rural affairs, I’d have thought fish murderers would cover it?’

The writer of the piece, Gerri Peev, clearly had some fun writing it. I spotted three puns in his article, can you find more? A complimentary J4MB wristband (RRP £5.00) to the first person who does, and sends in a comment to be published.

If I listened to Ms McCarthy, I’d want to be hard of herring. When she’s in the House of Commons, she lowers the average IQ in the plaice. The voters in Bristol East really should have got rudd of her back in May. Struggling to think how to bring Chris Grayling, Nicola Sturgeon, and Alex Salmond into this.

I end with a short section from my travelogue Two Men in a Car (a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France):

The day wasn’t going well, then Paul decided I needed to hear – yet again – his views on law and order. I drank four large beers in quick succession but they failed to dull the pain.

In the evening, after a big pizza at a markedly better restaurant than the one where we’d had lunch, I decided – against Paul’s advice – that we’d join a small party of men night fishing on an old boat. It was a moonlit night. Far away, bells rang out.

Ding-a-ling-a-ling, ding-a-ling-a-ling.

The wine I’d enjoyed during dinner was starting to make itself evident, and I was starting to feel queasy due to the boat’s rolling motion. I hooked and landed a large eel, and tried but failed to determine the species. Paul and I then had the following conversation:

Self:   ‘Paul, what species of eel is that? I’ve drunk too much wine…’

Paul:   ‘That’s a moray.’

Self:   ‘Who do you think you are, Dean bloody Martin?’

The Amazon entry for the book is here.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

Our thanks to Martin for alerting us to an online version of a piece in today’s Mail on Sunday.

The piece is concerned with relational aggression, which is commonly employed by women and girls, rarely by men and boys (for one thing, they’d be mocked for it). The article reminded me of a famous piece by Samantha Brick in the Daily Mail some time ago. She established an all-female television production company, and it was an utter disaster. The best critique of her article, to my mind, was that by 6oodfella. It’s 22:28 long, but worth it. The time will fly. Enjoy. His video channel is here.

Women won’t do what it takes to run a successful company, but they’re happy to leech off successful companies started and largely run by men, whether it’s through being appointed as non-executive directors (the workplace equivalent of marrying a rich man), or in other ways. Women tend to be more risk-averse than men, and are less likely to start up companies, even with the money they’ve appropriated from men in divorce settlements.

Because so few women are successful entrepreneurs in their own right, and their companies tend to be markedly smaller than those run by successful male entrepreneurs, the BBC has to go in for its customary social engineering. Dragon’s Den regularly features one or two women in its line-up, representing a far higher proportion than is present among entrepreneurs as a class.

I admire some of them, including Deborah Meaden, who ran her multi million-pound family holiday business before completing a management buyout. Then there’s Hilary Devey, who runs a pallet distribution company and looks like Cruella DeVille. She’s impressive, although in one BBC TV documentary she agreed to take the advice of some silly American woman who said her company would be more successful if she had gender parity in all the jobs in her business, including fork-lift truck driving.

In stark contrast, Kelly Hoppen really gets on my nerves. Her comments are often so mind-numbingly inane – she makes blindingly obvious points, with an expression suggesting she’s saying something profoundly insightful – that I invariably have to switch to another channel, for the sake of my mental health.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

My thanks to Peter for this:

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in November 2015:

Our thanks to William for this. Women are proving time and again to be liabilities in the Armed Forces. Chinese and Russian military experts must be laughing their socks off at what goes on in the British Armed Forces today.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.

A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in October 2015:

[My thanks to William Gruff for inspiring the change of title.]

From the website of Girlguiding:

Girlguiding is the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK. Thanks to the dedication and support of 100,000 amazing volunteers, we are active in every part of the UK, giving girls and young women a space where they can be themselves, have fun, build brilliant friendships, gain valuable life skills and make a positive difference to their lives and their communities.

We build girls’ confidence and raise their aspirations. We give them the chance to discover their full potential and encourage them to be a powerful force for good.

I can see no evidence from the website that the organization intends to ever change its name, and start admitting boys and young men.

What about the Scouts, formerly the Boy Scouts, before the organization started admitting girls and young women? Our thanks to David for pointing us to this. From the article:

The Scouting Association has announced that it has elected Ann Limb, 62, a former senior civil servant and teacher, as its first female chair. And she says her priority is to get more girls and young women into the uniform.

“The image of Scouts as being white, middle-class boys in khaki shorts is not encouraging young women to join,” Limb told the Observer.

The daughter of a butcher in Manchester’s tough Moss Side district, Limb said inclusivity for girls was something she had championed all her working life.

“We want to grow the numbers of girls and young women, and scouting has to reflect society. When I was young, there was a certain type of person who went to Brownies or Guides or Scouts. That is changing.”

Hmm. Scouting ‘has to reflect society’, while Guiding… er… doesn’t. Ms Limb’s radical feminist leanings are evident in another extract:

“We want to be a more inclusive movement in a more diverse movement. It’s about growth and it would be nice to see a million Scouts,” Limb said. “The position of young girls and women is such at the moment that unless young boys understand what it’s like to be a young woman then you won’t get them to change their behaviour.”

Ms Limb’s prime motivation in taking on her role couldn’t be clearer – getting young boys to change their behaviour. What a vile ambition. She apparently sees no need for young girls to understand what it’s like to be a young boy, to get them to change their behaviour. No, that would be totally the wrong sort of gender equality. Boys need to be taught early to worship at the altars of Entitlement Princesses.

I was thinking of recommending that boy scouts leave the organization and join The Boys’ Brigade but I see even they admit girls.

What is wrong with women – and feminists in particular – that so many of them have a problem with male-only organizations, clubs etc.? Does it arise from hard-wired anxiety? A need to control and police males?

A final question. Are the leaders of the Scouts out of their cotton-picking minds, appointing Ms Limb to her new role? OK, that’s a rhetorical question.

Please support Mike Buchanan’s work on Patreon. Thank you.