The furor about state compensation for 1950s women over supposedly lost pension entitlements is dying down. Now it seems to be confined to a few die-hards on Twitter and oven those cases are attracting less and less interest. Here are a few thoughts on the matter. Since 1944 women have received their state pension 5… Continue reading A Hornets Nest of WASPI’s
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Rebecca Solnit
‘Comment is free, but facts are sacred’ wrote Guardian editor C.P.Scott in 1921. The same sentiment has been put more pithily with ‘opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.’ Sadly, the modern day Guardian has plenty of journalists with lots of opinions but little in the way of facts to back up their arguments. High… Continue reading Rebecca Solnit
Greater Male Variability
(and other hypotheses) It’s a brave man who ventures to discuss the greater male variability hypothesis (GMVH). Just ask James Damore or Larry Summers. The former was sacked from Google for daring to raise GMV as a possible explanation (among others) for the greater number of men involved in coding. Similarly, Harvard President Larry Summers… Continue reading Greater Male Variability
Labour and the election of Donald Trump
What should the Labour Party in the UK learn from the election of Donald Trump? The election of Donald Trump has sent shockwaves around the world, particularly in left-leaning or liberal outlets. The US is an independent nation that is free to elect whoever it chooses. However, unlike the UK, it makes a big difference… Continue reading Labour and the election of Donald Trump
Feminist just-so stories
When I was a child my grandfather gave me the book ‘Just So Stories’ by Rudyard Kipling. Even then, at a tender age and longer ago than I care to remember, the stories seemed entertaining but trite. The book consists of a series of accounts of how animals acquired certain characteristics. For example, how the… Continue reading Feminist just-so stories
Carol Vorderman
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1835377554514981252 A rather disappointing performance from Carol Vorderman on an LBC chat-show. I like Carol Vorderman, some of her posts in the run-up to the 2024 General Election, exposing the hypocrisy and malfeasance of the then Conservative Government were quite brilliant. This, however, was a shabby and lazy performance. Okay, we all fall short sometimes,… Continue reading Carol Vorderman
Dodgy Feminist Statistics
The half-truths, repeated, authenticated themselves. Joan Didion The ease with which feminists can implant questionable and sometimes overtly fabricated statistics into the narrative should be a cause for concern for everybody, male and female. It requires two things, a willingness to lie and dissemble, and a gullible media that does not examine far-fetched claims. What… Continue reading Dodgy Feminist Statistics
How feminism harms women.
It is, I believe, obvious that feminism has been harmful to men and, in particular, boys. However, this argument alone will ‘cut little ice’ with feminists in the media and in parliament. I want to suggest that feminism is also harmful to women. Not only indirectly through its consequences upon men but directly through distortion… Continue reading How feminism harms women.
A confected moral panic
Many media feminists, J K Rowling, for example, are dissatisfied with Labour Policy and, in particular, with Keir Starmer. Sir Keir has apparently ‘turned his back on women’ – ‘has marginalised women’ – ‘has erased women’. According to the ever-unhinged Julie Birchill, writing in the Spectator, ‘the climate of misogyny now being as rabid as… Continue reading A confected moral panic
Why feminism needs men’s rights activism
The unexamined life is not worth living: The unexamined philosophy is not worth having — feminism has become that unexamined philosophy…. Feminism has become the hegemonic ideology in academia and much of the media. This isn’t even a good thing for feminism. Ideologies that go unchallenged, that do not face questioning voices to keep them… Continue reading Why feminism needs men’s rights activism
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