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UPDATE

Minutes after I posted this article, the ludicrous Jess Phillips published an article in the Guardian which could not have been better designed to prove my thesis. A number of people have posted comments on the Guardian article pointing this out, and they have all been immediately deleted by the Guardian. I just tried it myself and was also deleted. I should be grateful if readers could now also try posting comments there, in order to make a point about censorship on the Guardian.

Catching up on a fortnight’s news, I have spent five hours searching in vain for criticism of Simon Danczuk from prominent or even just declared feminists. The Guardian was the obvious place to start, but while they had two articles by feminist writers condemning Chris Gayle’s clumsy attempt to chat up a presenter, their legion of feminist columnists were entirely silent on Danczuk. The only opinion piece was strongly defending him.

This is very peculiar. The allegation against Danczuk which is under police investigation – of initiating sex with a sleeping woman – is identical to the worst interpretation of the worst accusation against Julian Assange. The Assange allegation brought literally hundreds, probably thousands of condemnatory articles from feminist writers across the entire range of the mainstream media. I have dug up 57 in the Guardian alone with a simple and far from exhaustive search. In the case of Danczuk I can find nothing, zilch, nada. Not a single feminist peep.

The Assange case is not isolated. Tommy Sheridan has been pursuing a lone legal battle against the Murdoch empire for a decade, some of it in prison when the judicial system decided his “perjury” was imprisonable but Andy Coulson’s admitted perjury on the Murdoch side in the same case was not. I personally witnessed in court in Edinburgh last month Tommy Sheridan, with no lawyer (he has no money) arguing against a seven man Murdoch legal team including three QCs, that a letter from the husband of Jackie Bird of BBC Scotland should be admitted in evidence. Bird was working for Murdoch and suggested in his letter that a witness should be “got out of the country” to avoid giving evidence. The bias exhibited by the leading judge I found astonishing beyond belief. I was the only media in the court.

Yet even though the Murdoch allegations against Sheridan were of consensual sexual conduct, Sheridan’s fight against Murdoch has been undermined from the start by the massive and concerted attack he has faced from the forces of feminism. Just as the vital messages WikiLeaks and Assange have put out about war crimes, corruption and the relentless state attack on civil liberties have been undermined by the concerted feminist campaign promoting the self-evidently ludicrous claims of sexual offence against Assange.

As soon as the radical left pose the slightest threat to the neo-con establishment, an army of feminists can be relied upon to run a concerted campaign to undermine any progress the left wing might make. The attack on Jeremy Corbyn over the makeup of his shadow cabinet was a classic example. It is the first ever gender equal shadow cabinet, but the entire media for a 96 hour period last September ran headline news that the lack of women in the “top” posts was anti-feminist. Every feminist commentator in the UK piled in.

Among the obvious dishonesties of this campaign was the fact that Defence, Chancellor, Foreign Affairs and Home Secretary have always been considered the “great offices of State” and the argument only could be made by simply ignoring Defence. The other great irony was the “feminist” attack was led by Blairites like Harman and Cooper, and failed to address the fact that Blair had NO women in any of these posts for a full ten years as Prime Minister.

But facts did not matter in deploying the organised feminist lobby against Corbyn.

Which is why it is an important test to see what the feminists, both inside and outside the Labour Party, would do when the leading anti-Corbyn rent-a-gob, Simon Danczuk, was alleged to have some attitudes to women that seem very dubious indeed, including forcing an ex-wife into non-consensual s&m and that rape allegation.

And the answer is …nothing. Feminists who criticised Assange, Sheridan and Corbyn in droves were utterly silent on the subject of Danczuk. Because the purpose of established and paid feminism is to undermine the left in the service of the neo-cons, not to attack neo-cons like Danczuk.

Identity politics has been used to shatter any attempt to campaign for broader social justice for everybody. Instead it becomes about the rights of particular groups, and that is soon morphed into the neo-con language of opportunity. What is needed, modern feminism argues, is not a reduction of the vast gap between rich and poor, but a chance for some women to become Michelle Mone or Ann Gloag. It is not about good conditions for all, but the removal of glass ceilings for high paid feminist journalists or political hacks.

Feminism has become the main attack tool in the neo-con ideological arsenal. I am sceptical the concept can be redeemed from this.

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  • John Goss

    “. . . but I’m digressing, forgive.”

    I forgive.

    But don’t ask me to practice coitus interruptus. By all means carry on yourself.

    You don’t have to answer this but I ask because I’m interested having never experienced it myself. When you were practicing withdrawal was it better for both than to stay locked together one another’s arms? Or was it a bit of a disappointment? 🙂

    The other thing about coitus interruptus is it does not necessarily prevent pregnancy since there are sperm in the pre-ejaculatory fluids. So if you really respected your girlfriend you should have abstained totally, and she should not have agreed to the penetration. 😀

  • RobG

    John, when it comes to ‘coitus interruptus’ I’m still waiting for Ms Mensch to put in another appearance.

    Is Louise frightened of open debate, I wonder…

  • BrianFujisan

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  • Jeremy Stocks

    “Sometimes I wish the Germans would forget their massive, collective, forever fanned guilt and get a little more real. People come for asylum into other people’s lifes, these they make space for more of them, a humanitarian measure, sharing and accommodating many people who have been traumatised. Well, many have been, but these masses have also been used by opportunists who just went along and tried their luck.”

    I live in Bavaria and in my humble opinion the chatter I hear daily is that they simply don’t have a clue what’s happened.

    The best way to describe it is Germany/Bavaria is having a mega-collective midlife crisis. My next post beneath this will be a blogpost of mine.

  • giyane

    Amybody remember Jameah Islamiah, the Deobandi Madrassah in West Sussex which was raided in 2005 after having been used by Abu Hamsa for jihad training? It has remained closed for 10 years. Why? Because in spite of receiving £200,000 p.a. in charitable donations, none of the money had been spent on improving the fabric of the building, so the council deemed it unsatisfactory, which by any standards it was. The council knew it was because it previously owned the building.

    This was a classic example of the Deobandi sect supporting Islamic jihad, as it still does in Syria, while flatly denying the fact. It sends 100s of young men from the UK to help the USUKIS regime change/ neo-colonisation of Syria, still flatly denying that it is helping David Cameron’s warmongering worldwide.

    The madrassah’s idea then , as now, was pure profiteering. The school would declare itself safe in order to qualify for government grants as an independent school, and would repair the fabric afterwards.

    The current scam is for the jihadist recruits to tap into the UK benefit system and the Saudi/Qatari gravy train to render Syria uninhabitable to its own citizens.

    All hypocrisy stinks. While the Deobandi sect turns a blind eye to mortgage based wealth accumulation by Muslims in the UK, who now own their own homes, rent homes to others, and also own multi-million pound businesses and premises, at the same time they support the eviction of the Syrians by terrorist groups from their houses and businesses, and they are forced to live without their male protectors, who are fighting against this USUKIS mercenary Al Qaida, in tents in Turkey, which is the principal USUKIS NATO agent of terrorist jihad.

    We will not go into the degrees of status and wealth to which this Deobandi sect aspires, or the levels of degradation to which the Syrian people have been subjected.

    Suffice it to say that what is deemed good for ‘our people / apne’ for the benefit of the Islamic world as a whole, is not the same as is deemed good for the Syrian, Kurdish or Arab people who have to fight this scourge of terrorism that the Deobands fund and support.

  • giyane

    Like cancer, trollery proliferates. We lost one troll, Humbug, and 20 others have filled his place.

  • Alcyone

    Morning Tony

    Many thanks for your replies which I read with great interest.

    I have a very busy day today and hope to revert to you in the evening.

    Wish you a lovely day!

  • nevermind new year, whats happening about bullied Elliott Johnson RIP?

    Indonesia, the country of burning forests, populated by most Muslims in the world, 300 million, attacked by IS?
    Why would that be?
    The false flaggers have it, this is getting right weird now, south east Asia is being attacked by NATO/Turkey’s daeshing IS, are we seeing the next theatre of war being prepared by the neocon warmongers, the western industrial arms exporters?

    Obama’s reign is coming to the end and Forest trump is waiting in the sideline to give his owl worshippers more of the same.

    Economic insecurity world wide is causing unrest in many countries, as are the streams or refugees, so what better for our neocons than to prepare for another war, regardless of what is already happening.
    Banksetrs got their slumps and crashes to make money from us, neocons and the military industrial criminals have their false flag attacks, speculative arms deals with fellow criminals to set the world alight and really cause some global thermo nuclear warming.

  • Ba'al Zevul

    Economic insecurity world wide is causing unrest in many countries

    Long ago, there was some kind of a consensus in the West that while political refugees fleeing war and immediate famine were fair enough, economic migration was not to be encouraged. In the quest for cheap labour, our masters the hedge funds have decreed otherwise. The choice is now between the shareholders’ wellbeing and the shareholders’ even greater wellbeing, which is best obtained by paying non-shareholders as little as possible. Anyway…

    I would like Louise Mensch to go here.

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/02/an-apology/#comment-508703

    and read on from there, enjoying the output of real journalists – exhaustively cited – doing real research* into the corruption which underpins the society she loves, themed around the doings of a single individual for just about a year. And his wife, who is doing very nicely, thanks, despite the sexual oppression only a QC doing international consultancy can fully appreciate…

    *as opposed to vapid but vicious thinkpieces promoting their Neanderthal (and sexist) employers’ prejudices. Or this sort of thing, for that matter –

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/13/desire-louise-bagshawe-digested-read

  • Arbed

    Hello, gang! I’ve not been around for a while, but thought you’d all like to know this:

    Fuck me, looks like Ecuador has achieved a bit of a coup. Julian Assange is to be questioned under Ecuadorian law, which means – I think – that the Swedish prosecutor’s questions will be passed to Ecuador’s own prosecutors, who will conduct the actual questioning, with Swedish representatives present, if they wish.

    Assange: Ecuador Reiterates Disposal to Cooperate with Sweden:
    http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4515301&Itemid=1

    or, in better English

    Ecuador: We’ll cooperate with Sweden on Assange:
    http://www.thelocal.se/20160114/ecuador-well-cooperate-with-swedish-prosecutors

    In the original radio interview by Ecuador’s FM Ricardo Patino he says any future trial, if necessary, will be held in the London embassy.

    At last! Julian Assange has a chance to be given a fair legal process, now that Ecuador has found a way within the Ecuador/Sweden bilateral treaty negotiations to take the corrupt Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny out of the picture. I just wonder whether this was also intentional on the part of the Swedish Foreign Ministry negotiators? Rumour has it there has been an internal struggle within Sweden between the Foreign Ministry, who want shot of the whole bloody Assangefallet mess, and the Justice Ministry, who have been desperate to save face.

  • Arbed

    I’ve only quickly scanned the last couple of pages of comments, so forgive me if I’m speaking out of turn.

    I’d just like to clarify that, per Sofia Wilen’s own first police statement, she was aware that the condom Assange was wearing was only half-on during the sex session they had after she’d been to the local shop and they’d had breakfast. So it seems very likely the condom had fallen off by the time Assange initiated sex again around 15 minutes later. This time, she asked whether he was “wearing anything” and he immediately confirmed “No. Just you”. On the proviso that “you’d better not have HIV” (also immediately confirmed as an “Of course not”), she consented to continue with unprotected sex, albeit not as explicitly as saying “Yes, I consent to carry on”.

    There is no real question anymore that Wilen was, in fact, awake the entire time. She herself confirmed this in a text to a friend that she was “half-asleep” and conceding in later police interviews that she was not asleep. Maybe a bit tired, not fully ‘with it’ (they’d been going at it most of the night, with breaks, it seems). Assange said in an interview at Christmas that she was awake the whole time; the first time he’s commented on this aspect in public, I think.

    Where’s the crime, hmmm?

  • John Spencer-Davis

    Arbed
    14/01/2016 12:34pm 12:46pm

    Thank you for your excellent contributions, welcome back and it’s very good news that the Assange case is moving forward in a way that apparently leaves him safe from extradition.

    I hope his supporters will maintain dignity and not take occasion to crow, because I do not think that would be wise.

    Our discussion digressed from the specifics of the Assange case to an examination of what does or does not constitute consent in law and rape in law. But you have not spoken out of turn at all, your posts are most illuminating.

    Thanks.

    John

  • giyane

    Mark Golding:

    “We can be heroes (just for one day.) ”

    I have many levels of objections to the Deobandi sect, and I have outlined my main one about their principal excusing casual sexual encounters with non-Muslims as between the doer and Allah.

    The principle thorn in my side from them was that when I came into Islam in heir mosque i asked for help with reading and understanding the Qur’an but they told me not to worry about that and to concentrate on proseletysing Islam. Later they told me that if I had conformed with their stupid ideas completely, they would have addressed my desire for help with the Qur’an.

    Te next thorn was when I was working on the electrics of a mosque, and before I completed the task, they put down the carpet, closed the ceiling, and started to use it, forcing me to take them to a solicitor to get the work completed. All the necessary things for a public building, I had to fight with them to get them done, emergency lighting and fire alarm.

    Then came the electrical testing with Jameah Islamiah, where they refused to spend any money on improvements, preferring instead to suspect me of trying to close the mosque down. Absolute nutters!

    Then came the spying on my private life, which is in co-opertion with MI5, because it’s completely illegal. So they spy, using MI5 information while harbouring insane suspicions that I am spying on them. Bonkers!

    I come from a divorced family, from a grand-father who was an alcoholic, and the system I was brought up in about sexual relations was as dis-functional as they come. The Deobandis think that when you come to Islam you are going to be the same as them, whose mothers , grandfathers and great grandfathers never strayed in marital infidelity.
    I was brought up in a culture where that was a fact of life, in fact the norm.

    For 10 years no Deobandi offerred to find me a wife, and when my Kurdish friend found me a Kurdish one it has taken 10 years to understand that the duplicity of UK women is unthinkable for them. All this time the shitty Deobands have been spying on me through their haram mobile phone systems and MI5 co-operation. I have named and shamed them on this blog many times. They are proud of their haram.

    We English have lived 300 years with the Muslims of India. They know our buttons and we know theirs. Our culture has no sexual stability so they wind us up through that area of weakness. Their weakness is that they utterly ignorant of the Qur’an and the teachings of Islam. They support Al Qaida and Taliban from some deep emotional feeling of revenge, completely regardless of the fact that they have been set up by USUKIS to hurt their fellow brothers and sisters of Islam. Total wankers, the lot of them. They are no benefit to the world, because they know nothing at all about their religion.

    When UK citizens see what they are doing, we see nothing at all that resembles what we know of God’s will from the Christian religion. And vice versa. to me they look like the advanced stages of neo-con hypocrisy, and to them we look like the last stages of moral depravity. They disturb me to the roots of my being, and no doubt we disturb them.

  • Arbed

    Hello Clark,

    Well, I just popped in to update peeps – but if there’s any specific questions on latest developments in the ‘Assange Matter’ (as they call it in Sweden) I’d be happy to help if I can.

  • giyane

    Arbed:

    “Where’s the crime?”

    There is no crime in UK terms. We have been led to believe that in Sweden these issues about practicing safe-sex are more formalised. We have no business making judgements about other peoples’ behaviour, especially when they belong to a different culture to our own.

    what we do have to be aware of is that if a person expects her sexual partner to behave in a certain way which is normal where they come from, they may get uptight if that system is not conformed to, without necessarily working for the CIA to entrap the poor fellow into US extradition.

    Most of this blog has been the worst kind of voyeuristic speculation, combined with ultra -suspicious conspiralooning. If Assange fears betrayal, he should talk more with his sexual partners before bonking them.

  • fred

    Alex Salmond getting rave reviews in the Times for his new radio show.

    Kenny Farquharson – Sketch, The Times
    Published at 12:01AM, January 14 2016

    When Alex Salmond agreed to be a “shock jock” on his own weekly LBC radio phone-in show, he must have reckoned it was easy money. How hard could it be to joust with the great British public for half an hour on a Wednesday afternoon?
    Mr Salmond reckoned without Paul from St Albans.

    On his debut show yesterday the former first minister was reduced to bluster and condescension when Paul — his surname was not given — grilled the political veteran on oil and independence.
    Paul raised the entirely reasonable point that Mr Salmond’s case for a go-it-alone Scotland was based on an oil price more than three times higher than it is today. When the MP for Gordon responded with some well-worn debating points from the 2014 referendum campaign he was interrupted.

    “That sounds like a politician talking,” said Paul, his dander up. “He wanted to run the country and be financially secure, and he can’t talk about Scotland, he’s got to talk about Norway or America or Saudi Arabia.”

    While a flustered Salmond blustered, Paul pressed his point: “How many people live in Scotland, Alex?” No coherent answer came. “And how many of those people pay taxes? That’s how many people you would have to rely on.”

    Mr Salmond appealed to his interlocutor’s better nature. “You don’t really want to insult the whole of Scotland,” he said, before Paul again interrupted him.

    It was all getting a bit fraught. This was not how it was meant to be. It was not easy money at all. Mr Salmond’s co-host, Iain Dale, had to come to the aid of the elder statesman. “Hang on, hang on. Let Alex answer, Paul.”

    Mr Salmond began reciting statistics about Scottish employment before his temper clearly got the better of him and a tone of angry condescension crept into his voice. “So don’t start talking about Scotland from your position in St Albans — some poor wee place that’s . . .” We will never know Mr Salmond’s considered view of St Albans because he was interrupted yet again. “I never said that at all, Mr Salmond. Don’t put words in my mouth.”

    And so it continued until Mr Dale made a suggestion. “Shall we move on from St Albans and go to our next caller?” A grateful Mr Salmond swiftly replied: “Yes, indeed.”

    In trailers for the show Mr Salmond was billed as a “straight-talking” politician who was not afraid to “shoot from the hip”. But on this, his debut, he was twice chided by his fellow presenter for being evasive under questioning from members of the public.
    “That’s the second time. You’re prevaricating. Come on,” said Mr Dale at one stage. Dance, monkey, dance. Earn your money.

    It started so well, too. Mr Salmond put on a smooth FM disc jockey voice as he introduced the show.
    “If you’ve a burning question you want to ask me, this is your chance. Whether it’s oil jobs, junior doctors, women’s pensions — a big issue that — or the English national anthem, which kept me awake all night worrying about it last night. It can be about absolutely anything.” The voice dropped an octave. “Within reason of course.”

    There was even a good joke. LBC is a talk radio station with the tagline “Leading Britain’s Conversation”. Mr Salmond apparently wanted to change this to “Leaving Britain’s Conversation”. Oh, the banter.

    In England, where 90 per cent of LBC’s audience lives, it remains to be seen how many listeners plan to tune in again next week, and the week after that.

  • John Goss

    “Where’s the crime, hmmm?”

    Exactly.

    Arbed, I really respect your contributions since the start of this cynical attempt to take away the Wikileaks founder’s liberty. I doubt anyone is better-read on the Assange case than you. Thanks for the update.

    “If Assange fears betrayal, he should talk more with his sexual partners before bonking them.”

    Perhaps. However most affairs, especially casual affairs, just happen. My suspicion is that when Anna Ardin learnt that Sofia Wilen had become his partner she was determined to get revenge (based on the deleted essay of hers “Seven steps to revenge against a man who dumps his lover.” I paraphrase. Perhaps even she could not foresee just how protracted this affair would be.

    No doubt everyone will be happy when the case is closed. It is costing the taxpayer a small fortune policing the Ecuadorian Embassy. 🙂

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