Mike Buchanan (politician) explained

Mike Buchanan
Office:Leader of Justice for Men and Boys
(and the Women Who Love Them)
Term Start:6 February 2013
Term End:26 May 2020
Predecessor:Office established
Successor:Elizabeth Hobson
Term Start1:21 March 2021
Term End1:31 March 2023
Predecessor1:Elizabeth Hobson
Successor1:Office abolished
Birth Name:Gordon Michael Alexander Buchanan
Birth Date:1957 12, df=yes
Nationality:British
Party:Justice for Men and Boys (and the Women Who Love Them)
Spouse:Twice divorced
Children:Two daughters
Residence:Bedford, England
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Website:Justice for Men and Boys
(and the Women Who Love Them)

Gordon Michael Alexander Buchanan[1] [2] (born 8 December 1957)[3] is a retired businessman[4] and men's rights activist, who founded and for two separate periods has led the organisation Justice for Men and Boys (and the Women Who Love Them) (J4MB), which formerly operated as a minor political party, in the United Kingdom.

Career

Buchanan was a company director for Link Procurement Services Ltd from 1999 to 2010,[5] and also for Legal Procurement Services Ltd from 2005 to 2008.[6]

He also worked as a consultant for the Conservative Party,[7] but left the party in 2009 after David Cameron announced his approval of all-women shortlists for selecting parliamentary candidates,[8] [9] accusing Cameron of being "relentlessly pro-female and anti-male" in his policies and comments.[8]

Campaign for Merit in Business

In April 2012, he began the 'Campaign for Merit in Business' arguing against increasing gender diversity in the boardroom (GDITB).[10] [11] The campaign submitted written evidence to a House of Lords European Union Sub-Committee on the Internal Market, Infrastructure and Employment which was investigating 'Women on Boards'.[12] The sub-committee also heard from the campaign's Research Director, Michael Klein.[13] The sub-committee found that "[a] more balanced board [would] be able to tap into the wealth of available talent in the labour market, provide a broader spectrum of ideas, better reflect a company's customer base, and improve corporate governance.", but went on to say, "that quotas should not be resorted to until all other options have been exhausted."[14]

Later in the same year, Buchanan appeared before the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee's inquiry, 'Women in the Workplace', alongside former UKIP local election candidate Steve Moxon, sociologist Catherine Hakim and business executive Heather McGregor.[15] At the Committee, Buchanan described himself as the campaign's chief executive, and saying that in November 2012, the campaign consisted of ten members. In written evidence to the inquiry, he cited five longitudinal studies, which he entitled Improving' Gender Diversity on Boards Leads to a Decline in Corporate Performance: The Evidence.[16] In response to the committee's report the coalition Government said the report, "[reflected] the view of the Government and the Women's Business Council that there is a clear benefit from ensuring that those women who want to work, or want to work more hours, are able to contribute fully to the economy."[17]

Anti-Feminism League

Buchanan also began the Anti-Feminism League in 2012.[18] A year later, its website, called Fightingfeminism, which academic Alva Träbert described as "mak[ing] its opposition to feminism explicit" and based in part on Buchanan's "experience at the boardroom level of multinational corporations", was merged into the Campaign for Merit in Business and the political party, Justice for Men and Boys.[19]

Justice for Men and Boys

The political party Justice for Men and Boys (and the Women Who Love Them) or J4MB for short, which Buchanan led, was founded on 6 February 2013,[20] and registered with the Electoral Commission on 21 February 2013.[21]

Buchanan said he established the party because "the state is anti-male"[22] and considers the male sex to be "pretty much subhuman".[7] According to him, "legislation is routinely drafted to advantage women and disadvantage men" while "boys are being relentlessly disadvantaged by an ever more feminized education system".[23] He also formed such groups as the Anti-Feminism League and Men Shouldn't Marry.[24]

J4MB described itself as "the only political party in the English-speaking world campaigning for the human rights of men and boys"[25] [26] and as being anti-feminist. The academic Ana Jordan noted that Buchanan "has been openly vitriolic about feminism and feminists". "Feminism is a hatred, and it should be a badge of shame," Buchanan has said. According to him, "It's a very well documented feminist objective of 40 years to destroy the nuclear family," and feminism "is a deeply vile, corrupting ideology and the idea it's a benign movement about gender equality is dangerous nonsense."[7] [22] He says, "All feminist narratives are one or more of the following – conspiracy theories, fantasies, lies, delusions or myths."[27]

J4MB issues awards for "lying feminist of the month" to female journalists,[7] "toxic feminist of the month" and "whiny feminist of the month",[28] with recipients including Laura Bates and Caroline Criado-Perez. The Observer columnist Catherine Bennett wrote in 2015, "The treatment of one such J4MB target, Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, is such that it might easily be mistaken for stalking, at least since headlines such as 'Will someone change Laura Bates's diaper' on a blog, were followed by Mr Buchanan, the would-be public servant, bothering the audience in a bookshop where she was about to speak." J4MB's website includes a link to an article entitled "13 reasons women lie about being raped".[28] [22]

Buchanan relinquished his role as leader of the party to Elizabeth Hobson in May 2020,[29] but re-assumed it after Hobson resigned in March 2021.[30] In April 2022, it was announced that the party was changing its name to the Children & Family Party.[31] In November 2022 the party reverted to its original name, though the Electoral Commission requested the dropping of the "and the Women Who Love Them" portion.[32] J4MB was de-registered as a political party on 31 March 2023, and in June 2023, its website stated,"J4MB is no longer a party, but its mission remains unchanged."[33] Buchanan continues to lead the organisation.[34]

2015 general election

In its manifesto for the 2015 general election, the party explored twenty areas in which it believes the human rights of men and boys in the UK are being violated.[20] In this document, the party advocated compulsory paternity tests regardless of the mother's marital status or her testimony about who the father was, cutting funds intended to encourage women to enter science, and cutting the abortion limit for women whose pregnancy threatens their mental health from 24 to 13 weeks.[26] Parents should be able to send their sons to schools with only male teachers because female teachers are assumed to favour girls in the awarding of marks.[35] They also advocate that men should be able to retire earlier than women, because males work harder and die younger.[25] The section on sexual abuse concentrates on female offenders, and the issue of rape and assaults annually committed against women in the UK is avoided.[36] The higher level of male suicide is blamed on the state for favouring women over men. According to The Week, the manifesto "quotes extensively from the Daily Mail, Wikipedia and anti-feminist blogs including JudgyBitch.com".[37] Journalists Ellen Halliday and Kim Darrah write that in the manifesto, "Buchanan also encourages men to take 'the red pill', a reference to the ideology of incels – extremists, usually men, who express extreme hostility and hatred towards the people, usually women, who they blame for what they believe is their involuntary celibacy".[38]

Writing about the party's manifesto launch and the media coverage it generated, The Observer columnist Catherine Bennett wrote, "Before long, many more voters should be familiar with his organisation's gormless/whiny/lying feminists of the month announcements and enthusiasm for personal attacks, to a point that eclipses its more persuasive concerns about, say, male suicide or judgments in the divorce courts."[39] Laura Bates has written that the party "achieve[d] a significant sweep of media coverage", and that "In his new status as a politician, Buchanan was also given free rein to opine unchallenged about the 'myth' of the glass ceiling." Bates notes, "Although much of the coverage was critical, the very fact that such quotes appeared in the national press in the context of a political leader running for office helps to provide MRA ideology with a sense of legitimacy and acceptability, while also serving as a gateway for potentially susceptible converts, who might go on to access some of the movement's more extreme online spaces as a result." She notes as an example one newspaper article that described Buchanan as an author of three books, without specifying that the books had been self-published.

The party stood for election for the first time at the 2015 general election, with two candidates in Nottinghamshire seats. Party leader Mike Buchanan stood in Ashfield against the Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, Gloria De Piero. Buchanan came last with 153 votes out of 47,409 cast. Ray Barry stood in Broxtowe, against sitting Conservative MP Anna Soubry, and also came last with 63 votes out of 53,440 cast.[40]

If Labour had formed a government in 2015, Buchanan said its leading female politicians would have been given "free rein to roll out yet more radical feminist agendas, teaching schoolboys to be feminists, ie brainwashing them into becoming lifelong unquestioning slaves to women".[39]

Later activities

The party co-hosted the 2016 International Conference on Men's Issues (ICMI16) in London, between 8 and 10 July 2016 in association with A Voice for Men. Conservative member of parliament Philip Davies, a member of the Justice Select Committee, spoke to the conference and asserted that the criminal justice system favours women's over men's rights.[25] [41] Davies was not paid for his appearance at the conference.[35]

Buchanan announced that he was not standing in the 2017 United Kingdom general election, although he had previously intended to be a candidate in Maidenhead against Theresa May, the Prime Minister.[42]

The 2018 International Conference on Men's Issues (ICMI18), again in association with A Voice for Men, was due to have taken place at St Andrew's Stadium, the home of Birmingham City Football Club, between 6 and 8 July 2018.[43] However, in early November 2017 the club in a statement said that "after certain details concerning the organisers came to light, the Club investigated further and concluded this is not something we want to be associated with" and that it had been "misled at the time of booking". Buchanan initially said he still intended for the conference to go ahead at St Andrew's as he felt he had "a perfectly good and legally binding contract".[44] He later decided to seek a new venue either in Birmingham or London.[45] He announced on his party's website on 1 December 2017, that a contract had been signed with a new venue in London, for a conference on 20–22 July 2018.[46] Three days after the conference finished openDemocracy revealed the venue was the ExCeL.[47]

In April 2019, Buchanan announced on the Justice for Men and Boys website a new strategy of giving talks at universities, in a bid to engage with students and academics, particularly those studying subjects such as politics and history.[48] The first talks were scheduled at the University of Cambridge on 24 May 2019. Following an open letter from students and academics to the Vice-Chancellor, demanding the talks be cancelled, the venue was altered to a non-departmental building. University staff claimed that J4MB had engaged in harassment of female academics.[49] Before Buchanan was due to give his speech on "Equal Rights for Men and Women", a student threw a milkshake over him in a Cambridge pub.[50] The event went ahead, with students protesting outside the venue and linking hands to try to block J4MB members from entering.[51] An attendee at the event was accused of assaulting two of the student protestors.[52] [53] It was later reported that two students had been fined £75 each for the milkshaking and that no action had been taken against the party member who had been accused of assaulting student protestors.[53]

Electoral Commission and finance

The Electoral Commission report on expenditure by political parties in the UK General Election 2015 noted that, for political parties with financial returns of less than £250,000, Justice for Men and Boys was one of the top ten highest spending with a total expenditure of £11,423.[54]

The party's full accounts since inception are as follows:

2013[55] 2014[56] 2015[57] 2016[58] 2017[59]
Donations £6,051.00 £9,266.00 £9,534.00 £7,037.00 £4,775.00
Membership fees £0.00 £0.00 £1,587.00 £1,985.00 £9,512.00
Miscellaneous income £85.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Total income £6,136.00 £9,266.00 £11,121.00 £9,022.00 £14,287.00
Total expenditure £1,470.00 £8,288.00 £14,677.00 £4,307.00 £13,566.00

Parliamentary elections

General election, 7 May 2015

Constituency Candidate Votes %
Mike Buchanan 153 0.3[60]
Ray Barry 63 0.1[61]

Campaign against circumcision

Buchanan and J4MB have campaigned against circumcision, with Buchanan claiming that it breaches the Offences against the Person Act 1861. He includes "the non-therapeutic [e.g. religious] circumcision of male minors" in his definition of genital mutilation[62] and is critical of the media's focus on female genital mutilation arguing that, "[t]he foreskin is a biological equivalent to the clitoral hood, not the hymen."[63]

In April 2016, it was reported that J4MB was planning anti-circumcision protests in Golders Green, London, including outsides the offices of the Jewish Chronicle, as well as outside the Home Office and the headquarters of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in central London.[4]

Conviction for obstructing the highway

In July 2018, the High Court in London upheld Buchanan's conviction for obstructing the highway. Buchanan was arrested in June 2016 during a protest against male circumcision and convicted in October 2016. Rejecting Buchanan's appeal the judge, Lord Justice Hickinbottom, said, "Buchanan had been perfectly legitimately protesting on the pavement. But he had then walked alone into the road and stood in front of cars as they tried to pass at the end of the working day. Standing there clearly put him at risk of serious injury - and he understood that risk, and was determined to take it - but it also put others at risk of injury or risked damage to property." The court also added a further £2,424 to his court bill of £3,603, bringing it to a total of £6,027.[64]

Media appearances

The former businessman has made a number of appearances in the media including: arguing against more women on corporate boards (Daily Politics);[65] discussing sexism with Caroline Criado-Perez (This Morning);[66] discussing Justice for Men and Boys' 2015 election manifesto (Sunday Politics, East Midlands);[67] considering the question "does absence of refusal to have sex amount to consent?" (The Big Questions);[68] discussing politics with a feminist (Sunday Politics, East Midlands);[69] discussing the junior barrister Charlotte Proudman's rebuke of Alexander Carter-Silk, a senior City solicitor for complimenting her on her LinkedIn profile photograph (Sky News);[70] appearing on a documentary about sexism (BBC Three);[71] discussing whether you can be a successful working mother (Sky News);[72] discussing Nottinghamshire Police's decision to become the first police force within the UK to begin recording misogyny as a hate crime (Victoria Derbyshire);[73] discussing the gender pay gap, citing a blog by William Collins (The Roundtable);[74] discussing the

  1. MeToo
phenomenon (Sunday Morning Live);[75] discussing the allocation of chores between genders, advocating Catherine Hakim's preference theory (Sky News);[76] and discussing Swayne O'Pie's campaign to establish a Minister for Men (comparable to the Minister for Women) (RT UK).[77]

Amongst the views he expressed are: "the number of qualified men for major corporate boards hugely outnumbers the number of qualified women"; "all the [major political] parties are institutionally pro-female and anti-male"; explaining why the UK legal definition of rape states that a woman can not legally rape a man, "the Sexual Offences Act 2003 was drawn up by radical feminists"; "men will support women as stay-at-home partners or parents and women won't"; "Charlotte Proudman clearly suffers from an all too common mental health condition 'whiny feminist disorder'"; "feminism is a female supremacy movement driven by misandry, the hatred of men, it's a vile ideology"; "this whole narrative about work being fulfilling, and exciting, and interesting, and looking after children being stressful and mundane, it's a feminist narrative that just doesn't make sense for the vast majority of women"; "I don't think any sane person believe that wolf-whistling is evidence of misogyny, only feminists could believe such a ridiculous thing [...] because it's the sign of a man's admiration for a woman"; "Martin Fiebert [list of] hundreds of studies show that women are at least as physically aggressive towards opposite sex partners as men"; "[w]e know that both male and female teachers have an in-built bias towards marking girls better than boys"; and "[f]eminism is not about gender equality it is about ever more privileging of women and always has been".

Personal life

Buchanan is twice divorced,[78] and has two daughters.[79] [80]

Publications

Books
Self-published booksBuchanan has also published several books through his own publishing company, LPS Publishing.[81] One of these, Feminism: The Ugly Truth (2012), features a cover photo of a female vampire,[82] which scholar Linda Mizejewski describes as "a repulsive female zombie, her mouth red with blood and jagged with fangs"; in it, Buchanan writes that "it would be dishonest to deny the evidence before us – that feminists are generally less attractive than normal women" and that "my theory is that many feminists are profoundly stupid as well as hateful, a theory which could readily be tested by arresting a number of them and forcing them – with the threat of denying them access to chocolate – to undertake IQ tests".[83]
Articles

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

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  39. News: Justice for Men and Boys' hatred of feminism eclipses its remit to help men. Catherine. Bennett. The Observer. 18 January 2015. 27 June 2023. 4 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230404165556/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/18/justice-for-men-and-boys-feminists-backlash. live.
  40. News: Election 2015: HS2 divides Broxtowe candidates . 13 April 2015 . . . 13 April 2015 . 13 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150413103642/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32277813 . live .
  41. News: Fisher. Lucy. Feminists want to have their cake and eat it, says Tory MP. The Times. 13 August 2016. 27 June 2017. 7 November 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161107045021/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/feminists-want-to-have-their-cake-and-eat-it-says-tory-mp-g2ms9rshg. live.
  42. Web site: Preston. James. REACTION: Theresa May announces snap General Election. Maidenhead Advertiser. 19 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170419080024/http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/maidenhead/114059/breaking-theresa-may-announces-snap-general-election.html. 19 April 2017.
    - News: Witherden . Grace . 'Men's rights' campaigner announces bid to oust Theresa May from Maidenhead seat . . Baylis Media Ltd . 28 September 2016 . 14 October 2016 . 6 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161006173750/http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/gallery/maidenhead/104800/men-s-rights-campaigner-announces-bid-to-oust-theresa-may-from-maidenhead-seat.html . live .
  43. News: Staff writer . Questions for Birmingham over links to political party . . . 1 November 2017 . 2 November 2017 . 1 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171101203150/http://www.football365.com/news/questions-for-birmingham-city-over-links-to-controversial-political-party . live .
  44. News: Hussain . Danny . Anti-feminist group BANNED from staging conference at St Andrew's stadium by Birmingham City FC . . . 2 November 2017 . 2 November 2017 . 2 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171102221847/http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/anti-feminist-group-banned-staging-13847898 . live .
  45. Web site: Buchanan . Mike . ICMI18 – new venue being sought . j4mb.org.uk . Justice for Men and Boys . 9 November 2017 . 9 November 2017 . 10 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171110004944/https://j4mb.org.uk/2017/11/09/icmi18-new-venue-being-sought/ . live .
  46. Web site: Buchanan . Mike . The fourth International Conference on Men's Issues (ICMI18) . icmi18.wordpress.com . . 1 December 2017 . 18 February 2018 . 16 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180116050404/https://icmi18.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/the-fourth-international-conference-on-mens-issues-icmi18-is-on/ . live .
  47. News: Whyte . Lara . "Young men should be furious": inside the world's largest gathering of men's rights activists . . yes . 50.50 . 25 July 2018 . 25 July 2018 . 26 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180726041023/https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/lara-whyte/young-men-should-be-furious-inside-worlds-largest-mens-rights-activism . dead .
  48. Web site: Engaging with university students and academics: Mike Buchanan and Elizabeth Hobson to give talks at the University of Cambridge, 24 May.. 3 April 2019. Justice for Men & Boys. 10 July 2019. 10 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190710090216/https://j4mb.org.uk/2019/04/03/engaging-with-university-students-and-academics-mike-buchanan-and-elizabeth-hobson-to-give-talks-at-the-university-of-cambridge-24-may/. live.
  49. News: Cambridge University criticised for hosting anti-feminist group. 2 April 2019. The Guardian. 11 July 2019. 11 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190711151626/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/02/university-of-cambridge-criticised-for-hosting-anti-feminist-group-justice-for-men-and-boys. live.
  50. News: J4MB leader doused in milkshake at Wetherspoons. 24 May 2019. Varsity. 12 July 2019. 12 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190612115408/https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17598. live.
  51. News: Students protest against anti-feminist group. 24 May 2019. Varsity. 12 July 2019. 26 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190526090312/https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17599. live.
  52. News: J4MB talk attendee accused of assaulting student protesters. The Tab. 8 June 2019. 12 July 2019. 12 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190712021251/https://thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2019/06/08/j4mb-talk-attendee-accused-of-assaulting-student-protesters-125761. live.
  53. News: Activists fined £150 after 'milkshaking' members of anti-feminist group J4MB. Stephanie. Stacey. Varsity. 15 September 2019. 27 June 2023. 10 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220810194407/https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17824. live.
  54. Web site: Electoral Commission releases UK Parliamentary General Election campaign expenditure returns of less than £250,000 . . 16 September 2015 . 4 April 2017 . 5 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170405073650/http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission-media-centre/news-releases-donations/electoral-commission-releases-uk-parliamentary-general-election-campaign-expenditure-returns-of-less-than-250,000 . live .
    - Web site: Justice For Men & Boys, Statement Of Individual Payment (SP0197849) . . 15 September 2015 . 4 April 2017 . 5 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170405073617/http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Spending/SP0197849 . live .
  55. Book: Stott, Tony . Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them) Statement of accounts for the year ending 31 December 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170914112520/http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/15444 . 14 September 2017 . . 28 May 2014.
  56. Book: Stott, Tony . Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them) Statement of accounts for the year ending 31 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170914113404/http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/15483 . 14 September 2017 . . 8 July 2015.
  57. Book: Stott, Tony . Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them) Statement of accounts for the year ending 31 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170914113634/http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/16578 . 14 September 2017 . . 12 April 2016.
  58. Book: Stott, Tony . Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them) Statement of accounts for the year ending 31 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170914114019/http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/18625 . 14 September 2017 . . 12 March 2017.
  59. Book: Stott, Tony . Justice for men & boys (and the women who love them) Statement of accounts for the year ending 31 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180802233918/http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Api/Accounts/Documents/19698 . 2 August 2018 . . 30 March 2018.
  60. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000535 Election 2015 - Ashfield
  61. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000607 Election 2015 - Broxtowe
  62. Julia Hartley-Brewer (host) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 30 June 2017 . 16 December 2017 . Interview about male genital mutilation . Radio . . . The default position of the law in England and Wales is perfectly simple: the non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors, or male genital mutilation, as we generally refer to it is a breach of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 being at least actual bodily harm and probably grievous bodily harm [...] It would require a parliamentary override to be legal and that has never existed. .
  63. Web site: Buchanan . Mike . A futile attempt to enlighten a feminist about MGM and FGM . j4mb.org.uk . . 9 January 2017 . 16 December 2017 . 11 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180711195455/https://j4mb.org.uk/2017/01/09/sarah-r-is-a-blithering-idiot/ . live .
  64. News: Herbert . Tom . Ex-Tory Party consultant fined £6,000 for protesting against male circumcision . . 13 July 2018 . 19 July 2018 . 19 July 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180719054143/https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/13/ex-tory-party-consultant-fined-6000-protesting-male-circumcision-7714538/ . live .
  65. Jo Coburn (host), Heather Rabbatts (guest), Mike Buchanan (guest) . 28 January 2013 . Women in business . Television . . BBC Two.
  66. Are men the real victims of sexism? . . Phillip Schofield (presenter), Christine Bleakley (presenter), Caroline Criado-Perez (guest) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . . . 15 January 2015 . 11.33am . 16 December 2017 .
  67. Marie Ashby (host), Maggie Throup (guest), Chris Williamson and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 18 January 2015 . 16 December 2017 . Women in business . Television . . BBC One via YouTube.
  68. Nicky Campbell (host), Mike Buchanan (guest). etal. 1 March 2015 . 16 December 2017 . Does absence of refusal to have sex amount to consent? . Television . . .
  69. Rob Pittam (reporter), Sarah Honeycombe (guest) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 12 April 2015 . 16 December 2017 . Election 2015: Feminist meets Justice for Men leader . Television . . BBC One.
  70. Jeremy Thompson (presenter) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 10 September 2015 . 16 December 2017 . News item: Charlotte Proudman's naming and shaming of Alexander Carter-Silk . Television . . Sky.
  71. Tyger Drew-Honey (presenter), Mike Buchanan (guest). etal. 23 November 2015 . 16 December 2017 . Tyger Takes On... Am I Sexist? . Television . . BBC Three.
  72. News: Harris . Sarah Ann . Kay Burley perfectly handles 'men's rights' campaigner Mike Buchanan when he calls her 'pathetic' . . 8 March 2016 . 16 December 2017 . 17 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171217014730/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/03/08/kay-burley-mike-buchanan-pathetic_n_9409372.html . live .
  73. Victoria Derbyshire (presenter), Loretta Trickett, criminologist (guest), Martha Jephcott, police trainer (guest) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 19 September 2016 . 16 December 2017 . Should sexism towards women be a hate crime? . Television . . BBC Two.

    Citing:

    • Fiebert . Martin S. . References examining assaults by women on their spouses or male partners: an annotated bibliography . Sexuality and Culture . 18 . 2 . 405–467 . 10.1007/s12119-013-9194-1 . June 2014 . 14991601 . Available to download as a word document here.
  74. David Foster (presenter), Jeni Klugman, MD Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (guest), Shaista Aziz, writer and journalist (guest), Lanre Akinola editor African Business (guest) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 9 August 2017 . 16 December 2017 . How real is the gender pay gap? . Television . . TRT World via YouTube.

    Citing:

    • Collins . William . The trouble with boys in education (blog) . mra-uk.co.uk . . 20 October 2014 . 16 December 2017 . 17 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171217014326/http://mra-uk.co.uk/?p=121 . live .
  75. Emma Barnett (presenter), Sean Fletcher (presenter), Dawn Foster journalist (guest), Zoe Strimpel historian of gender and relationships (guest), Shyama Perera writer and broadcaster (guest) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 24 October 2017 . 16 December 2017 . Have we previously turned a blind eye to sexual harassment? . Television . . BBC One.
  76. Kay Burley (presenter), Nichi Hodgson (guest) and Mike Buchanan (guest) . 10 May 2017 . 16 December 2017 . Gendered jobs: Is allocating chores by gender sexist? . Television . . Sky via YouTube.

    Citing:

    • Book: Hakim, Catherine . Catherine Hakim . Work-lifestyle choices in the 21st Century: preference theory . Oxford University Press . New York . 2000 . 9780199242108 . Preference theory .
  77. Martyn Andrews (reporter), Swayne O'Pie (retired teacher and lecturer), Elizabeth Hobson (gender studies of men's activism), Sarah Robertson (journalist and feminist) and Mike Buchanan . 3.20 . 11 January 2018 . 12 January 2018 . Should there be a 'Minister for Men'? . Television . RT UK via YouTube.
  78. News: Nianias . Helen . 'Feminists hate men': Meet Mike Buchanan, the leader of Britain's new Justice for Men and Boys party . . 14 January 2015 . 16 December 2017 . 21 December 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171221052538/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/feminists-hate-men-meet-mike-buchanan-the-leader-of-britains-new-justice-for-men-and-boys-party-9977357.html . live .
  79. Book: Acknowledgements . https://books.google.com/books?id=v8QkU3rSIAIC&pg=PT12 . Buchanan . Mike . The joy of self-publishing . 12–13 . LPS Publishing . Bedford, UK . 2011 . 9781456604875 .
  80. News: Lloyd . Matt . Battle of the sexes: Dad to stand for MP to challenge 'anti-male culture' . . . 28 April 2013 . 2 November 2017 . 9 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171109001429/http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/mike-buchanans-justice-men-boys-3182239 . live .
  81. Web site: About . lpspublishing.wordpress.com . LPS Publishing . 16 December 2017 . 8 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190708134302/https://lpspublishing.wordpress.com/ . live .
  82. Book: Buchanan, Mike. Feminism: The Ugly Truth. 2012. LPS Publishing. 9780956641694. 5.
  83. News: A wig for WikiLeaks, the political party for men and Michael Gove's curves. Helen. Lewis. The New Statesman. 3 January 2013. 27 June 2023. 24 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220524190050/https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2013/01/wig-wikileaks-political-party-men-and-michael-gove%E2%80%99s-curves. live.

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