F4J back calls for referendum on fathers’ rights ahead of Father’s Day
Campaign group Fathers4Justice has backed a call by Irish columnist and broadcaster Sarah Carey for a referendum on fathers’ rights in yesterdays Irish Times. The call for a referendum – long campaigned for by Fathers4Justice – follows the abortion referendum, and comes ahead of Father’s Day on Sunday 17th June. Said Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor; […]
Martin Phillips: Father’s Day? You must be joking!
By Martin Phillips Remember when no crane, no motorway gantry and no government building was safe from rampaging superheroes? No, not the early Avengers blockbusters. We’re talking about fancy-dressed Fathers 4 Justice campaigners. Well, now the Spidermen and Batmen are back, and this time they’re playing their Jokers. The protest group is marking this year’s […]
‘The Split’ family law drama review: everything you hate about family lawyers and more
They say a family lawyer supports a separated dad like the rope supports the hanging man. Proof of this was evident throughout the first episode of BBC1’s glossy family law drama ‘The Split’. Bitch-slapping alpha females clashed over clients, while neutered men were reduced to second-class roles as deadbeat dads, nodding dogs or useful idiots. […]
Divorce court blunders: some couples may STILL be married
Scores of newly-divorced couples may still be married because of a series of blunders by officials. Those affected were granted legal break-ups too quickly, a senior judge said yesterday. In some cases, couples submitted divorce petitions before they had been married a year – the minimum period. In others, officials approved divorces before the applicants […]
Fathers4Justice Presents The Father’s Day Comedy Night ‘Stand Up 4 Fathers’
Fathers4Justice are staging a Father’s Day Comedy night at 7.30pm on Monday June 11th at the Backyard Comedy Club, Bethnal Green, London, ahead of Father’s Day on 18th June. ‘Stand Up 4 Fathers’ will leave no politically incorrect stone unturned as we cover topical comedy ranging from Prince Harry’s wedding to superhero suffragents and beyond! […]
BBC legal refuse to investigate CBeebies star Katy Ashworth over contact denial claims as new allegations surface
Yes, that’s right, the BBC, home to child abusers like Jimmy Savile and others, are turning a blind-eye to the conduct of CBeebies TV star Katy Ashworth who has been accused of denying dad Ben Alcott access to his son Charlie for over four months. Alcott was reunited with his son after approaching Fathers4Justice for […]
F4J campaign is the ‘Big Picture’ in Third Sector Magazine
The Fathers4Justice #SOSManDown campaign was the ‘Big Picture’ in the January/February edition of Third Sector magazine this year. This is what they said about the campaign: The campaign group Fathers4Justice staged a series of stunts about the high rates of suicide, alcoholism and what it called ‘“fatherlessness” suffered by men over the winer months. The […]
F4J lodge formal complaint with BBC over CBeebies star Katy Ashworth
Fathers4Justice has lodged a formal with the BBC Director-General, Tony Hall, calling for CBeebies star Katy Ashworth to be suspended pending an investigation into allegations reported in the Daily Mail that Ashworth has been denying a father access to his son for four months. Australian TV director Ben Alcott, had travelled 40,000 miles to and […]
Mother locked in custody battle ‘murders son’ after saying she would rather he was dead than ‘lose him to his father’
A mother murdered her seven-year-old son by strangling him with a scarf after writing letters saying she would rather he ‘be dead’ than lose him in a custody battle, a court heard. Lesley Speed, 44, is also accused of using a cushion to smother Archie Spriggs on the same day she and her ex-partner Matthew […]
