Breaking The Silence

It is very much to be welcomed that some attention is finally being paid to the male victims of forced marriage. This subject is almost completely ignored, like male genital mutilation (it's part of their culture, don't you know?), or the impact of polygamy (in respect of which extra benefits are now payable) on teenage boys forced from their homes because they pose a threat to the older men who want to take teenage girls as extra wives.

There is an urgent need for programmes of conferences, publications, and so forth, on social questions which those employed at public expense to research these things refuse to research as a matter of principle.

Further examples might include:

- beyond multiculturalism to integration;
- the effects of mass immigration on established ethnic minorities;
- the effects of mass immigration on the established working class, and on public service delivery;
- racially motivated violence against whites;
- violence and discrimination by non-whites against mixed-race people;
- the economic, social, cultural and political consequences of substance liberalisation, of gambling liberalisation, and of prostitution and pornography;
- the economic, social, cultural and political importance of fatherhood, and of marriage as traditionally understood;
- domestic and non-domestic violence by women;
- domestic violence against men;
- female sexual abuse of children;
- female sexual abuse and exploitation of men;
- the effects on the poor of each of penal policy, education policy, health policy, policing policy and housing policy;

and many, many more besides.

This work really should be going on within the Palace of Westminster, as much for publicity as anything else. Why isn't it? And when will it?