Help us to help Siouxsie
Mark Honeychurch - 10th November 2025
When I wrote my article about the MENZ website a couple of weeks ago, I briefly mentioned John Potter, the site’s admin, and his connection to the Centrepoint commune/cult as the son of guru Bert Potter. I provided a couple of links to further information, and mentioned that readers should look into Centrepoint if they weren’t already familiar with the details of just how bad things became. Journalist and DeCult conference founder Anke Richter messaged me and suggested that readers might want to read her interview of John Potter, the “absent father” of the MENZ website, that came out in North & South magazine in 2021. It’s a fascinating read, and gives some useful background that may help to explain why John runs a men’s advocacy website full of misinformation and woman-hating rhetoric.
In this week’s newsletter, we’re doing what we can to help out Siouxsie Wiles with her fundraising efforts, as we think she’s well deserving of some help. Katrina has written a dastardly article with some ideas on how to win arguments disingenuously. I’ve been emailed by John Happs, an Australian who used to be the head of the Western Australian skeptics for many years. He believes climate change isn’t a problem, and so I’ve explained how he ended up emailing me, and looked at just a few of the dodgy arguments he used in a talk he gave in Australia recently. Following this, we’ve published an email from John where he explains why he thinks we’re wrong as an organisation to believe that climate change is real, anthropogenic and a risk. Finally Bronwyn has written a monster of an article, the first of a series on a succession of strange groups that occupied a house in Ireland at various times over the last 50 years.