About Neil Lyndon

Neil Lyndon - who has been a highly successful professional journalist and writer for 35 years - was the first writer in Britain to draw attention to men's disadvantages and inequalities and the first to offer a radical, egalitarian and progressive critique of modern feminism. In a series of major articles for The Times, The Independent and The Sunday Times in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lyndon became the first journalist to point out that our culture promoted a systemic prejudice against men and that its focus on the position of women allowed it to overlook the true position of men, especially in the family. He was the first to draw attention to the absence of legal rights for unmarried fathers, the first to question the absence of any say for men in abortion and the first to point out that prostate cancer was an entirely neglected illness which killed more men than all the cancers of the female reproductive system combined (a finding which was hotly disputed at the time by leading figures in the medical establishment). In 1992, Lyndon synthesised and advanced these views in his book "No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism" in which he argued that the idea of a patriarchy - the essential foundation stone of modern feminism - was bogus and that change for women in the last 200 years had closely followed the development of technologies for contraception and abortion. Contrary to the claims of feminists, Lyndon argued, Western societies had generally welcomed and encouraged change for women and men - far from resisting such change - had plainly wished to embrace change for themselves.
 
These articles and books created an unprecedented storm of opposition and personal abuse. No More Sex War was certainly the most aggressively attacked book of the last 50 years. Neil Lyndon became a pariah in his profession and an outcast in the London media society in which he had, for many years, enjoyed a prominent position. His income disappeared and he was bankrupted.  Having been the first journalist to argue that the courts acted unfairly in their treatment of fathers who had become separated from their children, Lyndon found himself in that very position when his estranged wife abducted their nine year-old son to Scotland and Lyndon was engaged for many years in court battles over custody and access, losing at every single stage. He did not see or speak to his son for four years, until - when he was 15 - the boy ran away from his chronically unfit mother and Lyndon moved to Scotland to give him a home while he finished his schooling.
 
Though he is allowed to write in a variety of national papers on many other topics (he has, for instance, been Motoring Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph since 1994) Neil Lyndon is still unable to get his views on sex, gender and the family published in mainstream British media.
 
Neil Lyndon is 60. He is married and is the father of three children.

Neil Lyndon’s Talk

The Best Interest of the Child Are the Best Interests of the State
 

“There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos... And it is richly deserved." -- Daniel Patrick Moynahan "Family and Nation", 1965

My purpose in my talk will be to ponder on the consequences for our age and our society of a determined policy which places parental authority solely in the hands of mothers. According to this policy, the best interests of the child are synonymous with the interests of the mother (as she individually determines them to be). A change of policy could do much to check the slide to chaos which the state has engendered over the last 30 years.