Matt O’Connor, founder of Fathers 4 Justice recently reported that, when he tried to raise men’s issues with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in the coalition government, Iain Duncan Smith told him that such questions are "taboo" in politics. That response accords with Paul Boateng’s self-righteous ire when, as Home Office Minister, he ejected representatives of Families Need Fathers from his office in the 1990s, telling them that he didn’t want to hear a word about disadvantages for men until the last inequality for women had been extirpated. In 20+ years, therefore, and despite the sure justice of their cause, outfits like FNF and F4J have succeeded in impressing themselves on the political establishment to roughly the same extent as human beings upon Saturn.