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Smacking Back in the Dock

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) unveiled a report this month, once more calling for the criminalisation of smacking in England and Northern Ireland: Scotland and Wales have paved the way for the UK to become a more equal society by removing the reasonable chastisement defence from their legislation. Political leaders in

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Mark Steyn

An Interview with Mark Steyn (Part I)

(Photograph: manningcentre, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Mark Steyn is the bestselling author of many books, including America Alone, After America, and Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and The Twilight of the West. His previous incarnations include broadcaster, film and theatre critic, and jazz musician. But for the purposes of this interview, it’s his role as

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Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf: Scotland’s Hate Monster

(Photograph: Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Anyone even vaguely familiar with Scotland will know the values she traditionally embodies: stoicism, courage (as the mellifluous reeds of the bagpipes attest in Scotland the Brave), and of course the hard-earned ‘Freedom’ won from the bastard English, immortalised by William Wallace’s silver screen reincarnation,

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Vaughan Gething

Missold on White Privilege

(Photograph: Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) With the fêted election of Vaughan Gething as Wales’ First Minister (Europe’s first black head of government incidentally), the British Isles is now exclusively run by those of non-white heritage. And ‘didn’t they do well?!’, as Bruce Forsyth used to say. Rishi’s

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Drag

International Women’s Day

I have to confess as a fully paid up member of the Patriarchy, International Women’s Day has never really done it for me. It does take the shine rather unsportingly off the wife-beating, rape and misogyny if you have to pretend to give a shit about the feminist cause in the process.  But that was

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