As I am sure you know, it was International Women’s Day just over a week ago. The idea of having a day to protest for women’s rights began with the American Socialist Party in 1909. March 8 was chosen by the Soviet dictator and mass murderer Vladimir Lenin, because that was the day in 1917 […]
We British are known for our propensity to apologise. Even when we need not, many of us do. However, our excessive concern for others’ feelings has reached a new low (or should that be high?). The latest Astute Class Submarine was set to be called HMS Agincourt after Henry V’s famous victory over the French
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On 17 July 1812, a small force of British troops led by the audacious Captain Charles Roberts and supported by white and indigenous Canadian militia, launched a surprise attack on Fort Mackinac. Men of the Royal Artillery dragged a six-pounder cannon to the ridge above the fort and fired a single round before demanding the
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I have a love-hate relationship with football. I love watching a midfield player curve the ball into the penalty box so that it lands with missile accuracy on the head of a forward who then nods it into the goal. I love too the great amount of charity work that clubs do, which is underreported.
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According to Peter Rohde’s biography of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the great Danish philosopher recorded in his journal how a highly educated preacher was once invited to the King’s opulent court to speak to the richest and most powerful people in the land, and he chose to talk about how God chooses the humble and rejected.
When the Labour Party chose Jeremy Corbyn as its leader, Peter Hitchens wrote an article for the Daily Mail asking whether the Conservative Party could choose a true conservative leader now that the Labour Party had a true socialist as theirs. What the Conservatives had as prime minister during Corbyn’s party leadership were three leaders
Although the Christmas decorations are not yet back in their cardboard boxes, the Environment Agency has already cemented its plans for this summer. The Agency is offering forty summer internships to help undergraduates and recent postgraduates get a foot on the first rung of the environmental corporate ladder. Clearly, a good idea…except that White people
If you have read Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House, I am sure you recall the character of Mrs Jellyby. If you are not acquainted with this figure of Dickensian satire, then allow me to introduce her to you. Mrs. Jellyby is a very wealthy woman, but a stupidly selective philanthropist. She devotes her time and
Once upon a time, progressives were truly progressive. They had people like Dr Martin Luther King Jr., who believed sensible and decent things such as it is best to judge a person by the content of his or her character rather than by his or her skin colour. Ignore the late New Atheist Christopher Hitchens’
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So insanely far-reaching is ‘hate crime’ law in England that even children are now accused of it, and are being investigated by the police. According to a report by LBC, these children include a nine year old who called a classmate a ‘retard’ and two teenagers who told another student she smelt like a fish.
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