Genesis chapter 5 verse 2 (“God created them male and female”) is so yesterday. How we laughed when Norfolk Constabulary announced that it was going to recognise 37 sexualities and genders, but it is clear now they were barely scratching the surface. The Civil Service has announced that they are identifying over 100 sexualities and […]
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I hold dual Irish and British nationality and have lived and worked in Ireland. For many years I have regularly visited, and have friends north and south of the border. I read The Irish Times and have read several books about the place. But frankly, I’m buggered if I understand what’s going on there. However,
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The nation’s children have recently endured two years of social and educational deprivation. They are now more depressed, less able to socialise, behind with reading and counting and very young ones are having problems with facial recognition and communication. Scare the bejeebers out of them about a virus that they were unlikely to become infected
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Scientists have discovered a black hole (or should that be a ‘hole of colour’?) at the centre of our galaxy. I’ll be sure to avoid it when I am out on one of my many intergalactic voyages. If black holes are so fascinating, I suggest we send a few scientists down Whitehall to see if
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So, The Doctor in Dr Who is going to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who is a black Scot of ambiguous sexuality. That’s three oppressed minorities ticked off in one. And before Humberside’s finest boys in blue are round here to ‘check my thinking’, let me fire off a sincere virtue signal. There were rumours
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A few days ago, someone uploaded a whole episode of BBC programme Question Time from 2002 up on YouTube. I have long given up on Question Time as there are now so many better programmes to watch. Gradually, the programme has transformed from a cutting edge forum for debate between intellectual leviathans into something more
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It seems, by a miracle of modern medicine that men can have babies. Real men, that is according to advice recently given to midwives at Edinburgh Napier University. The guidance was given that a person making the transition from being a man to being a man with boobs who presents at the maternity unit may:
My late mother, always the mistress of the malapropism, once referred to the ‘Gouds and Skites’ when, in fact, she meant to say the Guides and Scouts; what we used to refer to as the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. The clue to the binary gender distribution between the two movements was in the name.
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“Everything is brutal, now we’re being watched by Google” sang the Leicester based indie rock group Kasabian. It may not necessarily be brutal, but it is watching everything we do, making a record of the websites we visit, what we purchase, collecting our demographic details and sharing that information with others to whom it may
The NHS, the Nanny State’s military wing, has worked hard to install itself at the centre of our lives, instead of focussing on the nation’s health. Not content with being the vanguard of the masking, jabbing, social distancing and lockdown fanatics, it has now fallen for its own rhetoric of ‘saving the NHS’ and is
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