“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” sang Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. I doubt he would get away with it now. Imagine! Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair. Who, when you win, will always give your back […]
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On my early morning walk to the gym, I have to walk past my former employer, the University of Hull. This week I glanced over the road to see yet another virtue signal, literally, hoisted up the flagpole. The Ukrainian flag. I have previously written in these pages on another piece of flag-waving from the
The problem with women’s football is that when I am watching it, it appears nobody else is. The stadia in which it is played are virtually empty and even major events such as the Women’s World Cup Final only get viewed worldwide by 23 million people compared with the 517 million who viewed the World
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist (you can just hear the ‘but’ coming, can’t you?) and I am not an ‘anti-vaxxer’ (refer to previous material in parentheses). This is despite penning two large essays—The New Conservative passim—on the origins of globalism and its current manifestations with Dr Niall McCrae. I have also been very critical of
Who in Britain recalls the pandemic? Those long summer days of 2020 in our back gardens sipping gin and tonics, ‘working’ from home and deciding which face mask to wear. We waited with bated breath for the weekly Covid-19 updates from our Great Leader flanked by his trusty medical and scientific colleagues Professors Witless and
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Let’s spare a thought for poor old Vlad the Putin. He must be barely able to sleep these days, what with the war and all. But he also has to bear the burden of being expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest, Sainsburys changing the spelling of ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ on its chicken Ки́їв (The New
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If you are into Vikings—and a great many people are—then there is a televisual feast of programmes available on Netflix. I reckon that if I sat down now and watched them all end to end that I may be dead before I get to the end. But what is not to like about Vikings? Big
All the news that is fit to print seems to be coming from a place called ‘Kiv’. At least that’s what it sounds like to me and, in fact, the updated spelling of ‘Kyiv’ for what we used to spell as ‘Kiev’ has been the subject of much comment. It is so convenient that this
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After a week away I returned to catch up on the previous weekend’s newspapers and a full page Saturday interview in The Daily Telegraph with former cricketer Michael Vaughan caught my eye. I wish it hadn’t. Vaughan, as many will know, was at the heart of a race row storm in Yorkshire cricket over inappropriate
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It is possible that many readers will already have heard of the Dutch brand of chocolate Tony’s Chocolonely (other brands are available). But it is equally possible that some may not, so here goes. Tony’s Chocolonely is, essentially, an edible virtue signal and the brand came to the wider attention of the public when it
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