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Smacking

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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Royal Navy

I See No Ships

Our right Royal Navy has been the subject of ridicule on these pages before and they’re here again. Royal Navy ships remain tied to the quay in Portsmouth for lack of fuel, our latest and greatest aircraft carrier was towed to the scrapyard and they have long celebrated their members (no pun intended) who are

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Eid

How Did You Celebrate Eid?

We are through Ramadan and Eid Mubarak has been called which means that Muslims can now get back to eating during the day instead of eating all night. ‘Oh’, I hear you say, you thought that they fasted? Well, no, not exactly. If you missed the fact that Ramadan has been upon us then you

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skin colour

The Colours of Our Skins

When someone accuses you of something widely thought disreputable, something you don’t believe you are guilty of, you deny it, instinctively. Unfortunately, this makes you subject to the Mandy Rice-Davies Manoeuvre: Well, he would, wouldn’t he? (Often abbreviated to MRDA: ‘Mandy Rice-Davis applies’.) And this is a manoeuvre to which neither Steven Ward’s defence counsel

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Pope Francis

I Believe in Climate Change…

The Nicene Creed, recited by Roman Catholics at each Mass which in Latin begins ‘Credo in unum Deum…’ (‘I believe in one God…’) appears to have been replaced by ‘Credo in caeli mutuatione…’ (I believe in climate change…’). The Holy Roman Church, to which I belong, has been captured by the climate catastrophist lobby and,

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