(Photograph: Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Presumably saving all their bangs for the impending war between Israel and Hamas, the SNP conference in Aberdeen ended with the usual whimper about seeking independence if they had a mandate to do so. This is the safest promise that could be made, akin to […]
They say it’s all downhill after 40, but in my case it was more of a freefall. While I’ve never been particularly athletic, I’d always been active: a professional juggler for over a decade, with swimming and a little (very) amateur boxing thrown in for good measure. Everything was fine until I hit the big
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Ross Clark in The Spectator reckons that Pope Francis has gone ‘full Greta’ over his recent document Laudate Deum, which he presented to the current and ongoing Synod of Synodality in Rome. He could well be right. Popes issue several types of documents with different levels of authority, including Encyclicals, Apostolic Exhortations and Papal Bulls.
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I have come to the conclusion that there are two main breeds of politicians. The ones that come into politics to tidy up the untidy aspects of life, and those who understand human frailty; blessed with the vision to harness it, for the benefit of us all. The former love things to be in order; they
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My taxi driver in Washington DC was from Eritrea. He had asked where I came from and how it compared with my country; and he told me how different he found it from his. So I braced myself and asked the most politically incorrect of questions: where was he from? Turns out he had won
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Britain is the best country to be black in” Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch confidently informed the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester last Tuesday. Is she right? Perhaps, and then again perhaps not, particularly if you’re a black adolescent living in London. I can certainly think of a number of black teenagers, senselessly slain within the
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I have had reason elsewhere to lament the woeful state of the Roman Catholic Church, my church as it happens. From the head down, like the proverbial fish rotting, it seems to be in decay. From the suppression of the archaic but, nevertheless, completely harmless Latin Mass which is enjoyed by many, old and young,
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Britain’s major Blairite vanity project, the HS2 rail line is nothing short of a national disgrace verging on scandal. Mind you, for sheer comedy value, you can’t fault it. It’s the only gravy train that manages to run without tracks; it starts somewhere in London that nobody can find, and goes to somewhere up north
In an ideal world, might we not hope our men live up to the expectation of unfaltering chivalry? Absolutely. But with misandrist feminists the norm, why on earth should they? What’s the point, when all you get is spit in the face? Feminism was undoubtedly once a noble cause, but its modern incarnation certainly isn’t. Dismissing male suicide, weaponising rape accusations, and using your sexuality as a battering ram ought to forfeit any woman her right to complain of unchivalrous treatment.
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Your correspondent has just returned from Italy and has reported previously in these pages on the situation there regarding North African migrants. Al fresco dining is a nightmare, plagued as one is by a succession of North African men approaching your table festooned with trinkets, refusing to read the ‘go away’ hand gestures. Ignoring them is
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