The internet has not, let us be honest, been an unalloyed blessing. Being able to communicate with almost any individual on the planet is marvellous. Being the target of a Twitter storm is not. Being able to buy almost anything at the click of a button is a boon, but many things are available which […]
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In the Scottish Government’s latest paper An independent Scotland in the EU, we learn that the SNP thinks that it would take between two to five years to join the EU. This is despite us learning that civil servants had previously warned that it could take up to eight years. The truth is that no one knows how long
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I have a friend. This might be hard for those of you who read my articles to believe, but there you go. People are odd. To spare his blushes, let us call him “Robert”. Robert is, like me, at that stage where others refer to him as middle-aged. He prefers “Late Youth” and expends considerable
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It was the American Dream to go West and make one’s fortune. In the early Nineties, it was still the Dream to go West, this time to the furthest West where the cities of the Pacific coast offered the brightest economic futures. As the great cities of the Midwest and the East Coast were suffering
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In an era defined by global uncertainty and unpredictable challenges, the state of Britain’s defence capability is dangerously compromised. A bold reappraisal of future requirements is necessary to prepare the country for the uncertainties we face. The world today resembles a cracked mirror, with its unpredictable fractures presenting unique threats to our values, way of
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For the last ten days, the BBC has been obsessed by the prospect of HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester being either on or off. This is classic lazy hack news, as there are (to quote John Major) other ways of skinning this particular cat. Why is the taxpayer directly funding a railway in the first
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Cognisant of its dwindling membership, the Church of England is in survival mode, adopting fashionable ideologies in an attempt to remain ‘relevant’ whilst maintaining a semblance of orthodoxy to keep the pew-dwellers happy. The latest example is of the Anglican charity, United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG), pledging £7m to Barbados over the next
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Two weeks ago, the debate on whether we should have a Minister for Men really took off. It all started with my Radio 4 Women’s Hour interview and then a phone-in. It has then continued across the weekend and into this week too. This included articles in the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman. To
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Of all kinds of humour, political satire is the one that authoritarians tolerate least, for it has the habit of releasing suppressed feelings of defiance among the governed that might coalesce into rebellion. Two Serbian journalists, Srdja Popovic and Mladen Joksic, demonstrated this way back in 1998 with a prank. They and colleagues from the
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Martha Gill’s recent article in The Guardian (‘A Tory MP wants a minister for men. How about one for white people, heterosexuals and the upper classes?’, 9 September) is a masterpiece of hypocrisy, fallacy and ignorance. It is an exercise in fragile feminism. So, what is her problem with MP Nick Fletcher’s idea of appointing
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