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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What to do with the word ‘evil’? It is the ultimate description of the depraved depths to which some humans descend. Here we find infanticides, serial killings and genocides. Here we meet Ian Brady, Ted Bundy and Adolf Hitler. Yet our age’s anodyne response is to avoid the word altogether. We are the philosophical descendants
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The unthinkable has happened, a conventional war on the continent of Europe, but the military has been slow to adapt. Yes, Europe has seen bloodshed since 1945; terrorism, militias fighting in Balkanised countries, unmatched airpower imposing diplomacy on those breaching the peace. However, our security cannot be taken for granted. The invasion of Ukraine has
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We would always hope and expect that a Conservative government would tirelessly work in the long-term interests of the country. Sadly, in terms of energy policy ever since the resignation of Mrs. Thatcher, it has been a tale of political expediency and short-term gain for long term expense. My goodness if the Thatcher vision of
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My mother had a Missal. It’s a good thing that this is the written medium and not the spoken one, otherwise Americans might be concerned as to what an elderly Catholic woman might be doing with a missile. No – Missal, not missile: the book that Catholics can take into a church and which allows
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(Photograph: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) I read an article probably a few months ago by Nick Timothy, saying that the Conservative Party must change to be electable. Since then I have been considering why it is that I think of myself as a conservative, why that outlook reflects my values
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If you want still to rejoin the EU, ask yourself after reading about nearly four decades of IMF economic data, how in the name of good judgement anyone might want to do that. For those four decades the EU has been a graveyard for UK GDP along with the rest of the EU. Over that period the world and his wife has become comparatively
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I shed no tears for Dame Alison Rose following her resignation earlier this week. However, the problems highlighted by Mr Farage’s debanking are I believe rather more systemic than is perhaps realised. Having had one of my business accounts ‘exited’ by part of Dame Alison’s former empire I know only too well Mr Farage’s pain
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