You Can’t Stand In The Way Of Progress, Man!
Theo Hobson takes issue with Roger Scruton’s religion: Is Roger Scruton a Christian? Based on his new book, Our Church: a Personal History of the Church of England, I am inclined to doubt it. Errr,...
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Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Social Workers?
Screaming headline in the ‘Indy’: Oh noes! Disaster! Oh, the terrible Tory cuts! Anthony Douglas, chief executive of Cafcass, which safeguards the welfare of children involved in family court...
View ArticleOut Of The Mouths Of Babes…
When the kids have rumbled the flaw in your grand plan, you know you’ve lost… Pupil Jake Phillips, 15, said that “speakeasies” are starting up selling the prohibited drinks. “There is business...
View ArticleGood Luck With That Campaign!
Cuts to legal aid are forcing the closure of almost a third of Shelter’s housing advice centres and compelling the Red Cross to abandon its assistance for family reunions, the organisations claim....
View ArticleMore Demands From The Usual Suspects…
Disney’s summer blockbuster The Lone Ranger has faced criticism for… Nonsensical plot? Embarrassingly bad performances? Losing money hand over fist? … its portrayal of Butch Cavendish, the film’s...
View ArticleAre All ‘Controversial Issues’ To Be Welcomed, Then?
An education that feeds students unquestioning patriotism – or, for that matter, unquestioning anything – and squelches any initiative they may take to explore controversial issues is not likely to...
View ArticleHitting The Ground Running On The Most Important Things…
…that’s the newly-formed National Crime Agency: The National Crime Agency has issued a warning … About terrorism? Drugs? Fraud? … to users of “hook-up” apps like Grindr that they must take...
View ArticleTo Be Sure, ‘tis A Rare Old Ding-Dong…
Popcorn and a pint of Guinness please! The Equality Authority and travellers group Pavee Point have both called for the article to be withdrawn. However journalist Brenda Power this afternoon defended...
View ArticleNever Satisfied…
I guess that’s why we call people like Frances O’Grady ‘progressives’ – it certainly isn’t their results! Employers told us it would cost two million jobs; rightwing politicians saw it as interference...
View ArticleHow Will Sacking Someone For Telling Truths You Don’t Want To Hear ‘Help...
Joseph Wakim is outraged: Baird is not responsible for appointments made by his predecessor. Asking Alhadeff politely to resign for his comments, made at such a tense time, would be the moral thing to...
View ArticleThey View You As Livestock…
…and this type of farmer gets upset when the livestock thrives without his interference: A Somerset man has set up his own temporary toll road after growing frustrated with a blocked commuter route...
View ArticleGary Younge Hails The Promised Dawning Of The Socialist Utopia!
… the possibility that America’s third largest city might elect a union leader over an establishment Democrat marks a broader national shift towards progressive city politics. Across the country, from...
View ArticleYou Can Have Freedom, But Only The Freedom To Be More Like Us…
Many African countries are politically freer, more prosperous and with better educated populations than at the height of the notorious “big man” regimes: one-party states and military rulers that...
View ArticleThe ‘Telegraph’ Rolls Out Dr Max Pemberton To Show Doctors Aren’t...
…and I think it’s safe to say ‘Epic, monumental FAIL!’ on that one: Should the police be involved in the Kings’ case? Despite this being a painful and sensitive situation, I think it is only right that...
View ArticleMary Brandon – Feminism’s Answer To Timothy Treadwell…
In a Facebook post which exposes the darker side of the annual street party “supposed to be about community and good vibes”… Ahahahahahaha! Is it really? Pull the other one! … Mary Brandon said she...
View ArticleI Just Don’t Get It…
The NHS is in crisis, right? ITV News can reveal how many hospital trusts are being forced to recruit from abroad as they struggle to staff their wards. We have staff shortages and these are compounded...
View Article‘Comforts’ Are A Human Right!
Vonny Moyes (arts journalist and ‘social activist’) on redefining poverty: We’re not hiking five miles for a jug of dirty water; we have good samaritans like the Trussell Trust handing out “golden...
View ArticleSome Subsidies Are More Equal Than Others…
Cheap TV licences will come to an end, under Labour plans – raising up to £1m a year for the region’s cash-starved police forces. The Opposition vowed to make applicants for TVs pay the full processing...
View ArticleDo You Understand The Phrase ‘TMI’, Rose..?
I’m on my period today. It’s day four so I’m barely bleeding, but I’m still wearing a sanitary pad. On day two – usually my heaviest bleeding day – I had to use four sanitary pads. When I went to the...
View ArticleWhite People! Just Give Up, You Can’t Win…
People love to tell me that they often forget that I’m black. They say this with a sort of “a-ha!” look on their faces, as if their dawning ability to see my blackness was a gift to us both. When I...
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