Sometimes I wish members of parliament would smoke cannabis more often. It would be great if we could sit down and watch the news one day to hear the words, “well folks, we’ll rejoin the presentation of the Budget just as soon as the Chancellor stops his bout of uncontrollable giggling,” or, “we’ll resume Prime […]

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Charlton Heston died on Saturday. The man who played Moses in The Ten Commandments was known for playing such heroic roles. In the 1950s and 60s he was “one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak out openly against racism” and later a vocal advocate of conservative politics.
It’s a deplorable fact that […]

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Instantly, upon reading that title, feminist hackles are raised. But I don’t think there are very good reasons for that. The news in the past week that the British building company Wimpey has banned its workers from wolf-whistling at passing women comes as no surprise to me:
“In the 21st century the wolf whistle […]

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