Anika Wells, Australia’s Sports Minister, has come out swinging her heaviest club, opening a new front on the war against ‘the patriarchy’ by wanting to ‘see more women playing golf’ in Australia.

She appears to have been motivated by a recent staging of some ‘patriarchal’ guerilla theatre at a prestigious (and expensive) golf club in Victoria where a male club member dressed up in skirt and blonde wig to inquire at reception whether, because he self-identified as a woman, he could access the offer of cheaper membership fees for women which the club had recently made to try and boost the proportion of female...