Café Culture
The Transmaid’s Tale
It’s generally agreed that sex-selection is a Bad Thing. In India and China, sons are favoured over daughters – but…
The climate ‘crisis’ has nothing to do with the Holocaust
What is it with environmentalists and the Holocaust? Barely a month goes by without some prominent green or another outrageously…
Does the TUC understand what the word ‘mum’ means?
Imagine if, in 1868, when the TUC was founded, someone had told those warriors for workers’ rights that one day…
Mourning and Rage in Heidelberg West
As one exclusionary flag is reverently lowered in Melbourne’s Banyule City Council to mark the end of Pride month, a…
Does cricket suffer from ‘institutional racism’?
What a strange document the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket (ICEC) has produced, in its ‘Holding up a mirror…
When vegans are worthy of our disdain
Celebrity chef John Mountain made headlines last week for banning vegans from his restaurant, Fyre, citing “mental health reasons,” reportedly…
My dog has been cancelled by Pride
Bella is a three-year-old dog of indeterminate breed. I found her by the side of the road. She is fearless,…
The French Connection and the trouble with streaming censorship
We are ten minutes into William Friedkin’s The French Connection and we’ve just seen our two heroes beat the shit out of…
Chris Christie goes soft on trans issues
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has come out against banning sex changes for minors, putting him at odds not…
Why Pride lost the public
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably witnessed the backlash to Pride. There have been mass boycotts of…
Free speech is for scumbags, too
It doesn’t take much to get you censored these days. You don’t even need to be that controversial. Believing in…
‘Healthy’ Pornography for Kiddies
One of the many disturbing features of our modern secular world is the realization that there is an active cohort…
The stupidity of the Oscars’ diversity quotas
Is anyone actually watching the Oscars anymore? Until ‘The Incident’ between Messrs Smith and Rock last year the direction of…
Vehicles for Propaganda
In the unrelenting propaganda campaign which is being waged on the increasingly fatigued populace by those who wish to divide…
The idiotic campaign against Elizabeth Gilbert
At the end of the 1920s, Erich Maria Remarque’s novel Im Westen nichts Neues appeared in English as All Quiet…
When will the Department for Education get a grip on its transgender guidance?
Who’s running the show on trans and gender? Elected ministers? Or an activist civil service? A publication put out by…
Is this Wickes’s Gerald Ratner moment?
Big businesses are increasingly torn between activist leadership and a customer base that just wants to stump up its cash…
Cambridge College goes for Woke
There are some wokefications in this world of ours that are a little more disheartening than others. One of those…
Bread, Circuses and Moon Worshipping
Just as the Roman Emperors knew to give the proles bread and circuses, so too does Victoria’s very own dictator…
Is Justin Trudeau right to blame Canadian wildfires on climate change?
Planes grounded in New York, people told to stay indoors – and an actress forced to leave the stage on…
The nasty side of Pride
For a month that’s supposed to be all about love and acceptance, Pride has a pretty nasty streak. Maybe that’s…
Down with Mount Rushmore
Just when you thought that Target in the US could not get any worse, it turns out that its Pride…
What’s the point of tilting the statue of Vienna’s antisemitic mayor?
Tilting a statue. That’s the solution now. At least, that’s what a jury appointed by Vienna city council has recommended…
Book banning has come back to bite US conservatives
If you thought American book-banning couldn’t get any more ridiculous, think again. A school district in Utah, one of the…
Who allowed Dale Vince’s climate curriculum to take over schools?
Recently, much light has been shone on the way LGBTQ+ campaign groups have been able to influence school sex and…
