I was asked today if I was a ‘liberal’. Now in all honesty, until quite recently, I would just have said ‘yes’ and moved on. Simple, easy, checks the right boxes. But the world is not as it was; liberalism has become infected with some appallingly bad ideas that we have to stand up to … Continue reading Socially aware, libertarian, scientific, secularist
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Western feminists, for over half a century, have argued that gender itself has been the fundamental agent of women’s oppression. But very few have considered the consequences of matriarchy. I suggest that matriarchy in the Philippines offers an alternative. In ‘Why Men Made God’ we pointed out that powerful, high-status women in the patriarchy were … Continue reading Matriarchy in the Philippines
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The Brexit mirror cracked from side to side under the weight of simple, sheer reality this week. The fissure in the Brexit mirror began to appear when Norway’s Foreign Minister told the world that no, the UK could not re-enter the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) just because it fancied the idea. The UK was … Continue reading The Brexit Mirror — cracked from side to side
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Theresa May, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has said, several times now, that ‘Brexit means Brexit.’ The problem is that nobody is quite sure what that means. It would appear that even Ms May is somewhat vague on what Brexit means. Does Brexit mean what the likes of Redwood and Cash mean, … Continue reading Brexit means Brexit
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The first signs of widespread panic amongst the UK’s hard-right, swivelly-eyed Brexiteers have begun to appear. In our last Friday Politics we pointed out that Brexit, as promised by the triumvirate of swivelly-eyed-ness, Johnson, Gove and Farage, is dead. It can’t happen. Now that realisation has got through to those whose eyes are usually so … Continue reading Swivelly-eyed Brexit panic.
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