“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality,” wrote the great Lord Macaulay back in 1830. Last week we had to endure another buttock-clenching spasm of shrill moral posturing and garish self-love, as tens of thousands of assorted ...
For the first time in 100 years, a British national election has been won by a party other than Conservative or Labor. Conservative: 24%; Labor: 25%; UKIP: 27%. It's an historic result. Let's not get too excited. This isn"t the General Election, which decides the national government for the ...
Harris, W. C. Slouching Towards Gaytheism: Christianity and Queer Survival in America. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 277pp. W. C. Harris is a radical gay activist and Professor of Queer Studies and Early American Literature. He says that homosexuals are still cruelly oppressed ...