If you wanted proof that men are now marginalized, look no further than a question tabled for discussion at next year’s annual U.K. conference of Alcoholics Anonymous. “Would the fellowship consider the creation of a video which is aimed at encouraging Men into AA? This would complement the ...
Do charities for older people help older people, or do they target older people for donations, and for other political reasons? Since my mother was diagnosed with dementia, my parents have had a constant stream of charities visit them, and, I have to say, they’ve done the grand total of sweet FA ...
Do women need to start speaking out about what they are witnessing their girlfriends doing to men? Is it time for some honesty and realism in the sex misconduct debate so that we can separate one thing from another, in terms of seriousness? Watching all the celebrity sexual misconduct allegations, ...
The National Health Service is worshipped by the Brits, not least those who don’t have to queue up to use it. But when you subject it to scrutiny, it soon reveals itself to be taking the most astonishing liberties. “Our NHS,” as Brits like to call it, started very, very quietly hawking ...
A £100 million bat protection tunnel being built in the U.K. might be utterly pointless, except that it brings a wonderful new phrase into the English language: bat shed crazy. Beside half a mile of the already lunatic rail scheme called High Speed 2, a disastrously ugly aboveground tunnel is ...
Honesty at last from the medical profession and Big Pharma as a new law proposed in Britain will allow doctors to prescribe a pill specifically to kill you. Up until now you might feel it’s just been experimental Covid vaccines that might give you a heart attack or stroke or turbo cancer, or ...
“Scientists say they’ve finally found proof of the afterlife,” announced the top story in Mail Online this week, alongside the U.S. election. Heartwarming, reassuring, utterly stupid stories about death—running at the very top of the news agenda—have been dominating the middle-market ...
When is a terrorist killer actually a terrorist who has just happened also to kill? When the authorities say so, obviously. The man charged with stabbing to death three young children in Southport was making ricin and reading terrorist manuals beforehand, a court has just heard. But the British ...
We know the Cambridge Union just held a shameful, ugly debate on making all vaccinations mandatory, because someone had the foresight to film it and put it on YouTube. When you search the Cambridge Union’s website for the debate it says, “Oops, we are unable to find what you were looking ...
“Does anyone else look like me in Alcoholics Anonymous?” says the headline on AA’s latest promotional leaflet, above a picture of four smiling cartoon faces, two of them Muslim. This leaflet has so many possibilities for comedy, not to mention complaints from the Muslim Council of wherever. ...
