Tory men! Terfs need you
Some of my good male friends, Tories, are sick of terfs. I can see it in their shifty eyes, in…
America is in trouble if Gavin Newsom succeeds Biden
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California is everywhere at the moment, earnestly assuring Americans of his unwavering loyalty to poor,…
There’s something very wrong with children’s history books
The first editor I worked for was Charles Moore and, like many of his old and ageing former staff, I…
I’m taking mental notes for my old age
I know straight away, from the look on my friend Alice’s face, whether it’s a ‘bad carer’ day. Five years…
The asexual revolution
Who could have foreseen that half a century after the sexual revolution we’d be facing its exact opposite: an asexual…
Why send children to therapy?
I’ve been reading a book by the American journalist Abigail Shrier – Bad Therapy – which describes just how demented…
The ‘luxury beliefs’ that harm vulnerable children
Now that everyone insists that the oppressed must be lifted up – or platformed, if you’re that way inclined: why…
Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?
Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…
I regret not having more children
Life doesn’t always work out perfectly. You can make the wrong decisions. You can leave things too late. I wish,…
Mexico’s progressive hell
Every morning I check to see if Rodrigo Iván Cortés has published the ‘apology’ that the court in Mexico has…
Dog ice-cream: proof we’ve lost our minds
During the few hot days we had in June, I came across my first tub of dog ice-cream nestled among…
You don’t need to ‘Queer’ the Mary Rose
I have an idea for the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth. My idea is for a Mary Rose Ultimate Experience…
The dangerous cult of ‘toxic parents’
Complaining about ‘toxic parents’ has been a viral hit on TikTok with videos on the topic racking up several billion…
‘There is no plan! You’re on your own!’
The first LNER train I booked on Sunday from Durham to London was cancelled due to ‘action short of a…
A narcissist eyes up the White House
Back in the late 1990s, when I lived in Dallas, Texas, I became fascinated by television evangelists. They were hucksters…
Why I hate drones
I have a plan for my old age. Now that we all might live for a century or so, feeling…
