It would have been laughable were the Conservative MP Jesse Norman not chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and so, we have to assume, entrusted with a supposed role in helping persuade the athletics establishment that some transparency on doping would help to lift its battered reputation.
The unprecedented mass resignation of magistrates (“The judicial revolt: mass resignations over punitive court fees”, 9 September) is yet another indication of how little this government understands the workings of our justice system.
It’s a testament to the resilience of the British stiff upper lip that, when I approached a number of senior journalists to discuss the question of assisted dying this week, their reticence spoke volumes. One was “reluctant” to enter the debate; another found it a subject they were “uncomfortable” to touch. Luckily, given the significance of the vote taking place in Commons tomorrow, I feel no such anxieties, but it’s no wonder that we shy away from the big questions of our existence when the... Читать дальше...
The announcement from David Cameron that the Government ordered the killing of two Isis terrorists, Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, has sparked a great deal of anger – much of it synthetic – on the political left. To be accurate, the Government will have agreed to the killing on the basis of available intelligence about their activities and the threats they posed, as well as advice from military commanders.
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As teenage boys, we used to play the board game Risk. It’s about world domination (in France it’s called “La Conquête du Monde”), and the winner is usually the one who takes over the most valuable countries.
To look at the images of refugees fleeing from the Middle East and North Africa, you could be forgiven for thinking that the average age in these countries is about 10. The body of three-year-old Aylan changed the media narrative of this crisis and many more poignant images have been circulated. We have seen Laith Majid clutching his children as he sheds tears of joy after surviving Aylan’s same journey, as well as children clambering through the windows to board packed trains in Macedonia, and... Читать дальше...
It was during David Cameron’s address to Parliament this week on the subject of the refugee crisis that Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, suggested that the sanctuary Britain is set to offer vulnerable refugees displaced from Syria could be snatched away once they turn 18.
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Sex education has long been a controversial topic in the United States. In Texas, where I work, sex education does not really exist, at least not in schools. About 47% of school districts provide nothing in terms of sex education and state-approved textbooks lack information on contraception. If a school chooses to teach sexual health education, they must emphasize abstinence and inform youth about the “emotional trauma” associated with sexual activity before marriage.
Adaptations of Orwell's 1984 come along fairly regularly (as witness Headlong's recent acclaimed account of it). Far rarer are stage versions of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's 1932 vision of a global totalitarian state where dissent has been eliminated not through fear but by enslaving the population to an empty, passionless form of happiness.
Hi Nicole. I recently went viral because of a blog I wrote about being rejected by a Tinder date for being too fat. I want to address couple of points you made in your video, “Dear Fat People”, since I was so publicly identified as being one myself. If you don’t mind, I’ll come to them one by one.
As former Vice-Chancellor of Monash university in Australia, who now has the privilege of leading King’s College London, I can testify that British universities offer stiff competition in attracting the best international students. But the UK can’t take its position for granted.
Benjamin Netanyahu is not an especially agreeable man. As Israeli Prime Ministers go, he has done little of real benefit for either his country or the Palestinians. Indeed, his undoubted talents for encouraging settlement-building and cultivating diplomatic animosity have proved a destabilizing force, both for international politics and the state of Israel itself.
David Cameron, stung into action by public opinion this week, has made an announcement which at first glance seems like a generous change in UK policy. The amount of aid, for instance, is high - second only to the US. But in the coming days it will come to be seen as deeply cynical - and it will also lead to damage to some key critical decisions which EU Member States had to take together with the UK.
Warwick Davis has hit out at a Leicester theatre's decision to sack Snow White's dwarves from its Christmas panto out of political correctness.
I have fallen behind in my duties to maintain the Banned List, my dictionary of prohibited clichés and jargon.
Elizabeth II, who surpasses Queen Victoria as our longest reigning monarch today, is the best advertisement possible for a thoroughly bad idea: the hereditary principle. During her reign she has steered the monarchy through difficult times. The most dangerous of these came with the public reaction to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 – or rather the public’s revulsion at the way they perceived the Palace as being in some way uncaring in the aftermath of that tragedy. For the Queen... Читать дальше...
The killing of Reyaad Khan, a British citizen turned jihadist fighter, was never likely to provoke outrage or shock in this country. This was a youth who boasted on Twitter about being implicated in what he called “executions”, including one that he gleefully described as “the longest decapitation ever”. Anyone who so publicly delights in seeing suffering inflicted on others is not a candidate for public sympathy.
Bath is to get its own version of the London Eye offering “unrivalled aerial views” across the UNESCO World Heritage city.
I admire the Queen as much as the next Sex Pistols fan. I saw the Pistols at the Lafayette Club in Wolverhampton in 1977. I didn’t realise who they were and thought they were dreadful. You would have thought “God save the Queen/ The fascist regime” might have been a clue, but I may have missed the start of their set.