Gender politics
Life is tough at the bottom of the equality heap
The incident I am about to recount I make no judgment about, other than that I believe it tells us…
Letters: The problem with flying is the airports, not the airlines
Unbearable wait Sir: Like Jenny McCartney, I too am fed up with flying (‘Civilised air travel? Pigs might fly’, 5…
Oh no! Do I have to save the world as well as writing books?
Novelists can’t merely tell cracking tales. We’re supposed to save the world. At the University of Kent, a student implored…
Men behaving badly in suburban California
‘Leonard Michaels (1933–2003) was one of the most admired and influential American writers of the last half century,’ states the…
Top Five reviewed: Chris Rock hits rock bottom
The oeuvre of Chris Rock may not be fully known in this parish. He was the African-American stand-up who made…
Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’
Free speech is so last century. Today’s undergraduates demand the ‘right to be comfortable’
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‘Now I just need to sort out the voiceover.’
‘They only got £90 million for House of Fraser...’
‘Looks like they’re finding
the discussions frustrating.’
‘I prefer filtered coffee.’
‘Sorry, I don’t have a spare pound
today but I plan to have one by 2027.’
‘It’s outrageous that a real space alien didn’t get the role.’
‘It might look better in
portrait than in landscape.’
‘He refuses to go home until
Boris is out of the news.’
How your smart devices talk about you
when you’re out.
‘He just encountered some free speech.’
Life before phones
