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The Burqa and the Cowards
I was waiting for a lift at a hospital in an Islamic part of the world (not Britain, though) when the doors opened, and a man stepped out, followed by four dark figures: women, presumably, fully covered in burqas, not even their eyes showin...
The ‘Free Palestine’ Cult Has Come for Ed Sheeran
If Ed Sheeran paraglided into a music festival and began gunning down twenty-somethings as they fled, we would call him a monster. If he then subjected the survivors to further horrors, we might reach for a few adjectives in a hopeless atte...
This Intricate Rented World
What an empty sky does to a civilisation that has lost its nerve.
I was teaching a small room of German businessmen the third conditional in a language school on Gloucester Road, in a posh part of London – a fresh-faced philosophy graduate...
The Man Who Wouldn’t Pretend
You know a woman from a man. We all do. Every civilisation has understood the distinction without needing chromosomes or gametes to tell one sex from another.1 We used to call this common sense, and it was as simple as pointing a finger: th...
What the Hell Happened to Amnesty International?
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