Politicians have always lied. Never more so than during election campaigns. It would be naïve to have sat down before the leaders’ debate with anything less than a handful of salt. Yet even this familiar, […]
Corporal Punishment Against Children: End as We Wish to Go On.
It is time for corporal punishment against children to end, in all settings. Yet the nature of its prohibition must set an example of the understanding and composure with which the discipline of children should […]
Come together, right now, over Brexit
How wonderful it is watching Boris Johnson have tantrums at the dispatch box, but as the Conservative Party implodes the opposition cannot afford to stretch out on the front bench. The Conservatives are weaker than […]
Political Correctness Gone Sad
We are, in general, pretty good at knowing when we’re being lied to. Advertising, politicians, announcements on public transport; modern human existence, unfortunately, involves wading through a fair amount of bullshit of one sort or […]
We Should All Walk a Mile in Her Nikes
Tennis is a game of binaries, things are very much ‘in or out’. The discourse that has sprung from the final of the US Open was not quite as clear-cut and has proven that the […]