1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (435+ words) Watching Andy Burnham in Manchester, dressed in his T-shirt and jacket and pronouncing the return of a more old-fashioned, pro-worker left, I had a sense of d'j" vu. I had seen this movie before, but with different accents. For the…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (221+ words) A co-sponsor of Kim Leadbeater's failed assisted suicide Bill has privately admitted to constituents that MPs trying to ram through similar legislation are likely to fail. Peter Bedford was a leading cheerleader for euthanasia in the last parliamentary session. But…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1046+ words) The Spectator Australia The global revolution sparked by a vegetarian schoolteacher in Helsinki After Hilda Kakikoski and 18 other women were elected to the Finnish parliament in 1907, female politicians emerged worldwide to challenge the patriarchy At the turn of the 20th century,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (665+ words) The Spectator Australia Did Plato invent women's lib? One could go on endlessly about what the ancients have done for us, but one of the most interesting things is that Plato could be said to have invented women's lib, though…...

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2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (212+ words) Willie Donaldson, who died in 2005, has a claim to having had the best obituary sub-heading of any writer I know. "Wykehamist pimp, crack fiend and adulterer who created Henry Root and Beyond the Fringe" was how the Telegraph memorably summed…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (804+ words) The Spectator Australia Decriminalising late abortions isn't progressive Last week, the body of an 18-day old baby girl was found in Westminster, in desperately sad circumstances. The baby's mother has since been charged with her murder and stands accused of…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (909+ words) In a world where political discourse can be difficult to shape, Pornocracy by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel's is an essential read for those wanting to arm themselves with knowledge and quite a bit of righteous indignation about what the…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (741+ words) The Spectator Australia Iran's uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth I'm starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is giving way to pity. Imagine watching women fling…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (243+ words) The stakes for women in Iran couldn't be higher Iran is believed to be "the world's number one executioner of women per capita'. Surely the demonstrations would be a more important story in the British press? Moreover, Iran's predicament highlights…...