Is “feminist intellect” an oxymoron? Is Vagynocracy — the vagina-worshipping, gynaecocratic cult of feminism — an intellectual and ethical void? Countless feminists certainly seem determined to prove so. I’m not a fan of the American judge Brett Kavanaugh and I’m suspending judgment about whether his appointment to the Supreme Court will be a Good Thing. […]
If you want to destroy a person, an injection of plutonium works fine. If you want to destroy a nation, try an injection of Pakistanis. When you look at collective nouns in English, you’ll find “a pod of dolphins” and “a murmuration of starlings.” What should be the collective noun for Pakistanis? I suggest “a […]
What is the point of a nervous system? Well, you could call it a mechanism for recognizing patterns and responding to them. Sensory information enters a nervous system, is processed, and generates a response. A blind nematode wriggling in the slime at the bottom of a lake has a nervous system and can recognize patterns. […]
It would sound better in Russian or Chinese: Le racisme n’est pas une opinion, le racisme est un délit – “Racism is not an opinion, racism is a crime.” It doesn’t sound good in French, language of liberty and the Enlightenment. But I’d guess those words come from an outsider who is both Francophone […]
Jeremy Corbyn has a beard. So has Jonathan Sacks. But this shared philopogony hasn’t brought the two men closer together. Sacks is the former Chief Rabbi of Britain and, to be fair, I think we would be better off if more Jews were like him. He doesn’t seem to hate Whites and the Christian religion […]
They strut, they chatter, they gleam with gem-like colours: starlings are one of the joys of summer right across Europe. You could spend a lifetime studying them, but one thing is already certain. There has never been a starling Stalin. Khans and canals In other words, no individual starling has ever been millions of times […]
Have you ever seen a scorpion try to sting a stone? Me neither. But I’ve seen something very like it. It was an article in the Guardian with the headline: “‘They’ve brought evil out’: Hungary’s poll on migration divides a nation.” The article excoriated the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán for “whipping up xenophobic sentiment,” […]
