I think we're talking about 'parental responsibility' for children rather than 'parental supermacy', which seems a weirdly loaded phrase. If we accept that there should be re… (View Post)

I don't think it was really accepted - especially by those on the right - that Boris was heading for a landslide. I remember on election night 2019 being as worried as I'd ever been by worl… (View Post)

The hard men in NI were at least operating within the same frame of reference as the rest of humanity. Even the IRA's maddest never suggested that all Protestants should be killed. No-one was pr… (View Post)

It's hard to see how a hot civil war would work. America is divided by politics but not be geography. Even the reddest states are 25% blue, and vice versa. (View Post)

Men, in my experience, don't tend to think of pudding as in any way transgressive. But they do often think of it as not-particularly masculine. Back in my 20s, when all day drinking in all male … (View Post)