Everyday Lies
Before the current era
In a time of multiculturalism, mere words provoke apoplexy
Lions led by donkeys
This tired cliché recently came to mind in a British hospital
French Fancies
Is the Navy really open to all?
Acronyms
Acronyms are one of the means by which bureaucracies hide or obfuscate what they do
On Lying
The line between dishonesty and stupidity can be difficult to spot
A correctional facility
Who, exactly, is being corrected by an execution?
World Class
On a phrase used by people with brains of tinsel
Graphs
By means of proper framing, graphs can lie like a parliamentary candidate
“Community”
Am I really part of the EasyJet community?
Ghost in the machine
Does the printer really “experience” anything?
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
The Incredible Sulk
Nigel Farage is all about entertainment — not difficult questions
The gender wars have not been won
“No debate” has been defeated — but the debate is still ongoing
A right-wing youthquake?
Optimism about the zoomer right is premature
Skin-walkers of the state
How absolute power lurks within liberalism
Brexit: a portrait of political paralysis
There was an exit door, but one which May, the Remainer, was never willing to take
Ukraine’s dangerous friends
The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
