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With only a year or less to go before a general election, one would have thought the Conservative Party’s historic will to power would by now have begun to reassert itself, ensuring that its members set aside their differences in order to take the fight to Labour.
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SOMETHING unpleasant is starting to happen to the independence debate. It’s changing and being shaped by the UK’s ugly, endless ‘culture wars’ – an interminably stupid phrase, up there with ‘woke’, but one which is laced with the fatal power to immediately kill off rational discussion and nuance. At the heart of all ‘culture wars’ in the West lie two issues: sex and race. Sex and gender have already fed into the independence question. The fall-out from the Salmond affair and the matter of trans rights firmly divided the Yes movement into two camps: progressive SNP and Gr...
A collection of essays from the Common Sense Group is a heady mix of hyperbole and risible conspiracy theory âChris Loder (above) and Tom Hunt complain of politically correct police officers too busy taking the knee to chase criminals.â Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA âChris Loder (above) and Tom Hunt complain of politically correct police officers too busy taking the knee to chase criminals.â Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Tue 25 May 2021 11.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 11.01 EDT With 365 Conservative MPs in the Commons, itâs under...
LYNDON TERRACINI/Sydney Morning Herald Opera singer Virgilio Marino (left) with Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban after a performance of The Merry Widow Usually there’s more than enough drama at a night at the opera - what with all the dying and the singing and the histrionics on stage. But things really stepped up a notch or eleven at The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House last month. No, the show wasn’t especially dramatic, and no, no one actually died. Instead, it was a battle over theatre etiquette that caused the calamity - which would be rather boring if it weren’t for who was in...