As the curtain went up on La Bohème, I guessed the point they were making almost immediately, and maybe I even agreed with some of the sentiment at the heart of it. The lead tenor, the lead soprano, and the second lead soprano were black; many of the children in the crowd scenes were Asian; and ...
My pronouns are She-rah, Herbal, and Hersheys. I don’t think it’s asking too much to refer to me using those simple terms, which I’ve made up, as I’m legally entitled to do in the name of equality. Can you believe people go on like this? The other day, I got an email from Alcoholics ...
Are the Irish racist? Do they eat potatoes, bacon, and cabbage every day, play the fiddle, and reject all change, as a controversial new school textbook put out by their government claims? I bloody hope so. As a Brit newly settled in Ireland, I was kind of banking on it. I howled with laughter at ...
Kate Middleton’s latest video presentation, in which she runs through meadows while telling us how wonderful her cancer journey has been, is just about the most disturbing thing I have ever seen on the screen. I’ve watched Don’t Look Now with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, which was ...
During the big health scare of the mid-1800s, vaccination became compulsory in Britain and parts of America, and, believe it or not, vaccine certificates were required for travel. The health scare then was smallpox, and vaccination in those days meant cutting incisions into the arm with a knife ...
What is Euvabeco? Chances are you don’t know because it is one of those acronyms used by the powers that rule us in draconian style since Covid and who are hardly at all subjected to scrutiny or asked what they mean by such things. Euvabeco, or EUVABECO, because sometimes the logo is capped, ...
At a friend’s house party I found myself sitting next to an anti-vaxxer with a thriving social media profile who became drunk and started boasting. “I’m making six grand a month out of this,” he said, referring to the earnings of his anti-vaccine stance. Of course, £6,000 a month is a ...
AstraZeneca was “crowned” Britain’s first £200bn firm this week, according to fawning media reports as they announced record profits following their Covid vaccine and, coincidentally, a push into cancer cures presented as an astute gamble. “Drug maker has benefited from its bet on ...
The riots in Britain have made one thing clear: The political classes do not know what poor people look like. Keir Starmer has been like a broken record describing everyone on the streets as “a member” of “The Far Right,” with “The Far Right” meaning a shadowy, highly organized group ...
When three young children were stabbed on the streets of Dublin last November, the authorities very quickly managed to focus the narrative away from the attacker. Horror gave way to condemnation of the reaction to the horror. A 5-year-old girl was left with life-changing injuries and remains in ...