A suspended doctor in England is running a company that sells people sick notes to excuse them on medical grounds from their work. “When you’re ill,” said an advertisement ...

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the federal government geared up to fight a long, twilight struggle to root out Jim Crow, starting numberless government agencies to combat ...

Before Robby Starbuck became a problem for leftist companies, alerting consumers to stupid woke indoctrination policies, he directed music videos. He worked with some big names, ...

People are getting so incredibly oversensitive that even the trigger warnings now have trigger warnings on them. A regional British museum management body has just released a new ...

Often on Saturdays, outside a small supermarket in the town in which I live in England, stands a swarthy woman in her 30s who wears a black scarf around her head. She is not ...

I’ve read numberless op-eds in recent years lamenting conservative distrust of scientific experts. Yet, progressives are remarkably anti-expert when it comes to the venerable ...

June is now here, which means the annual Silly Season of nonsensical filler stories in the media should soon be upon us, as all the proper journalists jet away on their summer ...

It is many years since I retired from medical practice, but even in those days I had many illegal immigrants among my patients. They had claimed asylum, and most of them were ...

In 2018, some activists, appalled by woke nonsense being published by academic journals, submitted nonsensical research. One paper claimed researchers "closely and respectfully ...

Forget the War of Jenkins’ Ear; we once nearly had a Conflict of Claudia’s Tits. A state of jihad was narrowly averted between infidel France and the entire Islamic ummah in ...

Genealogy is a popular hobby, but the concept of the family tree has attracted remarkably little highbrow thinking in recent centuries. Yet, the family tree is one of the most ...

The poet A.E. Housman once wrote a poem about the impossibility of ignoring reality by means of permanent intoxication. The short poem ends: But men at whiles are sober And think ...

In the five years after the demise of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, what did we learn from the racial reckoning? I guess we learned not to do it again. Or so I hope. Hence, ...

The problem of loneliness seems to be growing. New research demonstrates many gardeners these days have a more intimate relationship with the blooms in their borders, rockeries, ...

No one likes to be swindled, even if only of a sum easily affordable to him, for it is a personal humiliation. One has been taken for a fool. Recently, I wanted to book online ...

I didn’t sense much enthusiasm for the formal 80th-anniversary celebrations of VE Day across Britain last week, at least not amongst the young. How to combat this alarming ...