Within the liberal worldview, marriage is all about what you want to do, not what you ought to do
It’s perfectly OK to be insanely wrong – just as long as you’re insanely wrong in an officially approved manner
Before allowing cannabis to circulate freely in the adult population we have to ask what effect this would have on its availability to children
Advertising and the other tools of crass commercialism play a part in shaping our culture, but at the heart of it is an ideology of pleasure-seeking self-centredness
When anyone describes themselves as being ‘neither rightwing nor leftwing’, what they usually mean is that they are either rightwing or leftwing, but they’d rather not be associated with certain other rightwingers/leftwingers. In other words, what we have here is an exercise in nose-holding – and no one does it better than the Economist: “Some […]
For a journalist supposed to be close to the Cameroons, Janan Ganesh daringly broaches the touchiest of subjects – the failure of the Conservative Party to win a majority at the last general election. To even raise the issue at the Tory top table is to cause a scene that only HM Bateman could have done […]
Will legalising same sex marriage lead to the legalisation of polygamous marriage? Claims that it might are typically met with accusations of scare-mongering. However, in a provocative article for Slate, Jillian Keenan – an enthusiastic support of same sex marriage – not only accepts the legal recognition of polygamy as a possibility, but regards it […]
Last year, the Deep End featured a Julie Bindel article on prostitution. In a more recent article for the Spectator, she covers the same issue – in particular the failure of legalisation in the Netherlands – but makes some useful additional points. Advocates of liberalisation – whether of the law on prostitution, drug dealing or […]
When the public sector began to categorise people by gender and ethnicity it was, no doubt, with the intention of exposing discrimination against women and ethnic minorities. However, when it comes to our schools, the ‘tick boxes’ have uncovered a very different picture. A report in the Daily Mail provides the background: “Under a 'nappy […]
They may not be that common in the real world, but in political circles there’s a lot of people who declare themselves to be both economically and socially liberal – usually with a slight edge of self-congratulation to their words. Liberalism isn’t the only thing these concepts have in common, there’s also a causal link […]
Julie Bindel describes herself as a “radical feminist” (and “not the fun kind” as she remarks in her Twitter profile). And, yet, for a Guardian journalist and “political lesbian”, she has little time for politically correct Prosniceties. Consider her feature for Standpoint on the legalisation of prostitution in Amsterdam: “Many of those controlling the window […]
Among higher income groups marriage has been reinvented as a vehicle for high investment parenting