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Compulsory voting, or why teenagers can't be trusted to abstain 26 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
A left-leaning think-tank, the IPPR, has a hare-brained scheme to fix (sorry, ambiguous: mend) British politics: compulsory voting for teenagers. It wants first-time voters (but only first-time voters...
Joan Edwards' intentions 14 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
The now notorious will of the late Miss Joan Edwards of Bristol can scarcely be described as a masterpiece of clear drafting. It directed that the proceeds of her estate be given to "whichever govern...
The Gospel According to David Cameron 9 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
The unauthorised version Dave has been talking about religion. Speaking during a question-and-answer session in Darwen near Blackburn, the Telegraph reports, he described the Bible as "not a bad hand...
Why do so many Nobel laureates look like Richard Dawkins? 8 Aug 2013 | 11:18 pm
There's a great parody in the current issue of Private Eye in which Craig Brown pretends to be Richard Dawkins on Twitter. It captures perfectly, with almost documentary verisimilitude, in fact, the ...
Peter Capaldi and Doctor Who's diversity problem 5 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
Is the choice of a middle-aged, heterosexual white man as the new Doctor Who actor legal under the 2010 Equality Act? Peter Capaldi might be an excellent actor, he might be the best available actor f...
What the Bedroom Tax case reveals about Equality law 30 Jul 2013 | 09:48 pm
The much-despised "bedroom tax" (actually an under-occupancy penalty, which is the accurate as well as the official description of a reduction in benefit occasioned by the presence of what are deemed ...
Kate, William and the royal baby conspiracy 29 Jul 2013 | 11:07 pm
Kate's had a baby. You may have heard. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge has been safely delivered of a prince, an eight pound six ounce bundle of royal boyhood, a George no less: and what b...
Pope Francis - making saints up as he goes along 6 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
One of the major perks of becoming Pope is a much increased chance of being made a saint after your death. As of this morning, 78 of the 266 officially recognised Roman pontiffs had been canonised, an...
Breast is best 4 Jul 2013 | 09:31 pm
Apparently - well, according to the South China Morning Post, as retailed in shocked tones to readers of Telegraph Online by Tim Stanley - there's a trend among China's increasingly prosperous and fas...
The pitfalls of being a pixie dream girl 1 Jul 2013 | 06:03 pm
In life, people aspire to be archetypes, but usually end up as stereotypes. Or indeed clichés. Zooey "Im such a manic pixie" Deschanel I wasn't actually aware of the phrase "manic pixie dream girl" ...
