Virginia votesVirginiaRepublican governor is anti-abortion, anti-trans and a ‘nightmare’ for Democrats
It looked, sounded and felt like the start of a US presidential campaign. “The stakes are high and the consequences couldn’t be greater,” said Glenn Youngkin in a glossy video that showed the Virginia governor walking in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps at the 40th president’s library in Simi Valley, California, complete with Air Force One and a fragment of the Berlin wall. Read More...
OpinionToys This article is more than 8 years oldHow I fell late but hard for jigsaw puzzlesThis article is more than 8 years oldAndrew MartinAs a child, they seemed the epitome of boredom, something reserved for rainy days. Now, I find the cardboard conundrums compellingWhen I was growing up in the 70s and rain was falling heavily outside (I trust the ears of northern readers will have pricked up at the R-word), or the whole family was in some public holiday lockdown (and I hope that all readers will be with me now), my parents would propose constructive activities. Read More...
The ObserverReligionReviewFour years in the making, this exhaustive exposé of the Catholic church’s moral fraudulence demands outrage
When God died, the official cause was elderly enfeeblement; after reading Frédéric Martel’s exposé of infamy in the Catholic church, I suspect that the old boy committed suicide in remorse, aghast at the crimes and un-Christian sins of organised religion.
Although Martel’s book is published just in time to spoil a pious conference on clerical paedophilia convened by the pope, the abuse of minors is not all that St Peter’s pharisaical heirs have to answer for. Read More...