March 4, 2010
A Booker Prize-winning novelist celebrated for her ‘ability to inhabit her characters’ has revealed in an interview that she considers 14-year old girls to be mature enough to have babies. Yeah, right.
The novelist is Hilary Mantel. She is 57 and childless, having had, for medical reasons, an hysterectomy aged 27. She [...]
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March 3, 2010
We have all, over the years, read tales of unacceptable “risk management” from cowards using the recommendations of the Health and Safety Executive. And gradually, the nonsense of “Elfin Safety” has migrated from the shield of the coward into the ranks of the managerial culture that now rules Britain. And like most cultural norms, they [...]
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