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“If you’re not outraged,” read the quote beneath the Venus symbol on my waitress’s T-shirt the other day, “you’re not paying attention.” Chance would be a fine thing.  I realise women are no longer society’s victims-in-chief – toppled, as we have been, by the trans brigade – but it’s hard …

SIR – Sherelle Jacobs (Comment, November 7) is quite right to say that Boris Johnson and the Conservatives need to gain a better understanding of working-class voters. Many are, or were, tribal Labour supporters, but that does not mean that they espouse the far-Left policies of today’s party. I spent the …

Okay, they could picket the polling stations, or call a general strike for December 12. But those two extreme options aside, it is hard to imagine the trade unions could find a more obvious way of influencing the upcoming General Election than calling a postal strike during the campaign. Potentially …

SIR – There has never been a greater opportunity to achieve a stonking Conservative majority. The Prime Minister has strained every sinew to get Brexit done and is rightly popular because of it. Add to that the people’s desire to rid those green benches of MPs who have done everything …

I was the beneficiary of similar support as a middle-grade surgical trainee in Glasgow Royal Infirmary in the Seventies. Not only was a bowl of … Source link

Every August brings complaints about A-levels. The latest suggestion is that there should be a single national awarding body for schools examinations. This idea has been around for years: Michael Gove, for instance, considered nationalising exams. Complaints mainly seem to focus on the unreliability of results (manifested by high numbers …

In a summer of scandal for the British royal family — William and Harry’s reported falling out, Meghan Markle’s diva ­antics at Wimbledon — one truly sordid royal has not been making headlines. Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The Queen’s favorite son has always been useless at best, a …