So says Hilary Mantel. The 57-year-old novelist said that society ran on a “male timetable” which dictated that women should have babies at an older age. “Having sex and having babies is what young women are about, and their instincts are suppressed in the interests of society’s timetable,” she

For some reason a US-based group is hosting a conference in London to discuss supposed medical treatments for those who suffer from...homosexuality. I kid you not. Homosexuality is either a genetic predisposition (in what case it cannot be "treated") or it is a lifestyle choice (in which case, as citizens in a free society, surely it is none of our business what people do in the privacy of their o...

I had a few thoughts over a coffee this afternoon on how to express the difference between a Capitalist and a Socialist society in a short sharp shocking manner. In the Capitalist society, when an individual sees someone who is better off, they try to learn from them and work hard to do even better. In a Socialist world... they just steal it. The stealing may happen by proxy, but it is stealing ju...

From Black Looks  The following Statement from the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law, The Coalition’s first press release entitled ‘Anti-Homosexuality or Anti-Human Rights Bill?’, was published on 24 October 2009 editions of Uganda Dailies The New Vision; The Independent , The Monitor – and a local vernacular daily Bukedde Newspaper. I...

Our society really is big. And it suffers from no lack of definition. It’s a big society. It’s a broken society. It’s a big and broken society. The big society needs to save our broken society. There is such a thing as society, but it’s not the same as the state. And once, there was

The Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists took its name in 1877, having grown out of the Birmingham and District Mill Sawyers and Planing Machine Workers Trade Society. The Birmingham society had been founded in 1866 by a group of 80 sawyers. By the time it changed its name, it had more...

The title of this post was going to be something along the lines of "flogging a dead horse" - but given the events at Newbury racecourse this weekend I decided against it. However, as David Cameron tries to revive his grand plan for "The Big Society" it would have been rather apt. To be honest, I never quite understood this "Big Society" idea - I think the overall concept of a big society is right...

Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, writes: Good Government is about achieving a sensible balance. We need to protect our society against those who would destroy it. But if we throw away the founding principles of a democratic state to do so, then we are doing the terrorists work for them. So I think that whenever

Fraser’s already commented on the welfare angle of Ed Miliband’s keynote speech to the Labour party; the welfare proposals are part of a broad analytical sweep that can be reduced to the catchphrase, ‘the something for something society’. Miliband’s vision of society will reward those who work and abide by the rules at the expense of those who do not – those who...

It may be a picture of an uncivil, rude, selfish society, but what it is not is a broken society. If this were America he would be absolutely crucified for not being patriotic about his own country. And yet, we're not only falling for it, but the left has nothing even coherent to say in response.