Sunday, 28 March 2021

Poor women, frequently Irish, known as Shabbos-goyas or fire-goyas, acted as stokers to the Ghetto at twopence a hearth

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There have always been ways of getting around the problem of lighting fires. It was common in the Oriental world for Muslims to go around th...
Saturday, 27 March 2021

In the early 1950s the African-American sections of America’s inner cities were largely viable, stable communities

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Despite the crowded conditions, in the early 1950s the African-American sections of America’s inner cities were largely viable, stable commu...
Friday, 26 March 2021

Why should I do all the hard s**t for someone else, just to hand it over to them on a plate?

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Cameron’s plan seemed so admirable; clearly he had been intending to leave on his own terms. Instead, just weeks later, he found that he had...
Thursday, 25 March 2021

[intended family friendly] policies ultimately led to a 22% decline in women’s chances of gaining tenure at their first job. Meanwhile men’s chances increased by 19%.

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In the 1990s and early 2000s, a number of US universities adopted what was intended as a family-friendly policy: parents would receive an ex...
Wednesday, 24 March 2021

There is no universal conglomerate of the oppressed

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‘The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very...
Tuesday, 23 March 2021

The real danger today is from that fat, adolescent and delinquent millionaire, America

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It does not seem to me that the English can do much harm to anybody today. After a long career of subduing savages in distant lands they dis...
Monday, 22 March 2021

A cliché is not a cliché if you have never heard it before

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And his column, ‘String Along with Reggie Okong’, soon became very popular indeed. No one pretended that he dispensed any spectacular insigh...