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“We thought of ourselves as calendar girls,” says [Claire] Finch today, sitting in her lounge as she describes the parlour where six middle-aged women, two or three working at any one time, sold massages with ‘happy endings.’ The prosecution’s view was less rose-tinted. Although women are legally entitled to sell sex individually, if they club…

Everybody knows, of course, that those of the progressive persuasion — whose recent abandonment of the word “liberal” may finally allow us to rehabilitate that fine old word — are smarter than other people and much smarter than conservatives. It’s what they base their principal appeal on: that they “get it” as those who oppose…

In today’s Washington Post, there’s a perfect example of the way in which, when it comes to our public life, we are all living in the media’s self-contained world. In an article by Amy Gardner and Krissah Thompson headed “Tea party groups battling perceptions of racism,” we learn that, as several states with active “tea party”…

At last! British newsmen who have been so assiduously trolling for gaffes during their country’s election campaign have finally hooked a big one. And not just any gaffe either but, according to Benedict Brogan of The Daily Telegraph, “The gaffe that could kill off Gordon Brown.” Mr Brown, the current prime minister, and his Labour party…

How I look forward every weekend to The Washington Post’s Saturday “Free for All” section. It’s a sort of “Letters to the Editor” with attitude and is mainly written — or so it often seems — by those in search of excuses to be perpetually aggrieved. When crazy feminists write in, outraged about somebody’s inadvertent…

Writing at Spiked online, Frank Furedi wondered if the complete shut-down of European air traffic during the last week has been strictly necessary. I am not a natural scientist, and I claim no authority to say anything of value about the risks posed by volcanic ash clouds to flying aircraft. However, as a sociologist interested in…