Why would a straight couple want a civil partnership over a marriage?
When the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act passed in 2013 the issue of whether straight people should be allowed to enter into a civil partnership was quietly lef...
Author: Jimmy Nicholls
Writes somewhat about British politics and associated matters. Contact jimmy@rightdishonourable.com
What’s so unfair about ‘Fat Cat Tuesday’?
The New Year can always be relied upon to provide newspapers with a steady flow of stories they write every damn year, pausing only to change some of the figure...
Oliver Letwin’s memo was a Thatcherite document, not a racist one
The annual cache of old Whitehall documents provides much-need rations for the starving press over the quiet weeks around Christmas and New Year, and this year ...
The Department for Education might allow Christian propaganda, but it doesn’t demand it
Much hullabaloo erupted on Monday over the education secretary Nicky Morgan’s policy update on religious teaching in schools, which swatted atheists aside...
Is the EU merely ‘a continuation of Germany’ by other, sneakier means?
The argument that the EU is a cunning scheme by which Germany can finally achieve its ambition of constructing an empire across the breadth of Europe has always...