Tim Mathieson, the partner, boyfriend, bloke – or whatever the appropriate term may be – of Australia’s prime minister, Julia Gillard, got into...
Read MoreOne of the oddities about The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron is the author’s attempt to support his case by drawing an analogy with the regulation of...
Read MoreThis article by Greta Christina resonates with me. Is some of it exaggerated? Probably. I’m not sure that atheists as such are as puritanical as she suggests...
Read MoreHere in Australia there are anti-discrimination laws that protect breastfeeding mothers from refusal of service and the like, and these are laws that I am perfectly...
Read MoreNow and then, I am asked why I named this blog “The Hellfire Club” (it was originally “Metamagician and the Hellfire Club”, but that’s...
Read MoreOver at the Comment is Free site, which has a huge audience because of its connection with mainstream newspapers, Julie Burchill has a piece in which she defends her...
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