Daniel Frampton: Jeremy Vain and the ‘me, me, me’ brigade
A memoir isn’t worth reading if it doesn’t include at least one glorious cavalry charge or some gross act of sexual indecency. Unhappily, Jeremy Vine’s own effort fails entirely. His confessions, an extract of which was recently published in the Daily Mail, are certainly striking insofar as they surpass the accepted limits of banality. In […]
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Daniel Frampton: What’s so wrong about men looking at women?
Laura McVey and Paul Harrison, both academics, recently co-authored an article responding to Sport England’s ‘This Girl Can’ campaign, which encourages women to be more active. According to Harrison (resident white knight at Deakin University, Australia) and his colleague McVey, this ‘campaign of empowerment’ is really ‘one of sexual subjectification . . . an example […]
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Daniel Frampton: I’ll resist the Corbyn terror in the forest with my Maid Marian
Do you sometimes feel like you would quite fancy living somewhere in Epping Forest as a conservative outlaw? Actually, I’ve given it some serious consideration. I could have my own band of merry men, stout and heroic – none of that metrosexual man-bun nonsense. And no, we wouldn’t be wearing tights. That being said, I’m […]
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Daniel Frampton: You can have any opinion you like – so long as it is Google’s
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Damore, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Damore. The noble BBC hath told you Damore was sexist: if it were so, it was a grievous fault, and […]
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Daniel Frampton: The Left still seeks to destroy the nation state
According to The Guardian, it seems that Brexiteers are permanently stranded in the 1940s. One would think that this would garner a poor Brexiteer such as myself some sympathy. Clearly, I suffer from a chronic form of age dysphoria. I’m a 90-year-old Englishman trapped in the godlike body of a 28-year-old. Actually, this is sort […]
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Daniel Frampton: The State has confused love with lust
In 1941, the writer J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit, penned a touching letter to his son Michael on the subject of love and matrimony. In that letter, he disparaged the conception of ‘true love’ as ‘innocent’, of course, ‘yet irresponsible’. What Tolkien chose to emphasise, instead, was the ‘social ethic of plain […]
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