Harry’s Place

Here’s a case I’d like to canvass some opinion on. The woman above is facing a dilemma. She went with her partner, who is white, to be married in a civil ceremony by a registrar employed by her local council.
The problem was that the registrar was a deeply religious man and, while he was happy […]

Five years ago I witnessed a car slam into a moped rider in Paris. After the initial sickening crunch of plastic and metal, there was silence. There were plenty of people about enjoying the warm Paris night, walking near the Eiffel Tower, but no-one seemed to be moving. I ran to the man to see […]

Burma:
In an article, the New Light of Myanmar condemned “self-seekers exploiting storm victims”.
They were, it said, “shooting video films featuring made-up stories in the storm-affected areas… and sending the videotapes to foreign news agencies”.
“Those foreign news agencies are issuing such groundless news stories with the intention of tarnishing the image of Myanmar (Burma) and misleading […]

Over at CiF, AC Grayling argues that Robert Mugabe’s visit to Rome is the best chance we have to apprehend him, lock him up at The Hague and put him on trial.
There are two excellent reasons why Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s ex-president, should not be at the UN world food conference in Rome, and one excellent […]

Veterans of the famous Dam Buster mission will meet for what may be the last time to mark the 65th anniversary of their daring and complicated WWII mission.
My grandfather was in the RAF during the war, and though he died shortly after I was born, I grew up with tales of wartime dering-do courtesty of […]

Is the taboo about lefties sending their kids to public schools now totally ended?
Here is 50-year-old Paul Weller, he of ‘Eton Rifles’ fame:
When I ask what he spends his money on he rolls his eyes. ‘School fees…’ He had qualms about it at first, but all his children have been educated at private schools. Where […]

“I was just following orders” is what I imagine those officers and personnel responsible for this atrocity must be thinking:
“A terminally-ill cancer patient deported from the UK to Africa died hours before learning of plans to bring her back for private treatment.
Ama Sumani, 39, died on Wednesday after being forcibly removed from a hospital in […]

In 2001, Natallie Evans and her then partner, Howard Johnston, began IVF treatment. Later that same year, Miss Evans was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and six of her fertilised eggs were frozen in storage whilst she underwent treatment for her illness. At some point thereafter, following the end of the relationship, Mr. Johnston withdrew his […]