Life's A Picnic

Deliver us, minister, from your dreadful incompetence

The Sats fiasco is just one of many eye-stretching recent examples of government incompetence

Britain is creating youths who have nothing to lose

For a young, vital, angry man an Asbo often seems better than Asda

Tolerate sharia, yes, but never respect it

I feel that this constant demand for respect makes a great many people privately very resentful

This equality for women is an injustice for men

It is a shameful thing that the long march towards equality for women has been forced into a dead end of institutionalised inequality for men

We must let mothers go to war

A woman should be free to do any job - pilot, plumber and prime minister as well as a soldier

Equality has made dunces of children

The bid to iron out differences by imposing one kind of school, one class and one syllabus has been tragically wrong

No more retreat: the right finds its moral nerve

Increasingly people find themselves admitting with embarrassment that Mary Whitehouse was not entirely wrong

Khyra died for want of a phone call

It is a scandal that six children in modern Britain can simply disappear from the neighbours’ sight without any comment

All rise for Cherie, Judge Dreadful

Indiscreet and vulgar, she is a disgrace to the law and she is a disgrace to our sex. She gives other women a bad name

Oh how I love to throw away good food

There is nothing reprehensible in a rich and peaceful country with a little extravagance

Behave, Auntie, you vulgar old bat

Someone must tell her she can’t go on like this, and she has just the favourite nephew to do it

It was worth paying the price of my road rage

Prosecution and the capriciousness of the courts is something best avoided, even if one is entirely innocent

Equality obsession puts vulnerable at risk

To commit a crime, and by extension to be guilty of it, you must in law have a guilty mind

Qatada should stay, but not in comfort

A red mist must have descended on millions when the Court of Appeal decided that Abu Qatada would be allowed to stay in Britain

Natasha’s pregnancy

Women in their reproductive years have a legal licence to exploit their employers

Raising children to kill off marriage

Socially stunted children can hardly hope to achieve the emotional stability essential to marriage

Saga louts: ignore the naggers!

If people in late middle age choose to take risks with their health for fun we should admire them