The notorious Sydney gang rapes in 2000 were committed by Lebanese Australians. Muslim men raped women and girls as young as 14. Australia, being a sensible sort of place, identified that the rapists were targeting white girls and branded these
In a triumph for climate change, four hundred pairs of Google Glass were ruined instantly yesterday when the heavens opened above Reno, Nevada, causing the Burning Man festival to be shut down. Burning Man is an annual gathering of some of
In polite society, the correct opinion to hold about Scottish independence is that the Union must stay together. But I’ve been wondering: might not England thrive, freed from the yoke of those whining, kilted leeches? The more you think about
Has your wife ever complained that you don’t pay her enough attention? Ever heard the cry, “Why don’t you buy me nice things any more?” Does your beloved sometimes whinge when you put your foot down about her lacklustre cleaning,
They’re not disabled. They don’t have learning difficulties. They’re not elderly or otherwise infirm. Nor are they even necessarily all that hard up. So why are 25,000 Brits about to get free computers from the government, in an act of charity
Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder of Twitter and chief executive of payments startup Square, is tweeting, Vining and marching in Ferguson this week, where a young black man was shot by a police officer, sparking riots, looting and protests. It’s
In the red corner, a peaceful, creative, successful and admired diaspora that has gifted economic and cultural bounties wherever it has settled. In the blue corner, bigoted vandals, in hock to an ugly and violent ideology, bullying others while playing
Props to WIRED magazine for getting the interview everyone wanted: a full-length on the record with Edward Snowden from his Russian hideout. But that cover! Oh, that cover. The full image has to be seen to be believed. It would
Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Online has become a sex-saturated virtual dystopia in which hackers have modified or “modded” the game so they can “rape” other players who in real life can be as young as 12 or 13 years old. It’s a new
Here’s something to make you choke on your cornflakes: the Guardian has returned to the subject of menstruation. In a widely-read editorial yesterday, the paper informed us that tampons should be made free for any woman who decides it’s beneath her
We’ve all seen them in photographs. Swathed in black, standing triumphant but dispassionate over the dismembered victims of their genocidal ideology. No, I’m not talking about Hitler’s SS: rather, the jihadis of ISIS. But you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re
“Let me make some peace with my mouth,” writes reddit user amreeki on a forum called ‘Random Acts of Blowjob’, an area of the social network in which women can advertise their sexual availability. The 29-year-old Israeli Defense Forces veteran, who lives
David Cameron is under fire for giving a peerage to Joanna Shields, a former Facebook and Google executive under whose tenure ferociously aggressive tax planning was the order of the day. Under Shields’s direction, both technology companies sidestepped hundreds of millions
I’ve never taken illegal drugs, obviously. But if I had, I would be applauding Nick Clegg today. The Lib Dem leader says that people caught with drugs on them, even Class A substances such as cocaine and LSD, should not
Venture capital is an immensely risky asset class. It’s used to fund the unfundable: complex medical technology, hard engineering problems and internet startups, most of which tank – especially in Europe, where entrepreneurs have never really understood what it takes
Tragic news, dear readers: the hipsters in London’s Shoreditch are throwing another hissy fit. They say the “wrong sort of developer” is moving into the area and ruining its “charm.” I know, I know. Your hearts bleed. But while I
It shouldn’t be controversial, should it, to honour the men and women who suffered and died, in inconceivable numbers, in the First World War? But, with each year that passes there seem to be more and more idiots out there in
Regardless of your views on gay marriage, gay adoption and so on, I think we can all agree that Israel’s tolerant, liberal society is a much nicer place to live than the barbaric, oppressive, misogynistic and homophobic cultures that seem
On Wednesday, the Telegraph‘s Allison Pearson–bravely, given the current climate–suggested that we should revisit the debate about banning the burka. “One day, the burkas, like a flock of crows, will come home to roost. Ban it. Now,” she concludes. So
I’ve always had Muslim housekeepers. They’re clean and they don’t steal things. But do I worry about coming home one day to discover bomb-making equipment alongside the prayer mat and Koran that are now permanent fixtures in my living room?
Good news for the technology CEOs of Shoreditch: entrepreneurs such as Michael Acton Smith OBE, founder of Mind Candy and creator of the wildly popular Moshi Monsters game, are the men married women most want to cheat with, according to
Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of search giant Google, will shortly open a London office. Its founding partners will be investors Peter Read and Tom Hulme, policy wonk Rohan Silva, product and marketing executive Eze Vidra and one other
A former rising star of the Tories’ tech strategy, Rohan Silva was considered the future of the U.K. technology industry. But the Whitehall high flyer’s career has stalled: he’s now an office manager in Shoreditch. His promised “ed tech” startup
Who among us has not rolled over, bleary-eyed and foul-smelling, to an unfamiliar bedfellow, and thought: oh God, what have I done this time? In such situations, most of us have the good grace to scold ourselves for one too
There’s no vagrancy where I live, but, if there were, I think I too would be tempted to install the “anti-homeless spikes” that have prompted such earnest pearl-clutching in the last few days. Personally, I don’t see what’s wrong with
