When it’s out of power, the left – including the union movement – always seems committed to freedom of expression. But when labour leader Paul Embery spoke at a pro-Brexit rally, his union executive was quick to strip him of his official duties. In Unherd, Embery tells of his travails and ultimate vindication.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


