In the Spectator UK, Fraser Nelson casts a gimlet eye over the hypocrisy and theatrical nature of a summit on climate change wherein the world’s biggest polluter is standing up the event entirely and nations that import their manufactured products from largely coal-powered countries are allowed to classify themselves as green (*cough* – Germany).
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.”
