Her Proper Place

Now that the Conservative Party has gone full Farage Falange, it seems unlikely that there will be much room for women in public life beyond their natural duties of cleaning behind fridges and squeezing out small Rees-Moggs. Accordingly, the Government has rejected all six of the proposals by the Commons women and equalities committee, on the grounds that more equal representation would be too much trouble. The chair of the committee was Maria Miller, last seen in office as the expenses claimant for which the Bullingdon Club reached whenever it heard the word culture; the token filly's new status as a trendy-lefty feminazi says much about our progress away from the bad old days of metropolitan élites. The Recrudescent Imperium of Westminster, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands is, of course, a world leader on women's representation as in everything else, with no more than thirty-nine other countries ahead of it; most of which are probably foreign and therefore don't count. Besides, we haven't got rid of all that red tape just so we can tangle ourselves up in fallopian tubes.