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In divorce, as in marriage, Prince Charles and Princess Diana acted according to their wildly opposite natures.
For his divorce lawyer, Charles chose Fiona Shackleton, a prototypically establis...
There is one subject no writer in the world, even the most talented and eclectic, would hope to have as a book project, and that is the death of his own child.
A Cracking of the Heart by former ...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010
This is a tribute column to one of the National Post's most loyal fans, Lois Hashimoto, who died last ...
A recent study by a Michigan psychology professor concluded that "young children spanked by their parents may perform better at school later and grow up to be happier." Spanked? Happi...
Canadians should be exposed to the full panoply of communist atrocities
In 1968, naive anti-establishment American and Canadian students considered themselves courageous for locking supi...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Jul. 9, 2010
Touchy subject, kids in restaurants. Some people seem to think restaurants are like public parks and must accept all comers who...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010
In an op-ed published in Monday's National Post -- titled, Too Jewish then, too Asian now -- cultural cr...
As all doctors know, untreated gangrene in a single limb can spread quickly through the body and lead to death. The most effective way to halt the progress of gangrene is to cut off the corrupting ...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
I hope, after I have shuffled off this mortal coil, that none of my granddaughters will turn into useful i...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010
In April, Belgium became the first Western country to ban face cover in public. France, which has for years...
Quebec Says ‘Non’ to the Niqab (Pajamas Media May 13, 2010)
A Kind and Noble Bigot: Analyzing 850 Years of English Anti-Semitism (Pajamas Media March 20, 2010)
Canadian Leaders Standing Ta...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Nov. 19, 2010
In the West, the idea of stoning a woman to death for adultery, or for any reason at all, evokes revulsion.
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Afshan Azad in London on July 3, 2007.
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010
U.K. Actress Afshan Azad (best known as Hogwarts student "Padma" ...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
In one of those neat coincidences that bring a gleam to a columnist's eye, the news cycle last month brought us C...
In the aftermath of what emerged, against early predictions, as a wildly successful Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canadians are basking in an uncharacteristically bullish glow of national prid...
Valentine's Day, a licence to print money for greeting-card manufacturers, jewellers, flower shops and restaurants, was never a deeply meaningful occasion. But at least it was the most beni...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010
Last week Ontario announced it will begin impounding cars of fathers who fall behind in their child support ...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010
'Don't hate me because I'm rational," read one sign at last weekend's Jon Stewart/ Stephen Colbert Washington rally, organized to...
It was revealed by The Wall Street Journal in late January that at a private strategy session in August, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's chief of staff, blasted the internally divisive politic...