At a dinner party recently, I was asked whether men and women are equally good at bridge. Not at the very highest level, I replied. If you were to name the top 300 players in the world, only one or two — at most — would be women. When I was asked why, I replied that I thought it was possible that our minds work slightly differently. There was an uncomfortable pause. Then the man sitting on my left — a successful writer — asked whether I wrote my bridge column for the Telegraph; when I said it was for The Spectator, he gave a patronisingly knowing nod (it obviously came to much the same thing). Clearly, his assumption was that I had to be ‘right-wing’ to hold such a view.
What nonsense. In any case, it’s not as if I’d said that men are more intelligent than women.
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