Commentary Some years ago, I sat next to a pleasant Norwegian lady who had just moved to London. Her father had been against the move. “How,” he had asked her, “can you bear to live in a fascist country in which they still permit men-only clubs?” “And how,” I replied, “can your father bear to live in a fascist country in which men are not allowed to belong to men-only clubs?” Unlike many modern people, the Norwegian lady saw the point: that a society in which people are not permitted to form voluntary associations whose membership they choose must be a highly dictatorial one. But in England, a group of prominent women, including Cherie Blair, the wife of the former Prime Minister, has signed a petition to “force” the Garrick Club to admit women as members, which it has so far refused to do. The Club, which is nearly two …