Colette Colfer
Colette Colfer is a writer and a lecturer on world religions. She tweets at @ColetteColfer
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
The grim reality of a citizens’ assembly
A seemingly democratic initiative was nothing of the sort
An Athena SWANsong
The equalities scheme threatens the intellectual foundations of Irish institutions
The gendrification of Ireland
How gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
