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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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Asset-stripping on campus?
Selling universities to private companies risks destroying their charitable purpose
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
How to save a church
Social media stunts, however well intentioned, will not rescue our churches
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
