David Bell
Dr David Bell is a psychoanalyst, retired psychotherapist and former staff governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
