The child trans judgement is a step in the right direction
The ruling that under 16s should be assumed unable to consent to puberty blockers means that this unregulated experiment may finally be drawing to a close
Transitioning to a medical scandal
Emily Wheater and Ellen Pasternack say the gender change lobby is failing young people who change their mind
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
