How to survive Twitter
Shame, anonymity and never saying sorry
The pornification of everything
In today’s dating market, women who would prefer porn practices kept out of their bedrooms have little negotiating power
Doctor doesn’t know best
Non-binary blarney in Killarney
Hard lessons in life
Novel gender identities and orientations allow people to claim to be oppressed without suffering any hardship
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Best intentions …
a woo-woo approach to summer fashion
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses