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Reinforcing messages about what makes a “real” boy or girl has no place in schools
Is the Parish Church worth saving?
Once gone, they are gone forever
The forbidden S-word
Countries worldwide have witnessed a systemic erasure of sex from public policy just when the data will be needed most
The Day of the Jackal: fifty years on
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most exciting, page-turning novels ever written
Infinite enjoyment
Duff Cooper understood wine’s power as ‘firm friend and wise councillor’
Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact
Pressure baby
If anyone is going to be over-cautious about vaccines, it’s pregnant women
How algebra cures wokeness
Maybe it’s because the hard sciences are so unifying that they are under attack
The Tory machine is falling down
Faulty data analysis isn’t why the last campaign failed
Passport to your soul
Opening the door to vaccine passports could lead to years of oppression, says Patrick Fagan
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
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
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere