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A victory for free speech and sex-based rights
Maya Forstater’s win at the Employment Appeals Tribunal is a victory for humanity
Big Bozza is not watching us
Cuts are increases. Good deals are bad
Labour don’t want women’s votes
Keir Starmer’s endorsement of self-ID will do little to persuade voters that the Labour Party is alive to the concerns of ordinary people
A contemptible little army?
How successfully did Britain’s armed forces adapt to the reality of the First World War?
Stonewall is being true to itself
Their focus on trans rights is just a logical step forwards
The unexpected Brexit bonus
Britain’s vaccination success has saved lives and will boost economic output by billions
Star of the sty
Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast
The problem with reporting “ethnic pay gaps”
Pay disparity does not prove an underlying system of discrimination
Boris giveth and Boris taketh away
Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own
Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
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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
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Classic is back
Why contemporary art may be losing ground
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law