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Does the trans issue drive women mad?
It is perfectly sane to challenge false ideas about reality
How status anxiety crippled the British state
The public sector has been marinating in EDI orthodoxies
Government tells universities to uphold free speech
The Office for Students has dealt a blow to the higher education lobby
Exams are good for children
Lowering standards is no act of kindness
Bacchus in Pompeii
The meaning of the beautiful frescoes in the House of Thiasus remains a mystery
Will keeps banging on about slimming
The poshness of old school skinny
Motherhood and apple war
One tries evasion, one tries confusion, and one wants conflict in all circumstances
What can right-wing authors do?
Not just another anti-woke rant
The anthropology of grooming gangs
Most societies have never cared what they did to outsiders
Deterrence requires discipline
Does it make sense to go hard if there is no final victory?
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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
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
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation