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Woke invades the sciences
The intrusion of irrational ideology is distorting and censoring science
The curse of “TERF”
The term is intended to dehumanise dissenting women
Stop pampering the left’s attack dog
Hope not Hate are not a reliable judge of what constitutes dangerous extremism
Sunak of many colours
He has become all things to all people, that he might save some seats
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
More shenanigans at the RIBA
Ideologues and marketers are ruining the Royal Institute of British Architects
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
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
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be