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Can feminists please drop the Handmaid habit?
Feminists’ adoption of Margaret Atwood’s red cape serves only to obscure the complex real-life issues around women’s rights
Bring back blasphemy laws
Free speech is all very well, but that’s no excuse for being RUDE
Return of the 60s neurosis
Christopher Booker’s stinging takedown of the 1960s, The Neophiliacs, is even more relevent today
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Real social responsibility
Be wary of companies with public sector monkeys and a diversity officer on the board
Guardians of our culture
Conservative America still vibrantly upholds the cause of Western civilisation
The wise gnomes of Zurich
Why is Switzerland’s rate of inflation so much lower than that of Britain and the USA?
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
