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Employees have the right to be gender-critical
The ICO’s gender diktats are indefensible
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Britain’s twilight war
The UK is fighting an unwinnable conflict in a world that it doesn’t understand, without plan or purpose
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
The only way is up
It’s narrow, man, a narrow path to victory
My husband and Zoe
Claudia Savage-Gore is irked by her man’s latest obsession
Conscious decoupling
Some people consider ideas on their own terms; for others they are inextricable from context
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
Why should young people join the Army?
It should hardly be surprising that recruitment and retention are too low
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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
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders