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The trans fairy tale
Pink News is shamelessly exploiting the “authentic self” to sell mastectomies to young people
Charitably correct
Appointing Orlando Fraser would challenge the establishment’s grip on the quangocracy
Studio: The English Baroque
Great architecture emerges as much from tension as coherence
A return, a reissue, a brilliant new voice
The best, and the not-so-great, new fiction to read this month
Hands On or Hands Off?
Fracking – a whole new Tory faultline
Ruff day at the NEC
Crufts is less about the dogs than it is their human owners
What do the BAFTAs really stand for?
The awards used to be entertainingly eccentric
Where is the United Nations?
The world has lost its only credible arena for peace
Searching in vain for Hitler’s lethal edict
These two new histories of the holocaust add little to what is already known
Michael Gove — refugee traffic controller
In a crisis a great politician shall arise
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
