So close, so far
Pilvi Takala’s breaching experiments
How to lose a culture war
Or a fast march through the institutions
Real culture wars
On the perils of being on the right side of art history
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
Why did India ban this film?
“Satluj” is an important film and its suppression is unjust
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
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
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said