Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Heavy weights and hurty words
Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate
School of hard knocks
Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility
The millennial’s guide to feminism
Julie Bindel’s new book rescues modern feminism from its failings
Earning your pinstripes
There are times, even in our dressed-down age, when clothes maketh the deal
Silence the whistleblower
Who benefits when experts on male violence are shown the door?
Murders for late August
A sampling of mysteries that capture the life and geography of places elsewhere
Trans lobby capture Childline
James Esses’s career was ruined when he spoke out about gender ideology
The Afghanistan Withdrawal
Did Biden make the right call?
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
Austin Mitchell: Always independent
The former Grimsby MP who championed Brexit long before it was popular
Freedom is fruitless
Young people have suffered enough — don’t force them to have vaccine passports to do the things they enjoy