No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Victory for For Women Scotland
The definition of a “woman” is common sense — so why has it taken so many court cases to prove so?
Total dummies
Reinforcing messages about what makes a “real” boy or girl has no place in schools
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
