Artillery Row
Cognitive manoeuvres
The Genetic Lottery is not the only book published this summer to tackle controversial topics in biology
Debunking myths of the Great Divergence
Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention
Land of his birth
Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories
Welcome to Tufton Street!
The Critic Narrated: Episode One, with Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Claudia Savage Gore and Jonathan Aitken
Sex is not a human right
The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no obligation on the State to allow the purchase of sex without criminal sanction
Sheer snobbery
Real progress will require more than BBC telling its audience about cultural appropriation in a Brummie accent
Failing their own
The University College Union is hounding members out of their jobs for holding gender-critical views
The way forward
I’m proud that Britain is known as “TERF Island”
The paradox of free speech
If the Civil Service wants to retain its reputation for political impartiality, then it needs to exclude those who promote only certain kinds of politics
Neither marginalised, abused nor vulnerable
Debunking a persistent talking point in the trans rights campaign