Columns
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
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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
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
Vera, the doctor who defied Rasputin
A female surgeon in the chaos of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Cringing at the cliffedge
How British satire, and British politics, became painfully unfunny
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers