Features
The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
Filthy shades of grey
Why do people — and men in particular — dress so vilely now?
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
Philosopher par excellence
Beyond the breaking glass of his public interventions, Sir Roger Scruton was a peerless intellectual
Triumph of the trans lobbyists
Julie Bindel on how transgender ideologists are winning the battle for media hearts and minds
Pursued by Furies
Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
The true value of trophy hunting
When big game doesn’t pay, it is replaced by cow and plough
Banksy and the triumph of banality
How the shallow culture warrior hoodwinked a generation
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
“Moral debt” is classic watermelon politics
Do left-wing economists believe that there is anything to which wealth redistribution is not the answer?
