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Has trench warfare on trans issues come to an end?
Good things can come out of junked changes to the GRA
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial
because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill