Bashar al-Assad
Syria’s civil war 10 years on
Syria’s war has licensed this century’s worst growth in violent depravity – and it shows no sign of ending soon
Endless tragedy of blood and sand
Syria’s civil war is the latest grisly chapter in more than a millennium of conflict
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
BDS is a mask for hate
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement denies the right of Israel to exist, and public bodies have no business supporting it
The progressive defence of stereotypes
How the feminist campaign against the gender binary was subverted
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
A Phoenix rises
Professor Jo Phoenix’s legal triumph is also a triumph for free speech