Biology
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
Awfully queer science
There are dangers to mixing ideology into our biology
Stop yelling at women online
A tedious social media trend is doing neither of the sexes any favours
You don’t need to be a biologist to see the problem with “sex isn’t binary”
Acknowledging the complexities of women does not excuse erasing womanhood
There is such a thing as being too old to become a parent
Narratives of progress, freedom and liberation cannot overcome all limits
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The new medical misogyny
Female people are not small male people who lack penises
Pandemics, plagues and pestilence
Germs have been laying waste to civilisations for 50,000 years
Women should agree to disagree
Feminists should forget about pronouns and labels and tackle the real issues of women’s lives
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh