Detransitioning
What does the child trans judgement mean?
Those who are invested in being ‘on the right side of history’ might like to reflect on yesterday’s judgement
Transitioning to a medical scandal
Emily Wheater and Ellen Pasternack say the gender change lobby is failing young people who change their mind
Seeing through Judith Butler
Very little substance lurks within the obscure prose
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
