Disability
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Sadiq Khan is blind to unromantic disadvantages
London travel schemes are excluding the disabled and pro-diversity officials do not seem to care
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
Israel off the leash
For Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing the war is a matter of political survival, and he goes to America to raise support, not to listen to calls for peace
Where are the bodies?
The curious case of Kemi’s “sackings”
Reformed towns
The Reformation was a transformative moment in English urban history
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Murders for August
From killers down under to death across the pond
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
