Female politicians
The boys’ club
Labour demands diversity by design across public life, but suddenly rediscovers meritocracy when the party leadership is at stake
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
A garden reborn
a garden reborn
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give