Femininity
The fantasy of “trans” manhood
The pursuit of maleness undermines a healthy attitude towards the female body
Meghan Markle is not the problem
Hate her all you want, but Meghan didn’t make the rules
The rise of toxic femininity
The return of feminine aesthetics is not good news for traditionalists
Living on nothing but ozempic and air
For all the talk of body positivity, the pressure on women to be ultra-thin has not waned
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Here come the new gender stereotypes, same as the old gender stereotypes
They aren’t subversive or ironic; they’re just silly
What does it mean to be a woman?
Trans activists purporting to be women in the “wrong” body are incapable of understanding our day-to-day lives
Female strength on film
Is Sir Ridley Scott a surprising feminist?
Dress sense
The average rock band from the 1980s onwards dressed as if they were going to fix your car, not blow your mind
Most Read
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
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand