Gender Recognition Act
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Secrets and lies
The secrecy clause in the Gender Recognition Act is a big problem
Sectioning the SNP
Separatism is a grave threat to all Britons
The case for repealing the GRA
A category error cannot solved by exceptions
Women’s lives are not up for debate
Single sex spaces can be a matter of life or death for female victims
Scotland’s shame
Stonewall’s grip on Holyrood has been strengthened — to the detriment of women
The EHRC delivers
Women’s rights campaigners have been vindicated… for now
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
How to lose an empire
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Taking Pride
If sexual orientation is not a choice and therefore nothing to be ashamed of, then it can be nothing to be proud of either
Discomfort Zone
I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
