Gender
Our age of anxiety
Modern progressives are revolting against nature
The other gender wars
Both men and women should do, and expect, better
Europe must not erase sex
We must resist the imposition of activist fantasies
Patriarchy isn’t funny, but sometimes you have to laugh
Keira Knightley has punctured the bullying pretensions of authoritarian ideologues
The Austrian left-winger taking on Europe’s orthodoxies
Faika El-Nagashi has bravely challenged her own political tribe on sex and gender
A council of despair
Politicians cannot run away from questions about defending women’s rights
The feminists who argued themselves out of being women
There is nothing binary-smashing about being non-binary
The fantasy of “trans” manhood
The pursuit of maleness undermines a healthy attitude towards the female body
Does Nicola Sturgeon believe women?
It is not enough to only trust women when it is convenient
What’s a feminist to make of male cheerleaders?
There is no magic in female-coded clothes and activities
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Givers and takers
Britain needs a fairer and more moral economic system
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Can we reduce the manosphere to mental health?
Louis Theroux’s attempt to find the trauma that motivates androcratic influencers is unconvincing