Gender
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
You don’t need to be a biologist to see the problem with “sex isn’t binary”
Acknowledging the complexities of women does not excuse erasing womanhood
Against the new witch-hunt in the arts
Art, if it means anything, must be more than propaganda
The Sandie Peggie case has exposed the grim dynamics of the gender wars
Brave women dissent and the system rushes to punish them
A clean-up job for bullshit politics
A case against “TERFs” uses interesting research in the service of the absurd
Don’t throw in the towel on women’s sports
At the Eindhoven Box Cup, women have secured a victory for fairness
A straight woman cannot be a gay man
We should stop misleading each other and ourselves
Our MPs are still dangerously delusional on gender
Despite everything, British politicians have not accepted the realities of sex
Women should always be able to say “no”
There is no right for biological males to be able to access women’s spaces
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant