Gender
What is the case against Maya Forstater?
An employment judge may not believe sex is immutable — but will the appeal tribunal agree?
Sex is real – and it matters
On the first day of Maya Forstater’s appeal, Sarah Phillimore says it is wrong that women continue to risk being sacked for their opinions
Sex deniers are the new flat earthers
Those who deny biological sex are dangerous and disingenuous; it’s time the rest of us stood up to them
How the culture wars adversely affect young people
Young people’s bodies have become collateral damage in the ongoing culture wars as politicians continue to pander to trans ideology
Which gender are you: Neutrois or Two-Spirit?
A brief guide to the British Film Institute’s 22 genders
Ratifying the Istanbul Convention won’t protect British women
We must not empower an international body to meddle in matters which should be left to our own lawmakers
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
Has trench warfare on trans issues come to an end?
Good things can come out of junked changes to the GRA
J K Rowling is not transphobic
Is it transphobic to say women get periods? Don’t be daft, says Ella Whelan
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
