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The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Why are men still in women’s prisons?
In the very places built to uphold it, the law is being flouted
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Cosmonaut thriller is absolutely stellar
Strong characters drive Star City forward in an increasingly paranoid hothouse of fear, betrayal and adultery
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions