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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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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism