Laurel Hubbard
Punching above their weight
How women managed to get men out of Olympic female sport
A step change in sports policy
The UK Sports Councils’ new guidance on trans inclusion is a breath of fresh air
Failing to uplift
Even when underperforming, transwoman Laurel Hubbard steals the spotlight from underprivileged women
The shame of BBC Sport
The BBC threatens to report gender critical women to the police
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Reform has the real “Shadow Cabinet”
Establishment gatekeeping is as futile as it is absurd
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus