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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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand