Luciana Berger
All aboard the trans-Lib Dem express
The Lib Dems’ approach to transgender rights showcases the contradictions of identity politics
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Shooting the breeze
Patrick Galbraith welcomes an ambitious new shoot tenant
Stumbling in the light
J.D. Vance has written a revealing book, for better and for worse
Selling desirability
It is truthful to sell art as a luxury accessory
Nigel Farage is not establishment
Power in the UK is not determined by your schooling or your bank account
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
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,