Margaret Atwood
Can feminists please drop the Handmaid habit?
Feminists’ adoption of Margaret Atwood’s red cape serves only to obscure the complex real-life issues around women’s rights
The handmaid’s fail
Margaret Atwood trashes her legacy
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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
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.
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
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order