Medical Research
The Lucy Letby truthers
Many of her supporters’ claims don’t stand up to scrutiny
A chronic case of mask fever
Masking in medical contexts represents the triumph of culture over science
Maiming a generation
The medicalisation of gender non-conforming young people is the biggest medical scandal of our time
Transitioning to a medical scandal
Emily Wheater and Ellen Pasternack say the gender change lobby is failing young people who change their mind
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality