Ministerial and Other Maternal Allowances Act
Shock: there is a pregnant “person” in the Cabinet
Legislation on maternity leave is now drafted to apply to “a person” not “a woman” who is a mother
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies