No Debate
The “No Debate” dodos
“Trans women are women, no debate” is what American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton called a thought-terminating cliche
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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
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
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
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality