Oscars
Use your words, Will
The feminist fix: Smith’s rationale is too close for comfort for many survivors of domestic abuse
True diversity
Acting ability should matter more than “lived experience”
Diversity season again
Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman likely to be nominated in the Best Director category for Nomadland, says Christopher Silvester
Break a leg
Woke Oscars tries to cripple the film industry, Stonewall capture the police and the Scottish enlightenment is cancelled
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Election objections
Andy Burnham doesn’t need a general election mandate
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
