Pregnancy
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
Heartbeats at Christmas
On embracing human life as an unqualified good
Birth trauma must be taken seriously
Women in labour need more care and respect
For womb the bell tolls
We know what sex is when men want something from women
Pains of Victorian labour
The experience of pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain was no picnic
Born in the wrong body
Scientific advancements in uterine transplantation don’t represent progress
Pregnant people
Can we not call women women?
Weeds in the garden
A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood
Why demonise medical interventions for pregnancy?
We shouldn’t let nature get in the way of nurture
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
The court of hot air
We do not need human rights law to protect human rights or to maintain the rule of law
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
