Puberty Blockers
Should puberty be optional?
Girls deserve a better deal growing up — but avoiding puberty isn’t the answer
Canada’s gender ideology obsession
Olivia Hartley speaks to Chris Elston about the progression of gender ideology in Canada
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
