Science
A history of the world set in stone
Popular geology writing is as old as the geological sciences themselves
Voices of regret
Did a new study capture the whole truth about “top surgery”?
Who’s afraid of UPF? (Part 2)
Bad science is hard to swallow
The tangled web of sex
No, sex is not “bimodal”
Time doesn’t fly in Bianchini’s company
Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion
Sex, New Scientist and me
How I learned to stop worrying and criticise the magazine
The life of lifts
The mechanical wonders of high-speed elevation
Can science hold all the answers?
Revisiting the thinkers who challenged the scientific method’s claims to have a monopoly on the truth and offer privileged access to reality
The dangerous charms of models
Mask mandates failed
Did Newton microaggress?
The government should stop supporting the EDI industry
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
