Science
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
A bitter pill for public health
The sugar tax has not worked as intended
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
The EU is changing on immigration
A firmer stance is being taken — but will it be enough?
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone