Sex
A butterfly on an operating table
The abstraction of desire achieves nothing
Sterility as liberation
Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning
The tyranny of acceptance
Not every choice is exactly free or at all good
Sex matters in medicine
Obscuring biological differences is dangerous
The UN’s global Californication
Who on Earth is it speaking for?
Killing and kissing
An engaging account of sex in wartime
Missing the point on marriage
We should not further undermine one of our oldest institutions
Women should agree to disagree
Feminists should forget about pronouns and labels and tackle the real issues of women’s lives
Swansongs and southern discomfort
Three new novels plough the furrow between popular and literary fiction
Children and gender distress
Modish answers may not be the best
Most Read
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion