Trans Ideology
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
One year later
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, the gender argument is not going anywhere
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Does women’s discomfort matter?
Male desires are not more important than women’s comfort
A victory for common sense
Of course women should not have to change with a man
We must stop the puberty blocker trial
Experimenting on vulnerable children is unacceptable
A good week for girls and women
Women should never have been excluded to make space for men
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age