Trans Ideology
Can feminists please drop the Handmaid habit?
Feminists’ adoption of Margaret Atwood’s red cape serves only to obscure the complex real-life issues around women’s rights
Language, truth and logic
Talking to Stella Creasy is never easy
A vision of victimhood
Feminists have to do better in the fight against trans ideology
Feminism has always been gender critical
Historical feminists knew better than anyone that biological sex is real
Trans activist makes a fuss without facts
Trans people in the UK have all the same rights, and a few more besides
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
Sex denialism helps nobody
Who is responsible for the backlash against women’s and LGBT rights?
A heartbreaking work of staggering narcissism
Grace Lavery reveals the delusions of transgender ideology
The religion of self-worship
Rowan Williams calls it a “sacred journey” — but trans ideology is a new faith altogether
No, Keir, sex does matter
Denying biological reality is worsening a public health crisis
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed