Trans Ideology
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
What women have lost
How can women focus on traditional feminist issues when spiteful men are demanding to be included?
How can we talk about male violence now?
Our discourse should be a lot more honest and a lot more serious
Mutilation theology
Asserting mastery over their future selves is a feature of mastectomy, not a bug
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
Why Labour doesn’t understand the gender wars
Keir Starmer’s confusion on gender is the result of years of cowardice
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project