Trans Ideology
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
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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
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
The American chaos machine
The United States’s current aggressive expansionism and domestic strife are an intrinsic part of its national character
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration