Transgender
Born in the wrong body
Scientific advancements in uterine transplantation don’t represent progress
Journalism is failing women
We deserve to know the sex of dangerous criminals
A libel against women
There is no sudden outbreak of female flashers
Sex, New Scientist and me
How I learned to stop worrying and criticise the magazine
Inconvenient victims
A woman deserves more sympathy than her killer
The body of a weak and feeble woman?
We need to talk about female physical disadvantage
Banning prayer is beyond the Scottish Government’s powers
Holyrood has vastly exceeded its remit
Redefining rape
You can’t take the penis out of rape law
The perils of positive discrimination
Seeking wider representation must not come at the expense of standards
The Great Pretender
When does acting stop and real life begin?
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Should there be set texts for MPs?
Establishment ignorance of the texts we should be governed by is endangering the United Kingdom
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
