Transphobic
Trans activists and the Labour Party
How the gender battle is shaking-up British party politics. With Graham Stewart and Josephine Bartosch
JK Rowling and the Wardens of Woke
The younger Harry Potter stars made their disagreement abundantly clear with the woman who made them
J K Rowling is not transphobic
Is it transphobic to say women get periods? Don’t be daft, says Ella Whelan
How Eton turned woke
One recent graduate of Eton College laments how the school has transformed into a place of ideological homogeneity
The paradox of Nazi culture
The Nazis were so obsessed with the otherness of the Jews that they created an alternative cultural universe for them
Poignant power of cheap food
Would I read it if the subject wasn’t famous? One has to say yes, with chips and curry sauce
The sword of justice cuts both ways
Unexplained Wealth Orders reverse the burden of proof
“Meme”
From a German zoologist to internet burns, Dominic Green charts the history of the word meme
In praise of the Midlands
The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else
Between war and empire
Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Steve Baker: Boris’s leadership “on the table” without lockdown exit plan
Distance between Downing Street and Tory lockdown sceptics widening as Baker writes to CRG MPs
“But is it good for the Jews?” Why Dom Cummings departure probably is
Toby Young was a huge fan of Dominic Cummings. The lockdown changed his mind