Vicky Thompson
The lie of trans “murders”
Children love fairy stories, but reframing thieves and alleged sexual deviants as those fairies is grotesque
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism