Women
We can’t lose the word “woman”
Women face enough ignorance about their health without gender ideology making it worse
The Guardian’s McCarthyite gender politics
Ideological policing of Róisín Murphy is a cynical tribalism divorced from social justice
Not cricket
Women’s cricket should be for women, and only women
Life through the kaleideologyscope
Must everything be reduced to political resentment?
The Queen’s Gambit
Why women’s chess matters
Why I write about gender
The issue affects us all
Let men speak for men
Women’s voices have dominated the debate around men’s issues
The clue is in the name
The Women’s Institute should be exactly that
Retiring the #GirlBoss
Hollywood subversion is behind the times
One day Mhairi Black will be a Karen, too
Age comes for us all, and it makes us no less human
Most Read
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
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
This apology for a political comedy
Amusing as a war crimes trial, and seems to last twice as long
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
A new course for Cuba
The United States should give up its futile and arrogant dreams of regime change
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense