Women
The deconstruction of women
Don’t misuse biology to hide the nature of sex
Announcing feminism is dead won’t kill it
The history of the gender debate is being obscured
A pantomime of womanhood
Women’s pain is not a novelty to be impersonated
A moral panic that should have been spiked
The needle spiking epidemic was a media invention
The body of a weak and feeble woman?
We need to talk about female physical disadvantage
Cold comfort
Fertility clinics promise to beat the biological clock –– but egg freezing rarely works
Strongholds and strong women
Three non-fiction works beat out the general mediocrity of 2022
Dirty feminism
You can’t have feminism without femaleness
The sex trade is inherently unsafe
Commodifying women’s bodies perpetuates violence
Redefining rape
You can’t take the penis out of rape law
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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
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law
Punishing anyone before they have even been convicted of anything makes me uneasy
It’s not a level pitch
Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him