Women
Breast is not always best
The obsession with breastfeeding is hindering women’s freedom of choice
Why do women matter so little?
The outrageous policing of political speech by Wiltshire Police
Ratifying the Istanbul Convention won’t protect British women
We must not empower an international body to meddle in matters which should be left to our own lawmakers
Achilles heels
Hannah Betts has a fashion-defying weak spot for empowering altitudes
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
Men beware women
How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Beef and Brexit prosperity
High beef prices are a symptom of a deeper problem—Britain has left the EU, but not its economic mindset.
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Jams, jellies and EU insanity
From toast to tungsten, the EU is an enemy of innovation
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane