women’s sport
The Supreme Court must protect women’s sports
Two landmark cases could change international attitudes towards sex and gender
The toxic shame of Progressive Man
Sex denialists are doubling down on their own irrationality
Should women boycott women’s sports
If there is going to be change, athletes have to take a stand
Women’s cycling should be for women
Don’t follow the pack on “inclusivity” in sports
“Women of Steel” won’t bend easily
Female football players should be able to play against other women
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The value of social value
Social value requirements have made public procurement more expensive, more bureaucratic and harder for smaller firms to compete
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth