Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?
Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…
I regret not having more children
Life doesn’t always work out perfectly. You can make the wrong decisions. You can leave things too late. I wish,…
Mexico’s progressive hell
Every morning I check to see if Rodrigo Iván Cortés has published the ‘apology’ that the court in Mexico has…
The insane craze for dog ice-cream
During the few hot days we had in June, I came across my first tub of dog ice-cream nestled among…
You don’t need to ‘Queer’ the Mary Rose
I have an idea for the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth. My idea is for a Mary Rose Ultimate Experience…
The dangerous cult of ‘toxic parents’
Complaining about ‘toxic parents’ has been a viral hit on TikTok with videos on the topic racking up several billion…
When is a train strike not a train strike?
The first LNER train I booked on Sunday from Durham to London was cancelled due to ‘action short of a…
The narcissism of Gavin Newsom
Back in the late 1990s, when I lived in Dallas, Texas, I became fascinated by television evangelists. They were hucksters…
Why I hate drones
I have a plan for my old age. Now that we all might live for a century or so, feeling…
The kids aren’t ‘trans’ – they just don’t want to grow up
If we rule out the notion that people have ‘gendered souls’ at odds with their biological sex – and we…
Dr Jean Twenge: Gen Z aren’t OK
Dr Jean Twenge on why teenagers are so unhappy
I know how AI will bring us down
On the smooth marble concourse by the exit doors at Heathrow Airport I met my first cleaning robot. It was…
Here’s why the NHS is broken
I was having tea with my neighbour in her second-floor flat when a man, a stranger, appeared in the room.…
Lessons in parenting – from the French
I am actively contributing to the decline of the West and to the collapse of our civilisation. I realised this…
Beware the AI voice thieves
After years of blissful indifference, finally I’m scared of AI. I’ve been complacent, slept soundly beside my husband as he…
Is your child a cake?
It was announced last week that another gender has been added to the list: nominalgender. Most news sites reported this…
I know where the Met police are going wrong
I have a puzzle for the Metropolitan police – a mystery that only they can solve. Why, if the Met…
Don’t medicalise tomboys
When the mist lifts and we can see clearly the carnage caused by the trans madness, and we blink and…
Real memories aren’t ‘made’
If I could make a new year’s resolution for everyone in the English–speaking world, it would be that we all…
How Pope Benedict persuaded me to become a Catholic
I grew up in a traditional English family, surrounded by cousins, chivvied by aunts, presided over by my grandmother, who…
The greatest threat to Holy Island since the Vikings
It’s hard to explain how sad it will be if, after Christmas, Defra officials ban fishing on Holy Island, also…
