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This transgender schools guidance leaves a lot to be desired
The government has finally published its transgender guidance for schools. Teachers have been waiting a long time. We were promised…
Liz Truss leads backlash to schools trans guidance
The government’s guidance for schools on transgender pupils was finally published this morning – prompting an immediate backlash which demonstrated…
Why are MPs endorsing Stonewall’s rainbow laces campaign?
Our Members of Parliament are not short of stuff to do. There’s immigration – of the legal and illegal varieties…
The flaw in Scotland’s new transgender prison policy
Almost twelve months after rapist Isla Bryson was sent to women’s prison, the Scottish Prison Service has come up with…
When did publishers stop caring what their readers actually want?
It was easy to choose books for my young nieces and nephews this Christmas. First, I ruled out stories about…
KCL’s sinister diversity and inclusion policies
Last week the King’s College London LGBTQ staff network, called Proudly King’s, demonstrated its intellectual level and its view of…
Was the Black Death racist?
Even the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century, we are now being told, practised racial discrimination as it raged through…
Scotland doesn’t need a ‘non-binary action plan’
Scotland’s government has plenty of things on its to-do list: tackling inflation, dealing with unemployment and cleaning up the mess…
Are the richest 1 per cent really to blame for climate change?
Oxfam used to be a worthy charity through which donors in wealthy countries could help fund famine relief in developing…
Met police swell their social media army
Scarcely a week seems to go by without an incident involving one of the Metropolitan Police’s social media accounts. Recent…
My pronouns are Bah/Humbug
This week I went to see Charles Dicken’s 1843 A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic theatre in London and…
Can the government be trusted with free speech?
This summer, horrified by the rising numbers of students no-platforming and harassing visiting speakers whose views they don’t like, the government…
Do we really need more diversity on Gardener’s World?
Boo. Monty Don is retiring in a couple of years as presenter of Gardener’s World, because it’s getting to be…
What Labour’s Lisa Nandy needs to know about trans rights
Lisa Nandy could not have been more wrong when she waded into the transgender debate this week. The Labour MP,…
The problem with the BBC’s Israel coverage
Since the 7 October massacre, various institutions across the West have damaged their reputations when covering the murder of 1,200…
The interview that exposed the ridiculousness of trans ideology
On hearing that a trans-woman, the activist Steph Richards, was to be appointed CEO of an endometriosis charity, many feminists…
The Prime Minister’s Propaganda Awards
For those keeping up with Australia’s literary scene, you might be interested to know that the winners of the Prime…
You can’t cancel Picasso
In the sunlit courtyard of the Picasso Museum in Málaga, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso is telling me about his grandfather, the greatest…
When did we change our minds about Little Britain?
Little Britain is ‘explicitly racist and outdated’. That’s the verdict of viewers asked by Ofcom to watch a 2003 sketch…
Sam Smith, can you put your clothes on?
Undressing. Getting one’s kit off, whether for the gentlemen or the ladies, depending on one’s bent. Disrobing, divesting, denuding. Slipping…
Activist curators are spoiling Britain’s museums
History, we’re told, is written by the victors. But nowadays, it seems it’s museum curators who really have the final…
Why are Cambridge University’s librarians judging ‘problematic’ books?
Librarians across Cambridge University are on the look out. Their target, among the ten million-odd volumes in the main library…
Do asexuals really face ‘dehumanising discrimination’?
Bored with hearing about discrimination towards lesbians and gay men? Having an empathy meltdown when listening to stories of violence,…
Israel’s plight exposes the truth about virtue signalling ‘values’
Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, recently took a pop at immigrants who she accused of failing to ‘embrace British values’.…
The Met Police’s ‘jihad’ lecture shows it has lost the plot
I knew the police had lost the plot, but even I didn’t expect them to start issuing chin-stroking theological justifications…
