A Demagogue Departs The SNP has identified England and the English political class—especially the governing Conservative Party—as hostile forces. John Lloyd 18 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
How Do They Know This? An informative and apolitical new book reminds us that statistics are not always what they seem. Christopher J. Snowdon 8 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
Trouble in the Midlands How social media influenced media discourse about civil unrest in Leicester and inflamed the violence. Hardeep Singh 30 Nov 2022 · 8 min read
Our Glorious Unhead of State The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state. Harry Lehmann 21 Sep 2022 · 4 min read
The Young Elizabeth, Seen Through a Child’s Eyes The diaries of Elizabeth’s wartime companion illustrates the special burdens faced by royalty—and Elizabeth’s fitness to bear them Barbara Kay 14 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Shuttering the Tavistock The closure of Britain’s scandal-plagued youth gender clinic could help protect distressed children from unnecessary medicalisation. Bernard Lane 5 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
How Social Justice Killed Anti-Racism One of the early signs of trouble for the British anti-racism movement was a tweet sent by Lee Jasper in April 2013, in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly debate anybody who disagreed. I offered to debate him, as did a Jerry Barnett 9 Feb 2022 · 11 min read
Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen. Christopher J. Snowdon 28 Jul 2021 · 16 min read
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about. Quillette 24 Jun 2021 · 10 min read
Breaking the Union The SNP has been in government in Scotland since 2007, and the determination and political will with which it has pursued independence has been impressive. John Lloyd 29 May 2021 · 9 min read
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction. Kathleen Stock 18 May 2021 · 13 min read
Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.” Damian Counsell 17 May 2021 · 24 min read
Between Hartlepool and Hampstead—Paul Embery on the British Labour Party and the Working Class There wasn’t a key single moment, but there were a series of events if you like, which occurred in the first decade of this century. Carlo Massimo 1 Apr 2021 · 16 min read
