COMMENTARY

JOANNA GRAY Is a potential social media ban for the under-16s the ultimate nanny state interference, the beginning of a full-blown censorship state, or a sensible decision to protect tech-addled children? It is probably all […]

ROGER WATSON A leading proponent of face masks as a means of countering the spread of respiratory infections appears to have changed her mind. Professor Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford – described as the “high priestess” […]

TOBY YOUNG A posh pressure group that threw custard at the crown jewels is planning mass thefts from Waitrose. The Telegraph has more. Take Back Power (TBP), viewed as the successor to Just Stop Oil (JSO), has […]

SINEAD MURPHY In What Autism Is, I characterized autism as exclusion from the existential empathy on which meaningful human experience relies. Autistic people are irretrievably remote from the conditions for meaning. Whatever they learn is learnt […]

Radical Islam’s safest country isn’t in the Middle East JOHN MAC GHLIONN The United Arab Emirates doesn’t do half-measures when it comes to political Islam. It does not indulge euphemisms. It does not pretend that […]

DEI and a stark admission – it’s a war against straight white males DANIEL JUPP A MONTH ago Compact magazine published The Lost Generation, an article by the leftist millennial writer Jacob Savage. It went viral and divided opinion. […]

Make love not babies: the culture war on conception NIALL MCCRAE What is the real purpose of abortion providers such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service? Given vast amounts of state funding, is their primary […]