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‘Woke’ was invented by angry schoolgirls on Tumblr
For the first half of the 2010s, any teenage girl in her room had a chance of amassing more political…
Why are student debaters being asked for their pronouns?
When the UK’s biggest school debate competition told us to declare our gender pronouns, I knew my team had lost the contest…
Ministers must now stand up for women’s rights
The highest court in the land was set the task of determining: what is a woman? Today it gave its…
Why did we need the Supreme Court to tell us what a woman is?
How did it come to this? How did we arrive at a situation where it fell to a court of…
Can we go back to calling terfs ‘women’ now?
In a landmark judgment, after years of controversy, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of For…
Trump should have the power to fire the Fed chair
The Chair of the Federal Reserve is arguably the most powerful economic official in the United States. He’s also the…
This legal definition of ‘woman’ has restored sanity to the law
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a woman is someone whose sex is female. The judgment, handed down this…
The Supreme Court ruling is a victory for women
The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act is a victory for women, proper statutory…
There’s an obvious reason pre-school children are falling behind
Something is rotten in the state of British schools. According to primary school teachers, one in four Reception students are…
Supreme Court: ‘woman’ refers to biological sex
To the Supreme Court, which has this morning backed the biological definition of a woman. Today a panel of judges…
Only a US trade deal can save UK pharma from Trump’s tariffs
Forget whisky, cars or chemicals. The real blow to the British economy from President Trump’s determination to impose steep tariffs…
No one needs Liz Truss’s ‘uncensorable’ social platform
Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, refuses to go away quietly. Her latest barnstorming idea is to…
Why should rich people pay more for their energy bills?
The point of a government energy regulator is supposed to be to make sure that the market is working to…
Is Trump killing the American dream for mom-and-pops?
He’s survived an assassination, bounced back from bankruptcy and – so far, at least – avoided all attempts to jail…
Britain does not have a ‘reciprocal’ relationship with America
J.D. Vance told UnHerd yesterday that the United States has a “much more reciprocal relationship” with the UK than it…
Britain is not out of the woods on rising inflation just yet
Price rises have unexpectedly eased. The Consumer Price Index rose by just 2.6 per cent in March, down from 2.8…
Aimee Lou Wood should stop moaning about her teeth
Back in the twentieth century, there was a trend for beautiful female film stars to compare themselves to comical or…
Is France too weak to stop the violent attacks on its prisons?
A wave of violence is sweeping France as gunmen attack the country’s prisons. In some cases, vehicles belonging to prison…
It’s not the government’s job to prepare kids for school
Today, every parent of five-year-olds will find out what school their child will be going to in September. The likelihood is…
Is Brussels finally cracking down on NGOs?
Over in Brussels, a scandal has erupted over the role of ‘non-governmental organisations’, or NGOs, in European Union decision making. In…
Are plus-size ballerinas the future?
Iain Mackay, a former ballet dancer who is now artistic director of the Royal Ballet School, told the Times in a…
What could the For Women Scotland judgment mean for women’s rights?
Following months of deliberation, the apex court in the United Kingdom is to rule on For Women Scotland vs The…
What Vance understands about Suez
As with so many of the aphorisms and witticisms attributed to Winston Churchill, it is impossible to verify whether the…
Bernie Sanders at Coachella shows time is not on the Democrats’ side
As the Church of England faces an exodus of parishioners, some of its more inventive clerics have rushed to embrace…
Of course Britain’s military chiefs should be meeting with China
It’s quite something when the Chinese Ministry of Defence is more transparent than its British equivalent. Despite the Prime Minister…
