Equality
Hard-won gay rights will be easily lost
In the Palace of Westminster a fortnight ago, I spoke at a reception celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Tory…
End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough
Is Pride flopping? This parti-coloured celebration of all things LGBTQIA+ started half a century ago as an afternoon’s little march…
The next front in the gender wars
April’s Supreme Court judgment ought to have been the final nail in the coffin for transgender ideology. The belief that…
Will France’s school uniform experiment foster égalité?
As the new school year begins in France, pupils across the country are putting on school uniforms for the first…
Who will protect me?
Police are hunting a ‘hooded figure’ who sprayed ‘no whites’ on the wall of a primary school in Birmingham. The…
Was there ever a time of equality in human society?
Living in open savannahs, men and women had no choice but to cooperate. But evolution caused men to fight and dominate, resulting in sexism and social hierarchy
Stop the press
The convicted phone-hacker assembling complaints against the tabloids
Return of the Donald
Why I think Trump will be the next US President
I’m in trouble with the police
There is almost nothing I like more than a running battle. As my friend Julie Burchill also says, when a…
Politics and prejudice
The Labour party’s contribution to the national debate this week has included the idea that someone can be ‘superficially’ black.…
Relative merits
Meritocracy, a word coined by my father, gets a bad press these days. Two recent books — The Meritocracy Trap…
‘You must see there is a culture war?’
A conversation between Rod Liddle and Peter Tatchell
Home economics
There’s nothing unjust about selling the family house to pay for care
Letters
Levelling up Sir: In making the case for social mobility, Lee Cain unwittingly endorses the classism he hopes to fight…
Not my type
Who needs role models anyway?
Left behind
Social mobility is more urgently needed than ever
Tony Sewell’s race report critics are guilty of gaslighting
The Sewell Report on Race and Ethnic Disparities is courageous, thoughtful and measured. Its relative optimism has triggered a torrent…
Teed off
An open letter to my golf club
Mean girls
The return of the bitch is long overdue
Beware the linguistic Trojan horse
It’s the bane of many an author these days: those newspaper-filler Q&As. One I recently filled out included the question:…
The secret code of the ruling class
I naively hoped that last year’s statement by the Equalities Minister explaining why unconscious bias training was being phased out…
No one wins in the race race
After the explosion of international self-abasement over George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, much theatrical soul-searching ensued. So your basic man…
A battle for Eton’s soul
When trying to get my head around the row that has engulfed Eton College in the past two weeks I…
Colour bind
Why the ‘anti-racism’ movement is dangerous
Kamala Harris vs James Madison
If Joe Biden loses the presidential election tomorrow, he will not have any shortage of people to blame. The first…
