Gender

The true villains of our TV crime dramas? The creators

24 January 2026 9:00 am

Idly watching the first episode of a TV crime drama series recently, I found myself in a slightly troubled frame…

The poisonous truth about British universities

24 January 2026 9:00 am

This week it became clear that almost none of the adults whose job it is to teach students the truth…

Foetal femicide has arrived in Britain

10 January 2026 9:00 am

Last summer, the Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi introduced a clause to the Crime and Policing Bill that will decriminalise all…

The economic purge of the young white male

22 December 2025 11:06 pm

I can remember when I first realized that something strange was happening to white men in Hollywood. It was around…

Why men are the disposable sex

18 October 2025 9:00 am

I am a proud father. Both my daughters got good degrees. But better still, they smoke, go to pubs and…

Transgenderism proves people will believe anything

4 October 2025 9:00 am

For years, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has wrapped itself in a guise of medical expertise, advising…

The truth about the trans school shooter

6 September 2025 9:00 am

True, one of the earliest school shooters, Brenda Spencer, who shot up a playground in San Diego in 1979, was…

Let straight white men write novels!

19 July 2025 9:00 am

About 15 years ago, I tried to interest my literary agent in a state-of-the-nation novel set in 21st-century London. My…

Pride continues to crumble

14 June 2025 9:00 am

In the canteen of the House of Lords last week, a friendly server asked me if I’d like some ‘Pride…

End of the rainbow: Pride’s fall can’t come soon enough

31 May 2025 9:00 am

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

31 May 2025 9:00 am

April’s Supreme Court judgment ought to have been the final nail in the coffin for transgender ideology. The belief that…

The war on normality

31 May 2025 9:00 am

Exciting news. To ‘showcase the vibrant diversity of both marine life and the LGBTQ+ community’, the visionary Bristol Aquarium has…

Why don’t men ask questions?

10 May 2025 9:00 am

I’ll bet most women under 50 in relationships with men have found themselves wondering when on earth the man is…

The hidden violence behind the trans ruling

26 April 2025 9:00 am

It is ten months since the then merely aspirant education secretary Bridget Phillipson addressed the important issue of where transgender…

How to get your husband to do the vacuuming

22 February 2025 9:00 am

This column nearly didn’t happen. Just as I sat down to write, disaster! My dishwasher lost its connection to the…

My wife earns more than me – and it doesn’t feel great

18 January 2025 9:00 am

This is the article I have thought about writing for years, but I have always ended up asking what would…

The ONS finally admits to flawed trans population statistics

15 September 2024 10:30 pm

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has finally admitted that the 2021 census figures on the transgender population of England…

Labour’s outrageous attack on academic free speech

26 August 2024 8:10 pm

In an extraordinary outburst, a government source has described the new Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, introduced by the…

Unmissable – for professors of gender studies: Alma Mater, at the Almeida Theatre, reviewed

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Alma Mater is a topical melodrama set on a university campus. The new principal, Jo, (amusingly played by Justine Mitchell)…

The inequality of sex

23 September 2023 9:00 am

As we all shroud ourselves in grief at being unable to watch Russell Brand any more on terrestrial television stations,…

Rhapsodic banalities

10 September 2022 9:00 am

‘Trans people are sacred. We are divine.’ The first line of I, Joan at the Globe establishes the tone of…

Good riddance to the Tavistock

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Most push notifications that pop up on my tablet concern impending catastrophe. But last week, one newsflash made my day.…