LGBT
Why banking on judges is a poor strategy
Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County was massively significant for two reasons. As a legal matter, the…
Pete Buttigieg is a slightly less gay version of Obama
On Valentine’s Day, Mayor Pete and his hus-bear Chasten managed to once again charm absolutely no one, barring a few…
Was this journalist sacked for saying ‘sex is binary’?
I write a lot about transgenderism. I do so for several reasons. Among them: because politicians still aren’t doing their…
Hillary Clinton is right to question transgender orthodoxy
Hillary Clinton’s BBC interview in London is making headlines mainly about Russia, but students of the debate about transgender rights…
Trans rights, voter wrongs
This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. Donald Trump will probably be reelected in 2020 – not…
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Should Muslim parents be allowed to challenge LGBT lessons?
We saw two different worlds, or at least two different value systems, collide in the High Court in Birmingham this…
Meet the top cop who wants to police your pronouns
What is the purpose of the police? Maybe your answer has something to do with “preventing crime” or “arresting criminals”.…
The curious reaction to a niqab-wearing homophobe
Are we allowed to criticise the niqab yet? This question crossed my mind as I watched that viral clip of…
Why I’m sick of Pride
Anyone else sick of the Pride flag? It’s everywhere. It flutters from virtually every building in central London. Town halls…
Why did no one think the premise of Mums Make Porn was questionable?
What can parents do about the avalanche of pornography available to their children on tablet, phone and laptop? This question…
Identity issues
It was always going to be difficult for Theresa May’s government to secure a legacy beyond Brexit. With the negotiations…
1967 and all that
As you may have spotted, the BBC is marking the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of male homosexuality with an…
Heavy-handed
Oliver Cotton is an RSC stalwart who looks like a man born to greatness. Google him. He has the fearless…
David Bowie once praised Hitler… but he was always changing his tune
I was desperately worried that you hadn’t read or heard enough platitudinous drivel about David Bowie — and therefore felt…
The set's better than the characterisation: The Father at the Wyndham's reviewed
The Father, set in a swish Paris apartment, has a beautifully spare and elegant set. The stage is framed by…
John Waters interview: ‘We can’t make fun of Bruce Jenner?’
No one does transgression like the filmmaker John Waters. Jasper Rees talks to him about political correctness, post-ops and pubes
The march of the new political correctness
Twenty-first century political correctness isn’t benign: it’s creepy and all too keen on witch-hunts
An A-to-Z guide to the new PC
Anyone who thought political correctness had croaked, joining neon leg warmers, mullets and MC Hammer in the graveyard of bad…
