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Get your Progress Pride poppy Identity Politics

Get your Progress Pride poppy

25th October 2024
The hostile male takeover of women’s sports Sport

The hostile male takeover of women’s sports

22nd October 2024
The SNP’s 24 genders Identity Politics

The SNP’s 24 genders

21st October 2024
It’s not sexist to tell a woman to ‘grow a pair’ Identity Politics

It’s not sexist to tell a woman to ‘grow a pair’

16th October 2024
A plague of crickets at the LGB Alliance conference Free Speech

A plague of crickets at the LGB Alliance conference

14th October 2024
Assisted-suicide campaigners do not hold the moral high ground Politics

Assisted-suicide campaigners do not hold the moral high ground

4th October 2024
Good riddance to London’s dreadful ‘night tsar’ Culture

Good riddance to London’s dreadful ‘night tsar’

3rd October 2024
Tim Walz: the Democrats’ Walter Mitty USA

Tim Walz: the Democrats’ Walter Mitty

2nd October 2024
Can a Dachshund be ‘genderfluid’? Identity Politics

Can a Dachshund be ‘genderfluid’?

17th September 2024
Legalising assisted suicide would be a profound moral error Politics

Legalising assisted suicide would be a profound moral error

17th September 2024
No, Taylor Swift won’t swing the presidential election Politics

No, Taylor Swift won’t swing the presidential election

11th September 2024
Police Scotland are letting rapists identify as women Identity Politics

Police Scotland are letting rapists identify as women

9th September 2024

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Children are the biggest casualty of California’s culture war USA

Children are the biggest casualty of California’s culture war

9th September 2024
‘BookTok’ has lost the plot Culture

‘BookTok’ has lost the plot

7th September 2024
We need to kick men out of women’s football Feminism

We need to kick men out of women’s football

3rd September 2024
Who wants to be weighed in the workplace? UK

Who wants to be weighed in the workplace?

1st September 2024
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