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Trans on Trial: the tragi-comedy of gender ideology
Ann McElhinney, the producer of a new filmed drama based on the landmark case Mermaids vs The LGB Alliance, on why supporters of transitioning children…
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Ann Mcelhinney
Grooming gangs, gender laws and government overreach
Parliament's back and it's already a mess - Claire Fox reports from a week inside the Lords.
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Claire Fox
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Six questions about the British Steel rescue
Parliament may have rushed to pass a law to see off the threat to the steelworks, but without a serious plan, this won’t be the last we hear about it.
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Rob Lyons
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Three cheers for For Women Scotland
Biological reality is back! After today’s fantastic victory for women's rights in the UK Supreme Court, the onus is on us to make it more than just a…
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Claire Fox
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Bearing WITNESS to antisemitism
The curators of a recent exhibition in London, Mina Kupfermann and Manick Govinda, explain why we cannot allow October 7th to be forgotten - and call…
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Manick Govinda
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Mina Kupfermann
Tariff wars: is there method in Trump’s madness?
Ahead of a special discussion in May for AoI associate and paid subscribers, Rob Lyons looks at the logic and impact of the White House’s new trade war.
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Rob Lyons
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Debating Matters: from Key West to the North West (via Westminster)
Mo Lovatt rounds up a busy period of schools debating across England and looks forward to debates in Berlin and Beyond Bars.
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Mo Lovatt
Inside the Lords: mental health, bad tempers and trade-union bureaucrats
Claire Fox reports from the last week inside the Lords before Easter.
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Claire Fox
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The limits of multicultural citizenship
In our weekend essay exploring some of the themes of The Academy 2025, Jacob Reynolds argues that a turn to ethnicity is no solution to the problem of…
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Jacob Reynolds
The Home Office should stay out of our private conversations
The UK government is demanding a 'backdoor' to encrypted online communications, undermining our privacy and civil liberties. Apple is right to refuse…
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Matthew Feeney
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How the NHS’s failure to reliably record sex puts patients at risk
A new report highlights how dangerous the NHS's gender confusion has become.
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Claire Fox
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Victoria Keilthy
You can’t talk about that! Well-being and the dangers of self-censorship in universities
In a guest post, social-work professors Jane Fenton and Mark Smith discuss their research on how students and lecturers bite their tongues for fear of…
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Alastair Donald
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The UK economy is flat-lining. How can we revive it?
Rob Lyons previews Thursday evening’s Economy Forum with Lord Jon Moynihan, author of 'Return to Growth: How to Fix the Economy'.
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Rob Lyons
Inside The Lords: a week of disorder
Claire Fox reports from parliament on the new world order, quangocracies and bureaucratic overreach.
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Claire Fox
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