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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…
 • Claire Fox
New film: the rape gangs are worse than you think
In a guest post, Dominic Frisby, star of 'The Grooming Gangs Cover-Up', argues that we need to face the unpalatable truth about the scale and horror of…
 • Dominic Frisby
The grooming gangs scandal shames Britain
Our country is finally being forced to reckon with a disaster we have ignored for too long
 • Claire Fox
Edinburgh International Book Festival is beyond ‘repair’
There's no room for writers who believe that biological sex is real and who support women's rights, says Susan Smith of For Women Scotland. PLUS: watch…
 • Susan Chynoweth-Smith
Starmer, Mandelson and the rotten core of British politics
There is something rotten in the state of Britain.
 • Claire Fox
Henry Nowak: we must demand accountability
The terrible bodycam footage of the Southampton student's final moments brings home the shocking consequences of the ideology of bastardised…
 • Jake Weston
Inside the Lords: it's been a tough week
The death of my former Brexit Party colleague Ann Widdecombe has cast a shadow – and the response to it in some quarters has been shameful.
 • Claire Fox
Thou Shall Not Tweet
The arrest of Graham Linehan is a shocking indictment of the UK's addiction to speech policing
 • Claire Fox
The killing of Iryna Zarutska shows the mainstream media’s total moral collapse
Jacob Reynolds argues that there is more interest in narrative control than in dealing with the issues laid bare by this murder – and that of Charlie…
 • Jacob Reynolds
Fear, favour and failure: the crisis in British policing
After high-profile cases where forces have failed to protect the public or overstepped the mark in relation to free speech and journalism, read Claire…
 • Claire Fox
Inside The Lords: asylum policy, assisted dying and assaults on smokers
Claire Fox reports from a frantic few weeks in parliament.
 • Claire Fox
We need to banish 'non-crime hate incidents' to the dustbin of history
As the case of Allison Pearson has brought to the fore, NCHIs are illiberal, censorious and authoritarian.
 • Claire Fox
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