Louise Perry
Women prisoners have enough problems. Self-ID will worsen them
‘Even a small number of prisoners transitioning to the female estate makes a big difference. And numbers are already mushrooming’
Lapine revelation
Karen Harvey’s book on the ‘rabbit-breeder’ Mary Toft teases out the painful emotional drama behind an 18th-century medical hoax
Defining women
The Oxford police are busy with a hate crime: stickers that define “woman” as an “adult human female”
Snack attacks
“Greggs was supposed to be safe from the liberal metropolitan elite. The vegan sausage roll showed that it wasn’t”
A Fifty Shades of Grey area over violent sex
Juries seem increasingly willing to accept “rough sex” as a defence against murder. Does “BDSM” allow abusers to hide in plain sight?
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics