Last month, Dr. Gordon Guyatt, an authority on medical research, capitulated to a transgender activist mob and undermined his own field in the process. Guyatt, a professor at McMaster University in Canada, co-founded the field of evidence-based medicine in the Nineties.

Many will remember celebrity outlaw Ronnie Biggs landing at Gatwick Airport in May 2001 and being immediately arrested. Having participated in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, in which £2.6 million was stolen and the driver badly beaten, he subsequently escaped

A Spanish friend once told me that for years after the death of Franco, every time a larger than usual number of car accidents occurred over a weekend, there was a call for the return of fascism. For some, freedom of

Hereditary privilege has, mercifully, lost much of its cachet. Yet the zombie refuses to rest in its grave. Costume dramas and bodice-rippers about dukes and dowagers continue to pour forth; queues of deferential tourists lengthen outside stately homes; and royal gossip

School sucks. Early mornings, double maths, running round freezing-cold sports pitches — the thought of doing it all again makes me break out in a nervous sweat. Once a month or so, I have the same nightmare: it’s sixth form, and