Edited by Peter Franklin

The real reason why we won’t act on gender-specific abortions

Sadly, there’s nothing new about the prejudice against baby girls. In many parts of the world female infanticide has been… Read more »

Heresy of the week: What if fat people people aren’t responsible for the obesity epidemic?

Obesity isn’t just a problem in the developed world, it is a global (and, indeed, globular) crisis. We must, of… Read more »

David Goodhart: Confessions of a liberal heretic

There are many problems with describing politics in terms of left and right – and one of them is that… Read more »

Germany’s eurosceptics dare to be different

The outcome of the forthcoming German general election could be determined by the performance of a new eurosceptic political party… Read more »

How quantitative easing in the West screws up the rest of the world

With Syria and Egypt dominating the headlines, an international crisis of a different kind is going largely unnoticed. In countries… Read more »

What’s so special about chemical weapons?

Who could not be horrified by the sight of children slain by sarin gas? Thanks to the newspapers we’ve all… Read more »