In search of the quintessentially British afternoon tea
You could search all fifty states, from sea to shining sea, and never come close to finding a proper scone
Madeleine Kearns
Thursday
Tuesday
Newlywed dining around the world
Our first year of marriage has involved a lot of hosting
Monday
Elliot Page’s memoir is a tale of tragic self-destruction
For the author, transgenderism was an escape hatch
Sunday
Italian cooking lessons in the home of a Venetian chef
Rosa ‘loves to be surrounded by nice people who like to eat well and offer free smiles all the time’
Friday
Will Biden’s pot pardons pay off?
From our UK edition
20 min listen
This week Freddy speaks to Madeleine Kearns, staff writer at the National Review, about President Joe Biden’s decree that cannabis possession should no longer be a federal crime. Is this a vote winner or will the decision end in disaster?
Tuesday
Porn again
There’s no reconciling the clash between the sex positivity movement and chastity
Monday
The ‘conversion therapy’ canard
Biden is doing trans activists’ bidding and young Americans will suffer
Monday
Children’s lives depend on parents’ rights
Trans ideologues want to hide your child’s problems from you
Saturday
The grim reality of gender reassignment
From our UK edition
Lisa Littman, a doctor and researcher, recently surveyed ‘detransitioners’ — people who thought they were transgender then changed their minds. The majority, 55 per cent, ‘felt that they did not receive an adequate evaluation from a doctor or mental health professional before starting transition.’ Sadly, it seems, their identity issues were more complicated than simply
Thursday
Baby doomers: why are couples putting the planet ahead of parenthood?
From our UK edition
38 min listen
In this week’s episode: Why are a growing number of people putting the planet before parenthood? Madeleine Kearns writes about this phenomenon in this week’s issue and thinks that some of these fears might be unfounded. Tom Woodman author of Future is one of these people that Madeleine’s piece talks about. Tom has very real
Baby doomers: why are couples putting the planet ahead of parenthood?
From our UK edition
For much of the last century, people had good reason to wonder whether it made sense to have babies. Millions of young men had died or been maimed in the trenches, and then along came the risk of being pulverised by an atom bomb. Nonetheless, men and women continued to have children and after both
Saturday
How the SNP wrecked Scottish education
From our UK edition
‘The politicians aren’t listening to us,’ an exasperated teacher tells me by phone. ‘There’s nothing left for us to do but get on with it.’ The despair felt by Scottish teachers is a notable shift from the anger I encountered in the staffroom when I trained among them five years ago. That was the year
Monday
The alarming rise of Big Dope
From our UK edition
18 min listen
Young people are now more likely to consume marijuana than smoke tobacco. Is weed just a benign stimulant, or is Big Dope pushing a drug that could lead to a schizophrenia epidemic? Freddy Gray speaks to Madeleine Kearns, staff writer at National Review and the author of the cover piece in the new US edition
Wednesday
Big Dope
A fog of madness, a stinky green cloud, is now descending on America
Saturday
Lullaby in Birdland
Life is still a cabaret
Friday
Babies on demand: the nasty side of surrogacy
One agency shows a smiling blonde wearing a T-shirt captioned ‘I grow cute babies’
Tuesday
Keeping up with the Santorums
Lockdown in Virginia with the former senator’s huge family
Wednesday
Mass appeal: Stanford in Stamford
An American debut, only a century late
Tuesday
Bowl food: childhood memories have inspired a new craze for cookie dough
Hundreds of customers can be seen snaking around the block, eagerly awaiting tubs and cones of buttery, sugary batter
Thursday
American universities are fuelled by amphetamines – so I tried them
From our UK edition
New York A biography of Freud to my left, a black leather lounger to my right. We were 30 minutes in. ‘Well,’ said the psychiatrist, sitting up in his chair, ‘what you’re describing sounds like ADHD.’ Oh? ‘And what we normally prescribe for that is Adderall.’ There they were. Ten blue, oblong capsules, in an