"The past year has forced many women to confront the inequality in their own life—and every kid sitting on a lap in a Zoom meeting, or bursting in to show off a unicorn, has forced that knowledge on the rest of us." (The Atlantic)
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The Crown’s Majestic Untruths
"All truly great historical dramas, memoirs, and biopics are about something greater than their ostensible subject. If they are not, they become a dutiful, forgettable checklist." (The Atlantic)
The Naked Feminist
What lies behind the arguments over a statue for Mary Wollstonecraft? (The Atlantic)
Difficult Women: A Guardian Book of the Year
"Fittingly for a book that exhorts fellow feminists to struggle against the “tyranny of niceness”, it is a punchy and sarcastic read." (Guardian)
The real threat of QAnon
Yes, QAnon sounds deranged, but its individual building blocks are proven winners in the marketplace of crazy ideas. (Sunday Times)
The Unquiet of Uncertainty
For the past five months, it has felt as if the entire world has been trapped at an airport departure gate, and the only information on the screen is the word “Delayed”. (The Sunday Times)
Difficult Women reviewed by the Mail
"Blending rigorous research with passages that make you bark with laughter, this is an effortlessly smart study of feminism’s power to make society better for everyone."
Saturday Review: David Copperfield
Discussing David Copperfield, Pregnancy in art, The Windermere Children, Motherwell and The Welkin (pictured) on Saturday Review.
The News Quiz is back!
The News Quiz is back! With host Nish Kumar, panellists Mark Steel, Lucy Porter and Alun Cochrane, and newsreader Neil Sleat.
How far is Britain from Gilead?
"Look around: Handmaids are everywhere."