Anna McGovern
Anna McGovern is a PR and public affairs consultant, freelance TV commentator and writer, and social action campaigner. She is the recipient of the Diana Legacy Award and Prime Minister’s 1050th Point of Light for services to volunteering. She tweets at @AnnaMcGovernUK
A pantomime of womanhood
Women’s pain is not a novelty to be impersonated
Addicted in art
What role should suffering play in creativity and the consumption of art?
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
Why did the Eye look away?
Surely a title known for investigative journalism would be concerned by a series of trans scandals
Was The Bible written by slaves?
A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas
Policies Galore!
Scotland has social democratic goodies under the floorboards, so long as the wicked English excise men don’t spoil everything.
The best we can hope for
Brilliant psychologist Daniel Kahneman died this year
The blunders that restored the Crown
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist