Francesca Peacock
Francesca Peacock is a writer and arts journalist based in London. She published her first book, Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish in 2023, and she tweets at @cesca_peacock
The life-long genius of Sickert
There is more to the artist than the Camden Town years of his most famous paintings
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
