Joanna Pedder
Joanna Pedder is a writer.
Women should agree to disagree
Feminists should forget about pronouns and labels and tackle the real issues of women’s lives
Misgendering Jesus
Academic nonsense blinds us to realities of sex and faith
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party