The mask of authority
All of us need to answer hard questions about the decisions we made during the pandemic
More sad than naughty
A BDSM book by a group keen to challenge gender norms is oddly conventional
Freedom and solitude
Loneliness is not just a side-effect of Coronavirus: it’s been here for a while
Feminists must reject left and right
Louise Perry believes the old political labels are irrelevant for feminists
The real facts of life
A welcome intervention by an author determined to return some rationalism to the trans discussion
Cuties: how Netflix normalised the sexualisation of children
Netflix’s latest controversy has highlighted another troubling conflict between the Right and the Left
People Need Borders
Louise Perry reviews Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries, by Frank Furedi
The author who is ‘ex-Black’
Louise Perry reviews ‘Self-Portrait in Black and White’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
Pretty prose and ugly reality
Review: “Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World” by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
