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How the pandemic has remade women ‘the Angel in the House’
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, has a year of lockdowns shown us that equality in the home is still a fantasy?
The radical feminist campaigner who has ‘nothing left to lose’
Marguerite Stern, a feminist activist who was attacked yesterday in France, speaks to Julie Bindel about why she will never give up campaigning for the rights of women and girls
Harry and Meghan – the aftermath
Over the course of two excoriating hours during the Oprah interview, The Firm found itself accused of racism, snobbery and emotional retardation
The problem with American isolationism
Despite the histrionics of domestic American opinion, a single rocket attack in Syria does not indicate that Biden’s foreign policy is likely to be more aggressive
Enough with the pity porn
As America passed half a million deaths from Covid-19, the reaction was predictably unhelpful and sensational
Taurine state of grace
Christopher North joins the devoted cult of the elegant, enigmatic bullfighter José Tomás
Amtrak Joe
Tom Chesshyre on the railroad buff in the White House
Letter from Washington: Democrats and the f-word
Is scrapping the filibuster really in Democrats’ best interests?
Squeaks and bumps
Dominic Hilton reminisces about his father’s hoard of bizarre avant-garde CDs, LPs and cassette tapes
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us