On the demonisation of middle-aged women
Victoria Smith joins Ben Sixsmith to discuss her new book “Hags”, the intersection of ageism and misogyny, and why J.K. Rowling makes people lose their marbles.
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Woke sexism is still sexism; gay misogyny is still misogyny
Anti-feminist aggression is exactly what it looks like
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion
On ebbing power of the political influencer
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
