Handmaid’s Tale
Can feminists please drop the Handmaid habit?
Feminists’ adoption of Margaret Atwood’s red cape serves only to obscure the complex real-life issues around women’s rights
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
