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
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature