Lia Thomas
Labour is failing women
How have we reached a point where a former shadow women and equalities minster doesn’t know what a woman is?
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
The Church of England is practicing a secular religion
Equality, diversity and inclusion can be prioritised over religious faith
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
