Margaret Atwood
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 blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)