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 handmaid’s fail
Margaret Atwood trashes her legacy
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The West needs more decisive diplomacy
Diplomatic vacillation is enabling the spread of armed conflict
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
