Women Writers
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
The solipsistic siren
The sexual liberation and unrequited search of Nancy Cunard emblematises 1920s Paris
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Why do women bear the brunt of literary censorship?
Cancellation is the modern manifestation of public shaming culture
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Britain must develop economic resilience
The Houthis have exposed our devastating economic insecurity
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
