Women
Why do women matter so little?
The outrageous policing of political speech by Wiltshire Police
Ratifying the Istanbul Convention won’t protect British women
We must not empower an international body to meddle in matters which should be left to our own lawmakers
Achilles heels
Hannah Betts has a fashion-defying weak spot for empowering altitudes
The dignity of domestic labour
Louise Perry says there is nothing demeaning about work traditionally done by women
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
Men beware women
How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
