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Catherine BennettThe Guardian |
If a record of sexual apartheid is not the ideal look for a nation that must still, occasionally, placate progressives, news of an extreme example –...
‘Tonight I’ll be asking the most important question of all – who was St George and why do we celebrate him?” Supposing a UK channel wanted to...
Trotters up, or down? Even if you once admired Danny Dyer’s immortal summary of post-Brexit David Cameron – “He’s in Europe, in Nice, with his...
How have we managed without the expression “sunshine at sunset”? As in, when an older married man is granted sex with a much younger colleague and...
Perhaps it’s down to upbringing, maybe it’s a fault in their education: for whatever reason, struggling high earners are apt to be their own worst...
At a time when more responsible politicians are finally pushing back against expansion by the fast fashion monster, Shein, it feels inevitable that...
How are they taking it at the Garrick? Does tradition still mute responses to revelations about its membership by my Guardian colleague Amelia...
For an organisation so full of surprises – one day on funding, another on restricting free speech – Arts Council England remains remarkably...
For an heir to the throne wanting to secure his future perhaps the first rule should be: do not associate with David Cameron. Last week the foreign...
When you receive a gift like London’s newly named Suffragette line, perhaps it’s ungrateful to cavil. For as long as trains run between Gospel Oak...
If you have tears – that is, any not used up on MPs struggling to get by, parents forced to choose between skiing and private schools, second...
God knows how Rishi Sunak feels on mornings when he’s not eaten for 16 hours and there’s still over half a 36-hour fast to go. Better than I did,...
In a climate that often feels hostile to middle-aged women, maybe it’s a sign of progress that an only faintly convincing contribution on menopause...
A career in misogyny might look like easy work for any man with qualifying levels of resentment. But in an increasingly competitive profession, with...
Ending a lifetime’s rewarding collaboration, Lady Michelle Mone OBE is done with the media. Or its “ridiculous obsession with every tiny detail of...
In his time in office, Rishi Sunak has done much to popularise an intensifier favoured by men wanting to advertise their commitment to women’s...
Considering how quickly “too posh to push” once took off as a way of rebuking mothers who planned to cheat nature with a C-section, current...
Ant and Dec, the hosts of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, have some frustrating news for demagogues. Dec (the shorter one): “I think we do...
Dominic Johnson? Any bells? Nothing? And yet we find Johnson, a party donor now in use as an “investment minister”, playing what he intended to be...
At the beginning of Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s new addition to Brideshead-genre stately worship, the outcast status of a non-posh Oxford student is...
Who doesn’t love the suffragettes? A group of women who are heroic, right, and, perhaps most advantageously for their collective reputation, no...
‘Women have very little idea of how much men hate them,” wrote the great Germaine Greer, in 1970. But now we have the Covid inquiry. Last week...
Creating probably more disquiet than audience disappointment, a Cambridge student opera has been added to the cultural cost of existing conflicts. In...
‘I am a practising Christian,” Peter Bone has told the House of Commons, by way of a substitute for argument. For instance: “I am a Christian...
C redit, first, where it’s due. As with so many celebrated public nuisances, from David Starkey and Jacob Rees-Mogg to Nigel Farage and the wider...
G iven the extensive research that connects dangerous driving with alarming personality traits, it is always enlightening to see who speaks up for...
Even for non-attendees, George Osborne’s July wedding lingers in the memory. First, because of the bizarre, orange confetti protest. Second, because...
S o long as you are not Ukrainian, it is difficult to imagine a more caring and sensitive ally than the food, cosmetic and hygiene giant, Unilever....