The #MeToo movement could be the saviour of sex
Sexual intercourse, Philip Larkin famously wrote, began in 1963. And listening to contemporary commentators, you’d think that it came to…
Let’s get real. Kindness is not going to save you – or the world
I originally thought of calling this piece: ‘Kindness is the New Rock ’n’ Roll’ — but only as a joke.…
The Spice Girls sang about empowerment – better than the #MeToo whinging
The recent news of a Spice Girls reunion will, I suspect, be greeted by some former fans with nostalgic longing…
Can I be taught how to become a #MeToo Man?
These are tough times for what I call the #MeToo Men — those white, liberal, high-minded men who pride themselves…
Riot chic
Last weekend, I got into a conversation with the son of an old friend. He’s a nice middle-class boy, mid-twenties,…
Do you know a flake fatale?
It was the third time in a row that she had cancelled our date for drinks. The first time she’d…
Toff luck
F. Scott Fitzgerald got it wrong; it’s not the rich who are different from you and me — it’s the…
Class act
I wish I could say that some of my best friends are working-class, but it’s not true. I do have…
Like Uber, but for hippies
On the same day I put my spare room on Airbnb I also had my first cabshare experience, courtesy of…
Public trans sport
My top-deck encounter with a flamboyant stranger
Women’s issues are for everyone now, not just feminists
‘Women’s issues’ are for everyone. So feminism is obsolete
The topless feminists
Can you really fight the male gaze by exposing your breasts?
A sexual counter-revolution
Forget the culture war rhetoric. We straight white males have won
O Jerusalem!
Unchosen is the journalist Julie Burchill’s account of how she — a bright and bratty working-class girl from Bristol —…
Porn-again parents
It’s not just the young whose expectations of sex are warped by dirty videos online
Swinging right
A lust that dare not speak its name
The triumph of the bores
Being boring was once the worst of all social sins. Now it’s practically compulsory
The wrong kind of granny
When I told a friend that my nine-year-old son was staying with his grandparents for the whole week of the…
Lust begins at 50
Have I become a dirty old man?
Having it both ways
It’s a stupid lie to say that we’re all attracted to both men and women
