Feminism
You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you
As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…
Barometer
Space to dream Richard Branson’s dream of commercial space flights has suffered a setback after a prototype craft crashed. But…
Pop provocateur
After years of being effectively banned from exhibiting in his own country, Allen Jones finally reaches the RA with his first major UK retrospective. Andrew Lambirth meets him
A slap in the Facebook
My female friends’ social media habits are too bitchy even for me
The problem with a wider definition of rape
When Mary Jane Mowat remarked recently that rape conviction statistics would not improve ‘until women stop getting so drunk,’ the…
Girl talk
I applaud Frank – now Kellie – Maloney. But I still think being a woman means growing up as one
Swinging right
A lust that dare not speak its name
The reassuring triumph of Big Mother
Feminism in modern Britain is not for the faint-hearted. Only the smartest, mouthiest girls on the social media scene dare…
How to write a novel
At a time when feminism is grimly engaged in disappearing up its own intersection (two transsexuals squabbling over a tampon…
Mockers and moaners
Books by bellicose columnists with the initials R.L. are like buses — none comes along for ages, then two come…
Don’t do as I do, do as I say
A-Huff’s career has been remarkable for the contrast between hard-headed social advancement (‘the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus’) and…
‘A screaming, grievance-hawking shambles’
Welcome to feminism in the age of intersectionality
Lust begins at 50
Have I become a dirty old man?
By the book – The perils of snooping
The continuing drip-feed of stories about governments and friendly-seeming internet giants sifting through our data has left some citizens feeling…
Don’t blame sugar
Obesity isn’t a matter of addiction. It’s a question of self-control
The war on Barbie
She’s loathed by topless German neo-feminists. But isn’t it time to cut her some slack?
Knickers to burlesque
A sense of irony doesn’t make stripping feminist. It just makes it worse to watch
