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The chief characteristic so far has been nervousness: Chivalry reviewed
Chivalry – written by and starring Sarah Solemani and Steve Coogan – is a comedy drama about post-#MeToo Hollywood life.…
A cut above TV's usual #MeToo fare: BBC1's Rules of the Game reviewed
As you may have noticed, it’s something of a golden age for TV shows about how invisible middle-aged women are…
Peng Shuai and the limits of China’s #MeToo movement
China’s #MeToo movement has taken a step closer to the centre of power in Beijing, after sexual abuse allegations by…
What if Clinton had come clean?
What if Bill Clinton had told the truth? Would America’s sexual and political history be different? The thought occurs because…
In praise of chastity
New York It’s party time in the Bagel, or at least private party time. Yours truly is an extra man…
The politicisation of Sarah Everard’s death
A woman called Jenny Jones, now elevated to Baroness Moonbeam, or something, in the House of Lords has proposed a…
Bill Clinton: from boomer to Zoomer
It’s no fun to see Bill Clinton in a virtual vacuum. He’s a people person, a glad-hander, a back-rubber, a…
The crumbling lawsuit against Fox News
The new lawsuit filed by two women against Fox News and several of its personalities is riddled with inaccuracies. This…
Michaela Coel's dazzling finale reminds me of Philip Roth: I May Destroy You reviewed
It might seem a bit of a stretch to see deep similarities between Michaela Coel (young, female, black and currently…
The new inequality
It is a strange habit, the American one of making talk-show hosts into preachers. There is no good reason, after…
Do you believe Tara Reade?
Without a doubt, women who level sexual assault allegations against powerful men are often subjected to character assassination and smears.…
Hiding Biden is the best way to get him elected
So Mrs American Voter, which septuagenarian sex abuser do you want to be President? The whole ‘#MeToo’ business probably should…
Too much photocopying but stick with it: The Assistant reviewed
First, the latest digital film release: The Assistant, starring Julia Garner in a slowly, slowly, catchy, catchy tale that won’t…
Biden’s denial doesn’t close the door on the Tara Reade accusation
Joe Biden finally went on the record Friday denying he sexually assaulted Tara Reade. It took 39 days and multiple…
Will Hillary be Biden’s VP?
Far be it from Cockburn to compare a former secretary of state to a venereal disease, but perhaps Fox News…
What Biden’s recent endorsers said about Kavanaugh and #MeToo
Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, claimed in an interview last month that the former vice president…
Why the mainstream media won’t take Tara Reade seriously
‘The gym bag, I don’t know where it went. I handed it to him. It was gone and then his…
Witch fight! The naked hypocrisy of Alyssa Milano
Alyssa Milano has rebranded herself as a Twitter activist and Democratic party booster since her acting career peaked with the…
Why Hachette were wrong to drop Woody Allen’s memoir
Even amid plague, economic apocalypse, and the cancellation of 2020, dumb stuff keeps happening. Besides, loads of us will now…
The appeal of ugly men
Gstaad Lenin Moreno is in trouble, despite his very unchristian first name. For any of you unfamiliar with the name,…
Does questioning women about their sex lives constitute harassment?
Alert to the combination of a controversial issue and a brilliant writer, Serpent’s Tail have bought This is a Pleasure,…
Alfred Dreyfus is being erased all over again
In London to promote a book, I received an invitation to a secret screening of An Officer and a Spy,…
Joan Collins: I’m an actress, not an actor. And yes, it matters
I recently tried to put my profession down as ‘actress’ on Instagram, but the only option available from the drop-down…
Why Simone de Beauvoir is my kind of woman
New York A strange thing happened to me here in the Bagel last week. Having read the recent review…
The men I’ve groped (including Boris)
Charlotte Edwardes reports that Boris put his hand on her leg during lunch 20 years ago. Full disclosure, I put…
