23+ hour, 15+ min ago   (459+ words) What does a legendary rock musician do when he turns 80? In the case of Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, who reached that milestone this month, the unlikely answer is "head for the Wigmore Hall. It's in that hallowed chamber music…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (279+ words) An Italian cleric has upset the season of goodwill by praising the "obedience" of the Virgin Mary in accepting the "motherhood of Jesus and suggesting it could be a lesson for feminists. "Mary is truly free, free because she knows…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (341+ words) This won't make headlines on the "normal" news. CNN will not run it on a ticker tape as a breaking item, and Rory and Alastair will not do an "emergency deep dive" on The Rest Is Politics. However, in the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (576+ words) Brigitte Macron has apologised to victims of sexual violence over her outburst against radical feminists who interrupted a comedy show in a protest over the issue. However, the first lady inflamed feminist anger by accusing protesters of censorship and proclaiming…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (247+ words) Should women be served smaller food portions than men? According to Professor Naveed Sattar, chairman of the Obesity Healthcare Goals programme (the government's obesity initiative): why, yes. We should. In an article for The Lancet, Sattar and his team suggest…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (644+ words) Labour has "abandoned" women over issues such as trans rights and grooming gangs and can no longer call itself the party of equality and feminism, the former head of the human rights watchdog has said. Baroness Falkner of Margravine, whose…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1829+ words) The past five years have been, as Baroness Falkner of Margravine puts it, a white-knuckle ride. As chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, she has found herself at the centre of one of the most toxic and politically…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1068+ words) Is it over? I mean, of course, the annual Reevesnalia. The festive time of year when everything skids to a catastrophic stop and we watch a bizarre, overdressed child skipping about congratulating herself, while screaming that it's actually her who's…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (184+ words) Thirty-five years ago, the feminist writer Carol J Adams had men choking on their hot dogs when she published The Sexual Politics of Meat. In it, she theorised that the objectification of tasty animals and sexy women was the same....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1475+ words) Will political parties of the left ever support women harmed by the gender wars? According to the Canadian writer and commentator Meghan Murphy, believing they might is like "clinging to an abusive husband. Given gender self-ID has been framed in…...