5+ hour, 45+ min ago  (593+ words) Across Britain a radical new feminism is rising Anna has a boyfriend, whom she described as "a fucking Labrador. "He's reading books about how climate change isn't actually that big a deal, and it's hard to separate that from the…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (247+ words) Lindy West's new memoir, Adult Braces, unleashed a storm of speculation about her throuple. Was it worth it? Last week, after an interview with the New York Times' Modern Love podcast, West floated into the path of what might be…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (531+ words) New Statesman W'hen the UK began breast screening in the late 1980s, no one suspected that we often form cancers that never cause clinical disease. Once we started systematically searching for unsuspected tumours, though, it became apparent that we were picking…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1510+ words) Which of the following represents the most consequential date in the history of the current century: 15 September 2008; 11 March 2020; 11 September 2001; 24 February 2022; or 14 January 2005? Stumped by the final option? It is, according to conservative commentator Helen Andrews, the day the world changed....

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (372+ words) Remembering my friend, the New Statesman's brilliant TV critic (From The Virago Book Of Friendship, edited by Rachel Cooke.) The girl with the clipboard was me. Rachel Cooke wrote these words. Rachel died last Friday, 14 November; she was just 56 years…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (457+ words) Everyone knows that there's nothing edgier than saying fuck on stage. Repeatedly. And shit. And bitches. Especially when reimagining boring old Greek tragedy as a rebellious rap battle all about girlb Everyone knows that there's nothing edgier than saying fuck…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (243+ words) While women attack female celebrities online, the patriarchy marches on. Lost? Baffled? Wondering why a lack of make-up is suddenly a feminist transgression? Welcome to the world of fourth, fifth and 500thwave feminism, where the last dregs of a oncepowerful movement…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1622+ words) When Andrea Dworkin published'Pornography: Men Possessing Women'in 1981, her argument was uncompromising: pornography must be banned, literally and urgently. As she would in 1987s'Inte When Andrea Dworkin published Pornography: Men Possessing Women in 1981, her argument was uncompromising: pornography must be banned,…...