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It is admirable that writers and filmmakers are not being held back from modern nightmares on grounds of taste or modesty, writes Natasha Walter.
There is always bad news for women, but rarely so bad as in the past few weeks. If you ever dreamed that in the modern world you could avail yourself of freedoms unknown to women…
Alastair Kirk stopped going to school when he was 11. He is now 20, and not exactly a dropout — he went on being educated at home, sitting down every day to work through booklets…
The secret of Harry Potter’s success lies in the continuing allure of magic and fantasy in a secular society. Gorgeous as all these playful encounters between angels and witches,…
Over the past decade, a raft of self-help books has promised to furnish women with the ultimate means by which they can find happiness in their relationships. From the supposed…
On October 10 it will be 100 years since Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women’s Social and Political Union, determined to win the battle for the vote. Just 15 years later,…
Hillary Rodham Clinton must have known that the attention given to her new book would centre not on her own development as a politician but on her relationship with her husband.
