It’s not just refugee law. The low status accorded to unbelievers has now become a matter of systematic civic exclusion, writes Zoe Williams.
An objectification amnesty has been declared for the duration of the Olympic Games – a smorgasbord of physical perfection, whatever your taste.
Why oh why have the erotic fantasies in the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ trilogy seduced millions of women?
When we try to present a united front we are not asking too much of ourselves, we are asking too little, says <b>Zoe Williams</b>.
Revolutions, earthquakes, famine, scandals and killings — the headlines keep coming relentlessly.
The presumption of innocence is extended to defendants but any past infraction can be used to torpedo Diallo’s credibility.
Powerful women help society muddle towards equality — even if the R&B star is marriage-fixated and the IMF chief is a neoliberal.
Scientist Carl Djerassi discovered the pill 60 years ago — and set the ball rolling from conception to contraception and back to conception again.
Misleading headlines about phones giving you cancer are rubbish. If we’re going to panic, let’s do it well and keep disbelief suspended.
Maybe adolescents only went into embarrassment overdrive because the rest of us weren’t taking it seriously enough.
This is going to sound like a story I’ve made up to make a point. But it’s the truth. Last week I accidentally went on Iranian cable telly. I thought it was just AN Other cable telly station, and arrived to review Carl Bernstein’s book about Hillary Clinton. So we were sitting there, chatting away nicely waiting to start, when a woman ran on and said: "Can I just do your jacket up?"
It is easy to think the worst of Americans. Perhaps you have just read that they are indulging a new trend — that of separate sleeping quarters for married people. Aha! you think. They are craven, status-driven warthogs, who simply wish to flaunt their wealth by the incredible amount of space they can take up because their houses are so huge. Or maybe it is the snoring.