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Who knitted Jeremy Corbyn’s jumper?
My first full-time job was for a company that organised arms trade fairs. I didn’t know this when I applied to work for them. My own job was in a completely different division, editing school books. I...
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New Statesman: The “kindness revolution” sounds like yet more women’s work
Imagine a world in which care and compassion are valued more highly than wealth and possessions. One in which violent crime is rare and sexual assault virtually non-existent. It’s a world where...
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The weird sexism of thinking female journalists invent children to back up...
Yesterday my eight-year-old son announced that he was going to make us all some chocolate cake. He promptly went into the kitchen and emptied a puddle of vegetable oil all over the floor. His...
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New Statesman: “I did not want her to become a decrepit old hag.” Why elderly...
“I did not want her to become a decrepit old hag. I loved her too much for that.” Those are the words of 89-year-old Philip Williamson, who last week received a suspended two-year prison sentence for...
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New Statesman: A new German law wants to force mothers to reveal their...
The German press call them “Kuckuckskinder”, which translates literally as “cuckoo children” – parasite offspring being raised by an unsuspecting innocent, alien creatures growing fat at the expense of...
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Theresa May isn’t a feminist, but I’m sick of everyone reminding me of this
News just in: Theresa May isn’t a feminist, despite the fact that she once wore a Fawcett Society t-shirt claiming that she was! This will no doubt come as a shock to the many amongst us who take...
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I don’t believe the outrage over Donald Trump
It’s that time again, when the liberal left pretends to be totally outraged by some heinous act of sexism which they’d ordinarily condone. Perhaps I should feel relieved. Perhaps I should think “well,...
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New Statesman: How to explain Brexit to your kids
My parents never sat me down for “the politics talk”. I suspect they were too embarrassed. Like many children of my generation, I was left to develop my own ideas about what adults did in private. We...
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New Statesman: No, single men do not have a “right” to reproduce
Last year Katha Pollitt wrote an article for the Nation in which she asked why the left was simultaneously making progress with equal marriage while falling behind on abortion rights. “The media ,”...
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Mumsnet: We can’t compete with Trump’s hate – and we shouldn’t
I’m not sure how many Brexits today is supposed to be worth. I started to lose count at around 3am. Then again, the shock is not quite the same as that of the morning of June 24th. If anything, given...
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