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English rebels
In this bonus episode, I spoke with Nina Power about the English village that is seeking independence from the UK in protest at a local asylum seeker…
2 months, 1 week ago
Children should read fairytales | Maiden Mother Matriarch 207
Humans love stories. Long before writing was developed, stories helped people to preserve knowledge, transmit moral ideas, warn against danger, and p…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Louise & Helen review 'Obsession'
For this bonus episode I spoke with Helen Roy about the new cult horror movie ‘Obsession.’ Helen can found at Helen Roy Writes.
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2 months, 2 weeks ago
In Defence of Stay-at-Home Parents | Maiden Mother Matriarch 206
Feminists have been arguing about the politics of homemaking for a long time. In her 1963 feminist classic, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan famo…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lucky Country? | Maiden Mother Matriarch 205
I’ve just moved to Australia. I wrote a column about our move in the Wall Street Journal, which was also published in The Australian, but I haven’t o…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The loss of Ann Widdecombe
In this bonus episode, Ed West and I discussed the apparent murder of Ann Widdecombe, the role that she played in British public life, and the respon…
3 months ago
The politics of the downwardly mobile class
In this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I discussed a recent viral article in The Cut titled ‘It’s Hard to See My Parents Live So Lavishly While We’…
3 months, 1 week ago
Why we're still obsessed with the fall of Rome | Maiden Mother Matriarch 204
The empire that once controlled all or part of forty modern European, Asian, and African countries no longer exists. Rome didn’t fall all at once, an…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
How Hitler replaced the Devil
Alec Ryrie argues that the age of Hitler is not the 1930s and 1940s, it is our own lifetimes. As the influence of Christianity receded from the 1960s…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Who is to blame for the riots?
In this bonus episode, Nina Power and I discussed recent events in Britain, including the announced ban on social media use for under 16s and last we…
4 months ago