Blanche Girouard
Flying high
Peter Stanford grew up with a benevolent notion of angels. But the true picture is complicated: while some angels in the Bible are kindly, others are brutal
“You’re really a man, aren’t you?”
‘All my life I have been accused of being masculine. “You’re really a man, aren’t you?” one particularly unpleasant ex-boyfriend joked.’
Bloody scandal
In the 1970s and ’80s, the NHS treated haemophiliacs with contaminated blood-clotting products. The public inquiry into that scandal is only just being set up
School sex ordeals
Sexual harassment is happening in schools and universities across the country. With all our concern about victims of the past, let’s not overlook the present
Sacrificial lamb
Tim Farron’s resignation shows the cost of admitting to religious views in a liberal, secular society
Feigned Intimacy
Why can’t Tim Farron just leave me alone?
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts