Louise Perry
Women prisoners have enough problems. Self-ID will worsen them
‘Even a small number of prisoners transitioning to the female estate makes a big difference. And numbers are already mushrooming’
Lapine revelation
Karen Harvey’s book on the ‘rabbit-breeder’ Mary Toft teases out the painful emotional drama behind an 18th-century medical hoax
Defining women
The Oxford police are busy with a hate crime: stickers that define “woman” as an “adult human female”
Snack attacks
“Greggs was supposed to be safe from the liberal metropolitan elite. The vegan sausage roll showed that it wasn’t”
A Fifty Shades of Grey area over violent sex
Juries seem increasingly willing to accept “rough sex” as a defence against murder. Does “BDSM” allow abusers to hide in plain sight?
Modi's myopia and indifference to the poor
Lockdown has exposed rifts in Indian society between the urban middle classes and those excluded from ‘civil’ society
Eliot’s editorial legacy
“The purpose of this magazine, and the sign of its intelligence, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind simultaneously”
‘When freedom came, God disappeared’
One of Roger Scruton’s last works, an opera libretto set in Eastern Europe, contains some of his most revelatory thinking on the divine