That thing when in October you smugly book a Xmas supermarket delivery slot and stick in some champagne bottles to reserve the slot, fully planning to put the food in later. Then one Tuesday evening in December a delivery man brings you three champagne bottles. That.
Listening to the audio of that teacher calling those 13 year old girls “despicable” for saying girls have a vagina and boys have a penis has really upset me. Those girls are heroic for standing up to that idiotic bully of a teacher
Do musicians who play private concerts for dictators and tour countries where homosexuality is illegal have a “nasty stain” on their albums? Or just the ones whose concerns about medicalising children are in line with NHS policy? Asking for me
Feminists: We are living through a deeply misogynistic backlash against women.
Many people: That’s absurd!
[JK Rowling opens a shelter for vulnerable women]
Headline:
I can’t believe, in 2022, people are tweeting furiously about Harry Potter, but fwiw, here’s JK Rowling’s actual description of the goblins in the actual book. I dunno, man, but if you read this and think “Jew!”, maybe Rowling isn’t the one with the problem
I try to avoid criticising my former employer. I also support the freedom of opinion writers to write whatever they believe. But it is also my right to say: wow, this is intellectually, historically and morally bankrupt
I am very much not leaving The Guardian, but I will now be contributing occasionally to Unherd. This is my first piece for them: Why I Stopped Being a Good Girl
