8 Jul 2021 - 1:05am

Would the Spice Girls survive today? 'Girl Power' used to be audacious — now it means stripping off for the sake of it

Julie Burchill

28.06

Matt Hancock’s casual cruelty Society's growing acceptance of adultery ignores the pain of its victims

Sarah Ditum

08.06

The fake feminism of Fifty Shades Two trilogies of BDSM represent a surrender of women's agency

Sarah Ditum

02.06

Nero wasn’t ‘misunderstood’ The British Museum's new exhibition lets the murderous emperor off the hook

Boyd Tonkin

21.05

Why young men love Milfs Middle-aged women's prospects are looking up sexually, if not romantically

Zoe Strimpel

19.04

You can’t silence D.H. Lawrence Spurned by feminists and silenced for decades, his work is more relevant than ever

Frances Wilson

06.04

Philip Roth’s carnival of desire The flawed writer is an antidote to today's less ambitious literary scene

Boyd Tonkin

26.03

The many deaths of Virginia Woolf The Bloomsbury genius discovered too late that she was wrong about everything

Will Lloyd

11.03

Prince Harry is a Freudian dream It's hardly surprising that the Royal Family has its own Oedipus complex

Giles Fraser

11.03

Why aren’t we at it like rabbits? Bunnies used to be sexy — until the culture wars caught up

Mary Harrington

16.02

Do men love bitches? Young women have reached an old conclusion: you can't get a boyfriend by being nice

Louise Perry

15.02

The dangers of decadence What starts as silliness can eventually turn into something far more sinister

Julie Burchill