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Women Leading Debate

Have the Conservatives done enough for women?

Have the Conservatives done enough for women?

The Tories claim they are standing up for women’s rights, but their track record tells a different story.

By Zoë Grünewald

Interviews

Pregnant Then Screwed’s Joeli Brearley: “I think motherhood radicalises you”

The Weekend Interview

Pregnant Then Screwed’s Joeli Brearley: “I think motherhood radicalises you”

Anoosh Chakelian

Mariana Mazzucato: “Consultancies depend on weak governments”

Mariana Mazzucato: “Consultancies depend on weak governments”

Megan Gibson

Sarah Lucas: “I didn’t want to spend my life angry”

Sarah Lucas: “I didn’t want to spend my life angry”

Kate Mossman

Angela Saini: “Societies haven’t always been male-dominated”

Angela Saini: “Societies haven’t always been male-dominated”

Alona Ferber

From Our Writers

Rachel Wearmouth

Keir Starmer’s international inspiration

Lamorna Ash

How dating a couple set me free

Helen Thompson

Politicians fixated on growth have led Britain into chaos

Rachel Cunliffe

The real reason to worry about young people not getting married

Katie Stallard

This is how China wants the war in Ukraine to end

Anoosh Chakelian

The Deliveroo dystopia: how London dehumanised a collapsed courier

Pravina Rudra

Plastic surgery isn’t feminist

Kate Mossman

The soft power of Dolly Parton

The women locked out of fertility treatment by the BMI scale

The women locked out of fertility treatment by the BMI scale

Emma Haslett

Is there a woman out there who likes her body?

Is there a woman out there who likes her body?

Yvonne Roberts

On misogyny, the Online Safety Bill is still woefully inadequate

On misogyny, the Online Safety Bill is still woefully inadequate

Nicky Morgan

Dating apps need to stop pretending men and women want the same thing

Dating apps need to stop pretending men and women want the same thing

Louise Perry

Congratulations on being the Universal Woman – now leave the rest of us alone

Congratulations on being the Universal Woman – now leave the rest of us alone

Marie Le Conte

Screw International Women's Day

Screw International Women’s Day

Terri White

Childcare costs are failing mothers and the economy

Childcare costs are failing mothers and the economy

Emma Haslett

The other side of the gas and air maternity scandal

The other side of the gas and air maternity scandal

Leah Hazard

Long Reads

A generation of shrinking girls

Laurie Penny

The more beautiful game: how I fell for women’s football

May Robson

In search of a language of loss

The Weekend Essay

In search of a language of loss

Johanna Thomas-Corr

What science can learn from religion

Laura Spinney

The great attention deficit: what’s fuelling the rise in adult ADHD?

Sophie McBain

As an Albanian, I know first-hand the cruelty and contempt of UK immigration

Personal Stories

As an Albanian, I know first-hand the cruelty and contempt of UK immigration

Lea Ypi

World Affairs

The myth of America’s love affair with guns

The myth of America’s love affair with guns

Sarah Churchwell

A new age of global war

A new age of global war

Margaret MacMillan

Roe vs Wade and the land of lost liberty

Roe vs Wade and the land of lost liberty

Emily Tamkin and Katie Stallard

Big Tech’s race for our data is on

Big Tech’s race for our data is on

Saffron Huang

Podcasts

Could childcare win Labour the next election?

Could childcare win Labour the next election?

Why Westminster sexism is so hard to stamp out

The New Statesman podcast

Why Westminster sexism is so hard to stamp out

Anoosh Chakelian, Ailbhe Rea and Harry Lambert

Lea Ypi on mothers, the motherland and the cruelties of UK immigration - Audio Long Reads

Audio Long Reads

Lea Ypi on mothers, the motherland and the cruelties of UK immigration – Audio Long Reads

Lea Ypi and Rachel Cunliffe

Britain’s childcare crisis, with Stella Creasy

Britain’s childcare crisis, with Stella Creasy