The maiden, the mother and...the other one

The changing faces of female power

It’s been a busy month, in which I wrote (among other things) about interwar attempts at utopia, how we’re all now Britney Spears, why perverts should make the case for respectability politics and the self-absorbed, ahistorical philistinism of much ‘woke’ writing.

More happily, two friends recently had babies: the original act of creativity. I’ve seen m…