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The Oscars’ Unlikely Tribute to Motherhood
On Sunday night, while accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress, Hollywood star Jessie Buckley spoke lovingly of her baby daughter who had “no idea what was going on”...
The Subversive Brilliance of Barbie
Barbie is back. Following the success of Greta Gerwig’s iconic blockbuster, which grossed over $1.44 billion worldwide, Mattel Studios, Universal, and Illumination have signed a deal to develop a...
How Family Breakdown Fuels Child Exploitation
Elon Musk did the world a service by bringing the U.K.’s darkest crimes to light. The “grooming gangs” scandal, which took place over decades in our poorest, post-industrial towns,...
Make the Conservative Party Conservative Again
As Americans focused their attention on their own ballot boxes, a quieter—yet significant—election across the pond may have slipped their notice. On November 2, Kemi Badenoch, a Nigerian-British woman...
