Because of critical gender theory, it’s become normal to think a boyish girl needs medical treatment
By Mary Wakefield
Don’t worry, say the psilocybin gurus: it’s a natural high. Just get the right dose and the right environment
By Mary Wakefield
Yes, he’s a child on Twitter, but then Twitter’s a playground
By Mary Wakefield
Stability is the one thing that throuples and polycules can never provide
By Mary Wakefield
I believed in the polygraph test, in an unthinking way, right up until last week
By Mary Wakefield
What unites great men and women isn’t a capacity to dream big but a love of what they do
By Mary Wakefield
It beats me why 21st-century women so hellbent on progress conform so readily to patriarchal stereotypes
By Mary Wakefield
A photo contains a moment, often a fraudulent one. Handwriting, even just the sight of it, summons a person
By Mary Wakefield
‘This has been a horrible pandemic, but it is not the big one’
By Mary Wakefield
Her stories are just as confessional as they are judgmental — and doesn’t absolution follow from confession?
By Mary Wakefield
Over hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to dream and to daydream, to let our thoughts spiral
By Mary Wakefield
We all believe in some eccentric things: transubstantiation for me, homeopathy for others
By Mary Wakefield
Every character in popular TV shows for young kids has a big domed head, button nose and huge wide-apart eyes
By Mary Wakefield
Without visitors, the meerkats are listless and the dingoes so bored they have to be taken for walks
By Mary Wakefield
There’s been much talk of the spirit of the Blitz, but there’s something of the spirit of East Berlin, too
By Mary Wakefield