Men’s physical power advantage over women is understood intuitively by virtually everyone in the world. It forms the basis of how we understand violence against women. The opposing view, as detailed in this thread, is so ridiculous that only the highly educated could believe it.

'We should be in no doubt that a premise as fundamental...as the moral urgency of eradicating overt aggression from the world is one with profound policy implications...including...the deployment of someone’s army in order to enforce its beliefs.' unherd.com/thepost/libera…

Interesting Academy of Ideas conversation w/ Ella Whelan Rosemary Jenkinson & @oliviajhartley I was part of now out in podcast form, really enjoyed this: open.spotify.com/episode/1Pb3Wz…

Belfast vs 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵

'The truth always feels good, on a certain level, just because it is the truth. It relieves us of the psychic stress it costs us to resist it.' unherd.com/2022/03/escapi…

James Baldwin wrote this review when he was 22.

"A.I. will never be able to do what I can do because A.I. has never felt what I’ve felt. It will never move through the emotional matrix of living a singular, individual life." nytimes.com/2023/03/26/opi…

So I recently started a Substack - saving culture from the culture wars, one post at a time 😉 If you're into books & films and why or how they matter, you might enjoy... goodbooksforbadpeople.substack.com/p/whats-this-t…

goodbooksforbadpeople.substack.com/p/links-3 with a few great pieces from the brilliant William Deresiewicz

Well this is fun. Delighted to announce that my new novel, 'Silverback', will be published on 20th June by Fleet. Pre-orders now open 👀

Absolute nailed on banger of the year, give them the Mercury right now

You know the English game’s gone when Man United are the good guys

'He was prodigious, his body an exaggeration. Menace attended him.' Phil Harrison's #Silverback is a powerful portrayal of the complications of masculinity and of the line between fragility and violence. Out this week: brnw.ch/21wKONs

"Come for the murder mystery, and stay for a knotty and impressive portrait of a peculiarly Ulster form of masculinity." Me on Phil Harrison's surprising new novel SILVERBACK: telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

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Utterly shameful.

Utterly heartbreaking hearing the Italian boxer Angela Carini in the mixed zone. Blood on her shorts. Broke down in tears as she explained that she had never been hit so hard before. Added that she came her to honour her father, that she was a warrior, but had to stop.

They won’t, but whoever allowed this wretched decision to go ahead should be sacked. Almost everyone knows, deep down, that this is rotten. And it’s not even simply a case of female achievements being diminished, awful as that is. Here it means genuine physical danger