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Mary Ann Sieghart
Journalist & author
Mary Ann Sieghart is a journalist and author who spent 20 years as Assistant Editor and columnist at The Times and won a large following for her columns on politics, economics, feminism, parenthood and life in general. She has presented many programmes on BBC Radio 4, such as Start the Week, Profile, Analysis, Fallout and One to One.

Mary Ann Sieghart is a journalist and author who spent 20 years as Assistant Editor and columnist at The Times and won a large following for her columns on politics, economics, feminism, parenthood and life in general. She has presented many programmes on BBC Radio 4, such as Start the Week, Profile, Analysis, Fallout and One to One.
Mary Ann Sieghart Videos

The authority gap
How to work towards gender equality

The weaker sex?
Should we abandon the idea that men need to protect women?

Reigning men
Where does the future of feminism lie?
Mary Ann Sieghart Articles
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In Defense of Pornography
What kind of porn could be ok?

Against Meritocracy
Kwame Anthony Appiah | Merit is a mask of class

Rethinking Feminism
Is there a universal goal for women's rights?

Women and Conquest
Is modern sexual culture liberating?

The World After Men
Should we pursue matriarchy?

Sisters and the Sisterhood
Can elite women help all women?

Witches, Sluts, Feminists
Kristen Sollee | A History of Witch Feminism

Return to Radical Feminism
Finn Mackay | Has current feminism lost its way?

The Story of Romance
Do we need a new narrative for love?

A Politics of Hope
Where are the alternatives to injustice?

Equality and Difference
Should equality be applied to all aspects of life?

After Feminism
The traumatic force of feminism | Griselda Pollock

Beyond Men and Women
Should we fight prejudice or gender?

Equal Is Unfair
Inequality is not the foe | Yaron Brook

Victims and Conquerors
Prostitutes or clients, who holds the power?

Forbidden Fantasies
Is sexual desire dangerous?

The Self and the Selfie
Can focusing on oneself bring about happiness?

Greater Than Equal
Is equality of opportunity a misguided goal that legitimises inequality?

Real Men
Is the real man a fantasy?

Selling Ourselves
The body as a commodity

Dreams of Equality
What does mainstream feminism promise?

Dream Hoarders
Is the middle class to blame for inequality?

The Oldest Profession
Niki Adams | Should we decriminalise sex work?

When Women Rule
Do women make better leaders?

After Equality
Where is feminism going?

The Devil's Parties

Where Women Rule
The age of anti-patriarchy

Politics and the Patriarchy
Does Westminster still have a problem with women?

What's Right Anymore?

After Equality
Where is feminism going?

Drug Culture

How We Came to #MeToo
Linda Woodhead | The origins of sexual accusations

A Woman's World
Margaret Heffernan | On radical feminist futures

The Crisis of Masculinity
Can socialism and feminism help redefine manhood?

Exotic England: Europe's Most Promiscuous Tribe
People's promiscuity in multicultural England

Is Digital Thinking Different?
The internet revolution & the human brain

Dangerous Images
Acclaimed photographer Adrian Arbib uncovers the moment art and journalism clash with the law.

Who We Are: Beyond Black and White
Can we have a world where race does not matter?

Myths About Feminism
Why real feminism isn’t about women ruling the world.

How to Thrive in a Digital Age

The Sweetest Taboo

Democracy and Drugs
Should we legalise psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness?

Romancing Opiates
Theodore Dalrymple offer his personal take on the problems poppies pose

Visions of Disaster and Perfection

Women on Top
Gender equality and positions of power

The Sexualisation of Society
Diane Abbott | Do we think about sex too much?

The Skin We're In
Selling the body versus selling the mind

The End of Equality
Why the age of equality is a myth

Rationality and Drugs
Why our current policy to drugs is nonsense

More Than Equal
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Ritual, transcendence & psychedelics

The dangers of celebrity

Celebrity is power

Marx, Nietzsche and philosophy at Christmas
Addiction is not just a medical problem

The love lives of philosophers changed how we think
How we can predict fashion

Digital won't replace analog

Drowning in Drugs

The Deception of Genealogy

Narcissism is the new religion

The metaphysics of laughing gas

The dangers of a sober society

The dangers of freedom & the threats of community

Transcending the self and finding reality

How to be happy, despite modernity

Why it's easier to do evil than to do good

Why everyone's having less sex

The unexpected reason holidays matter

The virtues of virtue signalling

6 philosophers on the perils of gifts

Sex, art and technology

Psychedelic experience isn’t just brain chemistry

ChatGPT: the route to loneliness?

When to believe lies

The spiritual dimensions of rave culture

The farce of the fifteen-minute city

Solving the mental health epidemic starts with trust

Reclaiming the commons

Opening the black box