Sonia Poulton

Writer, broadcaster, and social commentator

Sonia Poulton is a writer, broadcaster, social commentator and former music journalist. Unafraid of tackling controversial topics head on, she can often be seen in fierce debates on national television.

Sonia Poulton is a writer, broadcaster, social commentator and former music journalist. Unafraid of tackling controversial topics head on, she can often be seen in fierce debates on national television.

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In Defense of Pornography

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Against Meritocracy

Kwame Anthony Appiah | Merit is a mask of class

Finn Mackay, Myriam François, Leena Nair, Elif Safak

Rethinking Feminism

Is there a universal goal for women's rights?

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Women and Conquest

Is modern sexual culture liberating?

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The World After Men

Should we pursue matriarchy?

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Sisters and the Sisterhood

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Kristen Sollee

Witches, Sluts, Feminists

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Finn Mackay

Return to Radical Feminism

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The Story of Romance

Do we need a new narrative for love?

Owen Jones

A Politics of Hope

Where are the alternatives to injustice?

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Equality and Difference

Should equality be applied to all aspects of life?

Griselda Pollock

After Feminism

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Beyond Men and Women

Should we fight prejudice or gender?

Yaron Brook

Equal Is Unfair

Inequality is not the foe | Yaron Brook

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Victims and Conquerors

Prostitutes or clients, who holds the power?

Rowan Pelling, Serena Kutchinsky, Kirsty White

Forbidden Fantasies

Is sexual desire dangerous?

Amy Grier, Christopher Hamilton, Doll Cat Pvssy, Tim Dowling

The Self and the Selfie

Can focusing on oneself bring about happiness?

Helena Cronin, Philip Collins, Sophie Walker, Theodore Dalrymple

Greater Than Equal

Is equality of opportunity a misguided goal that legitimises inequality?

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Real Men

Is the real man a fantasy?

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Selling Ourselves

The body as a commodity

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Dreams of Equality

What does mainstream feminism promise?

Richard Reeves

Dream Hoarders

Is the middle class to blame for inequality?

Niki Adams, Liz Hilton

The Oldest Profession

Niki Adams | Should we decriminalise sex work?

Diane Abbott, Helena Cronin, Niamh Corbett, Matthew Parris

When Women Rule

Do women make better leaders?

Beatrix Campbell, David Aaronovitch, Julie Bindel, Carla Buzasi

After Equality

Where is feminism going?

Daniel Miller, Rowan Pelling, Peter Hitchens, Lauren Booth

The Devil's Parties

Phillip Blond, Elif Sarican, Roger Bolton, Joanna Williams

Where Women Rule

The age of anti-patriarchy

Angela Eagle

Politics and the Patriarchy

Does Westminster still have a problem with women?

Onora O'Neill

What's Right Anymore?

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After Equality

Where is feminism going?

Iain Edgar, Susan Blackmore, Caspar Melville, Edward Skidelsky, Peter Hitchens

Drug Culture

Linda Woodhead

How We Came to #MeToo

Linda Woodhead | The origins of sexual accusations

Margaret Heffernan

A Woman's World

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Diane Abbott

The Crisis of Masculinity

Can socialism and feminism help redefine manhood?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Exotic England: Europe's Most Promiscuous Tribe

People's promiscuity in multicultural England

Paul Moss, Ben Hammersley, Warren Ellis, Edie Lush

Is Digital Thinking Different?

The internet revolution & the human brain

Adrian Arbib

Dangerous Images

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

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Diane Abbott, Richard Reeves, Kemi Badenoch, Rana Mitter

Who We Are: Beyond Black and White

Can we have a world where race does not matter?

Finn Mackay

Myths About Feminism

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

Tom Chatfield

How to Thrive in a Digital Age

Gabriel Gbadamosi, Gerald Moore, Brett Kahr, Rowan Pelling

The Sweetest Taboo

David Nutt

Democracy and Drugs

Should we legalise psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness?

Theodore Dalrymple

Romancing Opiates

Theodore Dalrymple offer his personal take on the problems poppies pose

Andrew Copson, Paul Kingsnorth, Kevin Warwick

Visions of Disaster and Perfection

AL Kennedy, Catherine Hakim, Roger Bolton, Serena Kutchinsky

Women on Top

Gender equality and positions of power

Diane Abbott

The Sexualisation of Society

Diane Abbott | Do we think about sex too much?

Finn Mackay, Simon May, Minette Marrin, Christopher Hamilton

The Skin We're In

Selling the body versus selling the mind

Beatrix Campbell

The End of Equality

Why the age of equality is a myth

David Nutt

Rationality and Drugs

Why our current policy to drugs is nonsense

Peter Tatchell, Shaun Ley, George Galloway, David Goodhart

More Than Equal

Frank Furedi

The New Inquisition

The forbidden ideas in media

Julie Bindel

Where Have All the Radicals Gone?

The struggle against oppression has lost its way

Jenneth Parker, Rob Penn, Susan Robertson, David Christie

Local Heroes

Sean Curran, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Margaret Hodge, Ritula Shah

Running the World Differently

What if women were in power?

Isabel Hilton, Vincente Fox, Chris Bryant, John Ralston Saul

Drugs, Money, and Morality

The hypocrisy of the West

Richard Layard, Mark Williamson

How To Change The World

Can you change a culture from the inside out?

Polly Toynbee, Richard Sennett

The World After Ideals

Anita Sethi, Daniel Miller

The Love of Things

Alison Wolf

The Death of Sisterhood

The gulf between the lives of women

Doon Mackichan

A Time for Outrage

Doon Mackichan

Nick Harkaway

Touching Cyberspace

Back to the physical

Bjorn Lomborg, Paul Moss

New Visions of Progress

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Imagination, Inc.

Does public patronage awaken or stifle the arts? Do cuts spell the end of creativity?

Peter Tatchell

How to Talk about Sex

Breaking taboos around sexuality

David Nutt

Drugs: the case for decriminalisation

The best choice for drug law reform

Mary Ann Sieghart

Flimsy feminism

Examining your biases

David Nutt, Peter Sjöstedt-H, Annemarie Ward, Mark Salter

Getting high and being human

Debating drug law reform

David D. Friedman

Anarchy in capitalism

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Joanna Williams

Women vs feminism

Has feminism lost its edge?

Myriam François

How to think about whiteness

Overcoming the taboo

Bianca Jagger, Rana Mitter, Eileen Myles, Nina Power

Eradicating gender

Unraveling the path to equality

Ella Whelan

The future of feminism

Where is women's politics going?

Rana Mitter, Dawn Butler, Glenn Loury, George The Poet

Race, identity and justice

The relevance of race in the modern world

Glenn Loury

The dangers of victimhood

The effectiveness of BLM

Cari Mitchell

No bad women

The case for the decriminalisation of sex work

Mary Ann Sieghart

The authority gap

How to work towards gender equality

Kay Peggs, Jamie Blackett, Raymond Tallis, Melanie Challenger

Humans and other animals

The hypocrisy of the way we treat animals

David Nutt, Deirdre McCloskey, Peter Sjöstedt-H

Drugs, death and hypocrisy

Can and should we amend our drug policy?

Myriam François

What I've learned about whiteness

Moving towards a fairer society

Minna Salami

Knowledge reimagined

Exploring sensuous knowledge with Minna Salami.

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The final wave

Free speech and feminism

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Framing the world

The optimistic future of AI and humanity

Julie Bindel

The trouble with modern feminism

An interview with controversial feminist Julie Bindel

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Dangerous desires

Must we adopt a new attitude to social drugs?

Thangam Debbonaire

From feminism to politics and back again

Mixing activism with politics

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How to fight back

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Bad boys

Is danger integral to desire?

Barry C. Smith, Julie Bindel, John Milbank, Olivia Fane

Sex, relationships and the future

Should we pursue love and sex separately?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Reviving feminism

How to become a better feminist

Mary Ann Sieghart, Kate Kirkpatrick, Nina Power, Joanna Gosling

Reigning men

Where does the future of feminism lie?

Rana Mitter, Mary Ann Sieghart, Maya Oppenheim, Minna Salami

The weaker sex?

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

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Feminism and identity politics

Is identity politics holding feminism back?

Laurie Penny, Rana Mitter, Thangam Debbonaire, Louise Perry

The equality myth

Is the pursuit of absolute equality a mistake?

Peter Tatchell, Bobbi Pickard

In conversation with Peter Tatchell and Bobbi Pickard

A response to trans critics

Myriam François, Peter Tatchell, Katherine Angel, Catherine Hakim

Desiring and being desired

Navigating power in #MeToo

Myriam François, Minna Salami, Nicky Morgan, Ella Whelan

The equality puzzle

Do we need a new direction for feminism?

Tommy J. Curry

The dark side of feminism

Decolonising feminism

Isabel Hilton, Harriet Wistrich, Myriam François, David Livingstone Smith

Justice in jeopardy

Innocence and guilt in the modern world

Mike Herd, Julia Davies, Gerry Mitchell, Louise Ashley

The quest for the common good

Moving beyond individualism

Tommy J. Curry

Rethinking race and gender

How should we combat systemic racism?

Ashwini Deshpande

The enduring trauma of the caste system

Overcoming prejudice and brutal discrimination

Kathleen Stock

Material girls

Kathleen Stock’s perspective on sex and gender

Barry C. Smith, Hannah Dawson, Nina Power, Maya Oppenheim

Cracking the girl code

The future of the feminist struggle

Sophie Grace Chappell

The transgender mind-body problem

An interview with Sophie Grace Chappell

Mary Ann Sieghart, Kristen Ghodsee, Liam Halligan, Anna Minton, Tom Copley, Tom Copley

Homes and Hierarchy

Ending the fantasy of homeownership

Cass Sunstein

The Fatal Flaw in Human Judgement

Why our systems are riddled with bias

Judith Butler

Fascist passions

Judith Butler on the animosity toward gender